Video on the Web

Kevin Lynch

Chief Software ArchitectAdobe Systems

December 12, 2007

Early Days of Web Video

Early Days of Web Video

Flash Player and Reliable Web Video

Use Flash video with HTML and JavaScript

Flash video reaches over 97% of computers on the web

Free, open source code:adobe.com/go/favideo

video = new FAVideo(“videoBox",“myvideo.flv",500,500);

video.play();

JavaScript control

Flash Player 9Flash Player 9 90% Worldwide in June 2007

Flash Player Adoption

Source: NPD September 2003 – March 2006; Millard Brown September 2006 – March 2007

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Flash Player 8

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Applications on AIR

Some Issues for Web Video

Metadata

Deep Linking

Searchability

Tagging

Accessibility

Content protection

Device profiling

<video>

Searchability

HTML Pagehttp://foo.com/products/rocket.html

Rich Internet Applicationhttp://foo.com/products/chooser.html

Searchability and Deep Linking

HTML Pagehttp://foo.com/products/rocket.html

Rich Internet Applicationhttp://foo.com/products/chooser.html#rocket