Re: Which is better? Flash/Real or Director

[Wayne Townsend]

Hi Anthony,

Re: converting a cd project to the web.  Screenshots @:

http://www.webstaffing.net/tpot.html


>at the risk of stating the obvious, how about flash inside director via the

>flash xtra?  there's lots of combinations that could work well - a

>web-utilizing projector, some combination of director/flash shockwave,

>browser (html) based presentation even without shockwave.


Hmmm.  I'll have to give this some thought.


>but no matter

>which way you slice it, a video heavy presentation delivered solely via the

>web is going to be slow.  you'd really be limiting your market.  fwiw i

>just got a 56k modem (v90) and streaming video still "sucks" (scientific

>term).


But not with RealPlayer.  Starts up right away and streams fairly well over

28.8.

Also, there aren't any scene changes or a *lot* of movement.  So the

framerate should be pretty good.


>you might consider distributing just the video on a cd-rom, and keeping the

>projector up to date via a url. (a stub which goes and gets your


>we're just

>starting to explore the opportunities director as a web aware application

>offers - using the web for "live" updates.  interesting area to be in right

>now.


Yes it is, and I predict it's going to get a lot more popular.  For small

software authors, using a scripting program like FlameThrower

(www.allegiant.com) and the SuperTalk language, you can have many kinds of

applications *run* over the web. Spend about 5k on a *hot* G3 server and

WebTen Apache, cohost it at your ISP, and your in business.  No publishers

to convince & pay, no disk production & distribution costs, no fighting for

shelf space, instant worldwide distribution, platform independent, and one

copy to maintain.

Using Flame, just about anyone can write intense server-based applications

without learning Perl or C.  Then, there's Flash Generator coming.  We'll

see some very interesting web applications with that.


/w



Wayne Townsend

WebStaffing.Net

Dallas, Texas

US tele @  972.713.8705

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