Flash and Mac do I need to worry? - Page 2

MeatPounder · 2011-08-12, 02:06 PM

Actually the itap app solves flash issues...you just run flash on your windows desktop
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itap-...317062064?mt=8

Cleo · 2011-08-12, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by MeatPounder

Actually the itap app solves flash issues...you just run flash on your windows desktop
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itap-...317062064?mt=8

I can do the same thing with this app that I use to access my Macs remotely. I used it once to run Flash just to do it but I've never found a need to access Flash since.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mocha...284981670?mt=8

ecchi · 2011-08-13, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Cleo

Desperation in advertising...

You miss my point. It is that TODAY people love iPad, but if they see Tablets doing things that iPad does not do, then TOMORROW they will love Tablets. And in a couple of years time the headline you quoted will read the other way round (People don’t want fake Tablets...Apple slashes iPad dud by 20%). Remember, this all happened before. People loved the old Mac, then Apple got complacent. Mac users switched to PC, and Apple nearly went bust. It was only by killing the Mac and replacing it with the iMac that the company was saved. If they continue to refuse to ship their products with the software that people have come to accept as standard, they will soon have to kill the iPad, and come up with a new revolutionary product to replace it. And they may not be as lucky the next time round.

Elsewhere there is a thread about the new Planet Of The Apes film, Apple should look to the orignal, or soon someone at Apple is going to be re-enacting the ending of that film - kneeling on the ground screaming "You bastards, you had it all and you threw it all away."

cd34 · 2011-11-09, 12:15 PM

Thankfully, Adobe has seen the light.

Adobe stops development on Flash for Mobile

Cleo · 2011-11-09, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by cd34

Thankfully, Adobe has seen the light.

Adobe stops development on Flash for Mobile

And also from today... Microsoft is pulling the plug on Silverlight.
http://www.electronista.com/articles...major.release/

spookyx · 2011-11-10, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Cleo

And also from today... Microsoft is pulling the plug on Silverlight.
http://www.electronista.com/articles...major.release/

This is Bad

I have a client that I did a lot of Silverlight work for. I will make sure I let them know about this and that they need to look at redoing a lot of their stuff

Cleo · 2011-11-10, 10:56 PM

Silverlight is just a Flash clone from what I understand. Netflix uses it to stream their movies.

I seem to remember that they went with Silverlight because it supports DRM. I think before that it was WMP and switched to Sliverlight so that Macs could use it too.

Can html5 support DRM?

tickler · 2011-11-11, 08:04 AM

MS uses Silverlight on their AdCenter, so this should be interesting!

cd34 · 2011-11-11, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Cleo

Can html5 support DRM?

HTML5 doesn't. However, it is the video codec that does - and WebM does have some of the hooks in it to handle it.

HTML5 would just call <video='asdasdfa'/> and it would be up to the video codec to determine whether it needed DRM. Almost all of the video containers, i.e. .mp4, .wmv have the ability to do DRM.

The thing that many people are complaining about at this point is that HTML5 games (a huge industry) have their source in the open (even if obfuscated). Flash game designers appear to be disappointed that their work will be able to be read and critiqued, making communications with the server easier to decode and possibly fake/automate. That might eliminate a lot of the client/server poker clients and push them to be webapp/server based.

redwhiteandblue · 2011-11-15, 04:07 PM

So - if I only want to encode one version of a video, is the best approach to do it as an MP4, then in HTML5 to use that in the video tag and fall back to flash with say, the JW player?

Cleo · 2011-11-15, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by redwhiteandblue

So - if I only want to encode one version of a video, is the best approach to do it as an MP4, then in HTML5 to use that in the video tag and fall back to flash with say, the JW player?

Encode it as a h.264 video in a mp4 wrapper and use JW Player to call up the file.

housekeeper · 2011-11-18, 12:36 PM

Interesting article about Silverlight, I think there is news more current as well, I've got to look it up as I remember hearing they were not updating for Silverlight

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2011-08-12, 02:06 PM	#26
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2011-11-15, 04:07 PM	#35
redwhiteandblue Internet! Is that thing still around? Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 5	So - if I only want to encode one version of a video, is the best approach to do it as an MP4, then in HTML5 to use that in the video tag and fall back to flash with say, the JW player?