I couldn’t attend Alper’s thesis presentation this afternoon, for I am in London (UK) and he is in Delft (Netherlands). So in order to still be able to watch his presentation I made a simple broadcaster with Flex2 and a developers edition of Flash Media Server 2. Now some others and I were able to watch Alper’s presentation broadcasted from Eelke’s laptop, live in the webbrowser. All everyone needed was the Flash Player and optionally a webcam.
I really like the power of Flash Media Server and Flex 2. Although heavily under documented, these provide a lot of options for people who want to do nice things with video, audio, and even shared resources. I had made a simple web-lecture recorder before when I first started playing with FMS2, but that project got lost in my hard disk crash. This broadcaster I now made only took me 2 days to build.
That low development time can mainly be accredited to Flex2 which is a toolkit build on Eclipse. It allows you to separate design from code in an easy way, offering much more flexibility and support for web-application developers. Sure as hell beats Flash 8 on usability!
PS: Midway in the presentation the server died so it is not bug free yet.
PS2: It wasn’t the server, but the wireless in the room that crashed.
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