H.264 Player Encoding

Question

OK, I can't believe my eyes that this might actually be true. Are we actually going to be able to encode video in the Flash Player with something besides the old Sorenson Spark codec?  Big kudos to Adobe if that is the case!
Can someone provide an example for this?  I haven't been able to see any documentation on it.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Nick,
    It seems like you haven't got the authoring environment setup properly for using this feature.  This feature needs to be published to swf 13.
For targeting for swf 13 , here are the few things you can do: (instruction for English version CS5.5)
1. The playerglobal.swc (the one you downloaded from the incubator site) needs to be located in on ActionScript 3.0 folder. I would create a folder call FP11 and place the playerglobal.swc there. (you should already have FP10.2 which is installed with Flash CS5.5)
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS5.5\Common\Configuration\ActionScript 3.0\FP11\playerglobal.swc
2. Then you will need to make a xml for new FlashPlayer11 to point the Flash to use it. It locates at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS5.5\Common\Configuration\Players . You can copy any of the existing one and modify it.
Sample:
<players>
  <player id="FlashPlayer11" version="13" asversion="3">
   <name>Flash Player 11</name>
   <path builtin="true"/>
   <path platform="WIN">Device Central/adcdl.exe</path>
   <path platform="MAC">Device Central/adcdl</path>
   <playerDefinitionPath as2="$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP10;$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP9;$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP8;$(Use rConfig)/Classes/FP7" as3="$(AppConfig)/ActionScript 3.0/FP11/playerglobal.swc" />
3. Launch Flash and create files, File > Publish Settings, you will see the Flash Player 11 which you just added.  Use it to publish the script.
You can check if your swf is publishing to swf 13 by have those line in the code:
// first frame
loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, init); function init(event:Event):void {
      trace("SWF " + loaderInfo.swfVersion);