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Flash or go home?

Posted by: DWM in Multi-Media, Tech Talk on October 1st, 2007

When you think of having your ECM or DAM system support streaming of multi-media assets. Are you thinking that you want the originals streamed? If so, why? How would you solve the various players, platforms, and media types that are available? Which ones do you like best?

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7 Responses to “Flash or go home?”

  1. Valentino Rossi says:
    October 1st, 2007 at 11:04 am

    Most people who want to see my race footage only wish to see my antics for a brief moment on their computer screen. When they click on the video link they want it to play with reasonable quality to they can see my awesome skills. I don’t think the user cares about the format. They like to see us motogp racers crash but hate it when their video crashes. Our success depends on the race fan, success of the ECM/DAM depends on the user.

    Diz tru no

  2. Kayla Martin says:
    October 1st, 2007 at 11:18 am

    I agree with Val here on this one. When it comes to initially previewing videos, most users don’t care too much about quality (I mean look at youTube), they care about content and load/buffer time. But after the user finds the specific asset they want, then they should get a full-res stream.

  3. Glen Denny says:
    October 2nd, 2007 at 6:54 am

    I agree with Kayla’s last two sentences: I don’t think that our end users would be too concerned about quality at the preview stage but, naturally, once they found the content they were looking for then they would want the ability to download (as opposed to stream) the high-res content. Without giving away too much detail our end users want the ability to have their multimedia assets to be stored within MediaBank where they would then be previewable at reduced resolution and, ultimately, downloadable.

  4. DWM says:
    October 5th, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    The Next Major Release of MediaBank will support multimedia files (AVI, MPEG, WMV, QT, etc..) by providing a “normalized” preview. This normalized preview will be FLV or Flash. Thus, when you “preview” a mutlimedia type file in MediaBank, it will “stream” the Flash preview to you, adhering to permission of course. There is a built-in flash Player in the MediaBank Client. And, as always, you will have the ability to retrieve/open the original if your desire and multi-page thumbnails will/can be generated.

  5. Glen Denny says:
    October 18th, 2007 at 11:47 am

    Thanks, DWM, for the info regarding the next major release of MediaBank. This is just what our clients are looking for. When is the projected release date for this version?

  6. DWM says:
    October 18th, 2007 at 3:43 pm

    MB 3.5 (Next major MB Release) is scheduled to be released Q1 2008.

  7. tim says:
    October 26th, 2007 at 11:52 am

    hopefully this same function will be capable within MBWEB

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