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Slimming Down In A Fat Market - Ooyala Steps Up With New Video Player

Last week, Ooyala, an online video platform that we've covered many times in the past, released a completely overhauled, "Slim" new version of their video player. The new player has been aptly named, "Swift" because it is designed to offer improved playback with a faster ...

Adobe Making Video Script Search

We at ReelSEO are always keen on finding new ways to search videos and more importantly, the content of the videos. Adobe has taken the problem to heart and found a solution that begins at the source - the Script. According to a presentation they ...

Brightcove and Adobe Strengthen Ties

Brightcove and Adobe are getting all the more friendly these days with the announcement today of a new strategic alliance that is set to deliver the best-in-class online video solution as they collaborate on tech and DRM matters. They're also said to be working on ...

Viewcast Expands H.264 Offerings

ViewCast today announced support of H.264 streaming with Adobe Flash Media Server software. ViewCast's Niagara 7500 streaming appliance and Niagara SCX software will now stream in H.264 using the Real Time Message Protocol (RTMP) - a proprietary protocol developed by Adobe, designed for high-performance transmission ...

Stream Straight To Mogulus and UStream

Mogulus recently announced that you can now stream directly to the site thanks to the Telestream Wirecast webcasting production software. With the latest version of the software (trial available here) you can now stream live events directly to your Mogulus channel. That's pretty cool come ...

Is High-Definition Video Chat Coming To Google's Gmail?

According to a post on CNET last week, despite Google shutting down several products and services (including shutting down the ability for users to upload videos to Google Video), there are also some interesting new services being developed that will be coming soon to Google's ...

Intel and Adobe Team To Optimize Flash Technology for Web TV Processors

Adobe and Intel recently announced that they will work to extend the Adobe Flash platform for the Intel Media Processor CE 3100. This means a better Flash experience in set-top boxes, Blu-Ray players and other AV connected devices. With the Flash platform's high-definition capabilities and ...

YuMe To Serve Ads In Adobe's Media Player and Adobe TV

YuMe, the leading online video ad serving platform and the largest dedicated video ad network on the Web, announced today that Adobe has selected YuMe as one of its vendors to serve video ads into downloaded content from Adobe® Media Player (AMP), as well as ...

Google Analytics Now Measures and Tracks Adobe Flash

Google, in its Analytics Blog, just showed a way to begin tracking user interaction via their Analytics web metrics program. While there have been homemade systems in the past to accomplish this, Google just now developed, with some third party help including Adobe, and displayed ...

Video Tutorial - Using High-Definition Video With Adboe Flash Professional CS3

Here is a great video tutorial from Layer's Magazine regarding how to create a web page with HD video (high-definition) using Flash CS3 Professional.  In addition to the video below, you can create your own project and follow along with the tutorial as they have ...

Optimal Bitrate Calculator for Flash Video Encoding

For those of you that are unaware, there is an excellent FLV bitrate calculator tool from Adobe that does an excellent job of helping you determine the optimal bitrate at which to encode your Flash video files.  I don't usually post such a short snippet ...

Optimal Frame Dimensions for Flash Video Encoding

There are many different factors that contribute to visual quality when encoding compressed video for the web.  One factor that is often overlooked has to do with encoding blocks and what dimensions you choose  when encoding video.   Choosing non-optimal dimensions can result in poor ...

Adobe Works To Make Video Search Indexing Easier

We all know how much work it is to transcribe audio or video to text. Adobe knows as well and is doing something about it. Adobe is set to release a new version of Flash that will feature speech-to-text technology for automatic transcription and it ...

80% of Internet PCs Are Ready for HD Video

Just last week,  Flash Player senior product manager Justin Everett-Church announced on his blog the newest Flash Player penetration stats. According to the updated penetration stats, 81.7% (in mature markets) of internet connected PCs now have Flash Player 9.0.115.  As you may already know, the ...

Acrobat Pro 9 – The Video SEO Advantage

SearchEngineLand.com has a feature article today by ReelSEO's Grant Crowell on the latest release by Adobe of their Acrobat line of software. "Acrobat 9 may be the first all-inclusive software program that can implement, distribute and event optimize video for search results, into a user-friendly and ...