Hi I am new to this site. I used to use Flash 4 back in 2000 and just started
back again using Flash 8. Anyway I was wondering if someone could point me to
some resources/tutorials/books on how to integrate high quality video into a
flash site. As an example please see the sites below

http://64.ufc.com/
http://65.ufc.com/
http://66.ufc.com/

I want to know how they get these lengthy videos to load very fast and still
be high quality.

Thanks everyone for the help and advice in advance.

With Flash 8 encoding you get really good quality at fairly low
bitrates. If you don't maintain your own server, you might want to look
into subscribing to a host that supports flv - ideally one that has
Flash Communication Server. That being said, I recommend - at least at
this point in time - to also encode the video for flash 6/7
compatibility and have the loading swf detect version. Flash 8 has a
wide install base, but 6/7 is still pretty commonplace, especially in
corporate environments where updates are not determined by the user.

A service provider I like is influxis.com - but there are numerous
others as well.

cheers

raywiggins

www.raywiggins.com


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