Review: Five Top Personal Video Sites
The 5 “most popular video sites” seem to have something in common. What is it? They all use Flash!
From TechWeb:
…AOL Uncut Video, Blip.tv, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and YouTube. All of the services use Macromedia Flash for formatting and displaying video content. Flash is perfect for this role, as it is cross-platform and eliminates any complications with video file types or having to install specific players or codecs…
Flash video is most definately here to stay (as if there was ever any question).
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Speaking of user generated content and video, I’ll go ahead and plug the Patrón Simply Perfect site again here since you can upload your own audio and/or video to it.
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August 13th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Are any tutorials on how to create a user-generated content site that accepts video uploads and auto-converts them to Flash available. Anything of the sort would be greatly appreciated.
August 13th, 2006 at 9:48 pm
Hi Dune. I’m not sure of any actual tutorials on this, but it’s going to be a two part process.
1: The upload.
2: The file conversion.
For the upload of the file, check out the FileReference.upload method on the Adobe live docs. That should give you all of the info and an example on uploading. Here’s a link:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?href=Part4_ASLR2.html
As for the file conversion, you can go a couple of ways. You could do it manually on a schedule of some sort with the Flash Video Encoder or On2 Flix ( http://on2.com/consumer/flix-pro/ ). Or you might check into something like the Flix Engine ( http://www.on2.com/developer/flix-engine-sdk/?sid=8O1P-3KJI-44dfe3fb6e665&ref= ) which converts server-side.
Hope that helps get you going.
August 15th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Thank you Jason, I also found this link on your site which seems very interesting. Thanks very much for the links, greatly appreciated.
http://flash.fincanon.com/archives/44
November 17th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
I want to confirm one thing Jason;
So bascially this link; http://www.on2.com/developer/flix-engine-sdk/?sid=8O1P-3KJI-44dfe3fb6e665&ref= ) will do my converting in to flv in realtime? If not, where can i get a software where it will convert mpeg,mpg, avi in real time as youtube does…. Please let me know, at your earliest.
November 17th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
I talked with an On2 sales person a few months ago and from the information I was given, yes, the Flex Engine SDK will convert videos to .flv when they are uploaded to the server. Here’s the link without the session id appended to it:
http://www.on2.com/developer/flix-engine-sdk