randy.troppmann
NAIT streaming video on iOS
Previous to the summer of 2012, NAIT's video streaming service required the Flash Player for playback on the user's computer. With the rapid rise and dominance of iOS mobile devices (iPhone and iPad) it became apparent that we needed to provide support for those devices that were not capable of using the Flash Player. NAIT uses Adobe Media Server to stream video via the web. With a bunch of research and even face to face discussions with Engineers on the Adobe Media Server team (while attending Adobe Max conference in Los Angelese, Oct 2011) I determined that upgrading our services and solving the issue would be relatively pain free if careful steps were taken.
Firstly, I pushed ISD to upgrade to the latest Adobe Media Server software. While they were working through that I downloaded and deployed a development version of the AMS sotfware so I could experiment with the embed code that delivers the video via a web page. I was able to get it to work so that the Flash based video would play by default; if Flash was not supported, the fallback for iOS-supported HTML5 video was employed. ISD performed the upgrade and architected the system so that the same video assets were accessed for either Flash or HTML5 video playback. Once the new web embed code was in place on the production web page we achieved success with no change in workflow required for producing video and placing it on the VOD-MEDIA drive, aside from the fact that we must now encode our video as h.264.
The Library also uses video streaming but in a slightly different manner; they deploy video with a seprate, secured web page. Using what was learned from the work described above, I easily and seamlessly updated their service with no additional work required on their end.
The NAIT Web Team also benefitted from the Adobe Media Server upgrade and were able to implement their own HTML5 video strategies.
Recognition: "Congratulations Randall Troppmann, you have been recognized by Wayne Hofman with a Who’s Great at NAIT! eCard. The sender wanted you to know: Thanks for all the help in getting the NAIT video player working to support ipad playback for the large number of Library videos currently in use. Appreciate the expertise and help in this excellent NAIT resource that you have developed!"
NAIT streaming video on iOS
Previous to the summer of 2012, NAIT's video streaming service required the Flash Player for playback on the user's computer. With the rapid rise and dominance of iOS mobile devices (iPhone and iPad) it became apparent that we needed to provide support for those devices that were not capable of using the Flash Player. NAIT uses Adobe Media Server to stream video via the web. With a bunch of research and even face to face discussions with Engineers on the Adobe Media Server team (while attending Adobe Max conference in Los Angelese, Oct 2011) I determined that upgrading our services and solving the issue would be relatively pain free if careful steps were taken.
Firstly, I pushed ISD to upgrade to the latest Adobe Media Server software. While they were working through that I downloaded and deployed a development version of the AMS sotfware so I could experiment with the embed code that delivers the video via a web page. I was able to get it to work so that the Flash based video would play by default; if Flash was not supported, the fallback for iOS-supported HTML5 video was employed. ISD performed the upgrade and architected the system so that the same video assets were accessed for either Flash or HTML5 video playback. Once the new web embed code was in place on the production web page we achieved success with no change in workflow required for producing video and placing it on the VOD-MEDIA drive, aside from the fact that we must now encode our video as h.264.
The Library also uses video streaming but in a slightly different manner; they deploy video with a seprate, secured web page. Using what was learned from the work described above, I easily and seamlessly updated their service with no additional work required on their end.
The NAIT Web Team also benefitted from the Adobe Media Server upgrade and were able to implement their own HTML5 video strategies.
Recognition: "Congratulations Randall Troppmann, you have been recognized by Wayne Hofman with a Who’s Great at NAIT! eCard. The sender wanted you to know: Thanks for all the help in getting the NAIT video player working to support ipad playback for the large number of Library videos currently in use. Appreciate the expertise and help in this excellent NAIT resource that you have developed!"