Flash Camp Brasil Success

April 14th, 2011 Chris Griffith

A big congratulations to Demian Borba on hosting another successful Flash Camp Brasil.

The hot news from the conference was the presentation by Arno Gourdol,
Director of Engineering for Adobe’s Flash Runtime on “Sneak Peek of Future of the Flash Runtime!”

Future of the Flash Runtime

Here are the highlights from the presentation:

- Faster GC : GC hint API and more.
- New numeric types : float and float4 (very useful for Molehill in the future).
- Concurrency : Worker threads (shared nothing model) to leverage multicore CPU’s. No more UI ‘s blocked when doing expensive operations.
- Stage3D : The API used for Molehill (that you know through the Incubator builds).
- StageVideo : Allowing full GPU acceleration (decoding + blitting) when used with H.264. Part of Flash Player 10.2 and coming to AIR soon.
- Threaded video pipeline : Will decode non H.264 streams on another thread (H.264 being decoded by the GPU), Net I/O will also be moved to another thread, all this bringing smoother playback.

If you are curious about the slides, you can download them here.

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February Meeting – Open Video Player with Dan Sparacio of Akamai

January 17th, 2011 admin

February 7, 2011
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

Our February meeting is just around the corner, and this month we will be joined by Dan Sparacio from Akamai. Dan will be talking about the Open Video Player initiative (some really cool stuff!). The meeting will be Feburary 7th from 6-8PM at the Art Institute’s South Building (map and directions here: http://www.sdfug.org/meeting-information/ ). Hope to see you all there!

Agenda

  • What OVP is?
  • What is in the last two OVP releases
  • How to use it High Level
  • Going over Code Samples and real world applications
  • Where to get support
  • What’s next for OVP – (including Stage Video Integration all ready completed but not released)

Summary
Open Video Player (OVP) is an initiative encompassing the use of open standards, best practices, and established development methodologies in the development of media player applications. Currently this project provides a code base that can be used to solve common problems as part of building advanced, scalable, and robust web-based media player applications in Flash.

OVP is developed and maintained by a core team of dedicated volunteers. OVP is distributed for free and “as-is” on SourceForge under a standard BSD license.

Simply put, our goal is to bring transparency to the development of compelling engaging media playback experiences and encourage the proliferation of online video through a community effort, leveraging best practices and open standards where possible.

More info
http://openvideoplayer.sourceforge.net/

About Dan
Dan Sparacio is a flash developer with more than a decade of experience with the flash runtime and ActionScript. Formally a web developer with skills in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, Dan moved to Flash because it gave him a change to better express his creativity. Dan has development experience from small local projects to large-scale international enterprise applications. He has worked for companies such as Einstein Industries, KidZui, Sony Online Entertainment, and is currently a full time employee as an Application Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies. Dan is also an accomplished musician and obtained Bachelors in Music specializing in jazz guitar and graduated from SDSU.

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