[Help Us!] Actionscript developer needed (1 Viewer)

[DieBagger]

WebMp will get a much improved flash video player in (probably) version 0.5 which is based on jwplayer.



One of the most difficult things about streaming in MpExtended has always been the on-the-fly transcoding. While it is great that you can stream any video format instantly and change the format/quality when needed, it is also creating a set of problems.

We have come very far already and our infrastructure works very well on Android devices already. Unfortunately we cannot use the same format for the flash video players, which is why we need YOUR HELP!!!

This is for advanced users and developers:

What is already possible:
- On-the-fly transcoding from nearly any format to flv
- Injection of some flv metadata (mainly video duration) into the stream
- Playback of the flv stream with jwplayer
- Seeking within the video file (sort of http pseudostreaming) from an external javascript seekbar

What is still missing:
- Seeking with the internal seekbar of jwplayer
- Better flv output (keyframes, ...)
- Support for mp4 files (needs injection of moov atoms into stream)

Needed: Actionscript/Flex developer

None of the developers involved in the MpExtended development have experience with developing Flash/Actionscript/Flex components. However to fully support seeking with jwplayer we need a custom jwplayer MediaProvider. This component is written in actionscript, so we would appreciate the help of an developer with experience in this technology.

Some information about jwplayer MedaProviders:

• JW Player (see bottom of page)
• Doc: Building Skins | LongTail Video | Home of the JW Player

If you think you can help us please write a pm to either me or oxan, or even better join at #mp-extended to discuss this further.

 

[Dragy]

Flowplayer Flash seems to be a good player too:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...strap-v3-25-03-2013.117358/page-2#post-977588

Maybe I can make such an MediaProvider, but I am still busy with school right now.

 

[Oxan]

We used Flowplayer initially, but ditched it for JWPlayer. I can't remember the reason, might be lacking support for the playlist. Anyway, looks like Flowplayer needs ActionScript too. If you can do that (for either Flowplayer or JWPlayer), that'd be great.

 

[DieBagger]

IIrc the problem with flowplayer was the annoying overlay?

 

[Dragy]

Both JWPlayer and Flowplayer have an logo overlay.

 

[jwe]

Why not using HTML5 Capabilities?
In my Opinion, Flash is dead..
HTML5 COmpatible formats can be transcoded easily:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp

i have already tested this for iphone and for IE on WinRT.

 

[Oxan]

As I already explained a couple of times on the forums, HTML5 doesn't offer any usable codec. H.264 is only supported in an MP4 container, but MP4 isn't live-streamable (it requires the MOOV atom at the start of the file, but that atom can only be written after transcoding). The WebM encoder is way too slow to be usable (transcodes at about 12fps on my PhenomII X4 system). Ogg/Theora is only supported by Firefox and Chrome, and has a very slow encoder too.

 

[Lyfesaver74]

^ He speakith the turth!

 

[Dragy]

I don't think I can do it. It's much harder then I thought it would be.

Problem is that I don't really know where to start. I have no experience with Flash/ActionScript developing besides making some animations.