I'm currently planing to make a touchscreen installation that will play movies and sound upon user interaction. There will be interface elements layered over the movies as well. There will be no need for realtime manipulation of Sound or Movie, it's playback only.

This could be done in Flash or with Max/Jitter and I'm currently not sure which way to go. So my question is what might be pros and cons for each environment?

I'm much more familar with Max/Msp/Jitter then with Flash which would be the biggest Pro for the Max way. But on the other hand, building and especially designing the UI Elements seems easier to me in Flash.

I'm especially wondering about performance in movie playback of big movie files (high ressolution + ability for smooth zooms into movie details, therfore the resolution of the movies might be even bigger then what would actually be shown on the screens)

Any hints or experiences concerning performance differences of these two environments would be highly apreciated. As well as any other general hints/opinions (touchscreen integration, stability etc...)

I'm much more familar with Max/Msp/Jitter then with Flash which would be the biggest Pro for the Max way. But on the other hand, building and especially designing the UI Elements seems  easier to me in Flash.

advise-needed-max-vs-flash-for-touchscreen-installation

Personally I think Id go with flash on this one, flash can play hd 

footage now thanks to h.264 support, if you were to use fms with this 

you could also do lots of fun stuff server side. I use mmj where I 

want to really interact with the video / sound but if you just want 

to playback content and your main issue is interface design, I, 

personally, think flash will be a lot easier and appropriate for the 

Personally I think Id go with flash on this one, flash can play  hd   
footage now thanks to h.264 support, if you were to use fms with this  
you could also do lots of fun stuff server side. I use mmj where I  
want to really interact with the video / sound but if you just want  
to playback content and your main issue is interface design, I,  
personally, think flash will be a lot easier and appropriate for the  
job.

we did a touchscreen based installation recently and used flash.

it had a database and it was easier, we could have gone max but the text

what is the touch method your going to use?

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM, jack keenan wrote:

> Personally I think Id go with flash on this one, flash can play hd

> footage now thanks to h.264 support, if you were to use fms with this you

> could also do lots of fun stuff server side. I use mmj where I want to

> really interact with the video / sound but if you just want to playback

> content and your main issue is interface design, I, personally, think flash

> will be a lot easier and appropriate for the job.

we did a touchscreen based installation recently and used flash.
http://art2please.com/sonnenfeldh/

it had a database and it was easier, we could have gone max but the text
handling in flash is easier, and oo.
what is the touch method your going to use?

> Personally I think Id go with flash on this one, flash can play  hd
>  footage now thanks to h.264 support, if you were to use fms with this you
> could also do lots of fun stuff server side. I use mmj where I want to
> really interact with the video / sound but if you just want to playback
> content and your main issue is interface design, I, personally, think flash
> will be a lot easier and appropriate for the job.
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> JK
>
>
>

Thanks for your opinions. Still I would like to hear about performance differences if someone has experienced anything remarkable...

Quote: yair r. wrote on Tue, 06 January 2009 23:57

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> what is the touch method your going to use?

Haven't made up my mind yet, I still wait for a fixed budget commitment before I go to the hardware store. In case it might become a multitouchscreen a quick search revealed there are already protocolls and helpers out there e.g. 

http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/1495/

Quote: yair r. wrote on Tue, 06 January 2009 23:57
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Haven't made up my mind yet, I still wait for a fixed budget commitment before I go to the hardware store. In case it might become a multitouchscreen a quick search revealed there are already protocolls and helpers out there e.g. http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/1495/ Any experiences here?

Advise needed: Max vs Flash for touchscreen installation