http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:22:21 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000901.html Add MPEG StreamClip and Perian to your system to import, play and convert video in more formats. There are some video formats that Quicktime and Quicktime based applications have a hard time interpreting. For instance, certain Sony video cameras produce files in multiplexed (muxed) mpeg format. If you use Quicktime player, iMovie or Final Cut, the video will probably play... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000781.html The JW Player is a very popular open-source media player which not only supports many video, audio and image formats, but has many scriptable behaviors. Here we'll make use of the JavaScript API to generate as many players as you want on a page. The generated players all have separate event listeners to keep them from interfering with each other.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000734.html This is an example of how to create a javascript-based Playlist selector for a JW FLV player. The playlist selector menu has 3 sections that toggle open and closed when you click on them. This allows the user to switch playlists, choosing from various topics. The source code has not been cleaned up, but you should be able to... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000701.html NOTE: this has been revised to make it more flexible, and allow multiple streamers and multiple video types, using the same code. This is a script that allows you to add as many JW FLV players to a page as you want, using a single block of code. The players all have separate event listeners to keep them from interfering... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000700.html Update 12-18-09: Longtailvideo has apparently resolved this bug with its player v.4.7beta. At this time v. 5 does NOT have the fix in it. The code changes that fixed the bug can be seen here: [Changes to RTMPModel.as] A few months ago, we installed Red5 0.7.0 on a Windows server to stream Flash video inside the firewall. This server... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000694.html On upgrading to Snow Leopard, a little window with a progress bar started appearing: "Flip4Mac importing". No reference to what was being imported or why. This has apparently been fixed in Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.11-Beta. It's not available from the main download site on Microsoft.com. You have to get it here: [LINK] References: Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.11-BETA download and documentation Flip4Mac forum... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000690.html The JW FLV player is a versatile, customizable and scriptable flash video player, available from Longtailvideo.com. The player was recently upgraded, and many details in the scripting and playlists had to change to remain compatible. I'm posting examples of some of the players I've created lately, using the latest version of the player and SWFObject. Versions Player: JW FLV player... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000689.html The JW FLV player is a versatile, customizable and scriptable flash video player, available from Longtailvideo.com. The player was recently upgraded, and many details in the scripting and playlists had to change to remain compatible. Since it can be difficult to figure out the details of the necessary changes, I'm posting examples of some of the players I've created lately,... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000688.html If you have ever opened a VOB file from a DVD in Quicktime, you've probably noticed that there is no sound. When you examine the properties of the file, you'll see that it is an Muxed (Multiplexed) MPEG2, which means that the audio and video are interleaved together into one transport stream. Apparently Quicktime is not yet capable of dealing... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000669.html If the scratch disk used by Final Cut Pro cuts out in the middle of an export, Final Cut Pro becomes unstable: the next time you try to launch it, it will crash on startup. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to fix. Delete the following preference files: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist ~/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data/Final Cut Pro 6 Preferences ~/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000628.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000622.html With some microphones, particularly Plantronics USB headset mic's, you may get an error when you try to set the Microphone Level in Powerpoint. "Powerpoint is not receiving sound from the microphone. Try one of the following ...." This error can occur even if all your settings in the Sound Control Panel are correct. Just hit OK, and don't try to... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000588.html Adobe Presenter is an add-on to Powerpoint that produces Articulate-like Flash presentations from your Powerpoint slides. At around $500.00 list price it's out of reach for a lot of content developers, but with an academic discount the price drops considerably, to about $150, and it starts to be a viable option for SME's to purchase for Rapid Elearning development. But... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000574.html After installing Adobe Web Premium CS4, I tried to import a video clip that was shot on a little Canon PowerShot camera into Adobe Media Encoder. It immediately responded with the error: The file "CIMG1324.AVI" could not be imported." There were no entries in the log or error log to clarify this this, so I started searching Adobe.com. It turns... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000498.html There are some errors that come up time and time again when working with Jeroen Wijering's Flash Video Player. Here's how to troubleshoot them. I'll keep adding to the list as time permits. Click the images to see a larger view. Typical problems: Player does not appear at all. Player appears but nothing happens when Play button is clicked. Player...