Full-screen HD video, via Flash
The quality of this full-screen Flash HD video (content from the BBC) is stunning. At home on DSL, it hung twice for me, but only for about 3 seconds each time. Right-click (Control-click/Mac) to get the true full-screen option.
Here’s another one, even more breathtaking, and shorter.
Found via a great blog, Flash Video, by Fabio Sonnati, who wrote:
The movie is smoothed and filtered with On2’s deblocking and deringing filters. What do you think? Is Flash video ready to enable real HD Web contents?
Truly awesome stuff!
My guess is they were probably created with these Flash 9 video tools http://www.createflashvideo.com
February 16, 2007 at 5:07 pmThat blog looks more like a long advertisement to me.
February 16, 2007 at 6:14 pmYou may be right, Angela. There are a few Flash blogs I check that are really all about products and Flex and the Flash Media Server. I thought this one was a little different because of that nifty AVervision camera thing he was touting. At $460 it ain’t cheap, but I liked it all the same.
February 16, 2007 at 9:37 pmthe AVerVision 130 allows you to clearly and effectively display 3D objects or documents.
Wow, that’s really neat. I don’t know what I’d use it for, though.
Well, I guess in a Flash package it would be pretty cool to easily scan something and show it 3D. It could rotate around or something…
February 16, 2007 at 11:00 pmHi there, I think you’ll find the Quicktime version plays smoother and here is a high res version of that.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/bbc-cfb.html
February 18, 2007 at 12:49 amYou’re right, the 480p version there played VERY smoothly in my QuickTime player. However, it was not embedded in the Web page, AND it was not full-screen (like the Flash version).
February 18, 2007 at 3:57 pmWARNING: The 720p version at that QuickTime site caused a buffer overrun and crashed my Web browser.
Not good, not good at all.
February 18, 2007 at 4:00 pm