Last year Adobe announced that Flash would support H.264 video. I hadn’t had the time to follow up on that until I saw this cool tip on the Videoblogging list yesterday. So this post is just testing that functionality - even though there is a “Flash” version that plays in the Jeroen Wijering Flash player, it’s the same H.264 file you’ll get if you click the “iPod” link. By the way, if you can’t see this video you’ll need to update your Flash Plugin. Another nice thing is that the video is compressed with the new version of Apple’s Compressor, which finally comes with some nice presets. The one I used for this makes a 640 wide progressive dual-pass video at about 1100kbps. It looks great on the web, on an iPhone and blown up full screen on a 24″ monitor.
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I’m playing around with this stuff today as well - I’m on a PC with Firefox and Flash ver 9,0,47,0 - so it loaded all the way but kept showing the little twirly thing in the middle. Clicking pause/play didn’t do anything - the video wouldn’t play and I didn’t get any kind of error message
Hey Chris, I just tested this on XP with FF2 and IE7, Flash version 9,0,115,0 and it worked like a charm.
Hm yeah - maybe my flash isn’t new enough and doesn’t have h.264 yet - I’ll get the newest version of flash in a bit - but I think it’s good to know that it doesn’t give any error messages or anything if it won’t play because it’s an older player (or for whatever other reason it’s not working)
Yeah Chris, you just need to update your Flash plugin. I tested it on another computer with 9,0,45,0 and got the same result as you. I updated the plugin and it works fine now. It is too bad that you don’t get an error message or a prompt to update your plugin.
Thanks for the mention on Semanal08!
Thanks…it looks very good. Worked great here, I am impressed.
Hey Michael, I really loved it. It looks very good.
I’m not totally clear about the feeds (I never am - in all fairness) and I didn’t quite get the sizing thing, but having said that, I think I can make it work. I’m going to encode a piece using Vegas today, and post it and see what happens. From what I’m hearing - I could post 1 thing - have it play in flash, QT, SEMANAL and on phones and TV’s all with one video. This is huge advance.
Milt
That’s impressive. The depth is quite good (with addition by the narrow focus) and clarity is obvious. And it mostly carries over to full screen.
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