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brevidius
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October 12, 2011
Question

picture quality in video chat using Flash Media Server / Flash Player

  • October 12, 2011
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Hi

we have developed a video conferencing system using Flash Player and Flash Media Server.

For a long time Adobe has promised (and occasionally delivered) improvements in the encoding quality in Flash Player. The enhanced audio settings in FP10.3 is one example of a great improvement, and we have used this to demonstrate to our clients that Adobe is committed to live video streaming over the internet.

However, we are finding our clients (enterprise-level companies based in the Netherlands) are still not having their expectations met and we are facing a difficult job of convincing them that the Flash platform is the best solution for live video encoding.

We are hoping that FP11 with the much-trumpeted H264 encoding will give us (and Flash) a boost, but our early tests haven't shown a great improvement in picture quality. Could someone out there (Adobe?) supply a working example of a live video chat app which shows the quality we should expect? At least then we can determine if we need to do more work to obtain a higher quality, or whether we've really hit the limit with this technology.

We really need to show to our clients that Flash can deliver on this otherwise we will be forced, very reluctantly, to look for alternative solutions.

Thanks in advance,

Ben Silburn.

Chief Technology Officer

Brevidius Multimedia

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Mistico_
Participant
October 13, 2011

Hi!

I strongly recommend that you visit the Fabio Sonnati blog at http://sonatti.wordpress.com he has a lot of material for best encoding techniques that i have ever seen ....really impressive. May be it helps for deliver the best video experience on quality based on encoding techniques to fms...

Hope it helps..

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Adobe Employee
SE_0208
Adobe Employee
October 12, 2011

Have you tried posting on Flash Player forum - may be someone there migth be able to answer more clearly on what kind of picture quality output you can expect from FP11 with H.264 encoding. FMS would deliver quality video if it recieves same from Flash Player.

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brevidiusAuthor
Participant
October 12, 2011

Thanks for your reply - I've posted to the Flash Player forum maybe they can help.

And if anyone else has any guidance as to what we can expect in the way of live encoding by the Flash player we'd appreciate your help!

Thanks,

Ben Silburn.

Chief Technology Officer

Brevidius Multimedia

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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