[osflash] high quality video

[John Dowdell]

Iman Khabazian wrote:
> I need to create a desktop application in flash that plays videos.   
> This video must play back at a very high quality.  So far the  
> playback I have been getting out of FLV has left much to be  
> desired.  I am using Flash player 9.0.45 but I hear this might get  
> better if I move to 9.0.60  (I need to test).  I can embed a  
> quicktime or real media player in Zinc but it seems that Zinc  
> doesnt play large videos as well as it use to.  I am also  
> considering using  AIR as a wrapper but Im pretty sure I can't  
> embed quicktime or real media player and I would have to hope that  
> AIR can give me better FLV playback than I have seen.

How's your shooting, how's your compression?

(Codecs do have differences, but the larger practical differences are in how the video is prepared for delivery... a camera stand alone usually makes a bigger difference than any other, and cuts instead of pans offer another dramatic difference in final experience.)

jd/adobe