Comments on: Network Computing reviews streaming media servers - Flash rated highest quality

By: WWE Video

WWE Video — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:33:49 +0000

Hey!…Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts..what a nice Thursday

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:06:03 +0000

I for one am not that happy with Flash Video. But when the video is expanded (I am using brightcove) the frame rate gets really choppy on my computer. Also for the kinds of things I am doing. Also the full screen issue is critical for the longer format shows I am doing. Small video clips is fine for the complete trash you see on You tube. The absolute best example of streaming video I have seen is Vividas but they lease their software or charge a good chunk of change to encode.

I am looking for a good format to use that is full screen which you can insert non skipable commercials. I wish Vividas had more realistic costs or I would go with them. Their technology is like watching HD TV but it is streaming video.

Anyone have any suggestions please let me know. Quality is the biggest consideration for me and of course cost and bandwidth considerations. Email me and let me know.

iolaos1968@yahoo.com

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:06:32 +0000

I have used flash and media player for some time i feel that embedding the player into your site is the way to go …flash has some nice skins and easy to set up but media player can go full screen with one click no extra code ….i cant find the code for flash to play fullscreen with one click any imput would be much appreciated thank

Trevor

By: Telewizory Lcd

Telewizory Lcd — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:26:11 +0000

I cannot also watch flash in the full screen, I am puzzling sie whether is mozliwośc of enlarging it from the side of the system.. hmm

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By: Casper

Casper — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:24:17 +0000

I still wouldn’t use anything else other than Flash to deliver video purely because I don’t want my site users dragged away to something else by one of the adverts featured in the other plugins. Also their installation process is hideous if you don’t have them to start with. More than half of the Quicktime, WMV and Real sites I look at fail to load their videos or end up crashing my browser when they choke the stream. Flash is a much simpler system to implement IMHO. Yet I do still have issues setting the buffer correctly so that it doesn’t run out before the video finishes playing.

By: Mike Downey

Mike Downey — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 06:00:52 +0000

Hello -

I’m unclear as to how “fullscreen” is different for WMP than it is for Flash video. It seems to me that you coudl encode multiple resolutions to FLV and allow users to switch to a higher res when they select “fullscreen”.

Perhaps WMP does a better job of scaling up? I’m not sure…

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:39:00 +0000

When I follow the link to the full article there is a “Streaming Media Servers Features Chart” - they have their columns crossed.

WMV is crossed with FMS2 so encoding and access are flip-flopped between the 2 products. - Yikes!

So much for editing over at network computing. . .

By: George

George — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:00:07 +0000

I don’t think FULL SCREEN is a problem for Flash video, you could code it! Possibly a little bit more code with MS Visual Studio.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:06:27 +0000

I have to agree with Woody. Full screen is a big deal. I have a fairly high resolution monitor at home and videos appear tiny. To be able to see them well, I need to either make them double size or full screen. With Flash I can’t do that.

I suppose I could reduce my screen resolution, but it’s imporant to me for coding. I don’t want to set it to “big pixels” every time I view vide.