Dear Diary,
Wow i have definately neglected you, its has been 20 weeks since my last post and now im past the halfway point of my placement. Part 1 of the uploader has been deployed for use by my collleagues. This allows them to:
- Create Client
- Upload videos
- Generate thumbnails for those videos and/or upload thumbnails
- Generate deployment code
-Videos will play on different OS: Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android.
When i say Android any phone using a version later and including 2.2 will automatically use the flash player used for mac and windows machines. Where iPhone runes from a direct http link to the video.
Blackberry however is a whole new kettle of fish which i have been battling for the past few days now. The encode for the different blackberry devices are quite specific and wont work with http. so the only other option from that side of things is to stream the video via rtsp (Real Time Streaming Protocol). Which i have managed to achieve, and video will play the only issue now being that it cuts out after around 44 seconds. So the encoding of the video doesn't seem to be an issue as it plays fine up to a point. It also plays fine from the phones memory, so this leads me to believe that its a network issue.
I will let you know how i get on with that......
So part one of the system is in use.. I am currently working on part 2 which brings in projects, channels and players. Allowing for easy creation of players using my system.
videos are uploaded to projects, channels are created in projects and you are given the list of videos available to include in those channels. You create the player using the player design flash tool and then pick which channels you want to dedicate to that player and what order you want to display them in.
The real trick will be whether or not i can create a html version of the player to work on non-flash enabled mobiles and I am yet to combine my skinning tool with the flash player created already which is quite a big job.
You will be notified of my progress in due time.
