Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Ryan's recent onAir post (among the many of the excited bloggers this fine day) hit me squarely between the eyes. Something I had forgotten about because it was only supporting FLV content... the Adobe Media Player.

We will now be able to sling .mov, .mp4, m4v, .m4a, and .3gp files directly into both the browser based player and Adobe AIR (as well as FLV and streamed H.264 -- licensing not withstanding). Wow. Thats even more icing on the Adobe Video cake. This is going to open a whole slew of different opportunities for designer/developers and also for the media-hungry populace.

We'll be able to use a main coding method for integration of these digital assets, instead of approaching different media sources... well... differently :) Audio and video, come on down. You're the next contestant on reinvigorating the web!

I already have a SWF ready to deploy that is encoded with H.264 and AAC. All I need is the new drop of the beta player and I can slap it online and watch it. All without a .flv extension to be seen (well... I could rename the H.264 with a .flv & it wouldn't matter since the player inspects the header and not the extension). Bring. It. On.

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