The wait is finally over! Answering to the rising demand for mobile video delivery, Influxis is introducing its very own mobile streaming service: Influxis Mobile.
We’ve designed it to be easy-to-use, and it is optimized and HTML5-ready for all mobile platforms. The best thing is that our current Influxis FMS customers can sign up for a complimentary upgraded free Influxis Mobile account right from the Influxis Wizard, and easily import all their video files over to our Mobile delivery service. A standard free account is also available on the Influxis Mobile website (yeah, let your friends know). These free accounts have no expiration or contract to worry about. You can simply sign up and start using Influxis Mobile and experience firsthand what we call the “Easy Mobile Streaming”.
With your Influxis account, you can create your own customized video player builder in 3 simple steps. Here’s how:
Log in to your Influxis account, click on the ‘Influxis Player Builder’ on left hand menu (option is highlighted in white in picture below).
1. Add Videos
In the Add Videos section, click the ‘Add’ button to select a video to upload. To add more videos, simply click the ‘Add’ button again and select additional videos.
To remove a video from the upload list, click on the video name and click the ‘Remove’ button. Or click the ‘Clear’ button to clear all videos on the upload list. Once you have added all your desired videos, click the ‘Upload’ button to upload your videos to the player.
Ricca Racing Contact: Matt Espinoza, Chief Technology Officer
Influxis Contact: Grant Garrett, VP of Global Business Development (Twitter: @influxisgrant)
The video camera aboard the race car to stream the video live.
Challenges
Ricca Racing, a subsidiary of 240SXMotoring, needed a reliable streaming host to distribute the live audio/video stream coming out of their race car. It had to be cost effective and customizable to their needs with a no-nonsense solution in addition to top-notch customer support. The landscape of Redline Time Attack is fast paced and unpredictable so proven reliability is a must. This all went down at the New Jersey Motorsports Park in Melville on April 10 ~ 11.
The connection to the FMS server needed to be straight forward and able to recover quickly from rapid connects and disconnects since the live streaming location was switched rapidly between the car and the pit during the race.
Click the picture for a demo of the Influxis OSMF player.
The Influxis OSMF Video Player is an all new media player built using the Adobe Open Source Media Framework. The player is light, fast and feature-packed. It supports:
Furthermore, it has a wide set of API’s that will allow our customers to customize the player in a variety of different ways.
This new Influxis OSMF Video Player is useful for those wanting a modern and extremely light-weight player to use on their websites, blogs, etc.
It is available to all Influxis customers from the Influxis Wizard where it comes with a video player builder allowing for easy customization of logo placement, custom video command bar, video player sizing and more.
For Influxis customers:
The player is available now through the Influxis Wizard> Influxis Player Builder.
For non-Influxis customers:
A free version of this player can be downloaded from here. By downloading the free version you agree to the terms of use.
Note: The free version of this player is not available for reselling purposes. An open source version of this player will be released soon, so stay posted.
Lee says the actual schedule is close to being finalized and speakers will be announced later. Make sure to check Lee’s site often to see any updates. For now the schedule is the following:
Nov 7th – Santiago, Chile
Nov 9th – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nov 11th – Lima, Peru
Nov 13th – Bogotá, Colombia
Nov 16th – San Jose, Costa Rica
Nov 18th – Mexico City, Mexico
Thanks to Lee and Adobe for the opportunity to be involved! We are truly excited to be a part of this and support the Flash community.
We are excited to have Adobe MAX in our backyard this year, right here in Los Angeles. So we’re asking around and looking at speakers, and realized ‘where are all our European friends?’
So we started asking around – are you guys coming this year? Many of them could not attend for travel costs, tight economies and what not. So we think, ‘these guys definitely need to be here among the Flash family’. Enter MAX Euro Invasion (#MaxEuroInvasion on Twitter). Not all could come, but several were able to accept our invitation.
