To follow on from my inital post, lets now look into Web Video.The current players are;
Flash Video (H.263 and On2 VP6)
Quicktime Video (Older Sorensons, more recent H.264)
Microsoft Windows Media 9.
If we look at these, it is widely accepted that the most widely used codec is those based on FLASH. A combination of H.263 and [...]
Tags: IPTV · Microsoft · Silverlight · codecs · flash · flex
I’ll get straight to it.
The Secret sauce is… Drum roll… “Open Source”.
Let me explain.
Firstly, let me go back many years ago, when I was playing with Flash and Flash Remoting back in the early days when the Flash Remoting Server was $10,000 or there about per server. The price killed the product. [...]
Tags: Microsoft · Silverlight · flash · flex
As I posted a glowing comment on Silverlight the other day, I took the time to try and learn more about it. And from what I have seen, it is holding up to its promise.
As such, I began to consider the strategic effect of this technology.
Silverlight, currently, from what I have seen, will be [...]
Tags: Silverlight · flash · flex
There has been much written in the blogisphere about Silverlight and how Microsoft is trying to do a flash killer. Mentioned is its ability to do Video like Flash.
Out of all the technology Silverlight has, it is the ability to do Video that is going to make Silverlight a technology that will have a deep [...]
I have always been a big fan of FLASH. It is an amazing internet enabeling technology.
However, like any seasoned Web developer, I must admit FLASH has its place. For example, its not well suited for use as a full SITE. It is suited as a application platform.
Flex is Adobe’s attempt to make a [...]