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	<title>ESA HD Media Player - Flash CS4/AS3 Tutorials</title>
	<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials</link>
	<description>Instructional tutorials for the ESA Flash HD Media Player.</description>
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		<title>HTML5 vs Flash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The web is buzzing about HTML5, which is a new set of web standards being developed by WHATWG. The HTML5 standard includes many new features including tags for audio, video, and graphics elements, putting it in direct competition with Flash technology. While Flash offers a lot of practical and interactive benefits over HTML5, its primary advantage is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials/2010/05/14/html5-vs-flash/</link>
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		<title>WordPress and Other Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adding the ESA HD Media Player to a WordPress or other blog is as easy as pasting the embed code into your post (in &#8220;html&#8221; view). Please note: this tutorial page is part of a WordPress blog. You must use absolute paths throughout your embed code (e.g. for the swf and flashvars); and if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials/2010/05/14/wordpress-blogs/</link>
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		<title>ShoutCast Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ESA HD Media Player supports live ShoutCast Radio feeds using the following syntax:
ShoutCast Radio:
You need the server and port for the ShoutCast station you want to play, and you must add &#8221;:stream.nsv&#8221; to the end of the string:
http://SERVER:PORT/;stream.nsv
To pick out a radio station visit Winamp&#8217;s ShoutCast Radio page and click &#8220;Tune In&#8221; for a station to download the &#8220;.pls&#8221; file, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials/2010/05/14/shoutcast-radio/</link>
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		<title>YouTube Video Support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ESA HD Media Player supports the playback of videos hosted on YouTube. Because we have implemented YouTube&#8217;s entire AS3 API into our MediaPlayer component, you can easily load and manipulate YouTube videos with our default components, and you can even take advantage of the small, medium, large, and HD720 formats they offer using any of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials/2010/02/10/youtube-video-support/</link>
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		<title>Embed with SWFObject and Express Install</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The HD Media Player can be embedded in a webpage using SWFObject v2.2, which uses a javascript file (swfobject.js; static publishing method) to detect the Flash Player version. If the user doesn&#8217;t have Flash Player 10, the Express Install application (expressInstall.swf) will try to update their Flash Player (please note: in most browsers you will have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials/2009/11/05/embed-with-swfobject-and-express-install/</link>
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		<title>Troubleshooting Common Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we provide solutions for problems that you may encounter when using the HD Media Player. If you experience any other problems, please contact us, and we&#8217;ll do our best to evaluate the problem and provide a solution.
Player SWF doesn&#8217;t load on page: You must have Flash Player 10 installed (you will probably have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials/2009/11/04/troubleshooting-common-problems/</link>
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		<title>Bit Rate Switching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ESA HD Media Player supports automated and manual bit rate switching that works with all web servers (http:progressive), Flash Media Server 3.x (rtmp:streaming), Wowza, Red5, and YouTube. This feature allows you to deliver the appropriate media to users based on their bandwidth and CPU capabilities. To enable the bit rate switching you need to enable the bandwidth detection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials/2009/10/29/bit-rate-switching/</link>
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		<title>Automated Bandwidth Detection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ESA HD Media Player has an automated bandwidth detection system that works with all web servers (http:progressive) and Flash Media Server 3.x (rtmp:streaming). To enable the bandwidth detection you need to specify the path for the bandwidth test in the Skin Wizard (&#8221;Bandwidth Test&#8221; text field), or in the MediaPlayer&#8217;s Component Inspector (&#8221;bandwidthSource&#8221; parameter), or in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials/2009/10/27/streaming-and-progressive-bandwidth-detection/</link>
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		<title>Displaying NCAM Closed Captions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this tutorial we discuss how to display captions using NCAM&#8217;s CCForFlashAS3 component, which is already implemented in our default players (v.2 or later). These captions are stored in external timed text files formatted in the W3C&#8217;s DFXP format or Apple&#8217;s QTtext format, both of which can be created with MAGpie, NCAM&#8217;s free captioning application, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials/2009/10/12/displaying-ncam-closed-captions/</link>
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		<title>Custom Context Menu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The HD Media Player displays a custom context menu when the user right-clicks the player. Once you buy the player, you can open the FLA and alter the following action script to remove our branding and point users to your own site for more information (look for the scripts in the actions panel, scene 1, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://components.earthscienceagency.com/flash_media_player/tutorials/2009/10/05/custom-context-menu/</link>
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