Ok, I’ve been spending some serious time with NetStream and I have to say it sucks. Here’s 5 reasons why–feel free to add more.
Ok, now that I’ve got that off of my chest, I’d like to say I’m a huge fan of Flash video–I just want it to be better. Hopefully, someone out there is listening and these issues will be addressed in upcoming releases of the player.
I had one of those “landmark” life moments on Sunday evening when I had the opportunity to attend my first Green Bay Packers game on the hallowed “frozen tundra” of Lambeau Field. Raised in Wisconsin, I grew up steeped in the lore of Titletown, so named for the 12 NFL World Championships the Packers have won over the years, and spent many a Sunday throwing down beer and brats while watching the Packers. Lambeau Field has been sold out since 1960 and there’s currently a 30 year waiting list for season tickets, so it was a dream come true, when my older brother, Ford, called me up out of the blue with the news of tickets to Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions.
I took some short video clips on my Palm Treo 650–actually amazing video for a for a phone. I’m using the kimili WordPress plugin to embed the Flash video’s into my blog post, but for some reason, the component controls don’t show up ( they show up fine when tested in the standalone player, or in their own html wrappers)…if anyone can point me in the right direction, I’d be happy to remedy the situation. I ended up using Camtasia Studio Playback controls so that there was some mechanism for controlling the video. However, this too required a bit of jiggering, as I had to provide absolute paths for the xml configuration file and the location of the swf shell and flv files.
The legendary Brett Favre marches the pack toward the endzone:
Brooks:
Ford:
I was bored and wanted to check out the latest ASDT features / fixes, so I downloaded the ASDT source files from CVS and figured out how to compile them for use in Eclipse. I put together a Camtasia Studio video tutorial of the whole procedure which can be cound via the link below. It’s actually quite an easy process, though I did get bogged down for a few minutes trying to download all of the views into a single project before realizing the error of my way. Enjoy!