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Some notes i made during the presentations at Flash on the Beach 2009 (#fotb):

Bytelevel Workshop

by Lee Brimelow

Links:

getMicrophone()
ByteTrainer
http://www.bytearray.org/

number.toString(2); // displays the number with base 2

Chuck Freedman:

do some research on OSC and flash, email Chuck!

Cybernetic Art Revisited

by Dr. Woohoo

homepage: www.drwoohoo.com

links: OpenFrameworks

Epiphany

by Joel Gethin Lewis

homepage: www.joelgethinlewis.com

links:

OpenCV
OpenFrameworks
Box2D

Quick as a Flash

by Grant Skinner

Slides: http://www.gskinner.com/talks/quick/#1
Homepage: www.gskinner.com

optimizing and benchmarking Flash

things to learn:

• unittesting with flash!
• performance testing

NEVER MIND the Buffer! FMS Made Easy

by Lisa Larson-Kelley

homepage: www.flashconnections.com

steps inside a app:
1) connect to FMS
2) wait for conneciton + monitor
3) setup stream control

only one NC needed!

mpeg 4 video and fms: MP4:name.f4v
MP4: is the important stuff!!!

fms.ini most important parameters of the server (admin pass, license, …)

dynamic streaming using an SMIL file as the input defining different bandwith files with bitrates as parameter

DVR feature:

in Flash Media Live Encoder make sure “DVR Auto Record” is checked

it’s possible to do DVR without FMLE, but it’s hard to do

Live Encoder vs. Camera object in Player: FMLE better quality, because player has no h.264 encoding possibilities!

Pixel Blender

by Paul Burnette

Slides:
Blog: www.mad.com.au

Pixel Blender uses Pixel Blender Kernels and Pixel Blender Graphs

A Pixel Blender kernel gets compiled into a .pbj file, this has to be loaded into flash / embedded into flash.

In Flash the only allowed function is evaluatePixel!

Always use float datatype in PB! Send an 1.0 instead of 1 to PB.
Always send an array from Flash to PB: ["1.0"]

Pixel Blender Toolkit is the tool to use, but it’s hidden inside the Adobe folder in /Applications, so search for it!

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[Embed("filename.pbj", mimeType= "....")]
var simpleFilter:Class;

For Audio processing use shader jobs!

Play with Vectors!

by Koen de Weggheleire

Slides:
Homepage: www.newmovieclip.com

Connecting the Dots

by Mario Klingemann

Homepage: www.quasimondo.com

Union and Megaphone

by Colin Moock

Homepage: www.moock.org/

Links:

www.unionplatform.com/
www.user1.net/

dentsu elevators

Union demos:

Union test platform
Multiuser Tenonion

MegaPhone

Jam Throwdown

Andre Michelle talking and showing audio DSP in Flash 10:

http://blog.andre-michelle.com/
Kling Klang Flash Audio DSP (link???)

Joa Ebert was livcoding a processing app in only 9:40 min!!!! fucking awesome and it worked!

Seeing Sound – Sound Visualization in Nature & Code

by Jared Ficklin

homepage: jaredficklin.com | www.frogdesign.com

links:

dataplot.zip
frogDB.zip

Awesome show, crazy guy

Showed what is possible with sound and Flash 10, i loved the Crowd Star game and the autocrowd feature for playing sounds And it’s awesome what you can do with some propane, flames and sound -> analog sound visualisation rocks!

Space

by Joshua Davis

slides: http://bit.ly/Mm84J

homepage: www.joshuadavis.com

links:

www.flickr.com/photos/joshuadavis
twitter.com/JoshuaDavis
Facebook
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In the past i had to install Flash Media Server 2 on Ubuntu and Markus Bertheau’s Blog came to help with publishing a patch to make this work.

Time went by and now i had to install Flash Media Server 3 on my Ubuntu box. Again Markus has a patch for the fms3 installer script available, Markus’s article can be found at http://www.bluetwanger.de/blog/2008/02/11/flash-media-server-3-on-ubuntu-710-gutsy/:

first make sure you have libnspr4-dev installed, if not:

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sudo apt-get install libnspr4-dev

download and unzip the Flash Media Server 3 app from adobe and upload FlashMediaServer3.tar.gz to your Ubuntu server, then:

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tar xfz FlashMediaServer3.tar.gz
cd FMS_3_0_0_r1157
wget http://www.bluetwanger.de/~mbertheau/flash-media-server-3-ubuntu.patch
patch -p1 < flash-media-server-3-ubuntu.patch
sudo ./installFMS

thanks again Markus for providing these patches!

The installation script for Flash Media Server works only on RedHat Enterprise by default. With some modifications it works fine on Ubuntu Edgy:

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apt-get install libnspr4 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashmediaserver/updates/2_0_3/linux/flashmediaserver2.tar.gz
tar xfz flashmediaserver2.tar.gz
cd FMS*
wget http://www.bluetwanger.de/~mbertheau/fms.patch
patch -p1 < fms.patch
sudo ./installFMS

Live aus der Marschrutka – Installing Flash Media Server 2 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy

this howto is written bei Markus Bertheau, please check the original article and his blog here. with his great patch my installation of FMS2 on my Mac Book Pro running Ubuntu 6.10 server inside Parallels Desktop worked like a charm

Perian is a really handy tool if you have to deal with flash videos(.flv). With this Quicktime plugin you can simply watch those movies inyour Quicktime player.

With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:

- Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI
- MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6
- These formats when they are inside an AVI: h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.

Perian – A swiss-army knife for QuickTime

And the best: it’s free (as free beer) and open source (licensed under GPL 2)