Update: Just noticed that the player is still in prerelease, so let the team know if you find issues.
As part of the Open Source Media Framework, Adobe has released a new video player called the Strobe Media Playback component. This is a full-featured video player that is ready for easy deployment. It has all of the advanced features of OSMF built right in including things like HTTP streaming, content protection, and progressive, streaming, and live video delivery. Obviously many of you will want to create a custom video player, but for quick video deployment, this player will be the way to go. I have recently switched to using this player on gotoAndLearn().
Deploying the player is very easy and all the instructions are included in the download files. Here’s a tip though. Take the height of your source video and add 35 to get the height of the SWF when you embed.
Nice and thank you for the news lee
It’s nice. But, I wonder why two big questions:
1. why not also provide the source and component version so it’s easy to use within another project or to modify? (Maybe I missed where the source is.)
2. have you tried or do you have any easy code to embed this within another swf? I guess I could make that code but I’d have thought the devs would want to deliver that. Maybe I’ll go post on the forum.
Thanks,
Phillip
Cool! Although on my iPhone I just get a little blue icon instead of a video? Can you fix that?
Does anyone know if osmf based video player allow :
1/ frame accurate seeking and
2/ playback speed to be changed ?
I have quickly looked up on the osmf website without finding any informations about such functionalities…
Thx,
nilebma
Great!
Similar question than Phillip, do you plan to release a flash component version to use in the flash IDE and/or flex?
thanks
Ramiro
No parameter to specify a jpeg preview image?
In reply to Joseph. Aks Steve Jobs. For more information just click in the blue icon and read.
I’d also like to know if we can use this within Flex projects. Otherwise I have to stick to the FLVPlayback for rapid deployment. I just don’t have the time to develop my own right now.
Lee?
Wow I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time! Good to see the player out and about!
Every time I see, Scott in the beginning of that video, I always think of “Men In Black”
Thank you for the update.
@Phillip Kerman : Hi, I’m the Eng. manager for Strobe Media Playback. We’re still in beta and the sources are not yet available, but they will once we hit 1.0 this summer.
@nilebma: (1) no. from what I know this needs to be correlated with some support in the streaming server (2) not yet
@Ramiro Araujo : we have it on the road map
The player looks great and I just have a few quick suggestions to throw out there…
1. Design. It looks great but you should make the player grayscale totally…No green/blue accents. I understand the desire to have the levels on audio and rollovers pop and it looks good but a little white, glow, bevel or whatever you want will indicate that just as well and it will be better. People need design that is skinned appropriately. If Adobe is a company that thinks of scalability and true universality they should consider that blue/green or any color for that matter is only going to match with a small percentage of sites.
2. I agree about the open source. Open up the source and take care of your flashers! Let users design what they want from an FLA/XFL environment. There are so many Flash ‘developers’ that can’t really edit code but are comfortable in a timeline FLA based environment. Most of your users can use the IDE…let them use it and make the player shine. Also one of the things that makes Flash great is easy customability. If I want to do something special with that video player and pass the variables to an external interface, analytics, etc I can because I can just append the code pretty easily. If you give away the source this thing will only get better, not worse. I’ve made quite a few players in my time and they always end up needing more than standard controls.
@Jeffery see comment #11 regarding open-source.
@Ovidiu This being available within Flex is… undeniably needed. I’m actually shocked that the Flex team still hasn’t offered a proper video player… at least something that contains the basic controls with the ability to extend it. Most solutions can’t afford to spend the time to develop a custom player.
I suppose there are solutions out there that offer licenses (flowplayer)… still, for Flash to have the FLVPlayback (which sucks), but Flex, being the RIA powerhouse that it is, not having any ready solution is quite lame.
Many times when I pause this player, and resume it after a couple of seconds, it does not resume. This happened three times with me. My connection wasn’t able to catch up with it so I paused it and waited for it to buffer (it has zero buffering by the way — starts stuttering if the connection is slow) but when I resumed (hit the play button again) it didn’t start playing it. I ‘scrubbed’ the video a little bit which caused it to resume.
I did this about 3 times for sure. May be it is only me, or may be if someone lets it buffer, it doesn’t work?
@lee, off-topic
im sorry if i ask the same question people asked before, but what’s the name of the software that you use for screen capture?
Agree with above – open the source please, so we can make this have poster frame jpg, insert detects based on timecode, and easy direct access to skin graphics. Its also important to know the name of the netstream video object instance to do some important tracking things and tricks.
I so intensely dislike the hassle of component customizing, that i no longer use them. ever.
… also make a center click become a pause like other std players would be great.
As always, thanks lee, and i hope you are lovin your PC as much as i love my 5 screen HD setup – having an 8000+ pixel desktop makes me far quicker than my iMac ( which is great sculpture on my desk but not anywhere near as productive )
Hi,
for sure the interface is really UGLY! But thanks for the open source.
cheers, roberto.
Lee, can you show us how to update Flash CS4 (not CS5) to work with the newly released Flash Player/Debugger 10.1? i’ve downloaded, renamed and correctly replaced the projector and debugger players, but CS4 is still not recognizing the new APIs like flash.ui.Multitouch.
I will setup a nwe player my site but I don’t understand why do I add more height?
@dcolumbus
Check out
It’s entirely skinnable like all spark components.
Surely that should cover your needs ?
@dcolumbus
Check out s:VideoPlayer
It’s entirely skinnable like all spark components.
Surely that should cover your needs ?
Thanks for the post and files! Can´t wait to test it out:)
Regarding the changes to the video player on gotoAndLearn(), I have two thoughts.
First, I miss being able to click anywhere on the video to make it pause. My screen size isn’t very tall, so I need to scroll down to stop it, or hunt down the little play button in the corner.
Second, is there any way to allow you to “skip ahead” like most video players? Right now, it won’t let you play a certain part of the video until that part has been loaded.
Since you have such a high bandwidth, in case I return to a video, I only need to wait a few minutes until the entire video is loaded, and can skip ahead once it is all done, so it’s not a big deal. But still, it would be more convenient to be able to skip to the part they need.
Cheers,
Andreas
Hey Lee,
I saw you post on the Adobe Forum regarding adding a poster image, do you know if it’s possible to do it now?
Would be really neat.
Superb, great stuff!