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RealEyes Your Holiday!
This year, the RealEyes Media crew has turned into Androids for our annual Holiday card. Not only do we look awesome, but we're celebrating all the mobile work that we've done this past year ... and not just for Android, but for iOS and Blackberry, too.
Read the rest »5 Tips for Getting More From Your Training
Ever sit through 8, 10 or more hours of training and come out feeling like it was a big waste of time? Regardless of the instructor and class content, there are some things that you can do to improve and benefit from any training that you attend.
Read the rest »Flash Platform Announcements & Impact to RealEyes
The past week has brought a series of announcements from Adobe that has elicited myriad speculation and concern from the Flash Platform and Adobe community. As a leading Adobe Solutions provider for Flash Platform solutions, RealEyes wants to address these announcements and how we see their impacting our focus in the technological ecosystem.
Read the rest »Using CKEditor Allows Your Clients to Edit HTML, Add Images
The Javascript-based rich text editor-CKEditor is a great tool to use in projects that require you to give your clients the ability to edit their own HTML pages. Implementation is dead simple, and the list of configuration options is long, giving you a great deal of flexibility in terms of the functionality you can implement in the HTML editor.
Read the rest »Load Testing PHP AMF Service APIs is a PIA – But John Crosby Has Found a Solution!
Load testing service API's got you down? How about load testing PHP-based, AMF service API's? Thought so. Fear not, because John Crosby recently posted his findings about two AMF load testing tools he says are great!
Read the rest »New in Flash Player 11: Encoding Live Video to H.264/AVC
The latest version of Flash Player (v.11.0) includes some exciting new features, including performance upgrades such as native 64-bit support, and asynchronous bitmap decoding. Perhaps most newsworthy though, is Flash Player's new capability to encode live video streams to the H.264/AVC standard.
Read the rest »Get Ready – Adobe MAX 2011 is Near!
There's a great deal of excitement in the AIR here at RealEyes Media as the premiere Adobe conference of the year-Adobe MAX 2011, rapidly approaches! This Saturday, October 1st, the epicenter of design, media, and development will be Los Angeles California, as Adobe settles in for the 3rd year in a row at the L.A. Convention Center, and the beautiful Nokia Theater L.A. LIVE.
Read the rest »Adobe Releases OSMF, Strobe Media Playback 1.6
Back in early June, we reported on the pre-release of Adobe's OSMF 1.6, and its support for late-binding audio.
Read the rest »Adobe Releases Flash Media Server v4.5
Booyah. I have to say first and foremost that it makes me happy to post this today. It’s not every day that when existing software is upgraded in dot release format (v4.0 v4.5) that it may as well be a full version release (v4.0 v5.0) simply because of all of the enhancements to the products capabilities. But, yet again, Adobe has done just that with its release of Flash Media Server v4.5. And they’ve outdone themselves this time. Let’s take a gander at a quick overview of the key upgrades to the product, shall we?
Read the rest »Introduction to the Flash Platform P2P API with Jun Heider
Jun Heider gave a really nice presentation this morning on how to leverage the Adobe Flash platform P2P API to create applications for sharing video, audio, and data among application peers. In his talk, Jun demonstrates P2P technologies working across multiple devices and taking advantage of the flexible RTMFP protocol, an Adobe technology that allows for maximum scalability coupled with a dramatic reduction in server infrastructure and bandwidth costs.
Read the rest »HTTP Dynamic Streaming – Part 2: Late-Binding Audio Using OSMF
Part 1 of this series discussed HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) at a fairly high level. The next few editions in the series will explore some of the more powerful features that make using this protocol advantageous. Multi-bitrate stream switching and file encryption are two important features that we'll cover in the very near future, as they're very big reasons to stream over any protocol. However, in this article I'd like to discuss a brand new feature of the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) known as "late-binding audio".
Read the rest »HTTP Dynamic Streaming – Part 1: An Introduction to Streaming Media
As technologies related to the production and delivery of digital motion media continue to advance, so do consumer demands for an increasingly varied and rich media viewing experience. High-definition video is now being delivered to more users, on a wider variety of devices, and through more complex networks than ever before. For content providers, this of course means more available avenues for media distribution and monetization.
Read the rest »Top 5 Reasons for Adobe Connect Implementation
Working as a Solutions Engineer, Trainer, Sales Rep, etc. is a task in and of itself. However, it also provides a skill set that not too many people possess, and I value having the ability to, “wear many hats”. Even though I have a little head, I love it!
Read the rest »Coming Soon to Adobe Labs-Adobe Edge: New Animation Tool for HTML, CSS, JS
Adobe Labs is currently previewing their latest animation tool-Adobe Edge, which you will be able to use to create animations destined for screens of all sizes. By using the latest web standards, such as HTML/HTML 5, CSS 3, and JavaScript, animators will be able to use Edge to create motion content with its easy to use, timeline-based interface.
Read the rest »Adobe Releases Flash Builder 4.5.1/Flex 4.5.1 SDK with Improved Support for Mobile Application Development
Today Adobe released version 4.5 of Flash Builder and the open-source Flex SDK. Arguably the most important update in this release is the added support for mobile application development.
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