Dean Stringer's List: Online Video

"The internet has been filled for quite some time with an enormous number of blog posts complaining about how Flash sucks–so much that it’s sounding as if the entire internet is crying wolf. But, of course, despite the incessant complaining, they’re right: Flash has terrible performance on anything other than Windows x86 and Adobe doesn’t seem to care at all. But rather than repeat this ad nauseum, let’s be a bit more intellectual and try to figure out what happened."

"Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), currently in public prerelease, enables developers to easily assemble pluggable components to create high-quality, full-featured playback experiences. The open aspect of the framework enables collaborative development for web video monetization, with lower costs and faster turnaround."

"One of the biggest criticisms of Apple's new iPad, and of the iPhone, is that it does not support Adobe's Flash, a system that lets Web developers code streaming videos and interactivity into Web pages. Steve Jobs is reported to be a big booster for HTML 5"

"A difference of opinion among developers has become a high-profile debate over the future of the Web: should programmers continue using Adobe Systems' Flash or embrace newer Web technology instead? "

"Matterhorn is an open source project working within the Opencast Community to develop an end-to-end, open source platform that supports the scheduling, capture, managing, encoding and delivery of educational audio and video content."

help resource center for Adobe Flex

"Streaming video websites like YouTube face growing pressure from consumers to provide support for native standards-based Web video playback. The HTML5 video element provides the necessary functionality to build robust Web media players without having to depend on proprietary plugins, but the browser vendors have not been able to build a consensus around a video codec."

The next plugin at least has a clearly-defined purpose. The latest version of the Xiph.org codec pack for Windows includes an experimental IE plugin that brings limited support for the HTML 5 <video> tag to Internet Explorer.

A while ago, YouTube launched a simple demo of an HTML5-based video player. Recently, we published a blog post on our pre-spring cleaning effort and your number one request was that YouTube do more with HTML5. Today, we're introducing an experimental version of an HTML5-supported player.

"Google said earlier this year that on the first of the month it would begin phasing out support for the browser within Google Docs and Google Sites. And lately, visitors who go to YouTube on IE6 have been met with the following messages: “On March 13, we are dropping support for your browser. You’ll still be able to watch videos after that date, but new features may not work properly”"

"There are many challenges involved in building Qos (quality of service) video player, let’s take a look: "

"A component of the Akamai HD Network solution, Akamai HD for the Adobe Flash Platform is an intelligent, high-capacity media delivery solution for the Flash runtime environment."

"This document establishes a Video Player-Ad API definition (VPAID) that standardizes the communication between video players and in-stream video advertising as designed by the Digital Video Committee of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)"

"Microsoft's open source Silverlight Media Framework enables developers to quickly deploy a robust, scalable, customizable media player for IIS Smooth Streaming delivery"

"Panther Express, a global provider of high-performance, low cost content delivery, announced today the launch of their Progressive Download Seek (PDSeek) service, making them the first CDN to provide the ability for Internet video and audio users to immediately jump to any point in multimedia files delivered via HTTP. Web sites can now deliver media files via progressive download rather than using expensive streaming protocols without sacrificing user experience. "

"There seems to be a heated and highly polarised debate in progress about Flash and HTML5. There also seems to be a lot of misinformation flying around and some misunderstandings about what Flash and HTML5 are, what they can do and how the future of the web is likely to shape up in the next few years. Most of the debate and the disagreements have little to do with what the best technology for the web is"

Nice video player built in HTML5+JS with a fallback to Flash

"Kaltura has developed a full HTML5 Video Library – in use by Wikipedia – that works in ALL major browsers, even IE. The Kaltura HTML5 video player works in all browsers by using a unique ‘fallback’ mechanism – not only for the format of the video that is played, but also for the actual video player version that is used. While support for HTML5 video is growing, there is large percentage of the web browser market that is presently best served by the Adobe Flash plugin and an associated player. A base component of the Kaltura HTML5 javascript library bridges this gap, by cascading to an underlining Flash player in browsers that do not support the native HTML5 video player."