Want to embed A/V recording into a PDF document

[Former Community Member]

I looked at the recording bundle that is  put into my webdav folder. I unzipped it, there are a number of FLV artifacts that I assume represent

the recorded session. I located the FLV that corresponds to my the archive ID that I assigned. However. When checking for accuracy of the

FLV recording in Adobe Media Player, nothing plays. What I want to do is embed the recorded FLV into a pdf. My question is, which of these

FLV files is the one that I need to embed into my PDF document.

Thanks.

[Former Community Member]

Hi there,

It seems like you should read the docs for recording, posted up here :

http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/lccs/10.1+Overview

We explicitly do not produce 1 flv for you to play back - the workflow is

that you create an application to play the recording back.

Hope that helps

nigel

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I think I have answered my own question. The short answer is. At present this can't be done. It appears that I can only playback a session

recording via a flex application. I think this is a serious limitation, as, there is little flexibility being demonstrated here, and, the ability to also do the type of implementation that I'm attempting is a desired feature by many of our clients.

Hey Nigel, can you at least bring this up with your developers as a possible feature request.

Thanks.

[Former Community Member]

I gathered that. But. This is a definite limitation. I think that the created recording artifacts should have the ability to be played back however

a given client choses. I feel this current architecture is very limited.

[Former Community Member]

Hi Jeff,

I'm sure you're aware, but you can actually host Flash applications in PDF

via the portfolios feature. I don't know much about this, so you might have

to seek help in another forum, but I don't see why it couldn't work.

As to supporting the feature of your choice, we're always willing to listen,

but in this case, we made a pretty explicit decision. I'm not sure how much

you know about video transcoding, but it's a non-trivial problem requiring a

lot of CPU and memory resources. Hosting such services would be

cost-prohibitive for us, and then you'd likely complain that the feature is

too expensive.

As well, you can always play back recordings using an app and use

screen-capture technology to make "flat" videos. You could probably host

such a solution in cloud instances if need be. I think it's inaccurate to

say that the architecture is limited - you do have options here, but they

might not be convenient as you'd like for your use case.

nigel

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Thanks for the reply Nigel. You're right, I know nothing about Video transcoding. And. Maybe you're right about making the statement about

the archecture being limited. I concede that. However. Imagine Photoshop, and all its awesome features, only being able to save graphics artifacts

in .psd format. And. Although the technologies in this context are vastly different with respect to implementation complexities, I'm going to quote Yoda in a scene

from The Empire Strike Back, "No they are no different, only different in your mind".

So. The abstraction should work the same. Export as MP3 or Export as bundled FLV.

But. Thanks again for taking the time to answer.

[Former Community Member]

Nigel,

One other issue. The potential PDF document is going to be read on an IPad. So, unless there is something I don't know. The PDF readers for iOS devices

will not allow flash content to be run.

[Former Community Member]

Not sure about what the Portfolios feature is. But. Keep in mind, the embedding must happen dynamically, ie, programatically, via Java.

I attempted embedding an SWF via iText, I received the following exception.

VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.core::Application could not be found.

[Former Community Member]

Never mind. I worked it out. I didn't have the correct framework linkage enabled.

I see hope on the horizon. At least for Android devices.