Adobe AIR for TVas presented by Chris Charlton

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Adobe AIR 2.5 for TV

Internet connected high definition TV sets*

Set-top boxes

Blu-ray players

*Samsung is first

Adobe AIR 2.5

Accelerometer

Multi-touch & gestures

Geo location

Native-browser controls in apps

Hardware acceleration

Enhanced CSS & HTML5

Google Android

BackBerry Tablet OS

Adobe AIR 2.5 for TVH.264 1080p video, Flash Access 2.0 (DRM), enhanced Keyboard APIs, new StageVideo API

StageVideo API

StageVideo maximizes performance and quality with minimal power consumption on all platforms.

Flash Player supports Video & StageVideo objects.

Content displaying video in a window-aligned rectangular region on screen should use StageVideo.

Content performing complex transformations on video should use the slower Video object.

GoogleTV: Video objects rendered with StageVideo performance. Unsupported features ignored.

StageVideo objects

Cannot be rotated.

Cannot have an alpha channel, blendMode, filter, mask, scale9Grid, colorTransform, or 3D transformations.

Video data cannot be copied into a BitmapData object.

Plays only videos originating from NetStream objects.

Video encoding guidelines

Video codec: H.264, Main or High profile, progressive encoding

Resolution: 720i, 720p, 1080i, or 1080p

Frame rate: 24 or 30 fps

Pixel aspect ratio: 1 x 1

Audio codec: AAC-LC or AC3, 44.1 kHz, stereo, up to 192 kbps

Combined bit rate: up to 2Mbps (or higher depending on available bandwidth)

Old codecs supported

Delivering video

HTTP Dynamic Streaming (F4F format)

RTMP/e Streaming

HTTP Progressive Download

RTMFP Peer-to-Peer

RTMFP Multicast

Production Tools

Flash Professional CS5

Flash Builder 4

Notes about TVs

500-800 MHz or higher**

Take advantage of cacheAsBitmap and cacheAsBitmapMatrix

Avoid animating large vector content

Simple buttons: up, down, left, right, menu, info

Live demo next meetupView real apps on a real interactive set-top box!

Read more online

What’s new in Adobe AIR 2.5http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/air25_whatsnew.html

Delivering video and content for Flash Platform on TVhttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/video_content_tv.html

Adobe AIR DevNet center http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air