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Moving from Flash to HTML5

By end of 2020, we will be completely removing support for the Flash Overlay Plugin, which was a great way to add high-quality animated graphics and dynamic content to video streams. We strongly suggest that all customers, who have been using Flash, migrate their solutions to the HTML5 Plugin during this year.

What happened?

Adobe has committed to support the technology through 2020 and it will be officially deprecated by Microsoft by December 31st:

Flash will be completely removed from all browsers by December 31, 2020, via Windows Update.

After the technology is disabled by Microsoft, it will not be technically possible to deploy the Flash Overlay Plugin on up-to-date systems. Due to the fact that the Plugin uses Internet Explorer components to run Flash, it will simply stop working after the update.

Therefore, Medialooks will be no longer renewing Flash Overlay licenses and will … Read more

As one of India’s most diversified media conglomerate, Network 18 runs the biggest news broadcast network in India through its subsidiary, TV-18 Broadcasts Limited, owning newsrooms and studios across the country, including 73 broadcast channels, as well as leading online news portals and publishing brands. Network18 operates a large mix of news and entertainment channels in addition to multiple digital products of the biggest names in media, such as News18 Network, CNBC-TV18, CNN News18, Viacom18 Colors, MTV, MoneyControl, FirstPost, and Forbes India.

We’ve been working with the company since 2013, and I had visited their previous facilities in Mumbai several years ago. We finally sat down with Abhishek Paul, Assistant General Manager in Operations Technology, who leads a software development team that makes use of a MediaLooks SDK in a range of use cases.

The first scenario is simultaneous live streaming of certain shows to social media — something that … Read more

As one of India’s most diversified media conglomerate, Network 18 runs the biggest news broadcast network in India through its subsidiary, TV-18 Broadcasts Limited, owning newsrooms and studios across the country, including 73 broadcast channels, as well as leading online news portals and publishing brands. Network18 operates a large mix of news and entertainment channels in addition to multiple digital products of the biggest names in media, such as News18 Network, CNBC-TV18, CNN News18, Viacom18 Colors, MTV, MoneyControl, FirstPost, and Forbes India.

We’ve been working with the company since 2013, and I had visited their previous facilities in Mumbai several years ago. We finally sat down with Abhishek Paul, Assistant General Manager in Operations Technology, who leads a software development team that makes use of a MediaLooks SDK in a range of use cases.

The first scenario is simultaneous live streaming of certain shows to social media — something that … Read more