ECER visit to ANIM@ter Studio
Posted by: Umar Abdul Aziz on: May 3, 2009
On the day of 29 April, we hosted a group of guests from the East Coast Economic Development Council (ECER) who were on tour to Terengganu. They were brought to our studio at Paya Keladi Business Center by the State’s Economic Planning Unit and the Information Management Unit. I was there to brief them about ANIM@ter and what we do before our team take them for a tour of our 35,000 sqf. animation studio.
The establishment of Global Animation Center is part of ECER’s plan for Terengganu. I’m sure there is an allocation of funding for us to benefit from in developing our studio to become a world class animation studio. I really hope that this visit will spark a new relationship and cooperation between EPICT and ECER with the generous help of the State.
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- Discussing about plans for future development
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- En. Ishamuddin explained something to ECER reps.
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- During briefing session
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- Guests fascinated with our Qabilah showroom
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- Wan Hazri doing some explanation to the guests
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- Guests interacting with one of the animators
Photos by Shuk
The Day I Played With MIME
Posted by: mlyana on: April 26, 2009
All this while, I have been creating FLV videos for offline purposes; such as presentations and interactive CDs. I assumed FLV works just as fine for websites, thus I happily Flash-ing the new ANIM@ter website and used FLV formats for the videos.
I uploaded the draft SWF of the website to the server to do a quick check. Linking… ok. Loading… ok, oh but maybe I need to add a pre-loader later. And here comes my favorite part… the videos! I clicked on the button, a transparent black background faded in and……….. eh, where’s the video?
Ok let’s check with the other videos. Nowhere in sight? How come? Hmm, must be the linking, I thought to myself.
I opened the FLA file again. Tried inserting an absolute url. Uploaded and…. still, nada! Even the player did not load. Weird.
I tried fixing the problem in every way that I could thought of; re-embedding the video, re-inserting the URL, uploading to different servers……… to no avail. I got home feeling stupid and pressured. Like the saying goes, I was ‘mandi tak basah, tidur tak lena’. My mind kept on figuring out the possible answer to the problem.
At last, I googled. Hehe.
It seems that the problem I had is a common one regarding streaming FLVs. In one of the forums, someone suggested to add a MIME extension type since Microsoft IIS 6.0, the default web server that ships with Windows 2003, requires a MIME type to recognize that FLV files are streamed media. I was skeptical at first, but gave it a try.
* Associated Extension box: .FLV
* MIME Type box: flv-application/octet-stream
With the help of my fellow colleague, the details were entered and tadaaaaaaaaaaaaa! My FLVs are now streamable! Yea!
Since that issue has been solved, I gotta get back to do more Flash-ing. Till next time!
(Next time? Probably when there’s new issue on board. But hopefully I would write again once the website is completed! 
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