Uncategorized 21 Nov 2004 09:17 pm
[sites] Amazon.com uses Flash video on their home page
And during the holiday season at that!
This is great to see. I love how video has become an integrated component of the web browsing experience - finally.
I hate clicking “Play” and being taken to a pop-up window, choosing one of three players, choosing a connection speed, downloading the 13MB player that I don’t have, fumbling around for the free version, accidentally giving over control of all media types on my computer because I didn’t uncheck all of the “Default player for…” boxes, remembering to go back to the page that had the video, reading the help system on how to play the video, waiting for the default “X Media Player” skins to load up, waiting for the gratuitious add to play through, and then, hopefully, WATCH A FREAKIN VIDEO!!!
Imagine if we had to do all of that to view an image in a web page.
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Sorry. Got a little carried away there…
on 06 Dec 2004 at 1:41 pm 1.Mark said …
I couldn’t agree more and I’d like to think there’s a future for Flash video in blogs. I just created a Flash tool, BlogFlix, that lets users feed a whole “stack” of Flash video clips into a frame in a blog (and threw in Actionscript driven animations to make blog photos pan and zoom too). Still struggling with a few issues but it works pretty well with all the mainstream blogging hosts.
on 13 Nov 2005 at 1:43 pm 2.google左侧排å?? said …
there’s a future for Flash video in blogs.
on 28 Apr 2006 at 10:42 pm 3.queen said …
Movie transform will help you snap a frame of movie, composite with your personal picture, and generate special effects.
http://www.yaodownload.com/video-design/videoplayers/ladybug-player-xp_videoplayers.htm