Yay! the open source media framework just went into production release 1.0.
I’ve been working with the early betas of OSMF and it just rocks to see such a project going into production state, Flash developers need to constantly build audio/videoplayers ranging from simple video playback to very complex situations like playing multiple video formats with multiple lengths while keeping it dynamic, using posterframes, prerolls, in-video advertisement and much much more, either you developed your own media player framework to cope with the needs or you had to build your play from the groundup everytime you got such a request. With OSMF you have a stable framework that allows you to create mediaplayers quick and easy but also fully customizable.
But like I said, it’s a FRAMEWORK!!! it’s by no means a finalized player with all the buttons and thingys you want, if you are searching for that then use the Videoplayer component or do a google search for an open source videoplayer, there are dozens of them on the net.
So What is OSMF?
OSMF is a mediaframework that simplifies the development of media players by allowing developers to assemble bits & pieces to create a full-featuerd mediaplayback solution.
Come on, I don’t want to code another player with another codebase
by no means I’m telling you to switch all your projects over to OSMF, but I really really recommend you to have a look at what is possible with it. My last project was creating a mediaplayer that shows a swf, an image and an flv or mp4 one after the other, if I would be building this without OSMF it would have taken me at least 2-3days, with OSMF it only took me 2 hours to get into the logic of OSMF and having a prototype style mediaplayer running, with all the features the client requested.
Give me the player I don’t care about framework
Ok fine, Adobe also pre-released the Strobe Media Playback media player, which you quickly integrate into any websitem it’s a compiled SWF available here: http://www.opensourcemediaframework.com/strobe_prerelease.html
You use the player, you configure the player through the HTML file (flash vars) and that’s it, now you saying aren’t there enough players around that can do that?
Probably yes, but do those players also support all of this?
- Progressive Download
- RTMP streaming
- Live streaming
- HTTP Dynamic Streaming
- Content Protection
- and much much more
Below a few links to useful information about OSMF & Strobe Media Playback
More about OSMF
More about Strobe
OSMF AppStudio
And a few useful blogs from the contributors and developers of OSMF
Official OSMF blog
David Hassoun
Greg Hamer
Kevin Towes
The developer documentation can be found here and a quick start guide to OSMF can be found here.
Now go out there and create some really cool players!
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