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Strobe Media Playback Presentation
Posted At : June 15, 2010 10:52 AM | Posted By : Stefan Richter | Related Categories: Events , OSMF
There's a live online presentation about the new Strobe Media Playback player coming up tomorrow at the OSMF user group. Ovidiu Eftimie from Adobe's Strobe Media Playback team will be presenting the features of this new versatile "ready-to-go" video player. There'll be an insight into the roadmap for future additions to the player, and time to ask questions.

The presentation starts at 12:00 (West Coast), 20:00 (London), and can be accessed by anyone through this URL http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/osmf

You can find out more about Strobe Media Playback at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/strobemedia

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OSMF 1.0 Is Here
Posted At : May 28, 2010 1:53 PM | Posted By : Stefan Richter | Related Categories: OSMF
The Open Source Media Framework has today reached 1.0 status. If you're like me and have been holding back on using OSMF until it is out of beta then now would be a good time to dive in and start getting familiar with it.
As you probably know, OSMF is a standardised foundation on which developers can build fully featured media players (not just for video playback) that encompass pretty much every aspect of delivery the Flash Platform has to offer be it dynamic streaming, live and on-demand content, image slideshowsn audio players and much much more. Some of the video components in the newly released Flash Builder product are also based on OSMF, and ship complete with source code.

Go check out OSMF and have a play.

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OSMF 0.9 Released
Posted At : February 4, 2010 10:02 AM | Posted By : Stefan Richter | Related Categories: OSMF
Version 0.9 of the Open Source Media Framework has just been released. For those who haven't heard about OSMF (formerly codenamed Strobe) yet, it is an ActionScript based framework to help facilitate the easy development of media players running on the Flash Platform. The framework is open source and supports not only video and audio playback but also other asset types such as images, SWFs and the like. It could develop into a de-facto standard for Flash based media player development.

With the 0.9 Sprint release the team have effectively locked the APIs in order to prepare for version 1.0.

Some of the new features in 0.9 include support for HTTP streaming (a sign of things to come), a SMIL plug-in and an OSMF Sample Player. There's also a comprehensive Developer's Guide in PDF format.

If you have plans to take a closer look at OSMF then now would be a good time as the 1.0 release is getting closer.

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Strobe Media Framework Presentation
Posted At : June 7, 2009 8:35 PM | Posted By : Stefan Richter | Related Categories: FMS , OSMF , Videos & Players
Sumner Paine, Product Manager of the new Strobe media framework, recently presented on this very topic to the FMS User Group. You can see the recording here.

If you haven't heard about Strobe yet, the official summary is: "Strobe provides new delivery and monetization options for video distribution. Anyone can develop modules that plug into Strobe media players and enable things like advertising insertion, content delivery and syndication, micropayments, viewer authentication, transaction handling, and business model controls. With an open framework, the future of web video monetization can be developed collaboratively with lower costs and faster turnaround."

Watch the recording here.

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Adobe Strobe - A Video Player Framework
Posted At : April 20, 2009 3:26 PM | Posted By : Stefan Richter | Related Categories: FMS , OSMF , Videos & Players
Adobe Strobe is the code-name for a new video player framework with an aim to help drive standards for media players.
Strobe is a great idea and sorely needed. These days every publisher, agency, developer, CDN and ad network are rolling their own video players and integration logic which means there is virtually no best practices approach as far as industry standards go. Why? Because there are no standards as of now, and you can bet that video player A which was developed with CDN B in mind will not work with CDN C unless some pretty major surgery is applied to the player's code.

Strobe is trying to alleviate these pains by providing a player framework which can be extended through a plug-in model. For example the connection routine between CDN A and CDN B differs drastically. In this case Strobe should (once released) allow both CDNs to provide connection routine plug-ins for Strobe (these may simply be some ActionScript3 classes) which developers can leverage easily without having to rework their existing video player code - provided it is built on top of Strobe.

Connection routines are of course just one aspect. Other implementation points may include advertising insertion, content syndication, micropayments, viewer authentication, transaction handling, and business model controls.

According to the FAQ Adobe Strobe is planned for release around the third quarter of 2009.

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