Wowza Media Systems just announced their new major Wowza Media Server version: Wowza Streaming Engine 4.0. Besides the new name there’s a new GUI that allows you to control the server and individual applications. Think Adobe’s Media Server Console on steroids. Mike Talvensaari, VP of Producs at Wowza, gives a quick overview of the new product and GUI in this video posted on the new Wowza website. You can also check out the new GUI by singing up for the online demo. Here are 2 quick screenshots with the Home and Application pages of the new GUI : We’re currently testing AVChat, HDFVR and FLVAR on the new Wowza Streaming Engine 4.0 to check for compatibility issues. We’ll get back to you with[…]
Category: HDFVR
Halloween is upon us again this year and we have some special prices this week for you guys. From today (29th of October) until Friday (2nd of November) we have a special offer for most of our products. 25% off the price of new licenses for the following products: AVChat 3 http://avchat.net/buy-now (with discount starts at $97.5 instead of $130) AVConference http://www.avconference.net/buy-now (with discount starts at $224.25 instead of $299) FLVAR http://flvar.com/buy-now (with discount starts at $74.25 instead of $99) HDFVR http://hdfvr.com/buy-now (with discount starts at $149.25 instead of $199) ZuzuBooth http://zuzubooth.com/ (with discount starts at $21.75 instead of $29) and all their integration kits. To get the discount just use the following discount code during checkout: HALLOWEEN2012 . The[…]
I am going to explain in this blog post how video quality functions in flash video chat apps. Understanding the steps the video quality goes trough in its travel from the broadcaster to the viewer is vital when trying to raise the general video quality experienced by your users. This tutorial applies to AVChat, AVConference, SimplChat but also in some extent to HDFVR and AVChat IM. So, here we go. The journey of the video from the broadcaster to the viewer can be imagined as a funnel with 8 steps. At each step the video quality can suffer. To increase the video quality at the end (on the viewer’s side) you can take measures at every step. Step 1: the[…]
Adobe has announced Adobe Media Server 5 (no more Flash in the name 🙁 ) most probably our products will work with it out of the box (as always). The Red5 Team have released Red5 1.0 RC2, unfortunately they made quite a few changes and it breaks compatibility with our products so we do not support it yet. On Monday (28th of May) we’ll release a new version of the AVChat Integration Kit for Joomla! with major improvements (there will be some video involved as well 😉 ) We’ve made slight changes to the documentation area of AVChat, it should now be easier to find your way around and browse the area. We’re working on a tutorial for HDFVR and[…]
Starting with the June build of AVChat we will make a few changes to the way we’ll release builds and issue trial keys for all our products. Regarding new builds Currently we generally try to do a build of AVChat every month on the 1st Monday of that month. We do this to make sure if any bugs show up we’re here during the build day and next day to fix them. Starting with the June build of AVChat we will introduce the notion of beta builds. Beta builds will be available for download from the private client area by clicking the [View All Builds] link. Beta builds will properly be marked as beta and they will be announced in[…]
Just a few days ago I was alarmed on the forum that many users of AVChat started getting the error in the title out of the blue without the chat webmasters doing anything. After a quick investigation we had found the culprit. It seems Adobe has modified something in their latest Flash Player Update (11.1.102.62). August 2012 update: it seems the issue also shows up in FP 10.3.183.20 released on 06 August 2012. teh patches at the bottom do not fx the issue for FP 10.3.183.20 . They modified the contents of the pageUrl variable sent by Flash Player when it connects to a media server like FMS, Red5 or Wowza. In FP 11.1.102.55 (released on November 7th, 2011) pageUrl[…]
We got a lot of questions regarding the possibility of screen sharing in flash so here you go, a simple public explanation: Screen sharing is possible in Flash video chat applications by using third party screen sharing drivers. What these drivers do is they simulate a web cam that uses the desktop screen as a video feed. There are 3 4 such drivers right now: VH Screen Capture Driver (http://www.hmelyoff.com/index.php?section=8) which is free for private use. the Live Output feature present in the Camtasia Recorder that ships with Camtasia Studio (http://www.techsmith.com/download/camtasiatrial.asp). Camtasia Studio is a comercial sofware and the actual bundle contains much more than just the Camtasia Recorder. May 2008 update: UScreenCapture (http://umediaserver.net/umediaserver/download.html), freeware for any use October 2011[…]