1/11/08

Flash Video Players - Why You Need One

We've been talking recently about the utility of CinemaForge in converting web videos to be played back on video iPods. The truth is web videos can be complicated to playback on demand for many devices.

The growth of high-speed Internet connections during the .com boom of the late nineties served as a great incubator for the video technology we see on the web today from YouTube, Revver and MySpace video. The catch with video is it's slow to playback high quality, especially on the web. Flash video on the other hand, allows faster playback with higher quality.

Have you ever tried to download a Flash video directly from the website you found it on? You can't. StageGold allows you to point to it (zoink) and import it into your playlist, but you don't have a copy on your hard drive. You'll also have to wait for it to reload should you want to view it again.

CinemaForge solves this problem in a couple ways. First of all, CF allows direct download of Flash videos (.flv), so you can have a local copy. Until version 2.6 was released earlier this month, you'd still have to upload your video to StageGold in order to play it back. CinemaForge 2.6 has a flash video player in it now that allows playback of locally stored videos. No more waiting for a website to load!

This new flash video player has menu functionality that includes full screen playback and playback of local or StageGold hosted videos. The best part of CinemaForge? You get all these features for free! What are you waiting for? Download your copy today.

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