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Wildform: Making streaming media more user-friendly
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Through development of tools like SWfx and Flix, Wildform Inc. provides users with the ability to view streaming media in any platform without downloading specific viewers.

Wildform provides the tools SWfx and Flix to designers that enable end-users to view streaming video presentations without the necessity of downloading specific platforms.  SWfx is an easy-to-use Flash text animation software. It works with installed True Type, ATM and Postscript fonts, it includes over 300 effects and hundreds more are available. SWfX also has a plug-in specification that enables users to easily create their own effects.

 

Flix is a video software that encodes video, audio and image files into Flash, the most popular media format on the Web. With Flix, users can edit, crop, encode and post their video in a custom branded player in minutes. Flix is a very easy and cost-effective way to create video for the web, CD-roms, presentations and other applications. Flix encoded video works without a streaming server, plays on all platforms and browsers, and streams through firewalls. And since almost everyone already has the Flash player installed, using Flix means that viewers won&singlequot;t have to download any players.

 

Creating Flix movies involves a series of steps where it encodes, compresses, synchronizes, then adds metadata and e-commerce qualities to the video and audio. The SWF output can be used alone or combined with ads, e-mail, and HTML sites. You can insert links, resize video windows, create branded players and more. To use Flix, select your input file, choose a preset, then click "Encode." And that&singlequot;s it. Flix presets allow you to select a desired bandwidth for Flix output, allowing you to optimize video for web streaming. This makes it possible for users on any connection to view the encoded video. The encoded video and audio is limited to 16000 frames, which is the maximum allowable number of frames in the SWF format.

 




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