Re: Cross platform embedded/streaming video
> Flash owned the early embedded video space
It's still been heavily used for that far too recently too.
A little while ago now (but not nearly as long ago as it should've been), I disassembled a customers flash player SWF concerned with playing back multi-bitrate video, then spent about 4 days (well, at the time, nighshifts) working through the resulting actionscript to find the bug that was causing the behaviour the customer was complaining about (playback would break just after switching bitrate).
The customer in question was a mammoth American media organisation who I can guarantee you've both heard of and seen their logo before movies. i.e. more than big and rich enough to know better.
But there they were, still using a flash based player in order to achieve adaptive playback with RTMP rather than switching over to HLS (which even then was very well supported).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
