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Subject:Re: Including videos in a Flare Webhelp system From:kafkascampi <kafkascampi -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> Date:Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:39:43 -0800
Tony said "We're working directly with SWF screen captures."
What tool are you using to produce the SWFs? The ones we've made through
conversion were very low quality. I know Madcap's tool Mimic takes SWFs but
I'm reluctant to buy a new tool if I don't have to.
Right now we're looking at using JWPlayer and hosting the videos on our
website.
Chris
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> There are two Flash video players that I've seen in the wild:
> - JWPlayer
> - Flowplayer
>
> Both of them offer free license for personal, hobby, or other internal
> use, and flexible licensing options for commercial use. You could also
> look on source forge for a generic Flash player that doesn't do all
> the thinking for you, and wrap it yourself using the SWFObject
> javascript library, which is offered under MIT's open source license.
>
> Flash should be able to play the FLV file. I think the Flash players I
> mentioned above support a number of formats, including MOV or MP4, but
> I haven't had time to test them. We're working directly with SWF
> screen captures.
>
> -Tony
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:04 AM, kafkascampi <kafkascampi -at- gmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > I am hoping to include some Show Me How videos in my help topics. I'm
> using
> > Screenflow to capture the video, which saves as MOV. I can convert these
> to
> > FLVs--but Flash wants SWFs. I have tried a converter, but it results in
> SWF
> > videos of poor quality. I am thinking I need to embed a video player in
> the
> > Webhelp, so users can view the FLVs. Does anyone have experience with
> this
> > they can share with a video newbie? Recommendations for video players?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > Chris
>
>
>
>
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