Weather widget gets 30fps video
implementing Flash Media Server with Yahoo weather API
Categories: Flash Media Server Flex
I've updated the Yahoo! weather widget mashup example I previously posted due to the fact that the previous live cam feed has been out of commission for several months due to a storm, and don't know if it will come back. However, this was a blessing in disguise since I have now implemented a new and much improved version.So instead of having users stare at a blank background I installed a live camera at my house and used Adobe's Flash Media Encoder 2.5 to stream this live feed to our FMS server at 30 frames per second (full motion video). This totally beats out the 1-2 frames per second that the previous camera feed was pushing out, plus the fact that it was also an IP camera so no crossdomain policy, which meant a server polling method to go grab the image feed, also I think my view is more interesting. I have plans for a widget that can scale, so users can see a larger video feed with better resolution, but for now I just wanted to get it working again. Click the image to see it in action.