Re: Flash-based player?

He looked at RA/VE already. His users can't install browser plugins. I 
think he wants Flash player (on Windows, apparently,) to be able to play RM.

http://helixcommunity.org/projects/player/forums/entry/3787
> RealAV isn't quite what I want. The requirement is that end-users not 
> need to install any plug-ins, except for Flash (or perhaps 
> Silverlight). We have many users that are in restricted environments 
> where they are not allowed to install plug-ins.

-- 
Daniel Yek.



Tony Seaward wrote:
> Likely you would be referring to the ra/ve player, which can be found at
> rave.helixcommunity.org. You can download the player under the Files
> section of that project which includes documentation and if needed ask
> any questions using the forums in the project.
> -- 
> Tony Seaward
> Helix DNA Program Mananger

Jeffrey Gerber wrote:
> I was sent here by someone at helixcommunity.org, so my apologies if 
> this is not the proper place for this question.
>
> In a conference call with some (Real) Helix sales reps, there was 
> mention of a beta Flash-based player for Real Media content. I was 
> told it supported limited codecs, but that such an animal did exist.
>
> For various reasons (mostly related to user community not being able 
> to install brower plug-ins, except for Flash or Sliverlight), I need 
> to move away from the Real Player to a Flash-based approach. However, 
> I have a Helix server and almost all of my media files are current RM 
> (or a variant like RA). Instead of transcoding (we don't have original 
> DV-AVI files for everything), it would be great to just be able to 
> play the Real files in a Flash-based player.
>
> Does anyone have any information on a beta tool ("Flash drop-in," as 
> it was described) to do this? If not, does anyone else have a solution 
> for an organization with Real files, but can no longer use the Real 
> Player?
>
> Thanks in advance.