Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Yet another example of why I rule.

I just wanted to toot my own horn today. I just finished this super-cool flash video player for the company where I work as VP of Technology. The interface includes default content for older flash versions, flash 6 auto-upgrade, specific video optimized for Flash 7 & 8 with the option to use completely different XML playlists for Flash 7 & 8 versions. The pop-up video browser interface is dynamically rendered from the playlist information using custom jpg thumbnails specified in the playlist xml. The thumbnail menu has schweet dynamic sliding behavior which is logarithmically self-padded depending on the distance it needs to scroll from end to end, making it easy to use in the way an apple OSX menu is easy to use. In other words, aesthetically pleasing, if less than efficient. The playlist XML files also allow you to specify a separate text .swf file corresponding to each video which is played as a teaser underneath the video window. When no video is playing, the teasers loop in a repeating cycle as they highlight the corresponding video thumbnails in the menu above. The cycle pauses if the user watches a video and then resumes when the video is over. I'm quite proud of this little puppy. Please check it out.

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