New Wowza Media Server 2.0
I have to say Wowza is a cool media server. I've played around with the developer server a few times and have found the features to be rather nice. To find out that they have released a new version of their server with these great new features makes it a really enjoyable experience. More so when you aren't limited to just streaming to the flash platform anymore. Wowza no supports streaming to IPTV, iPhone, Quicktime, Silverlight and Flash.
Download your free developer edition here
Build iPhone Applications With Flex Builder
It always excites me when I'm able to find a new little gem on the internet. I think this could prove to be interesting as a way to develop for multiple mobile platforms. Not just for the iPhone or any other one offs. Today i was made aware of Elips Studio 3. You can register for the developer beta here. It'll be interesting to see how well it works at compiling to multiple platforms and the differences between all those platforms.
From the site:
"ELIPS Studio 3 cuts through the complexity of the fragmented mobile market by providing a single development toolkit for the world's most popular handsets. It includes a sophisticated simulator, and the code it generates is compact and rapid enough to run even on low-specification, mass-market handsets."
How does it work?
- Develop in Adobe Flex/Flash Builder
ELIPS Studio 3 is available as a plug-in for Adobe Flex / Flash Builder, a popular IDE for the development of RIAs and RDAs using the ActionScript and MXML languages.- Use our mobile Flex Framework
The product comes with a mobile-optimized version of the Flex Framework and a wide range of Flex extension libraries, including mobile device features and UI components. These provide additional capabilities beyond those found in the 'standard' Flex, such as making voice calls, accessing the phone's address book, sending SMS or MMS, taking snapshots or videos with the camera, and more. You can also import open source ActionScript Web 2.0 libraries.- Build and deploy for the mobile platforms you want
ELIPS Studio 3 automatically mobilizes and packages your Flex-based applications for industry-leading platforms, including iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, plus proprietary mass-market devices that run Real-Time operating systems (RTOS).
And because Open-Plug has a long track record of creating optimized code for cellular handsets... you’ll get amazing performance with your new Mobile 2.0 applications!
Flash Player 10.1 & AIR 2.0 Betas + Samples
I have to say i was rather surprised when I woke up this morning to find out new betas of the Flash Player and AIR were released. I don't believe I've been this excited for a new release of flash in a long time. But what I'm more excited about are all the new features in AIR. It seems like Adobe really listened to the community and put in the features we have been asking for. The feature I'm most exited about is the support for native code integration. Finally i wont have to rely on Merapi any more (even though it is a great project that helped me with what I needed at the time). So if you want to hurry an try out all the latest and greatest go ahead download the files below to get you started and take a look at the samples below to see what is possible.
< Air 2.0 Beta runtime / Air 2.0 Beta SDK >
< Flash Player 10.1 Beta / Player Global SWC >
< Developer Guides >
< AS3 Language Reference >
Samples:
Samples are from Adobe
Flash Video Streaming Solutions
So one of my secret obsessions is with video. I like to record video. I like to watch it. I like everything about it. But what I really like about it is the technology behind it. Call me crazy but I love to figure out how to encode a clip or video and see how good I can compress it using different codecs. Maybe that's why I love working where I work. Since I 'm a Flash / Flex programmer I have been wanting to investigate different streaming solutions for flash and see what is available and what will work with my little at home project.
This little project I've been playing around with is trying to get my HDHomeRun (HDHR) to rebroadcast its live feed to flash. I've been investigating technologies like Red5, C++ RTMP Server and Flash Media Server. With anything that requires multiple pieces of different technologies. The hard part is integrating these different pieces together. Luckily the HDHR is open source. So that provides a lot of avenues for development. The only hard part is trying to get the MPEG-TS from the HDHR and convert it on the fly to something flash can use.
So far I haven't been able to get any of the solutions to work. but as soon as I do I'll post something here.