Not entirely catching your drift there. You shouldnt need anything different in terms of encoder to explore the h264 flash stuff. If you already offer h264 as a mov or mp4/m4v, you should be able to have that same video play in a webpage in a flash player.
Some existing flash video players probably work already, although most will not yet utilise fullscreen mode in the least cpu-hungry way. Some may not work perfectly with h264, eg you may have to cheat and rename them to .flv, although quite a few did change their code when the h264 beta came out. I need to get up-to-date as to what the score is with the popular flash video players in this regard. If you arent trying to improve these players yourself, you shouldnt need to buy flash. Here is a not-particularily great h264 video playing inside flash, that is shown using a slightly modified player I messed with a few months ago. Its taxing on the system due to the res & bitrate used, I would expect a lot of people to be far more conservative with these choices so that slower computers arent excluded. Im not entirely sure if hardware fullscreen mode is working on that example, it should be but I may have set something wrong back when I wrote it, cant recall. Anyway playback may appear smoother in fullscreen mode, and for me CPU useage on OS X Leopard was less on firefox 2 than safari 3. The pint is, this is a .mp4 h264 video that had no special treatment in order to work with flash: http://www.unquack.com/mediaplayere.html (latest flash player required) Anyways I should try shortly with a video that is more normal in terms of res and bitrate, but the above gives a rough idea what sort of perforamnce you can expect with HD stuff, though it isnt a very good video for studying quality etc. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Brook Hinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For those of us mac folks not skilled in the ways of the geek or > posessing of the cash needed for flash itself, we have to wait for > some sort of mpeg streamclip/ffmpegx/compressor means of exploring > this new frontier, unless there's some other method I don't know > about. > > VP6 would have to be mightily improved if it were to look good at full > screen for anything with a lot of details moving around quickly. > > I'm going all HD for 2008, so I am paying attention to fullscreen > developments. But since things are only just now the point where I can > offer just h.264 quicktime and most everyone can see it, I'm not > rushing into anything. > > Brook > > > > On 12/18/07, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Just noticed that the non-beta h264 version of the flash player came out > > earlier this > > month, and I hadnt even noticed. ..... > > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab >
