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Embedding Video In a Site For iPhone/iPod? 68

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 17, 2009 @02:36PM from the how-bosses-expense-ipods dept.

Russ writes "Our corporate media delivery platform is in the process of being refactored (at long, long last), and one of the preferred requirements is the ability to serve streaming video to iPhone and iPod Touch devices, similar to the way YouTube does it — show a screen shot, and when the user taps it, the video should play full-screen and landscaped automatically. The problem comes from the severe lack of documentation Apple provides on how, precisely, this can be done. From what I can tell, YouTube still fires a Flash object to the iPhone despite its lack of Flash support. I have, to a certain extent, been able to review some of YouTube's Flash code and get a hack working on our platform (no screenshot, not landscape, but does play automatically), but I'm sure I'm missing a 'trick of the trade' somewhere that makes the process transparent to the user. Has anyone out there done this before, and if so, how? The standard (and non-standard) Quicktime object/embed codes seem to only provide partial functionality on the iPhone/iPod."

Comment Re:FiOS (Score 1) 379

by mandos on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @06:10PM (#26285623) Attached to: Time Warner Recommends Internet For Some Shows

So the parent here brings up a specific case of the general problem: losing these channels will indeed impact some people quite dramatically and all customers to a certain degree. Given the backgrounds of many of the people on this site, let's see what we can due to hasten the solution, i.e. removal of the cable companies. Let's make a list here on this post to what current channels are available on the net (with link to a feed), what shows are available on demand, what new, non-tv content is available and should be considered as a replacement. I'm not talking about downloading individual shows via your favorite P2P application, that can be done but provides it's own set of headaches. Let's get a list going here of links to content as easy to use as Youtube. It should ideally be as simple as opening a link and clicking Play.

Journal Journal: Exclusive: Sun's new big iron bends the rules

Journal by OSTG Marketing on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @12:14AM

Sun has a new system - the Sun Fire x4600 M2 . At first glance you might think it's a quad-socket system, but look again. The Sun Fire x4600 M2 holds eight (eight!) easily swappable sockets. "Armed with current dual-core Opteron processors, this equals 16 cores per server, so a rackful would bring the total to 160 cores. The Sun Fire x4600 M2 will also be able to run with the next-generation quad-core AMD Opteron c

Journal Journal: AMD shows off quad-core Opteron chips

Journal by OSTG Marketing on Monday December 04, 2006 @11:57PM

Trumpeted as an 'engineering achievement that marks the company's (AMD) shift to 65 nm architecture', AMD has demonstrated a lab version its quad-core Opteron 8000 server chip , known as 'Barcelona'. Aimed at high-end users dealing with commercial workstations and servers, such as users of multithreaded applications like CRM (customer relationship management), ERP (enterprise resource planning), e-commerce and virtualizatio

NVidia, AMD Subpoenaed In Antitrust Investigation 132

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 01, 2006 @04:23PM from the business-of-making-shinies dept.

mustardayonnaise writes "CNN Money is reporting that graphics chipmakers Nvidia and AMD (who recently acquired NVidia rival ATI) said Friday that they received subpoenas from the US Department of Justice as part of a probe into potential antitrust violations involving graphics processing units and cards. Each company controls about 25% of the entire graphics chip market. According to the article, Intel, who makes their own fair share of graphics chipsets, has yet to be included in the investigation."

Submission + - Blood Protein used to Split Water

Submitted by

brian0918

on Friday December 01, 2006 @03:00PM

brian0918 writes: "The Imperial College in London is reporting that genetically-engineered blood protein can be used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. From the article: 'Scientists have combined two molecules that occur naturally in blood to engineer a molecular complex that uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. This molecular complex can use energy from the sun to create hydrogen gas, providing an alternative to electrolysis, the method typically used to split water into its constituent parts. The breakthrough may pave the way for the development of novel ways of creating hydrogen gas for use as fuel in the future.' The abstract can be viewed for free from the Journal of the American Chemical Society."

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