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Welcome to video.onflex.org

March 11th, 2007 by Mike Chambers

Welcome to video.onflex.org. Over the past couple of months I have been doing more and more informal videos around Flex and Apollo technologies. I have been posting these on google video and linking on my weblog, but in general havent been happy with the quality of video from google video, and didn’t like that there was not one central repository for all of the videos.

After shooting a bunch of sessions at 360Flex last week, Ted Patrick and I finally decided to put together a site to host all of the Flex and Apollo videos and interviews that we have been shooting. That is what this site is.

Here is how it works. When we shoot a new video, we will post it on this site. You can either watch it inline (in page or full screen), or download the FLV. In some cases, we will also provide a High Def MP4 download.

The site has an RSS feed for the content, and also allows for anyone to post comments on the videos. Please do so. If you love a video, let us know. Hate it? Leave a comment. It will help us learn what types of videos everyone wants to see.

Everything on the site is released under a creative commons license, so have some fun with it. Just make sure to let us know if you do something cool with it. If you want to link to a video, then please link the the page and not directly to the video downloads (those will probably be changing soon).

We put the site and player together pretty quickly, and are still working out some of the kinks. In particular, we are really trying to provide higher quality video. Right now, all video is in 16:9 format at 640 x 360. We have spent a lot of time trying to get the file size down, while keeping the quality high, but if you have any problems or have any suggestions, then please let us know.

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 11th, 2007 at 8:48 pm and is filed under general.

14 Responses to “Welcome to video.onflex.org”

  1. On March 12th, 2007 at 1:02 am, Erki Esken wrote:

    It would be great to get alternative download in iPod-compatible format as well. I look at Yahoo YUI Theatre and other videos on my iPod when commuting.

  2. On March 12th, 2007 at 2:43 am, Mars Spider » Video.OnFlex.Org wrote:

    [...] movement and not a company-wide initiative. For RIA fans, the new video site will provide a glimpse of Adobe technology and give some insight into what Adobe is [...]

  3. On March 12th, 2007 at 5:03 am, Savvas wrote:

    Very nice idea Mike, Ted.
    Thank you.

  4. On March 12th, 2007 at 6:43 am, Stephen wrote:

    Finally, I’ve been waiting for something like Microsofts Channel 9, but for Adobe. Great, thanks!!!

  5. On March 12th, 2007 at 8:03 am, Andrew D. Goodfellow wrote:

    Mike and Ted,

    This is a great addition to the Apollo ecosystem.

    The one thing that I would LOVE to see is an RSS feed that contains the direct URL to the FLV content in a tag so the developer base could make Flex and Apollo apps that display these videos in a “channel” or “aggregated” format.

    Maybe I’m missing it, but I don’t think I see that in FeedBurners XML source.

    -Andy

  6. On March 12th, 2007 at 8:44 am, bbebop wrote:

    Please put the entire post, including links to video, directly in the RSS or Atom feed. Make sharing this stuff *easy*!

  7. On March 12th, 2007 at 8:54 am, mesh wrote:

    Good catch on the RSS feeds. Ill work on changing them to full text, and to include enclosures for the videos.

    mike chambers

    mesh@adobe.com

  8. On March 12th, 2007 at 9:11 am, Samiq wrote:

    [... Ted Patrick and Mike Chambers, both guys from Adobe, are putting together a learning experience together called video.onflex...]

    Really cool page. The best wishes to u two guys on this project and hope I will get my hands on Apollo really soon to start playing around with this jewel!

    Cheers!

    -Samiq

  9. On March 12th, 2007 at 9:18 am, mesh wrote:

    fyi, full text rss feeds should be working now.

    Im working on enclosures.

    mike chambers

    mesh@adobe.com

  10. On March 12th, 2007 at 2:55 pm, Andrew D. Goodfellow wrote:

    Mike,

    Thanks for the quick responses and action. You represent Adobe and Apollo well.

    -Andy

  11. On March 13th, 2007 at 1:49 am, Apollo and Flex videos now available on videos.onflex.org « Flash Enabled - Get Ready With Flash… wrote:

    [...] Check the site here. [...]

  12. On April 3rd, 2007 at 8:47 pm, Mike Leembruggen wrote:

    This is great stuff. Thanks for making this site and these videos. I am really looking forward to developing with flex and apollo.

    Thanks
    Mike

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