Several years ago, when Adobe was getting ready to release Flex 2.0 they held a developer derby to entice people to play with their new toys. Unfortunately the competition was restricted to US citizens. The kind folks at www.rocketboots.com.au started their own competition for those outside of the US. As luck would have it my entry of a barcode scanner won and I scored myself an ipod nano.

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I spent a couple of hours tidying up a batch file I had started for encoding video to Mp4. The output can be used for progressive downloads (Should work for FMS etc. hosted videos as well) in the later versions of Flash player that support H264 and AAC encoded videos.

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