Burak has released FLV Metada Injector tool.
Its a free to use tool, which will calculate flv details from a given flv file and inject those details as metadata into the target flv file.
FLV Metadata is very useful while making custom FLV Players to play progressive flvs. Sometimes its important to know width, height, duration or more properties of flv files.
Metadata can be trapped in Flash using NetSream.metaData event handler. A very nice introduction can be seen at following locations:
- http://flashmx2004.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=961
- Jesse's Blog
FLVMDI is available in two flavours:
- Win32 console application
- COM dll.
On request, Burak also added support for metadata XML file. So flvmdi(console version) would always emit a metadata xml file along with injected flv.
More info on FLVMDI can be found here.
Certifiable is yet another Central application. Rather telling in my words, i would like to quote in its creator's words.
Essential certification preperation
Currently available as a preview release, Certifiable uses a Central exam engine developed by Daemon that tests your knowledge of a variety of topics.
As soon as I got to know about it through Mike's blog, I installed it and gave Flash MX 2004 Developer exam. It was good experience, though I got three wrongs out of total twenty questions.
I would try again, its good practice. Certifiable gives you unlimited questions served randomly.
I wanted to see such application for a long time. Being a part of eLearning development, my inclination has been towards eLearning application.
Central obiously excites me and I am still thinking of an application that would change the way we learn things. I want to see some cool eLearning application running on Central.
I am trying to get into Central's root, I hope to make something interesting very soon.
BTW! while writing this entry, I looked another Central App, which lets you post messages to your MT blogs from Central itself. Wow! I love it.
Its Bloggin'Nation 0.1 by Design-Nation.
I am going to give a try...
I looked at Central SDK docs, specially APIs. Its really nice to see a good collection of APIs. Its very easy to make a application for Central.
No need to figure out how you going to handle communication between Pods, Agents and Applications etc. Central takes care of all these. For example, LCService Object wraps the LocalConnection and extends its functionalities.
Similarly there are Classes/Object for Regular Expressions (RegExp), SOAP, RPC, WebServices, String, MD5 Hash etc.
Central is Good framework and Platform to deploy applications. Forthcoming support for AIM/ICQ IM service would really be good add-ons.
Lets wait and see ...