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And there are things to announce right now 🙂
FlashyWrappers(video encoding Flash / AIR library & native extension) 2.2 was released!
In the unlikely case you overlooked, FlashyWrappers allows you to capture videos from your Flash / AIR apps or games in the fastest way possible (crosscompiled C++ powered in Flash Player, native extensions on other platforms). You don’t need any “media server”, FW is completely self sufficient and your users can save your videos locally or send them somewhere over the internet.
This release brings 2 big updates: iOS and Android releases. FlashyWrappers iOS is fully rewrriten, hardware accelerated ANE for AIR, using AVFoundation and experimentally also OpenGL ES screen capturing directly from AIR. Android is using the code from desktop and will start getting hardware acceleration in the next releases starting with Android 4.3+.
There are number of fixes and improvements namely for Flash Player (SWC) library. Users trying out FlashyWrappers often had issues with building these FlasCC compiled SWC’s in Adobe IDE’s. This has been resolved by separating the library in external SWF while keeping the SWC frontend which loads the library at run-time. This means shorter complation times, no autocomplete issues (freezing), no random “Undefined Reference” errors when compiling and so on.
FWSoundMixer 1.0 was released!
For those who tried FlashyWrappers 2.0, they might have noticed FWSoundMixer. FWSoundMixer allows you to mix playing Flash sounds(Sound class) + microphone if needed, and what’s most important, access the raw PCM data which can be sent to FlashyWrappers video encoder or saved standalone. So you can save any audio recording to a wav file, compress it and send to your server(just an example). Combined with video recording, this can result in interesting apps ( karaoke / singing apps anyone?:-).
The biggest issue in the previous version has been microphone audio lagging and the same building issues like with FlashyWrappers SWC. The good news is, those lagging issues were identified and appear to be fixed now. The library was also separated into SWF/SWC for those having problems when building.
Out-of-the-box solution for adding FWSoundMixer easily to FlashyWrappers video encoding project was added as well(you specify FWVideoEncoder instance in FWSoundMixer init method). Finally, as before, FWSoundMixer is completely free to use.
That’s all regarding the releases. Currently I’m still working on the website after the 2.2 release (links for downloads are being sent out automatically for example) and already have pretty clear goals for the 2.21 release, which will hopefully include some form of native audio recording for iOS, possibly followed by sharing the video to Facebook as first platform to feature that experimentally.
From there, I’ll be moving on to Android HW accelerated encoding – Android is the next big target, and it will be pretty challenging (ie, exciting)!
The overall goal of FlashyWrappers is to bring the most optimized and simple video recording of your Flash / AIR apps or games, for all platforms.