JamieG Analysis

Lately I have been doing a lot of Flex and Flash development. This has led me to discover, through issues with my projects, two major BUGS in flash player 9.0.124 (Current version). With the recent release of FlashPlayer 10 beta, I was expecting these bugs to have been addressed. Unfortunatly not.
Through sheer [...]

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If you follow my blog, you will notice that I take a lot of effort in looking at Adobe and what they are doing with their flash technology. To help position this post, let me first refer to previous posts in reverse chronological order:
Flash DRM, a disappointing implementation: where I discuss pitfalls in Adobe’s plans, [...]

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Recently Adobe released  “Flash Media Rights Management Server“. More details have come to light, and unfortunately it is not good.
Follow this link for a good overview of the latest development in the Flash DRM.
Unfortunately Adobe appears to have lost the plot here.  The details regarding FMRMS are a strange departure from what appeared to be [...]

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This week I was lucky to have a Flex evangelist from Adobe, Daniel Dura, come to my town of Melbourne to tote the Adobe line.  Of course, being a “digital media head” I drilled him on all the questions I could think of that would give me a peek into the future directions of Adobe.
During [...]

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Recently I got a Xacti VPC-HD1000. This is the smallest 1080i video camera on the market, plus 8M picture camera. It stores the video data on a solid state 4gig SD card in AVCHD. AVCHD is another name for H.264. Flash Player 9 revision 3 recently came out supporting H.264/AAC.
This made me consider the fact [...]

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