Jan Ozer and I had a quick ooVoo video chat about our upcoming workshop, Streaming Production and Flash Seminar – March 23 in NYC. Watch it for more info about what we’ll cover!

The always-entertaining Jesse Warden (JesterXL) shares some pearls of wisdom and some insights on getting started with the Open Source Media Framework. Enjoy.

Thanks to everyone who chose to attend my FMS talk at FlashBelt this year instead of sneaking next door to see Grant Skinner!

I hope you all got something useful from the session, and really did walk away feeling empowered to take the dive into FMS development.

As promised, here are the slides and files from the presentation. Please let me know if you have any questions I didn’t answer.

SLIDES (PDF, sorry about the large file size)

DEMO FILES

Special thanks to the fantastic Influxis team for their great blog posts and examples on both DVR and Dynamic Streaming. (If you need FMS hosting, you’ll want to call these guys. Seriously.)

And kudos also to David Hassoun for his comprehensive articles and sample code (most of which I relied on heavily in my presentation).

Thanks again, and see you next year, Minneapolis!

I just wrapped up a live breeze session with the Adobe Flash Media Server online user group. It was a lively session with lots of questions and a great turnout. The recording and sample files are posted. Here are some links:

http://groups.adobe.com/posts/7d8b9e44f8

Also, you can join the online FMS user group here:

http://www.tinyurl.com/adobefmsug/

This will likely be my last Flash411 episode for awhile, and it’s pretty meaty. I talk about the basic principles of encoding and show off the new video encoder that ships with Flash CS4 in this episode, which just posted this week:

[ For a full-size version, visit Adobe.TV ]

And if you’d like to download the encoded samples, you can find them here:
http://www.flashconnections.com/flash411/flash411_ep4_examples/

I’ve squeezed in a couple of more episodes of Flash 411 (the baby’s coming soon!)… Here’s episode 3, which posted last week:

[ For a full-size version, visit Adobe.TV ]

And if you’d like to download the examples, you can find them here:
http://www.flashconnections.com/flash411/flash411_ep3_examples/encore_playlist.zip
http://www.flashconnections.com/flash411/flash411_ep3_examples/flash%20video%20player.zip
http://www.flashconnections.com/flash411/flash411_ep3_examples/dreamweaver.zip

The illustrious and always-illuminating Tom Green has a great little video tutorial about getting Flash HD video onto your site, on LayersMagazine.com. Check it out:

HD Video in Flash Professional CS3

The long-in-coming second episode of Flash411 has just aired on AdobeTV. I talk about what FMS is, how to get started, show you how you can broadcast live with Flash Media Live Encoder (in *about* a minute!) and walk you through a basic 2-way videoconference application.

Here are the source files for the show, so you can follow along with the example:

–> flash411_ep2_examples.zip <–

Enjoy!

[10/9/08**NOTE: AdobeTV keeps moving videos around (grrrrr), so if the link above does not work, try a search for "Flash 411" or Larson or FMS to find the show.]

I’ve been working with Adobe on a series of video podcasts about working with video in Flash — the first episode, “Video in Flash: Crash Course,” has just posted. There are lots of other useful and interesting ’shows’ there as well, so be sure to stop by AdobeTV to check them out.

In the meantime, here’s Flash 411, for your viewing pleasure!