Quote from Richard Blakely, Influxis co-founder and CEO:
“Influxis is bringing you what we call for lack of simpler terms #MaxEuroInvasion. This is a group of a few of our Euro friends (really family: Joa Ebert, Andre Michelle, Ralph Hauwert, Seb Lee Delisle, and Mario Klingemann) who we have invited to LA to hang out with us and our larger group of friends (again family) and enjoy the Adobe MAX conference. TRULY, a Flash conference is not the same without these guys, believe me…
So in short there are no apparent plans for these guys to speak yet, although the possibility will certainly exist, or you can just meet one of them. This is a cool thing for everyone and we are honored and humbled to have them as our guests. Looking forward to chilling out again guys, see you in LA at MAX!!”
UPDATE (9/8/09): Joa Ebert, Andre Michelle, Ralph Hauwert, and Seb Lee Delisle will be speaking at the FITC Unconference. Thanks to the gang at FITC!
Seb has been working in digital media for over 15 years and is now Technical Director at Brighton-based Flash specialists Plug-in Media. He combines his eye for design and animation with his understanding of math and physics to give his work that extra flare and sparkle. Over the last 5 years he has specialized in Flash games, working with clients such as BBC, Sony, Philips, Unilever, and Barclays.
Seb’s work with Plug-in Media has pushed the boundaries of 3D and physics simulations in Flash, and he is now on the Papervision3D development team.
He is a regular face on the international Flash conference scene, and has presented at Flash on the Beach, FITC, and FlashForward. He is known for his ability to communicate seemingly complex subject-matter in a friendly and accessible way. He is the manager of FlashBrighton, a Flash platform user group.
Ralph Hauwert is a dutch Flash / Flex expert focused on creating compelling expressive content for the Web.
Ralph is a freelance consultant and developer on rich internet applications and websites, focusing on Flex, AIR and Flash.
Currently his work resides in the field of creating new and innovative experiences online, combining technologies like Papervision3D, AS3, AIR, Cairngorm, to create stunning and well architected applications.
Ralph focuses on innovation and cultivating Flash and Flex competence. He has 9 years of Flash Platform coding experience, has presented at several events like Adobe Live, Spark Europe and the Dutch launch events for Flash 8 and Flash Communication Server.
Ralph is working on Papervision3D as one of the core team members, together with project founder Carlos Ulloa and John Grden. He maintains a weblog at UnitZeroOne which is also his outlet for highend Flash solutions.
Mario Klingemann A.K.A. Quasimondo is what you get when you cross the analytic mind of a coder with the creative fervor of an artist and add a little bit of mad scientist mentality to the mix.
In his aim to surprise himself and his audience he constantly tries to explore uncharted territories in order to discover unseen beauty and unthought ideas.
A key factor in his work is the drive to overcome limitations by creatively repurposing and recombining objects and by this revealing their hidden qualities.
His creations have been exhibited in international art shows and won acclaim among critics as exemplary pieces of net art.
He also shares his explorations and discoveries on design and technology conferences and is lead computational artisan at Aviary.com.
Starting about 10 years ago in Flash4 as an autodidact, Andre Michelle repeatedly pushed the limits of Flash possibilities. He recently gave up his freelancer status to work at Hobnox.com (cologne, germany) as chief developer of an online music application in Flash.
UPDATE: Ted Patrick from Adobe (@adobeted) was also excited about them coming and was able to have Adobe sponsor our friends with free MAX passes as well. Many thanks to Ted and Adobe!
Features of the Influxis Wizard 3.0’s New Usage Monitor
1. You can choose any time period from a range of 1 to 31 days within a 12-month history.
2. Account summary shows: total data transferred, total connections, total unique users (by ip), number of applications, streams, and live streams accessed in chosen period.
3. By clicking “Generate Report” you will get a detailed chart/grid view of the account in the following categories:
1) Daily transfer of the account
2) Daily connections and unique users of the account.
