Sönke Rohde » 2006

Tuesday 21 March 2006 @ 10:35 am

Yesterday night the new Flex Beta 2 was released by Adobe.
The Flex Enterprise Services are renamed to Flex Messaging Services 2.0.
What is new? Read the release notes.
For the changes between beta 1 and beta 2 read more here.

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FFMPEG GUI using Flex 2 beta

Monday 6 March 2006 @ 5:14 pm

I have build a GUI for FFMPEG using Flex 2 beta and I can say - that was easy!

FFMPEG is an audio-video transcoding engine to trancode one video format into another and of course lots of more. FFMPEG has been very popular in the Flash community because it supports the FLV Spark H.263 (Flash 6/7).
You probably know the Riva FLV Encoder I build in the past which also used FFMPEG.

Check the FFMEG GUI here and look into the URL-Parameters which you change of course.

What you have to do is to enter the path of ffmpeg.exe and of your input- and output-video. Then change the parameters to your needs and copy the command with the button into your clipboard. Open the commandline (Start-Execute->cmd) and paste the command.

You can compile your ffmpeg.exe on your own. For instructions read my tutorial on how to compile ffmpeg under windows.
If you don’t want to do that stay tuned until I integrate it into my FLV Knife.

The current FFMEG GUI lacks of validating the input-data. Validating data is handled very nice in Flex but I like to integrate it in the next version. If anyone likes to support on this feel welcome.

The sourcecode of the FFMPEG GUI is available here. The HTML for the sourcecode is generated by Flex 2. What a nice feature!

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FLV Knife 0.0.3 alpha

Monday 6 March 2006 @ 3:30 pm

I would like to announce the release of my FLV Knife 0.0.3.
FLV Knife is a tool which helps you working with Flash Video FLVs.
It includes an FLV Player and a GUI for FLVTool2 which lets you add default and custom metadata into FLVs. This includes custom name-value-pairs and custom CuePoint which have to be defined in XML. Further you can cut Flash Videos with a graphical interface and read out metadata of FLVs.
Any feedback it welcome!

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FF & As 3.0 Language Specification & New AS3 API libs on labs

Wednesday 1 March 2006 @ 11:00 am

With the start of FlashForward 2006 in Seattle Adobe released new contens on labs.
Check the FF keynote summary from Jen deHaan.
I am very excited about Apollo!

Check the ActionScript 3.0 Language Specification.

“The Adobe Developer Relations team is releasing a set of free and open ActionScript 3.0 APIs to help developers get started building Flex 2.0 applications.”