[Mike Smith]

You need to put the url of your php page in the form action property in your form. At present you have a blank in the quotes after action – as

<form action=”” method=”post” name=”form1″ id=”form1″>

<form action=”PUT THE URL OF YOUR PHP SCRIPT HERE” method=”post” name=”form1″ id=”form1″>

[Mike Smith]

Though I’m wondering whether a swfobject-style Flash inclusion plus alternative content in html5 / video format might do what’s needed … must test this soon.

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/alternative_content.html

[Mike Smith]

I don’t think things work that differently over here in the UK. Mads seems a little over-upset over this one: maybe it hits near home fior him. But it’s good for all of us to remember that potential customers can search these forums, and how we seem on here is a matter of record.

[Mike Smith]

It is bad.

The JW Player solution, for the near term, if it works for you, could probably work with just a single encode, to H.264 to suit Apple’s iOS devices supported by Apple HTML 5 and to play within the Flash player on everything else?

[Mike Smith]

Specific prebuilt Flash players with decent reputations include
https://flowplayer.org/ and https://www.longtailvideo.com/players/

It might be worth starting with the longtail player.

There’s also https://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/04/10/sublimevideo-html5-video-player-adds-flash-support/ which might be worth exploring : or search for a Flash player with HTML5 / iOS support.

Otherwise, you are entering a hot zone. Flash has been the dominant force in web video for some time, using different codecs inside a Flash video wrapper. This provides great flexibility and programmability, and works on nearly all desktop platforms.

But in recent times Apple has sold a lot of iPhones and iPads (with good web browsing capability), and does not support Flash video on these devices.

So as of today, unless you can find a way of combining Flash and iOS support, you are probably looking at having at least two solutions : something for Apple using H.264 encoding and no specific video player, relying on HTML5 video playback on Apple devices, and something using a Flash player for the users without HTML 5 support – likely to be the majority, for the next period, as Microsoft has no plans to support HTML 5 except in the almost-released IE 9 on Windows 7 and Vista. Windows XP is likely to be around for a good while yet (there’s still a sizeable proportion of people on the web relying on IE6).

HTML 5 is nowhere near an agreed or finalised specification, and so browsers billed as HTML 5 today can and do support different subsets of the provisional HTML 5 spec in different ways. There’s no agreement on potential video codecs support in HTML 5, with Apple and Microsoft favouring H.264 (on which they receive royalty payments) and Firefox, Chrome, Opera and others favouring WebM. This is unfortunate for developers looking for a neat, single solution.

Video for Everybody is another approach to resolving this : https://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody

This might be helpful too https://www.html5video.org/demos/

[Mike Smith]

Intriguing and important ; one to follow.

[Mike Smith]

Your “friend” is being unreasonable. You need to find a nice / charming / acceptable way of standing your ground while bringing her back onside.

Your are not competing : you have been offered edit work (which your friend does not do).

Her issue, seen one way, is that the end client, perhaps through budget restrictions and perhaps for other reasons, wants to be more “hands on” and bypass producer / director contact and go straight to techs on at least some projects.

With the economy as it is, this may add to any insecurity your friend is feeling.

But whether the end user hires you or someone else, s/he wants to bypass producer level : your friend is not going to get that work. She should be pleased it’s come to you : it’s a favourable comment on the work you did together.

Agreeing not to compete as a producer with her clients wouild be reasonable, if that would mend your fences with your friend. Otherwise, it might be a case of smiling sweetly and saying no: you can’t afford to turn down work that your friend cannot anyway do, if directly approached with it.

If that costs you your friend’s projects, you’d have to bear that loss and hope the other work more than compensates. If it costs her friendship, that’s sad ; but what kind of friendship was that ?

[Mike Smith]

An inflexibility in operating system support has long been a weakness in Premiere.

[Mike Smith]

A contracting party cannot impose additional conditions after contract has been agreed without the agreement of the other party.

That’s why they want you to sign.

Does that not apply to employment contracts where you work?

So if they sack you, what unfair dismissal legislation can you rely on in your jurisdiction? Here in the UK, a case like this would almost certainly end in a tribunal finding in your favour as unfairly dismissed if the reason for dismisall were failure to sign agreement to new conditions, and would be looking to the employer to pay you compensation. The employer’s lawyers would probably promote an early offer to you to settle, if they thought you had legal advice or would fight. I don’t know how that goes in the USA, but I guess not or you wouldn’t have posted like this ..

https://termination.legalview.info/articles/being-fired-or-terminated-from-work/57707/
https://www.mypersonnelfile.com/

[Mike Smith]

You know that you could simply use a link to your document, unless you are dynamically generating different versions of the file for each person who will download it ?