3) Geo location lists of 20 most popular countries, regions, cities, or zip codes accessed to this account.
4) Popular applications in the Account by number of connections
5) Popular streams by number of plays for any streams in the account.
6) Popular live streams by number of publishers for any live streams in the account.
4. By clicking any application in the application list, you can generate a detailed chart/grid view of the chosen application’s report in the following categories:
1) Daily transfer of the application
2) Daily connection and unique users of the application
3) Geo location lists the 20 most popular countries, regions, cities, or zip codes accessed to this application
4) Popular streams by number of plays for any stream in the application
5) Popular live streams by number of publishes for any live stream in the application
5. By clicking any stream or live stream in the stream or live stream list, you get a detailed chart/grid view of the chosen stream or live stream in the following categories:
1) Daily transfer
2) Daily publishes and unique users
3) Geo location lists most 20 popular countries, regions, cities, or zip codes accessed to this stream or live stream
4) Popular streams by number of plays for any stream in the application
5) Popular live streams by number of publishes for any live stream in the application
6) Stream performances (for stream only)
6. By clicking any day in a daily chart, you can get the hourly data for that day.
7. From the grid view you may download the CSV source of the data grid.
These reports are standard for all new customers. For any customers who joined Influxis prior to June 22, 2009, please contact support@influxis.com and request the new Wizard 3.0. You will be upgraded free of charge.
See below features and screenshots of the new Influxis Wizard 3.0 built in a Flex environment.
Now available to all customers upon sign up. For customers who signed up prior to June 22, 2009, please contact support@influxis.com and request the new Wizard 3.0.
See what’s new about the Influxis Wizard 3.0:
Features a new interface built in Flash with enhanced reporting systems.
The File Manager is improved with easier uploads and more user-friendly operations including right-click actions and simple drag-and-drop abilities. Includes more control over files.
The new Pre-built Applications screen allows for URL management.
Flash Player builder now has the Influxis Player with customizable dynamic settings.
Again, as mentioned above, all new customers will get the Influxis Wizard 3.0 with signup. For any current customers who signed up prior to June 22, 2009 and would like to use the new Wizard 3.0, please contact support@influxis.com with your request.
As you may know, Flash on Tap is a three-day conference for flash designers and developers created by Influxis and Infrared5.It will take place on May 28th – 30th in Boston, MA, which is a few days after Memorial Day weekend.
Flash on Tap Early Bird tickets are now on sale.This is the best price you can get until April 28th or tickets run out.People are buying tickets for themselves and friends, companies are buying them for employees, and even college students and professors are getting in on this educational and exciting event which takes place a few days after Memorial Day.Come on Thursday for the workshops, or get there Thursday night for the opening party.Friday and Saturday have an incredible lineup of speakers all followed up by a Saturday night closing party.Food will be served every day including breakfasts, lunches and dinners which includes a full-on BBQ!There’s nothing like BBQ and a beer with friends and a chance to rub elbows with the experts!
The BBQ will be provided Smokey’s Longhorn featuringSmokey’s amazing pulled pork, grilled veggies, barbecued chicken and smokedbrisket, barbecue fixin’s and peach cobbler for dessert!
The whole event is designed for you to meet the speakers as well as others in the industry and giving you a chance to build your network – this is like Facebook in person! Speakers include: John Grden, Sam Agesilas Pastel, Philip Kerman (PK), Keith Peters (KP), Tink, Ralph Hauwert, Craig Swann, Grant Skinner, Robert Hodgin, Robert Reinhardt, Andre Michelle and many other speakers including our guy Sean “SeanTron” McCracken who will go over ways to use FMS to create scalable multi player games. You can see the whole list here. You obviously don’t want to miss…
The Details:
The conference will take place in Boston at The Park Plaza Hotel and The Castle from May 28th-30th, 2009. The program is organized around main stage speakers and afternoon presentations—brewed together with beer tasting from some of the region’s premier brewers. Buy your tickets now!
