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Thorn - Nerd?!? - Subtitles

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1990 World Championships

Crushed

Sweet song - Here it is

Detecting user bandwidth with ActionScript

I've always wondered how to code my flash files to detect a user bandwidth. Well I've found it. The tools you need are Flash Communication Server 2 and Flash 8 and some experience with coding. The process is quite simple and logical considering if you are delivering content to the public and have to compensate for users with different connection speeds; bandwidths.

Here's the code -
1 nc = new NetConnection();
2 nc.onStatus = function(info) {
3 trace("Level: "+info.level+" Code: "+info.code);
4 if (info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success") {
5 trace("--- connected to: " + this.uri);
6 initStream();
7 }
8 };
9 nc.connect("rtmp:/videoplayer");
10
11 initStream = function(){
12 // create a NetStream
13 video_ns = new NetStream(nc);
14 // optional onStatus handler
15 video_ns.onStatus = function(info) {
16 trace("Level: " + info.level + " Code: " + info.code);
17 };
18 // attach the NetStream to a video object called videoObj on stage
19 videoObj.attachVideo(video_ns);
20 video_ns.play("100kbps_Stream", 0); // the parameter 0 will tell the server to play a recorded stream
21 }
22 stop();


Add the following to the frame in Flash 8 -
1 nc = new NetConnection();
2 nc.onStatus = function(info) {
3 trace("Level: " + info.level + " Code: " + info.code);
4 if (info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success") {
5 trace("--- connected to: " + this.uri);
7 }
8 };
9 NetConnection.prototype.onBWDone = function(p_bw) {
10 trace("onBWDone: "+p_bw);
11 }
12 NetConnection.prototype.onBWCheck = function() {
13 return ++counter; // Serverside, just ignore any return value and return the call count
14 }
15 nc.connect("rtmp:/bwcheck", true);
16 stop();

Now, in your FLA file add the following -
detected_bw = p_bw;
// close the NetConnection to bwcheck
this.close();
gotoAndStop(2);

To request the appropriate stream -
if(detected_bw >= 256){
useVideo = "256kbps_Stream";
bufferlength = 2;
} else if (detected_bw <256 && detected_bw >=100){ useVideo = "100kbps_Stream"; bufferlength = 3; } else { // bandwidth is too low, you best alert the user at this stage trace("bandwidth too low"); }

trace("bandwidth too low");
}

For the onStatus handler -
video_ns.onStatus = function(info) {
trace("Level: " + info.level + " Code: " + info.code);
};

dd this code to set the bufferlength:

video_ns.setBufferTime(bufferlength);

Also modify the play action by changing that line from this:

video_ns.play("100kbps_Stream", 0);

to this:

video_ns.play(useVideo, 0);

I will like to thank Stefan Richter and Adobe for the help.

CA Master State Championships 2006

After one hot day, I won. Here are some pictures from San Diego on 07/22/2006:





Getting ready for my qualification time:

Warming up on the rollers

Getting some direction from Travis Smith

Keirin World Championships 2006

Zaino day - polishing my baby.

On Sunday 11th of June, my friend Ryan and I tried the Zaino series of polishes. What an experience with the confusing instructions and mixing processes.

Here are some before and after pictures, enjoy.


The different polishes and treatments.

Lancer Evolution

Information Security - My opinion from this past weekend.

This past weekend I presented at the Marriott near LAX to a group of administrators, concerned parents and teachers from the Los Angeles Unified School District. The presentation was titled 'Privacy Protection: What You and Your Students Should Know' and from the positive feedback I received and interest in the information as a whole, I feel confident that information sharing on a topic is beneficial to computer beginners to the savvy user who can whip through online.

Presentation notes will be made available soon to interested users.