Friday, May 11, 2007

Real Time Flash Stream

I am very excited. This wednesday, we are going to have a test version of a new stream available for the church. I have been experimenting with getting RealTime Flash Encoding to work. Today I finally got a setup that seems to be working. This is very exciting because it would create a very cool way to embed video into the website that would truly be cross platform. Flash runs on almost everything.

Tools that I am using:
- Adobe Flash Media Encoder - Running on a Dual Core Computer with 2048MB of RAM and an Osprey 210 Video Capture Board.
- Flash Media Player - a free download of a configurable embeddable flash player (including full screen support ***Requires Flash 9 ***) This player is available for free from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Media_Player. At the time of this post, the most current version was 3.8.

Server Side
- Windows 2003 Server / IIS / Flash Media Server 2.0 (We have sunk the $$$ into the real Flash Server, but I have been looking at Red 5 lately, as an open source alternative.)

I will post a link prior to Wednesday Night so anyone who wants to check it out can.

Oh by the way...This flash player works full screen...Totally Awesome!

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