I recently had a client ask me to make them a flash video player that would stream video. I wasn’t really sure how to do that so I did some research and found some interesting information on it. Firstly, I think the internet community is a bit confused about the ‘Streaming’ term at the current time. Even Macromedia was at the Flash 6 stage. If you do a search for streaming video in google you get all sorts of responses. However, their are two main technologies that are at work in the online video world, that is, Progressive Download and Streaming.

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About 3 months ago I wouldn’t have dreamed about writing an article like this. But it is true. I really did make a complete switch to Apple. It has honestly been a lot less painful than I thought it would be. Here’s the reason and the results of my conversion.

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