What video.Maru users are saying:

• WOW. You rock. I’ve been messing with this and I gotta say I’m floored… it’s the shit for sure, and I’m going to use it like a mad man. great great work. -Ed Flynn
• You’re right, I don’t understand it technically, but I do know when I see a diamond and baby, you’re the fracking Kohinoor. (Kohinoor means “mountain of light” in Persian.) Keep up the the great work!! - Sisamatina
• You truly are a Legend -Jason Loftus, Modern English
• Holy Shit ( If I may be so bold as to say Holy Shit),,, -Frank Aiello
• Well what can I say, but this is so cool, the ease of it all is childs play. You myfriend are excellent, you have made my year. Keep up the excellent work. You sir rock. Baz Kelly
• I also think that video.Maru will become a widely used video component for Flash developers. It’s so easy to use and works like a charm. Already so many users worldwide… - Benito de Miranda
  
• It is pretty amazing isn’t it! Regular video in Flash is just a little too troublesome!! - Collis/FlashDen.net
• This is awsome, well done. - Tim Madden
• woaw….I just got the flashDen newsletter….with the link. man thats really great….but the best part is that you give it out for free…that IS amazing. thank you very much. - RAN
• Wow, this is jaw-dropping. Thank you so much for developing such tool. Keep up the good work - Phong
• Thank you for this gift! You truly make it easy for hacks like myself to look impressive…and for that I am greatful! - Marty Bingo
• This has to be the most awesome flash component i have ever come across, and its free!!! Amazing work by Dan Florio, many thanks from myself and the hundreds(probably thousands) of flashers out there who will find this component to be a real time saver. Excellent! - pedrodonkey
• Great component, this will save me a lifetime!! - Nick Whiteley
• As a designer with limited coding knowledge your component is a godsend. The customization options are such a treat. - Lucie.
• Really like the Video Maru work you’re doing, great job! I found out about it via FlashDen and I’ve been using v1.5, but I realized today you have a new version so I’ve been playing around with v2.0 today. VM keeps getting better and better! : ) - Scott Wills
• Yes, the videoMaru works fine for progressive download of FLVs via a HTML connection and the fact that I can create flash interfaces for them in about 5 minutes is fantastic - it’s a top bit of code you created - Will Cox.
• I’ve been playing around with the features of you video.maru 3.0 beta. As a designer, I just wanted to say that I am really impressed with the tool you’ve created. This is the type of easy-to-use, do-what-you-want-it-to-do tool that I’ve been hoping Macromedia/Adobe would have integrated years ago. - bluesimian.com
• This is the far best discovery I’ve done during my 2 1/2 years with flash!! I’m speechless…, Thomas
• First of all. We are hole lot of people here in denmark which are gratefull for the videomaru and the awesome site. Wow -Hamid Mail

And this email just blew me away. Comments like this inspire me to keep working to improve and add more features to videoMaru.

Dear Dan/Video Maru,

About one month ago, I attended your presentation to the Los Angeles Flash Users Group meeting in Venice, CA at the Rich Media Institute. Upon receiving the email invite from the group and seeing video I was excited. Flash and video seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue in my line of work (webmaster) and in my office.

I know just enough Flash to be dangerous or to get in trouble. Our company, a public government agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Los Angeles) is LIMITED in terms of budget and hasn’t invested in developers to add the type of functionality needed.

Although now in a PC environment, being raised on a Mac and having well thought out applications that allows a designer like me to concentrate on the user experience and design INSTEAD of writing code (but first learning the language) is always my dilemma.

Our agency is bound by laws that require our content onsite to be accessible in relation to Section 508 and the W3C Accessible guidelines, so I’ve been search for an easy way to incorporate captions into our videos and build a custom player with the functionality we need as a public agency.

I must say that for me your presentation was the highlight of the evening of great information! R’s presentation on video touching on captioning was awesome, but your follow up demo on Video Maru was the bomb!

You’ve taken most of the basic work out of deploying video quickly and efficiently. Within two short evenings (after work), I had completed the tutorials and had developed a basic player that delivers our video WITH captioning. I am working with our techs to deploy our Flash Media Server to stream our videos and I’m sure your tutorial on that will come in handy.

What a great idea and your documentation (video tutorials) had me up and running in a couple of days (http://www.metro.net/imagine/) with a basic player and I hope to have a more robust multi-player up shortly.

Thanks again, you ROCK!

Joe Simpson

Webmaster, Metro Los Angeles

www.metro.net