Streaming Learning Center

When comparing Ogg Theora to H.264, most reviewers have focused solely on video quality. But that's only a small component of what it will take for Ogg to achieve mainstream success.

Here's a short video discussion between Lisa Larson-Kelly and myself discussing the upcoming training. If you're curious about the training, or how Oovoo works (it's pretty cool) click over to the main article. For more information on the training, click over to http://streamingflash.eventbrite.com/

In part, Steve Jobs stated that the iPad didn't support Flash because it was a "CPU Hog," so Apple used a technology called HTML5 instead. Since the comparative efficiency of Flash vs. HTML5 seemed easy enough to quantify, I endeavored to do so, using YouTube's new HTML5-based player as the test bed. Specifically, I played a YouTube video in the same browser twice, once via HTML5, once via Flash, and measured CPU utilization during playback.

The results? Decidely bi-polar. You can probably guess which pole was colder.

Lisa Larson-Kelly and Jan Ozer will host the Streaming Production and Flash Delivery Workshop on March 23, 2010, at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. The workshop will feature two tracks, Streaming Production and Flash Delivery, each comprised of two ½ day courses.

The workshop courses detail the complete streaming production and delivery workflow, from set design to Flash Media Server setup, from H.264 encoding to Flash Player creation. The instructors are recognized authors, experienced producers and frequent speakers at industry workshops hosted by organizations like Streamingmedia.com and the MCA-I.

Early bird pricing is $170 for any ½ day course, or $300 for the full day. For more information or to sign up, visit http://streamingflash.eventbrite.com.

Updated findings below.

Ogg Theora and HTML5 have been top of mind for me over the last few weeks, and one consistent question was how Ogg compared to H.264 in terms of quality. So, I spent a few hours this past weekend encoding and comparing. Click through to the main article to see what I found.