DIGG IT! Stop what you are doing and turn this on. Finally the Akamai streaming system is working and the full screen video is simply amazing. This is easily better than TV.
Tour of California - Live
( 2 Designers + 4 Developers) 4 Weeks with Flex + Flex Data Services + Flash Media Server.
Too cool!
Ted :)
Doesn't work. It looks like it'd be great if it worked (and maybe if they improved the interface).
A lot of it is just hard to figure out and, frankly, gratuitous. Maybe with another 4 weeks? What's there is great, but I think it's got lots of room for improvement. (No Flex runtime errors though--gotta give props for that.)
--Phillip Kerman
Phillip, The race was over by 30 minutes when you commented. When the video is not streaming, the app is pretty boring but when it is on it is nice. Sorry you missed it!
Ted :)
awesome! who worked on this? AC or partners?
Unlike TV, it doesn't work most of the time. What does this say about using Flex as part of a solution for large scale projects?
looks great - but doesn't sound it. I saw video but got no audio
Okay, I got the live video... looks good.
Seems like it could use a bit of polish still. I have a few comments:
--onResize the video gets smaller but never gets bigger again until you click live video
--the stage stats mountain graph pops out on the far right sometimes.
--stats are shown in miles where the commentator (and I believe cyclists generally) use kilometers.
--I can't figure it out. I mean, what am I looking at? I see a big video that's live... very cool. I see these widgets all over the place but I don't know how they tie in with what I'm watching. Maybe I could figure it out with more study. I just figured out that the "stage 4" is yellow.
--Memory usage is through the roof though I can't say there are leaks... it's at 140M right now but holding steady.
All said, it's quite impressive. Doing live apps is always asking for trouble.
--Phillip Kerman
Cool. Gonna get those 4 developers to release the code for us?
I'd love to do mapping in Flash / Flex, but I don't feel that the Yahoo Map API is nearly as good as Google's. Someone needs to convince them to port their API to ActionScript.