New Flash player supports H.264/AAC/TTXT/MP4

[Zero1]

I'm sorta copy pasta'ing some news from doom9, but I thought this would be of interest for those using MP4.

It's obviously a big helping hand for MP4 (not that it really needs it), and it should mean you can do some cool stuff website wise with streaming videos.

Anyway, here is the doom9 post:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=129134

And here is the download page:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

I haven't tested it myself, so I would be interested in hearing people's experiences. Supposedly it supports a wide range of features, so most if not all your encodes should play, as opposed to it being gimped like Apple's decoder with only support for certain profiles.

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[Bauzi]

Adobe´s flashplayer? Awesome.

I thought it´s a completly new one without a "name" yet.

[ZephyrStar]

[Brad]

Looked at some of the examples. Really awesome stuff Though I am kind of confused about how to actually embed the video into the Flash Player. So far my only experience with creating Flash streaming video is using the Flash Video Encoder that comes with Flash 8+, and it adds the "player" to it automatically (see link in sig). So it just makes me curious about how it works with MP4's

[Zero1]

I can't help you much with flash players because I don't do enough web based stuff to have experience with it, nor have I had the chance to install it and test it (I'd like to once I format my laptop).

However, following one of the links I came across this:

You can load and play .mp4,.m4v,.m4a,.mov and .3gp files using the same NetStream API you use to load FLV files now. We did not add any sort of new API in the Flash Player. All your existing video playback front ends will work as they are. As long as they do not look at the file extension that is, though renaming the files to use the .flv file extension might help your component. The Flash Player itself does not care about file extensions, you can feed it .txt files for all it matters. The Flash Player always looks inside the file to determine what type of file it is.

I don't know if that throws any light on the subject or not; it might well mean that you require a new tool to simply wrap your existing MP4 into a package with the player, or perhaps it's as simple as a bit of code that will load the flash player from a flash 9 installation and play the MP4 in it, so in effect you don't end up changing the contents or wrapping your original MP4 file. That would be awesome.

Again, as I haven't tested it first hand I can only guess at features; but this supposedly supports everything we've seen in x264 so far (using MainConcept's decoder), and HE and LC AAC.

It seems H.264 truly is becoming the defacto standard now. I hope youtube gets on board so we don't have to look at shitty blockfests.

But what does this mean for the Org? Bandwith permitting, you could perhaps have embedded webcasts/reviews/news... or a bit more ambitious, a preview system for AMVs (where a server side setup would attempt to encode the first 10 seconds of an AMV and embed it into the video description page).

At least that way you could avoid subtitled videos, or really bad ones.

I for one would like to see some non AMV user generated content. I really enjoyed RDS radio/TV and other rants I've picked up over the years.

[taifunbrowser]

!!!!!

this means like... 2 months and we'll be able to use .ogg files for streaming players instead of the drasted .mp3...

and with AS3 being fast enough to do audio analysis and waveform calculations for a dynamic movie...


heee heee heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee win.