As a good French man, I always come up with many “real” French-English words. The problem is that quite often these common words in French become really technical if not totally unknown and not used by normal English men. But happy for you today you are going to learn something. Moliere speaks to Shakespeare:
Arborescence: n. state of being arborescent; figure of a tree; state of resembling a tree in minerals or crystallizations.
In French: same meaning, very common word for French mathematician.
In English: I didn’t meet any English people knowing this word yet.
Antepenultimate: n. third syllable before the end of a word
In French: same meaning, used by French soccer commentators to speak about the time and sound clever, at least they think.
In English: Australian F1 commentators know about the penultimate lap, can’t ask more
Felicitation: n. congratulation, offering of good wishes
In French: same meaning, it’s how French people say congratulation
In English: I would say at least 50 percent of English people knows the meaning, did you?
I guess as a Flex developer, Tour de flex is one of the best Flex application you will ever find. Heaps of examples with demo and source code. You can even download the Air version with additional Air examples. One negative point, the Air application and the web version crashes on Linux 64
If you want to do some live streaming with Flex, you’ll need to use a Media server. Adobe offers Flash Media Server 3.5 for about $4000, or free under 10 simultaneous users. It looks really easy to use, but I ended up to struggle a bit to find any certified Flex 3 example…
Red5 is the free open source alternative to the Adobe solution. It doesn’t support yet AMF3 but it does work well. I installed it on Windows XP with the executable installer. The only special “install moves” have been to set my JAVA_HOME (JAVA 6 SDK), and to run the server with the “StartRed5-NT.bat” command. The main executable failed to start on my Windows.
Once you hit http://localhost:5080 on your browser, the main server page with a Youtube video is displayed. Have a look at it and install all the demo applications.
Then download Red5 Recorder. It’s a webcam video recorder client. Extract it into a folder. With Flex Builder 3, create a new Flex project with the folder as source folder. Then change one line into “src/classes/Recorder.as”:
9 public var server:String=”rtmp://localhost/SOSample/”;
Run the project, it should work. The recorded file is saved into “C:\Program Files\Red5\webapps\SOSample\streams”.
It is a bit dirty to save the file into this demo app folder, and I don’t even know if this demo app do something. But I had something to start from Enjoy it.
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