Streaming WMV on my DROID
TheTalentFarm
Newbie

I recently purchased the DROID on a recommendation from a friend who stated it was one of the best phones available for internet browsing and that it supported the playing of WMV files.  It 's a great phone and does alot of things, but what I'm primarily interested in, it doesn't do...

 

LIVE streaming WMV (windows media video) from an embedded page on my website.

 

My entire business model is built around live concert videos that we broadcast via Windows Media Encoder.  I really need to access and demonstrate the WMV capabilities of my site to potential clients.  I heard somewhere that there would be a Silverlight/Adobe10 upgrade that would allow for LIVE embedded streaming, but I'm hanging on the edge of my seat to learn when exactly that is going to happen, if at all.  If not, it's back to my Windows Mobile "tilt".

 

Any help from the Verizon guru's???

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Re: Streaming WMV on my DROID
bkfist
Specialist - Level 1

The Adobe Flash support is waiting on Adobe, not Verizon, Motorola, or Google.

 

Adobe has said Flash 10 will be available for Android 1Q 2010, although with Motorola's announcement that Android 2.1 and Flash 10.x beta support is coming, I'm hoping flash will be coming sooner than March.

 

Also, keep in mind that basing a business model on a proprietary format, especially a microsoft based one, is NOT good business practice.  Microsoft wants to make sure that only Microsoft products can access their web sites.  There are a LOT of open standards based formats available that do not require proprietary, limited, and tight-fisted controlled codecs.

 

When I hit a site that will not render properly on a Linux system, I don't do business with the company, period.  End of story.  If they were the last supplier of oxygen on earth, I'd just have to find a way to get along without oxygen :smileyhappy:

 

 

 

 

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Re: Streaming WMV on my DROID
TheTalentFarm
Newbie

I appreciate the info and will wait until the powers that be, decide to come around.

 

As for my platform, I've been streaming windows media based concerts for over 7 years, and have grown pretty comfortable in doing that.  If it ain't broken, don't fix it and all that...  But then again, I know that after evaluating Silverlight as the next gen Windows offering, it'll just be a matter of time before I have to break the bank and invest in a Flash server.  Everyone else is doing it...  It's far less expensive to change phones right now than to change the backend.  Nevertheless, flash based video reaches an exponentially wider audience, allows for greater control, gets along well with other apps running at the same time, etc...  No worries, I just bought my lotto tickets this morning!  :smileyhappy:

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Re: Streaming WMV on my DROID
bkfist
Specialist - Level 1

Good luck on the lottery :smileyhappy:

 

I'm hoping HTML5 takes off and "gets it right" then there won't be any worries about proprietary video delivery.  Then your videos can be used by anyone with a modern, standards compliant browser.

 

The biggest problem I see with flash is that it tries to do too much and has gotten so bloated, especially for simple video delivery.  It requires a heck of a lot of CPU processing power to deliver a smooth experience.  Of course there is the fact that because the code is not open, there are vulnerabilities up the wing-wang.  Every time you turn around there is a new exploit for an Adobe product, but since they really started out life as an apple-centric company I kind of expect that.

 

At least it's supported by just about any system, although Open Source "purists" would not install the app simply because the source code for it is not available.  Those are far and few between, however.  I use flash, and proprietary video drivers where necessary, however I do tend to go with video cards, printers etc. that have Open Source alternatives that work well, and where that is not available, I go with whatever company provides the most support to the FOSS community.  (HP printers are a good example of a company that works closely with the FOSS community, with Kodak being the complete opposite.)

 

 

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