{"id":1052,"date":"2006-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1052"},"modified":"2006-11-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"flash-video-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/flash-video-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Video Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent a bit of time yesterday working through a few tutorials at gotoAndLearn.com<\/a> building a flash video player.<\/p>\n

My previous attempts with encoding quicktime for flash with Flash 8 Video Encoder had resulted in flash files larger and of poorer quality than the original. This time I just used the flash export in Quicktime Player pro with better results, I don’t know enough about the various parameters to use Flash 8 Video Encoder.app effectively. The QT exported files sometime come out a bit bigger and sometimes smaller but not as much bigger as my efforts with the Flash Video Encoder. I guess I still need some lessons in encoding video…<\/p>\n

I then altered the video player a bit so that it will not load the flash movie until clicked and loads a jpg preview, the locations of both movie and preview can be passed to the player making it fairly simple to use the player for multiple files in a blog.<\/p>\n

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I’ve not decided if I should go for quicktime or flash for Sandaig Television<\/a>, but it is nice to have options.<\/p>\n

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The above examples are sections of a movie created by my primary six class last session.<\/p>\n

We can even give you a snippit to embed the video in your own blog just like YouTube:<\/p>\n

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