i can’t find it anywhere im getting abit desperate. could a kind soul just email it to me? pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease, thanx =)

I would have thought so, but I went around and around on that and it just didn’t seem to work that way. One point of confusion for me: it wasn’t clear which width/height values refer to the controller and which to the controllee.

Based on your feedback, though, I’ll take another look, thanks.

I’m at least partly responsible for the Camtasia Studio Flash controller and would love to answer any specific questions you may have via email or IM if you’re so inclined.

Changing the object/embed tag width and height dimensions should override the hard coded dimensions that are written in to the swf controller (dimensions are hard coded for use cases where files are being played back in the standalone Flash Player). Changing the object and embed dimensions also means that the config.xml file values (video1 dimensions and controller dimensions match as well).

The folks doing Ruby on Rails screencasts have successfully used the Camtasia Studio controller generically to display their screencasts recorded on the mac so it should be feasible for you to do the same.

As far as parsing the header goes, the width and height are stored in a packed bit Rect format described in the flash file format specification that can be found on the adobe web site. A cheat sheet of sorts can be found here: http://www.the-labs.com/MacromediaFlash/SWF-Spec/SWFfileformat.html

Let me know how I can help,

Brooks

That’s the ticket. The matrix of possibilities is a bit fearsome: streaming vs progressive download on one axis, multiple formats along another, yet ideally you want a /single/ URL syntax because you don’t want to divide attention streams, instead you do want all of the conversation around identified segments to cluster together.

If I can be of help, I’ll be interested to work with you guys on this.

“The Flash Media player supports playback of a single media file of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (MP3,FLV,SWF,JPG,PNG or GIF). It also supports RSS/XSPF playlist (with mixed mediatypes), a wide range of flashvars (settings) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive, documented javascript/actionscript API.”

something like http://on10.net/blogs/duncanma/StarTrekLegacy/234ms or http://on10.net/blogs/duncanma/StarTrekLegacy/3m32s

that would resolve to the normal entry URL with the player starting at the time specified…

It seems quite possible and certainly is on our feature list… we thought it would be a great way to handle some of the work that our ‘clipster’ feature does on C9 today… is this something like you had in mind for “URL-adddressable and randomly accessible rich media” ?