HTTP Video Streaming
So over the weekend I've been playing around a little bit with HTTP video streaming. A lot of the newer video streaming technologies are starting to focus around HTTP + Adaptive streaming. The reason for this is because HTTP based streaming can scale very easily and Adaptive streaming can adjust very easily client restrictions such as bandwidth and hardware capabilities.
- Microsoft (Silverlight) - supports both HTTP and Adaptive streaming with their SmoothHD.
- Adobe (Flash) - supports Adaptive streaming and will be supporting HTTP streaming in FP 10.1
- Apple - supports HTTP and Adaptive streaming in Safari and on the iPhone.
- Move Networks - One of the first to support both HTTP and Adaptive streaming.
So in my attempt to better understand the world of streaming I ended up playing around with apples solution to live video streaming. Thanks to a few great articles at IONCANNON, I was able to create a little streaming application that would dynamically load video into Safari and onto the iPhone. Very cool stuff. I plan on working with what he created already and getting it to work with my other little side project.
Adobe Social
So I've been looking into the new Adobe Social API for a little application I've been planning on working on. One of the things I hate is trying to update my avatar / icon on all of these different social media sites. So I'm planning on making a simple Adobe Air application that I can add an image to, resize and then upload to all the social media sites I use. The only problem is from what I understand is that the Social API will only work from a valid domain that you setup and will not work from localhost. So as a result this new API is incompatible with AIR. Oh well. Shouldn't be to hard to figure out all of the different API's for uploading to a bunch of different site. Right?