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This application was designed to provide multiple video assets to professional contractors covering many aspects of the business and industry. Some of the business goals of the project included:
The HGTVPro.com Best Practices video player has seen a great deal of industry succes including but not limited to a Macromedia Site of the Day award.
The main goal of this project was to increase HGTV.com’s Flash Player 8 penetration by offering the user a reward for downloading the latest player. The reward in this case is a Video Puzzle experience that is very difficult without the new Flash Player 8 Bitmap Class. One month after these puzzles were launched, HGTV had doubled their Flash Player 8 penetration from 15% to 30%.
Flash Video combined with simple ActionScript gives you, the developer, the ability to synchronize video content with additional data such as text, images and even links. This functionality has been enabled since Flash Video started with Flash 6, but is now easier to implement with tools like Captionate and the Flash 8 Video Encoder. This article focuses on the basics of Captionate 2.0 and its ability to synchronize video content with persistent data. I will not go in to detail of any feature; however I will try to cover Captionate from a broad spectrum. I will assume you have never used the application and will explain not only what’s new, but also the existing features from Captionate 1.0.
Streaming video over the web works wonderfully when bandwidth issues don’t limit the user’s viewing experience. To make sure your video streaming works optimally for your audience, there are several variables you need to manage: the user’s bandwidth, the video bit rate, the video length, and the buffer time of the stream.