Welcome, I was just reading about Autobahn HD the other day, sounds interesting, I like the idea of automatic bandwidth adjustment. I'll try it myself once h264 support in flash is out of beta, am I right to assume you will support h264?
Some reasons why you may receive a less than stellar response: No OS X version! When I was interested in your product, I assumed that no client was needed, I guess I was wrong, even for the flash version? I tried to work this out for myself by looking for info for developers, but when I click developer links all I get is a blog with no detailed developer info that I can see. Why bother promoting links to a developers part of your site if all it does is tell develpers to email you? Of more interest to service/platform develoeprs/businesses than end-producers. I think most leave the flash delivery up to a service to worry about, such as blip.tv. I read you have a deal with veoh, does that include flash versions of their vids? So anyways, this sort of technology does not get talked about on this list as much as it used to a few years back, when content delivery was more of a headache for more video creators. Where can I see a HD demo? As a UK viewer that received less than amazingly smooth downloads, your product may fix a problem I have, but I want to see it in all its glory. The sample Ive seen doesnt really demonstrate to me why the HD should be in the name of the product, but as I am on OS X Im not sure what Im actually seeing on the swarmcast page demo player. As HD becomes more normal for flash, with hardware accelerated fullscreen & h264 support in flash, Im going to get interested in watching content in high quality. Maybe my bandwidth wont always be up to the job, and I'll be prepared to put up with pauses during download, in order to get the better quality version. Does your product limit such possibilities, will it always try to serve me a version based on bandwidth, rather than image quality? I understand it is adaptive in terms of bitrate, but its very common to offer different resolutions of video as well, can it handle that, I would guess not? So If i had a site where I offered video at 3 different resolutions, your product wont do anything to eliminate the user having to make that choice, they would still need to pick an appropriate video manually, and your product would help ensure that whatever video they picked, downloaded at a suitable bitrate for the bandwidth available at any one time? Oh I dunno, Im sure your product has some great potential uses, but a reason that flash video in the browser caught on is that it didnt require any more software installs, so if a client app is needed for viewers to receive any benefit from your system, I lose interest a lot. There is potential, but the more invisible you can make your tech the better, and the buzz and interest in your product will come from the video service providers etc, not so much here. Unless of course the results are so amazing that users just fall over themselves to install your app, and again I assume it will be the services/hosts/new networks that will encouraging users to do this, either by providing the content that could truly benefit (eg HD) or making your app part of their app, or otherwise promoting the use of your tech. Just please tell me Im wrong and it works without client-side install, or at least that an OS X version will really exist soon. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "johnmriske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > My name is John Riske I'm a long-time subscriber to the video > blogging group, and a first-time poster. I work for a company called > Swarmcast. We develop technology to enable the distribution of high > quality video over the Internet. > > I've been more-or-less of a lurker in the group, surveying > what's important and of interest to video bloggers. Much of what > we've gleaned from the conversation has gone into the development of a > new, free offering of ours, called Autobahn HD for Flash. We launched > it last week, and you can read the <http://www.swarmcast.com/news> > press release here <http://swarmcast.com/news> and see the Autobahn HD > for Flash player here <http://swarmcast.com> . > > Autobahn HD for Flash is the first Flash player to feature full-screen > video bolstered by network acceleration and adaptive bitrate streaming, > which protects against rebuffering. All of this ensures that each > viewer receives the best possible video quality for their Internet > connection. > > So - what does all this mean for you? If you're interested in getting > the player source code to modify our player or create your own Flash HD > player, you can email me at john(at)swarmcast(dot)com > > If you want to use our player to showcase your high quality video, we > have a bunch resources available at www.getautobahn.com/developers > <http://www.getautobahn.com/developers> , including instructions on how > to set up your FLVs so that you can take advantage of the adaptive > bitrate streaming and get an embeddable player for your site. > > We're very interested in engaging with the online video world at large, > so if you come up with something cool or have any questions or comments, > leave us a note at www.getautobahn.com/developers > <http://www.getautobahn.com/developers> . > > Best Regards, > John Riske > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
