Re: FLASH: Flash making QuickTime--why so little support anddevelopment?

[Michael@BTW]

If you want to observe the effect, you can here:

http://www.bigtimeweb.com/netmercial/nethelpdemo/nethelpdemo.html

flash track shows up as black (or white) when displayed over video in

NS/MISE Mac and NT, though on (mine anyway) win98 machines it shows up fine.

When played in the QT player alone it usually seems to work.


Since QT offers Flash the video support it so sorely lacks while Flash

offers a nice, low k solution for creating interactive video files, it was

my thought that making this effect work well would be beneficial to both

companies, but what do I know, just being a developer...


Guess your both just willing to let WMP own broadband (I'm sure M$ isn't

currently working on a vector/interactive track for WMP, one that uses only

their own tools for development, of course, why would they???)



> At 12:16 PM 5/2/0, Phillip Kerman wrote:

> 

> As far as current live issues, I've seen some posts saying that

> some-but-not-all browsers sometimes show problems with some-but-not-all

> transparency in some-but-not-all SWF-enhanced QT, but I haven't locked it

> down to a concrete symptom description yet, much yet a steps-to-repro or

> (the grail!) hidden cause.


I can walk you through the steps to reproduce, its not very hard, export a

Flash/QT track with flash over video and try to view it with the QT player.

As far as what machines it does or does not work on, well it doesn't work on

most with the embed tag and it does seem to work with most on in the QT

player. 


> 

> Is there any particular area you'd like to see advanced, particularly one

> that could be driven by Flash development alone...?

> 

> tx,

> jd


Yeah, the ability to embed a video file (I really don't care what format as

long as its not vivo;-) in Flash. I don't want the Flash player to _play_

the video, just to be able to play it if the client has the appropriate

plug-in. 

 

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