With the release of new documentation on Adobe “Strobe”, I can now say that the confusion I once had is now gone and I can’t wait for the official release of Adobe “Strobe”. While these two projects are similar, they both serve two different purposes and look to standardize those efforts. Actually, the Open Video Player initiative actually will actually aid the development and standardization of the Adobe “Strobe” project as it leverages code from the Akamai’s Open Video Player.

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Loading content into mid to large scale Flash projects can be somewhat of painful process. From managing complex loading scenarios to behind the scenes preloading, if not done correctly, performance can really take a hit at the expense of preloading. Before you know it, you have spent a lot more than expected managing the loading of a project’s content. A very handy solution to this madness is BulkLoader created by Albert Debert.

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FX Video is an open source video player built with Flex. The FX Video control lets you play an FLV file in a Flex application. It also supports progressive download over HTTP, streaming from the Flash Media Server, and streaming from a Camera object.

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