When developing software for multimedia Internet kiosks there was a necessity to playback FLV-files using a player built into a web page. Opportunities to create a fast and lightweight FLV-player based on standard Flash-components caused a large number of such players to appear in the Internet. In practice such solutions mostly were either simple and non-flexible or way too expensive (despite for the fact of being “free” a part of the players came along with truncated functionality and offered buying a complete version for $XX).

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Target setting

The main target is creating the system to provide service for working with video podcasts (a collection of video files which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers) recorded by users and uploaded to the server. The access to the video should be provided on user’s request or via user’s connection to the broadcasting channel in real time. A number of users (privileged ones) should have the ability to create the podcasts (i.e. to upload digitized video of standard formats (AVI, MPEG2) recorded by personal video camera). All the users should have the ability to review the podcasts via web-browsers as a part of web-page.
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