Archive for May, 2012

How to download Toufee flash movies as AVI, MOV and MP4 video files

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

As part of the ongoing release of new features, we’ve introduced the option to download your flash movies in more video formats, especially the AVI format. Previously, the only option was the FLV download, but there has been ever growing requests for AVI and MOV. So here is how to get them.

The following step assume that you’re at the Publish movie screen and that you’ve clicked the YouTube download option. For detailed steps on how to get to this option, please refer the KB article

http://apps.toufee.com/support/index.php?page=kb_view&id=130

1) When you click the YouTube download option, you’ll receive a video download link to your email. Once you receive the download link, you’ll have to append the .avi extension as follows:

For example, if your download link is

http://apps.toufee.com/flashmovies/3055/ToufeeFlash.html

The remove .html extension at the end and replace it with .avi as follows

http://apps.toufee.com/flashmovies/3055/ToufeeFlash.avi

If you need to download the video in MOV, or MP4 formats, then replace with .mov and .mp4 respectively.

I hope this feature is useful. As I’ve been mentioning in the previous posts, we are working on new features for Toufee and you can expect the updates in the blog.

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How to deliver Toufee flash movies on mobile devices

Monday, May 7th, 2012

There have been increasing queries lately as to how Toufee flash movies can be delivered over mobile devices, given the increasing use of mobile as a content delivery platform thanks to the smartphone wave. Flash found its adoption slower on the mobile platform than on the Internet, arguably so. Adobe Flex, which Toufee is developed on, is yet to get full-stream support on the mobile platform. This presents quite a challenge to make Toufee flash movies work on mobile devices just like they would in traditional Internet environment on PCs.

Gladly, there is a workaround that you could use for now. Since Toufee supports converting flash movies to video files, the answer is to use YouTube as a content delivery medium for your flash movies. YouTube provides an Andriod application that lets you watch the videos. So get the ball rolling and start updating your YouTube channel with your flash movies. A great fit would be the delivery of video-series such as educational tutorials, marketing promo series, etc. So the next time someone asks you how to check your flash movie on their mobile, send them to your YouTube channel!

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