iPad Hacks: Want to Play Flash Video on Your iPad?

Posted Dec 28, 2010 at 7:52PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: iPad Hacks Tags: apple, flash decoding, ios, jailbreak, news, science and technology, Steve Jobs, transcoding

For a media consumption device, the iPad is greatly handicapped by its lack of Flash support. Until King Steve grants Adobe a Magisterial Reprieve, iPad users will need to find other ways of playing Flash files on their devices. This is no small thing: Flash files account for over 80% of video content on the web. That’s a whole lot of video to unlock. According to Ripcode, the whole concept of transactional transcoding is to allow content delivery platforms, ie your iPad, to support the proposition of ‘any content, anywhere, anytime, any device’. This flies right in the face of any closed market censorship and liberates the iPad to a whole realm of different possibilities. The fantastic innovation made by Ripcode is in its real time transcoding. Until now you would need to download a file and then decode it manually in a drop box application. For websites filled with Flash file content, this is totally impractical, meaning that great swathes of screen remain empty where the Flash video should be running. Real time transcoding completely does away with this problem. It’s all very clever stuff! If you visit the Ripcode website at www.ripcode.com, it’ll give you an in-depth resume of how the whole thing works. Be prepared though: it’s very technical and for a non-scientific mind like mine, it left me totally baffled. To help you cut through the mind-bending techno-babble, take yourself to the ‘Products’ section then have a look at the ‘Transact Transcoder V6’. That’s the proper business for getting your Flash content up. To understand the content fully, however, I recommend a degree in Electronics from MIT…. What I really want to know is this: does it work? In all truth, I don’t know yet as the software is awaiting its launch. I have no doubt though that should it be successful, Apple’s ban on Adobe Flash will become effectively null and void.

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