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Sprint 11 is the feature complete release of OSMF.  Lots of bugs were fixed for this release including the bug I mentioned in the Sprint 10 release blog post below about the MAST plugin and the SMIL plugin not working together.  In fact, in the AkamaiPluginSample all of the plugins are working nicely together.  This sample app has become the sample for demonstrating many of the OSMF plugins that reside in the OSMF repository.

For more details on this release, see this blog entry:

http://blogs.adobe.com/osmf/2010/04/osmf_fc1_released.html

Charles Newman Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, OSMF (Open Source Media Framework)

If you’ve been waiting for OSMF (Open Source Media Framework) to settle down, now is the time to dive in. This sprint was largely about locking down the API, but we added a few features as well:

• DVR Support. OSMF now supports DVR via Flash Media Server’s server-side DVRCast application. This feature allows clients to jump back in time while viewing a live stream.
• Syndication support (Atom 1.0, RSS 2.0, plus iTunes and Media RSS extensions).  You’ll see a new AS3 library in OSMF that can parse all of the major feed formats, plus the media-centric RSS extensions.  I’ve also updated the Akamai Plugin Sample app to load and parse an RSS feed and display a playlist.  If you load the MAST plugin before loading the RSS feed, you get a pre-roll ad before each video in the playlist. Note there is a bug with the MAST plugin and the SMIL plugin working together, I’m hoping to address this ASAP.
• Extended HTTP Streaming Support. OSMF now supports subclips for HTTP-streamed content, and DRM for HTTP-streamed content.

See the OSMF blog post here for more details on these features:

http://blogs.adobe.com/osmf/

As usual, if you have questions, you can post them to the OSMF forums:

http://forums.adobe.com/community/opensource/osmf/

Charles Newman Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, OSMF (Open Source Media Framework)

The latest release of OSMF is now available here:

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/osmf/Downloads

This is the work we did for Sprint 9, which concluded on January 20th. There are quite a few changes to the API and you can read the release notes for the specific changes.  The release notes have detailed descriptions of the API changes and should ease your pain when compiling your player against this new release.

Some of the new features in this release include:

• New OSMF Sample Player with Chrome (you can view it in action here (full source is included in this release): http://mediapm.edgesuite.net/osmf/swf/OSMFPlayer/OSMFPlayer.html)
• New SMIL plugin
• HTTP Streaming Support
• Enhanced plugin support

See the OSMF blog post here for more details on these features:

http://blogs.adobe.com/osmf/

We are currently heads down on Sprint 10, which will wrap up on February 24th.

As usual, if you have questions, you can post them to the OSMF forums:

http://forums.adobe.com/community/opensource/osmf/

Charles Newman Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, OSMF (Open Source Media Framework)

Brian Riggs, tech lead for the OSMF (Open Source Media Framework) project gave a nice overview of the framework this past Thursday. You can view the recorded Acrobat Connect session and check out lots of helpful links here:

http://groups.adobe.com/posts/010fc1b635

Charles Newman Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, OSMF (Open Source Media Framework)

Check out my post on the OSMF (Open Source Media Framework) blog about the new cue point feature in OSMF:
http://blogs.adobe.com/osmf/2009/11/cue_point_support_in_osmf.html

Charles Newman Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, OSMF (Open Source Media Framework)