Open Video Player Initiative
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Barclay also said Akamai and Adobe are collaborating on the Open
Video Player initiative, previously founded by Akamai, and the release
of OSMF technologies. The goal is to ensure a consistent framework for
media player development that enables developers, publishers, content
owners, corporations and others to more quickly and easily build new
video players that create and sustain profitable new business models,
he said.
"Open Source Media Framework complements and solidifies Akamai's
Open Video Player initiative," said Tim Napoleon, chief strategist of
digital media at Akamai, in a statement. "OSMF leverages code from
Akamai's Open Video Player and Adobe's expertise and resources to
assist media companies and publishers in redefining the benchmarks for
online video experiences that are powered by standards-based workflows."
Also, Barclay said TLF goes beyond what is possible for Web text
layout using HTML and CSS technologies today, with support for complex
languages, bidirectional text, multicolumns and other advanced
typographical features and controls. TLF is an extensible ActionScript
library built on top of the text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10 and
Adobe AIR 1.5 software. Source code and component library for TLF are
available as open source at no charge under the Mozilla Public License
at http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/tlf/.
Barclay noted that TLF is used in The New York Times'
TimesReader 2.0 and The Boston Globe's GlobeReader, and Acrobat.com
Presentations. In addition, Makebook uses TLF to deliver an online,
creative authoring network that makes it easy for users to write, share
work with family and friends and then publish online.
"APIs that are standard in the open-source Text Layout Framework
from Adobe gave us a jumpstart as we leveraged the high-end components
for makebook.com," said Mark Stanley, founder of Makebook. "With TLF we
can more easily provide our customers with quality typography features
and the text layout control they require for their self-publishing
projects."
