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It wasn’t too long again that we pointed out the announcement that Apple’s iPhone would be able to play Flash Video soon.

Well, it seems Apple Computers has done a “180″.

Apple is now asserting that Flash Video is NOT meet Apple’s performance standards for video.

Is this a case of business maneuvering, with Apple simply choosing to not give Adobe an easy in on their iPhone systems?!

Or is there actual merit to these claims? Does Flash video actually have performance problems (that QuickTime itself doesn’t have)?!

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Ever wanted to create your own video sharing site?! Ever wanted to make your own YouTube-clone?!

This slideshow gives you all the information you need to get started creating your own video sharing site using Free and Open Source software.

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Some links from the slide show…

• FFmpeg
• Using Lighttpd, Mplayer/Mencoder and Flvtool2 to Implement Flash Video Streaming
• ffmpeg-php
• Flash Video | Optimizations and Tools
• Live Flash Stream via FFMPEG (via Archive.org)
• OSFlash Page on FFmpeg
• Sönke Rohde’s Tutorial on Transcoding Video with FFmpeg
• Video and Audio Streaming with Flash and Open Source Tools
• Publishing Flash videos with free, open source tools

Jake Ludington (of Jake Ludington’s MediaBlab) pointed out a good video on how to do HD quality video on YouTube.

Jake adds…

Following the steps in the tutorial… You get a pristine looking video at under 1 minute, down to slightly better than YouTube results at 4 minutes. Apparently over 4 minute videos won’t work.

I don’t think you actually need the tool the guy recommends, you just need to know the right command line hashes for FFMPEG (meaning you should be able to use FFMPEGX or WinFF or SUPER). Licensing a copy of the On2 codec probably wouldn’t hurt either.

If you click the More link in his description for the video, he definitely has a bunch of great looking footage posted (relative to the way other YouTube vids look at least).

How do you create higher quality Flash Video FLV files on you Microsoft Windows based computer?!

There’s actually 2 tools to do that!

• SUPER
• WinFF

And best, both of these are Free and Open Source programs.

Dan Rayburn tell us that there are rumors that Apple Computer’s iPhone will be able to play Flash Video soon.

How soon is soon? Here’s what Dan said…

The answer is I don’t know for sure, but based upon who told me the info to begin with, I took it to mean this quarter.

Does this mean the iPod will be able to play Flash Video too?

Actually, the one (technical) question I have though is… does this mean that the iPhone will be able to play any Flash SWF files? Or just the FLV files?