H.264 for Flash

[Mick Haensler]

Hey Dave

I’m still waiting to freak

Mick Haensler
Higher Ground Media

[David Roth weiss]

Okay Mick, it’s just that my good friend Rafael like to makes these things so complicated that he left my head spinning.

I’ll whip something up immediately.

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[Mick Haensler]

This is starting to sound like a senate debate……”with all due respect to the honorable gentleman from Spain” yukyukyukyuk.

Thanks Dave, I appreciate it. Wanna see it….Wanna freak!!!

Mick Haensler
Higher Ground Media

[David Roth weiss]

Mick,

I tried to knock your socks with a clip from a Red camera and using that for a test to compress to h.264 and then to Flash on Vimeo at HD resolution, but there is something very funky about the way the Red footage reacts to the compression process. As you will see when you play full screen, the flat area in the BG pixelates. I’ll put up a piece of plain old HDV later that’s much better.

[Glenn Hughes]

Am I missing something? Are you guys talking about taking an H.264 and recompressing into an FLV file? If so, why? Flash can now play H264 files directly. I just did it, though haven’t uploaded it. Here’s the Actionscript:

//—————————
import fl.video.FLVPlayback;
//trace(FLVPlayback.VERSION);

var flvPlayer:FLVPlayback = new FLVPlayback();
var videoSrc:String = “Cold Gin-Split Decision_021009.mov”;

flvPlayer.width = 640;
flvPlayer.height = 480;
flvPlayer.skin = “SkinOverPlayStopSeekMuteVol.swf”
flvPlayer.skinBackgroundColor = 0xFFFFFF;
flvPlayer.skinBackgroundAlpha = 0.20;
flvPlayer.source = videoSrc;

addChild(flvPlayer);
//——————————

The videoSrc is a H.264 file that I created with compressor. No FLV involved.

Perhaps I’m not reading this thread correctly.

[Rafael Amador]

You are right Glenn.
No sense to make an H264 and re-compress to Flash when Flash Player supports H264 since long time ago.
Cheers,
Rafael
PS: Sorry I’m an absolute ignorant about actionscripts.
How is suppose to work, typing that in the Terminal?

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Glenn Hughes]

The code needs to be written in the Actions panel or a class file in Flash CS3, which of course doesn’t help much if you’re not a flash guy.Here are a couple of links:

First link:
The video containing my posted code is here (click on Cold Gin):
https://homeworkdesign.com/split_decision/flash/

There is a problem with it, though–it is posted on my server (which does not have Flash Media Server installed) so it is a progressive download, NOT streaming. Which means that you may have to stop the video and let it buffer. I’m currently working on some code to wait for enough to buffer before beginning play.

Second link:
Same video posted to YouTube as H.264 (click the “watch in High quality” link):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJLPWsYAN-8

I can’t find the link now, but yesterday I read a blog that used some Windows-based analysis using Firefox (I’m a Mac guy) to look at YouTube video sources to prove that when you upload an H.264 to YouTube now that YouTube actually plays the H.264 in High Quality mode, not a transcoded FLV version of your uploaded file.

I’m a bit dubious though as the one playing from my server (once you wait for it to buffer) looks better to me than the same video on YouTube.

I don’t know if any of this helps Micks. I just wanted to post the observation that there are options to transcoding to FLV

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Glenn,
The truth is that I not a Flash guy at all.
I’ve just being looking for a way that everybody (PC and Mac users) can watch the H264 from my web site.
I found the JW Player (https://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/) that it seems that makes something similar that your script.
Now I only need to find somebody able to embed it in my page.
Cheers,
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com