View Flumotion live stream without Cortado or external Player | html5 <video> tag

Flumotion is an OpenSource live stream / video on demand framework. You can easily setup a production system which handles up to 1k clients - if you got the bandwidth. You can provide the stream via http wrapped by a Java Applet or directly via Mplayer, VLC (by CnP the link) and so on...

Based on last nights experience - when we used Flumotion to stream the Big Brother Awards 2009, it seemed that some browsers actually misinterpret the stream (JAVA APPLET) as a downloadable file - I decided to devel. a KISS-style workaround.

Here's the Flumotion-Admin output

The "http-video-audio" component generates a direct link to the ogg-video stream (mount point). So why don't we use this stream embedded in a <html> tag?

NiceDemo | A demo supporting application (JavaScript vs. Flex) | Flex Application

During the last few weeks I've written two applications - have fun!

NiceDemo - Introduction

This application provides an easy way to include media (e.g. videos, images, text and interactive components) in your project demonstration or your talk. In addition it subjoins some kind of eye candy which is mostly not the main focus of attention - but can be the cherry on the top.

NiceDemo was implemented for several reasons - foremost because of the CeBIT 2009 where the "Curious Robot Scenario" was presented to the public.

NiceDemo - TechSpecs

NiceDemo has been implemented in Flex and JavaScript (with Flashvideo).

"Adobe Flex is a collection of technologies released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. The initial release in March 2004 by Macromedia included a software development kit, an development environment IDE (Eclipse), and a J2EE integration application known as Flex Data Services." [1]

Flex MXML is an XML-based markup language which can be interpreted with a free SDK (Linux (Beta), MacOSX and Windows). Just because you need the SDK to deploy an application NiceDemo also has been implemented in HTML plus JavaScript and CSS which are common techniques and which are well known.  

Typo faces

A couple of days ago I made a mistake while editing some css files. The effect of my mistake remembered me of a homework during my bachelor studies typography course...

The exercise was: "Take some letters of your choice and combine them to an interesting face." Sounds trivial, but as soon as you're getting deeper into the contruction and complexity of / letters / (like contructing a font), you'll admit that this it's NOT.


For some "random ideas" or a lift-off of how this could look like you may try this:




Just write some random stuff here, you may vary the amount of letters for different resuslts.