The Problem of Encoding H.264 In a Flash Client

Anthony Caliendo, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 @ 1:01 pm

Flash Player 9 introduced the ability to decode H.264 video format.  However, it cannot encode video as H.264 (although it does encode as H.263).

This is a problem for people who want to take advantage of H.264's ability to encode at a higher quality with a lower bitrate. There are a few vendors out there who propose to offer a solution, but some of the solutions require an extra download which isn't necessarily cross platform.

With the release of AIR, Adobe seems to be targeting the Desktop market as one of their future goals. Many existing desktop applications already support H.264 encoding (see iChat for a good example).  If Adobe wants to keep up with the desktop application market, it might be prudent to add support for encoding as H.264 soon.

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