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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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