http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm A technology blog with a special focus on real-time technologies, web video and the Flash Platform. en-us Wed, 16 May 2012 23:40:11 +0100 Wed, 16 May 2012 09:03:00 +0100 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss stefan@muchosmedia.com stefan@muchosmedia.com stefan@muchosmedia.com no http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/5/16/move-git-repo-to-bitbucket Thanks to my good friend Simon I've been a happy git user for a few months now. I installed my own git server on Amazon EC2 using Ubuntu, git and gitolite and just fired it up once or twice a day to push and pull. This worked out fine but with more a... Tools Tutorials Wed, 16 May 2012 09:03:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/5/16/move-git-repo-to-bitbucket http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/4/20/Flash-Player-112-Breaks-Video-Support-For-Some-Webcams An annoying bug has surfaced in Flash Player 11.2 that breaks support for some webcams. It appears that cameras of the Microsoft Lifecam VX series are most affected. A few days ago a customer contacted me about an issue he was experiencing on Scribb... Flash Player Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:37:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/4/20/Flash-Player-112-Breaks-Video-Support-For-Some-Webcams http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/3/23/lccs-shutdown After several recent announcement around Adobe's LiveCycle platform, it may not come as a surprise to some that the LiveCycle Collaboration Service (formerly Cocomo, formerly Flash Collaboration Service) will be shut down at the end of 2012. What may... FMS Flash Player Collaboration Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:34:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/3/23/lccs-shutdown http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/3/12/fmsug-march Joseph Labrecque will be presenting 'Getting Familiar with Flash Media Server' tomorrow (Tuesday, March 13th) at the FMS Online User Group. FMSUG is thrilled to have Joseph Labrecque, Adobe Education Leader and Adobe Community Professional presentin... Events Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:12:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/3/12/fmsug-march http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/3/5/web-video-workshop-nyc If you are in or near New York City on April 10th 2012 and are interested in web video then this one day workshop by my friend and co-author Jan Ozer and fellow developer Lisa Larson-Kelley is for you. What's more, you can use the discount code SLC10... Events Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:25:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/3/5/web-video-workshop-nyc http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/2/28/debugging-using-tail Here's a quick tip that is a real time saver in some situations. As a developer you often come across programs, tools or servers that produce output in form of a log file. Or maybe - and this includes myself - you use logs for debugging purposes. In... ColdFusion Tools Tutorials Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:34:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/2/28/debugging-using-tail http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/2/13/git-gitolite-ec2-ubuntu Don't ask me how I did it (ok, you can ask, in fact I'm going to tell you...), but somehow I now have a remote git server and gitolite for repo and user administration installed and running on Ubuntu 11.10 using an Amazon EC2 Micro instance. I've sp... Tools Amazon AWS Tutorials Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:19:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/2/13/git-gitolite-ec2-ubuntu http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/2/8/My-3-Startup-Tips-For-Launching-Your-Own-Product Over the years I've developed several software products and sold them online, often without much planning or strategy - they sort of 'happened', and often failed. It wasn't until I built Scribblar (which I am still working on) and ShareMySlides (whic... Startup Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:07:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/2/8/My-3-Startup-Tips-For-Launching-Your-Own-Product http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/1/30/swf-load-issues-chrome As some of you may already know, I run and maintain a few of my own products, the most popular of which being Scribblar which pushes hundreds of sessions every day. Recently I started getting reports from users that the main page which hosts the app... Flash Player Amazon AWS Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:48:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/1/30/swf-load-issues-chrome http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/1/20/mx-internal-usage This is a topic that comes up from time to time, and it did so for me on a current project so I thought to quickly sum it up again here. I was working on a Flex project using an old SDK (4.1) and the OSMF-based Spark VideoPlayer component contained ... Flex Flash Player Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:58:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/1/20/mx-internal-usage http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/1/12/android-broadcaster As one of the main contributors to the Red5 project, Paul Gregoire is a well known name in the community. Yesterday he posted a link to an AIR for Android app he built to the Flash Media List and I'm republishing his link here as I think many of you ... FMS Tools Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:37:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2012/1/12/android-broadcaster http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2011/12/31/onwards-2012 As 2011 is drawing to a close (seriously, where has this year gone?) I think it's time for a quick look forward. It's been a turbulent year, especially for the Flash Platform. We have some ups, and definitely some downs, and at times it felt as if ... Flex JavaScript General Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:53:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2011/12/31/onwards-2012 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2011/12/22/thoughts-on-apple Thanks to @bryngfors for pointing out what we all suspected all along: Apple is all talk and little action when it comes to supporting open standards. Prime example: visit trailers.apple.com without the QuickTime plugin installed and you see... not m... Apple Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:25:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2011/12/22/thoughts-on-apple http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2011/12/20/fcsubscribe-with-osmf Recently I had the task of recreating a video player for a customer for which no source code was available. The player needed to support on demand and live streaming, so I opted for an OSMF based player - why reinvent the wheel? Things went well unt... FMS OSMF Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:41:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2011/12/20/fcsubscribe-with-osmf http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2011/12/13/fms-bandwidth-checker-fixed I've just fixed the (now ancient) FMS bandwidth tester. It's based on some pretty old code by Adobe engineer Pritham Shetty and wasn't working since I rebranded the blog - well now it's functional again and I plan to connect it to a new server soon.... FMS Applications Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:32:00 +0100 http://www.therealtimeweb.com/index.cfm/2011/12/13/fms-bandwidth-checker-fixed