January 29, 2008

If you use Adobe's Media Player, then I have a feed for you!

If you happen to be using or playing with Adobe's new Media Player then I've got a feed for you to check out. That is if you are interested in Flash Media Server and developing applications with it.

I've taken our new Flash Media Server community site, fmsguru.com, and put out an AMP feed that can be loaded into Adobe's Media Player. It works quite well and I'd say that I really like how the videos play in it. All that's left is to figure out how to get the banners in to customize the show a bit better. There's a serious lack of documentation on it all but I think I've managed to get it together reasonably well.

Check out the feed here: http://www.fmsguru.com/rss/amp_rss.cfm

To add the feed, just open up "favorites" and down at the bottom there is a button to add an RSS feed. Click that and copy and paste in the above link! It's that easy. Everything should just start to load from there.

There are 11 tutorials in there right now with more to come! Should have new shows every week with the plan we have in place now. Those videos are progressively streamed in, if you're into being able to skip around in the file without downloading the whole thing, then go check out the tutorials page on the site for some true streaming by Influxis our cool streaming partner.

Posted by Graeme at 09:34 AM | Comments (0)

January 26, 2008

Flash Media Server 3 has been released

Just in time for the weekend to play :)

Go get it here: http://www.adobe.com/go/tryflashmediaserver

There's lots to post about this release but oddly enough the one item that really struck me was how snappy the new admin console felt. As if it was rebuilt just a bit to be more efficient or perform better.. could be just me maybe.

I'll post more in the near future on new features and how to use them.

Don't forget to check out the new video tutorial site I've got running for FMS, FMSGuru.com. Stuff on FMS3 will be going up pretty soon.

Posted by Graeme at 09:27 AM | Comments (0)