Flash8's ExternalInterface and Internet Explorer
This is for the googlers who might run into the same problem as me..
If you try to use ExternalInterface, your flash object should not be a in a html <form> tag.. If that is the case, ExternalInterface will not work at all!
I had a hard time figuring this out, until I stumbled upon a comment in the LiveDocs.
SabreAMF 0.7
It's been crazy crazy busy at work, so sadly because of this I haven't been able to spend enough time on SabreAMF ..
Therefore, no new features.. just wanted to get this bugfix release out.
Hopefully after april, I'll be able to spend some time on my own projects again, including sabreamf..
Changes:
- Changed ArrayCollection to allow pushing new items through [].
- Fixed a major bug in the AMF3 deserializer which would appear with multiple requests in the same http package.. (found by Kevin Koster)
- Fixed some PHP5.0.x compatibility problems (not a goal of the project, but this was long hanging fruit..
- Speed fix in SabreAMF_Server.. now using file_get_contents instead of fopen.. (found by Develar)
- Major speed improvements in the AMF3 deserializer.. This patch also came from Develar (thanks a lot for this one!).
Downloads can be found here.
I got a chumby!
Today I received my Chumby! Thanks goes to the people from Chumby industries and FiTC.
Can't wait to play around with it.. It runs a Linux 2.4 kernel and Flash Lite 2.1, it has a wifi connection, and from what I could quickly read, it can run stuff like an SSH daemon..
Looks like I got myself a yet to be defined post-st. patricks day-hangover project!
Presentation links
Update: added some of the source code used.
As promised, I'll put up some links from last nights presentation.. If you attended, I hope I got the message across, and if you're hungry for more, be sure to check out fitc, where I will do a 1 hour version of the presentation..
- Flowplayer - FlowPlayer is an open source, skinnable, very powerful flash video player..
- FFMpeg -
To my opinion, the best tool out there to convert your video to flv.
Binaries for OS/X are included in FFMpegX, binaries for windows can be found in Riva FLV encoder. Most Linux distributions also have a pre-compiled ffmpeg package..
Remember though! Only use those for testing purposes, if you want support and support for for example WMV3, you really should compile your own.. - SWFUpload - An open source library to leverage Flash 8's multi-file upload from javascript.
- On2 Flix - An expensive, commercially backed FLV encoder.. If using the latest flash video codec is important to you, look at this product.
And there's even a small piece of the presentation recorded....
handling uploads..
Note that these scripts all assume an .mpg extension..
<?php
foreach($_FILES as $file) {
$newFileName = 'uploads/original.mpg';
move_uploaded_file($file['tmp_name'],$newFileName);
}
?>
Simple conversion
<?php
$ffmpegPath = '/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg';
$input = 'uploads/original.mpg';
$output = 'uploads/converted.flv';
$result = `$ffmpegPath -y -i $input -ar 44100 $output 2> /tmp/ffmpeg_log`;
?>
Slightly more advanced..
Adjusts the bitrate, height and width, and also generates a thumbnail.
<?php
$ffmpegPath = '/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg';
$input = 'uploads/original.mpg';
$output = 'uploads/converted.flv';
$output = 'uploads/thumb.jpg';
$result = `$ffmpegPath -y -i $input -an -s 320x240 -f mjpeg -ss 0:2:0 -t 0:0:0.001 $output 2> /tmp/ffmpeg_log`;
$output = 'uploads/converted.flv';
$result = `$ffmpegPath -y -i $input -ar 44100 -b 320 -s 320x240 -ab 128 -acodec mp3 $output 2> /tmp/ffmpeg_log`;
?>
