Monday, 3 December 2007

Movie trailers.

If you want to avoid copyright violation - try doing movie trailers.
The distributors welcome the exposure!

News feed:-

AIR Sample Application – Movie Trailers

August 25th, 2007

If you haven’t heard Adobe announced that the next dot version of Flash Player will include support for h.264 video and AAC Audio Support (I realize that this is over simplifying it a bit – there are some things that are supported and some things that aren’t – if you want more info – Read Here). Daniel Dura also stated that h.264 / AAC support with be in AIR no later than Air 1.0.

I already have big plans for this. Just for fun, I decided to try and make a prototype of an application that would display movie trailers from Apple. This initial version of the application does nothing more than display an interface very similar to Apple’s Frontrow (see Frontrow at Flickr). Once AIR supports the new h.264 standards, I will integrate the video into this as well. As for now, selecting a video simply opens a web browser to the trailer page. Pressing “f” goes into fullscreen mode.

WARNING: With the Beta version of AIR – if you use the navigateToURL function [ Flex | Javascript ], Firefox will occasionally not take “focus”, especially if you are in Fullscreen mode. So, if you click an item 3 times, if just opened three tabs.

NOTE: Just another great comment about Flex – I build this whole application in about three hours (and most of that was figuring out how to best parse the Apple RSS).


The following trailers have bee created with an extending twist!

American Gangster.


Stardust.



1 comment:

David Tucker said...

Why did you think it was ok to post my article on your site? Just curious.