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bhutocracy · 02-12-2003, 05:04 AM

in versions of flash, and for flash player versions below MX you can just import your video as a series of bitmaps and it will dislay like video for example : http://www.subnovastudios.com/lights...nternextpromo/

but it is a clunky solution as it literally just plays back a series of images, it doesn't use any of the filesize reducing algorithms that make streaming video so small, ie detecting moving areas and only refreshing those etc.

in flash MX though you can import video files straight in for more on this go here :

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/tip/017.html

im not sure that this would solve your problem though as all you're really doing is switching from a wmv or whatever to a sorensen codec (the codec flash mx uses) with the codec in the swf.. kinda semantics when they're claiming they've got the patent for streaming video. The only hope would be that macromedia might see it as a huge threat as it makes up a fair amount of their business compared to microsoft and it goes further to using flash at all online. Probably not though.. like other companies they'd just let you sweat it out and see what happens. You'd really think that when it came to the most popular plugin on the net though that there would be some customer support or product validation.. maybe suing macromedia for providing an illegal platform or something stupid like that might make them sit up and take notice, even if it was just a nuisance suit to be dropped straight away as there would be no chance of winning.

02-12-2003, 05:04 AM
bhutocracy Not making A Comeback Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 10,218	in versions of flash, and for flash player versions below MX you can just import your video as a series of bitmaps and it will dislay like video for example : http://www.subnovastudios.com/lights...nternextpromo/ but it is a clunky solution as it literally just plays back a series of images, it doesn't use any of the filesize reducing algorithms that make streaming video so small, ie detecting moving areas and only refreshing those etc. in flash MX though you can import video files straight in for more on this go here : http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/tip/017.html im not sure that this would solve your problem though as all you're really doing is switching from a wmv or whatever to a sorensen codec (the codec flash mx uses) with the codec in the swf.. kinda semantics when they're claiming they've got the patent for streaming video. The only hope would be that macromedia might see it as a huge threat as it makes up a fair amount of their business compared to microsoft and it goes further to using flash at all online. Probably not though.. like other companies they'd just let you sweat it out and see what happens. You'd really think that when it came to the most popular plugin on the net though that there would be some customer support or product validation.. maybe suing macromedia for providing an illegal platform or something stupid like that might make them sit up and take notice, even if it was just a nuisance suit to be dropped straight away as there would be no chance of winning.