OPEN VIDEO PLAYER
The framework is developed by Akamai lead engineer Will Law and the code is released as "Open Source" and can be used and extended freely. Akamai have chosen not to use one of the standard licenses, but they use a custom license that says that you get "a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) license". Community contributions are welcome and there's several examples of how you'd use the code to create a custom FLV video player.
The framework is not a fully blown framework or a pre-made player. It's a set of classes that extend the native NetConnection classes with useful features for video such as:
* Connecting to Akamai (and other services) through firewalls and proxy servers
* Measure bandwidth
* Double buffering
* Play protected, live and encrypted streams
* Handling cue points
* Read playlists in Media RSS format
In other words, these classes are a clever way to start developing your own Actionscript 3 (AS3) video player for either streaming or progressive download. Several streaming video partners support the initiative such as EyeWonder, Panache, Microsoft, Adobe and others. Adobe is already using the classes in their Adobe.tv player.
The site offers several videos featuring the partners, but the video you'll want to check out is the one by Will Law (called "Media Framework Overview"). Here he explains the basics and also shows how to build a simple video player using the system. More tutorials by Will should follow soon.
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