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Speak

Speak.

Speak is an online communication environment which offers multiple concurrent isolated rooms, all of which are capable of real time two way audio, video and text chat. The system also supports pre-recorded audio or video content which can be made available to users in multiple rooms and has an in-depth logging and reporting system.

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Project Panda

Project Panda.

Panda is a canvas based rich media portal supporting multiple resolution image zooming, multiple bitrate Flash video and various audio formats.

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Zen and the Art of Cueing

Zen and the Art of Cueing.

One of the sweetest things about FLV is the way it handles it's cue points. With Windows Media you're limited to a command type and some command data, but with Flash each cue can contain an object with as many properties as needed. Seeing as my MetaData patches have found their way into trunk (revision 2288), I thought I'd do a quick writeup on how it works.

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PHP Sessions in Red5

PHP Sessions in Red5.

The project I’m working on now started life as a generic LAMP project with a Windows Media drop in. Now that Red5 is nearing its 1.0 release, I decided I should start evaluating moving to a Flash-based solution and, to use a cliche, there was no looking back.

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Life on the Inside

Life on the Inside.

Firewalls are a necessary evil in today's world and, although some corporate firewalls may be severely restricted, it's fairly trivial to get Red5 and your ActionScript project to work within their bounds.

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