More sources of information for OSMF

Tutorials:

R Blank’s Tutorial is a great technical review of how to create a video player with OSMF: www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_osmf_streaming.html

Building streaming video players in Flash with the Adobe Open Source Media Framework

The following lessons cover all the basic functionality and concepts required to build streaming video players and dynamic streaming video players in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional using the Open Source Media Framework. The OSMF is Adobe's community-centered approach to standardizing the way that media players — in particular, video players — are built on the Adobe Flash Platform. Although still in prelease, the OSMF encompasses media playback functionality, playlists, branding, advertising, and other monetization aspects, and represents a powerful and comprehensive attempt to standardize a huge portion of the work currently executed in Adobe Flash.

Over the course of five lessons, you'll learn the essential code involved and integrate that code into the video player that I demonstrated in my companion course, Building progressive video players in Flash with the Adobe Open Source Media Framework — which you should follow if you are interested in building progressive video players.

Greg Hamer’s Tutorial has a great overview of the business reasons for using OSMF, combined with some technical detail:

www.adobe.com/devnet/video/articles/osmf_overview.html

Open Source Media Framework: Introduction and overview

For organizations that are publishing video, audio, or other rich media on the web or to mobile devices, Adobe has a new Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) that can dramatically lower the time, costs, and risks of creating your video and media players. OSMF-based video and media players run in both Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR.

OSMF itself is an ActionScript 3 code library employed by developers authoring media players using Adobe Flash CS4 Professional and Adobe Flex Builder 3 (as well as any other tool for authoring ActionScript applications).

This article will introduce you to the Open Source Media Framework, provide background on Adobe's goals in creating OSMF, summarize OSMF's benefits, and in doing so provide an overview of resources available for further exploration of OSMF.

Open Source Media Framework Users

OSMF Friends and Fans

This is a virtual users group that meets on the third Wednesday of every month, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. PST. The monthly sessions contains lots of great information about working with OSMF, including presentations by developers from the OSMF team, and users of OSMF talking about specific ways they have used OSMF for their businesses. The live meetings always end with live Q&A for the presenter. Join the group and be notified about upcoming presentations.

In addition to the live meetings, there are also recordings of older meetings on the site. These include:

A great overview of OSMF by David Hassoun of RealEyes Media about OSMF and the creation of the REOPS sample player: David's presentation
An overview of the plug-in architecture of OSMF, by Ryan O’Connell, member of the OSMF development team: Ryan’s presentation

More sources of information for OSMF

Tutorials:

Building streaming video players in Flash with the Adobe Open Source Media Framework

Open Source Media Framework: Introduction and overview

Open Source Media Framework Users

OSMF Friends and Fans

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User Groups

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