Forum user: Liam Gooding Custom swf skins, custom swf plugins, custom JS plugins, video CMS - http://goodingsmedia.com

Hi guys,

Its not good to hear we may have some problems with the form on our temp website..

Anyways, please send us an e-mail at sales [splat] goodingsmedia.com

We're very much still alive and working, we're just at constant max capacity lately! and with Flowplayer 3.2 behind the scenes we've got a lot to keep busy with!

Not to jump in but, if anyone is UK based and is interested in an office position, we are also hiring 2 x AS3 developers.

We work primarily on Flowplayer plugins, offering bespoke services that are too tightly coupled with a particular requirement to warrant a wide-release Flowplayer plugin.

We are NOT interested in remote developers, however you will undoubtedly find yourself working with Anssi and his growing team regularly.

Please inquire by sending an intro to: info [AT] goodingsmedia.com

We're based in the beautiful city of Canterbury, Kent, have a young fresh office and offer a competitive salary.

Do you think Flowplayer is a charity?

No, its a commercial business. 2 brothers spend their entire day building this website, all the surrounding tools, and the VERY good video player for you to use for free.

All they ask in return is that a small % of their commercial users pay a license fee. If this commercial license, didn't exist, then there would be NO open source player.

$95 to add your own commercial branding, you think this is expensive? My friend, $95 (about £60) to a commercial venture is peanuts. If you think that is expensive for thousands of lines of quality AS3 code then you're client (or you, or both) is going to get a BIG shock when you come up against any time in the industry when you need to assess the value of software.

And $35 for support is expensive to you? Perhaps your used to getting all your work from these guys:

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

We ALSO produce bespoke plugins for Flowplayer, and if any of our clients came to us and the problem for them was that a Flowplayer license was $95, then I'd tell them they were in the wrong industry.

This forum is full of friendly users who offer up their spare time to offer P2P support for free. However, the time of the core FP team is much more valuable spent on the main product. If they are to offer personal support too, then sure why shouldn't you pay for that?

Sheez...

Just to be fair on this one...

RE: SimpleCDN

Their Pseudo streaming does work and I've used it successfully (on all video formats) since I first wrote this article:

http://flowplayer.org/tutorials/introduction-to-streaming-servers.html

That article may need updating on it's price comparisons on CDN's but at the time SimpleCDN was the only feasible solution for SME's. Since then I've noticed a few more open up to lower end users.

I will emphasize that SimpleCDN's support is very bad. I've had to use it once and, in fairness, we did end up with the correct solution, however response times were slow and there was nothing in the way of making me feel like our requests/inputs were going to be taken onboard (at the time we were inquiring to secure token streaming - which still isn't an option I believe)

Of course now there's also services such as Sorenson 360 (and JW's Bits On The Run). These aren't CDN's as such but more like a "Private Youtube" with a CDN-like pricing structure.

Liam

Hi Tony,

Why don't you drop us a mail with some more details about where your currently at right now and we can take it from there.

We've done extensive custom Flowplayer work for clients such as Sorenson Media, TV3, Movieclips.com, Widen and many others, including our semi-exclusive plugins being used by many major US and UK universities and various institutions.

http://goodingsmedia.com/contact/

Thanks,
Liam Gooding

Hi Bob,

What your seeing there is how Flash handles fullscreen rendering with hardware acceleration enabled.

This offers better performance on slower machines but at the cost of scaled up assets, which will look bad on high res screens.

If you have any other suggestions for further improvements also, please feel free to drop us an email anytime:

http://goodingsmedia.com/contact/

Thanks edge

Konadumarket - you can view the latest Vimeous controlbar here, and even download a copy to test it (fully funcitonal)

http://labs.goodingsmedia.com/flowplayer/vimeous/

FYI you can check out our other bars here:

http://labs.goodingsmedia.com/flowplayer/

Nothing like a nice barebones page :-)

Cheers,
Liam

http://goodingsmedia.com/labs/vimeousplus/

We addressed social bookmarking and embed code some time ago with our Plus+ controlbars.

Not sure about the Google Wave stuff though.... Would you like to explain more?

Any comment features always need a server side part which differs from case to case so stuff like this tends to be custom only

Liam

We are building this so I'll post an update when it's finished. It will be after Christmas though... :(

...and no, its not as simple as we thought either....

haha as would a lot development companies Im sure ;-)

We don't intend on separating the embed plugin out at any time, right now we're pretty happy building out our Plus+ controlbars with lots of added features that can all be turned on/off very easily

Just wanted to headsup that we've added Flash-based embedding and flash social bookmarking to our Helious Plus+ controlbar. We'll be releasing the Vimeous Plus+ as soon as it's finished

http://goodingsmedia.com/labs/heliousplus/

If anyone is interested, Plus+ bars are currently £90 per domain for a commercial license, including all updates.

Mailing list will be going out shortly for all current Plus+ owners to upgrade to the latest files to get these new features!

Feedback?

Thanks,
Liam Gooding

http://goodingsmedia.com/labs/heliousplus/

Embedding and Social Bookmarking

Thankyou! :-D

Hi Anssi, Yeah we were only going to go ahead with it after yours got postponed but much better to combine forces on this one!

Will email you/tero on this.

Hi,

It just shows, a year ago SimpleCDN were rolling out token protection... and a year later it still isn't openly available!

We use them as they're still the cheapest and simplest around but every client we've had who wanted security has ended up using a different (though much more expensive) CDN.