Fabio Sonnati

Fabio Sonnati's Blog Adobe has released a new Flash Player 9 update (build 9.0.60.120) rich of performance and quality improvements expecially in video playback. In my opinion the best improvements are: - Multi-threaded video decoding. The VP6 video decoding will now be performed in a separate thread if a multi-core system is detected while the main thread does rendering and post processing of the video. 1080p video decoding is now possible on dual core machines. - Full screen video decoding will leverage hardware scaling. Wonderful! why to scale a 640x480 video to 1280x1024 using the main processor when all the computer video cards today have video scaling technology? I think this is really a must for the definitive consacration of Flash Video Technology. I'll post as soon as possible a test of this feature. - VBL in fullscreen. The player is now capable to syncronize th... (more)

The Future of Adobe Flash Video Will be Mobile, Too

Fabio Sonnati's Blog Flash Lite 3 is on the way to be released in the next months. The more exciting feature will be the support for the "traditional" Flash video codecs (Flash Lite 2 only supported the external launch of 3gpp and mp4 videos). The subscribing of video should be accomplished by both progressive downloading and FMS streaming. I hope (but probably this will be implemented in a future release) to find also a support for video grabbing directly from the integrated camera of the phone. In any case, think of the possibility of mobile interaction, game and communication... (more)

How to Programmatically Control Adobe Flash Media Encoder

Fabio Sonnati's Blog I'm very satisfied with this great software. It garantees great performances, expecially at low and very low bitrate. The only defect I found is the lack of a command line mode. If you have to set up and launch the encoding on a remote computer or if you need to integrate FME in a pre-existent authomatic procedure or system, You would need a command line mode or a programmatic way to handle starting, stopping, changing configurations. Unfortunately FME does not give this possibility, but you can easy obtain the same final result with an handy WSH script. A WSH ... (more)