AVChat Software Product Blog

Lisa Larson Kelly has a great video up on Adobe Tv explaining the basics behind delivering prerecorded video using the Flash Platform.

In this short video tutorial you will learn about:

• video codecs and video file types supported by the Flash Platform
• delivery options (streaming vs. progressive)
• what software you can use to encode Flash Video
• where your video files can play (in a webpage using the Flash Player, AIR apps, Adobe Media Player)
• what makes up a simple flash video player

You can watch the video tutorial on the Adobe Tv website by following this link.

Adobe TV is a free online video resource for expert instruction and inspiration about Adobe products.

Both AVChat and AVConference load the words and phrases used in the admin and user interfaces from external .xml files. These .xml files are plain text files that can be edited with any text editor.

In order to change a word in the interfaces, to translate the entire interface in another language or to change the initial welcome message you just need to edit these files and change whatever you need!

You will find these .xml files in the /en/ folder:

• en/index_en.xml for the user interface texts
• en/admin_en.xml for the admin interface texts

If you are using the chat software as a Joomla component, the files are most probably in components/com_avchat/en/ .

IMPORTANT: After editing the .xml files and uploading them back to your web server, make sure you refresh a few times the chat software so that the Flash Player picks up the new versions.

Future versions of our chat software will support having several such .xml files for each interface. This way you will be able to add one .xml file for each language you want to offer to your visitors.