media

Embedding Windows Media Player for all Browsers

Hello, we are using WMV Videos on an internal sites, and we are embedding them into web sites. Now, this works quite good on Internet Explorer, but not on Firefox. I've found ways to make it work in Firefox, but then it stops working in Internet Explorer. We do not want to use Silverlight just yet, especially we can be sure that all cl...

Best way to enumerate all available video codecs on Windows?

I'm looking for a good way to enumerate all the Video codecs on a Windows XP/Vista machine. I need present the user with a set of video codecs, including the compressors and decompressors. The output would look something like Available Decoders DiVX Version 6.0 XVID Motion JPEG CompanyX's MPEG-2 Decoder Windows Media Video **Availab...

Where do you get good icons/images for applications & web apps?

I'm interested in finding good icons/images that can be used in both 'free' and proprietary programs. Please include a description of any license restrictions associated with the source of the icons you suggest. ...

How to interact with Windows Media Player in C#

Hello, I am looking for a way to interact with a standalone full version of Windows Media Player. Mostly I need to know the Path of the currently played track. The iTunes SDK makes this really easy but unfortunately there really isn't any way to do it with Windows Media Player, at least not in .Net(C#) without any heavy use of pinvoke,...

Slowing down the playback of an audio file without changing its pitch?

I am working on an application for college music majors. A feature i am considering is slowing down music playback without changing its pitch. I have seen this done in commercial software, but cannot find any libraries or open source apps that do anything like this. Are there libraries out there? How could this be done from scratch f...

Is using Dexter's character sprite okay, or do I have to...

. Inspiration -- Southpark game (very popular if you see download count on download.com ,,, did he ask for permission ??) I am making a 2d game based on dexter's lab theme. I've got the sprite of dexter from GSA. basically I'm not an artist, so I have to depend on already available sprites, backgrounds, sfx on websites like GameSpr...

How do you find media resources for game-dev?

I've been wondering, as a lone game developer, or to say a part of team which has only got programmers and people who like to play games... How do I manage the void created by lack of artists (sprites/tiles/animations) in such a situation??? What do you do in that case? and suppose I am a student, with no money to hire artists, is ther...

time length of an mp3 file

What is the simplest way to determine the length (in seconds) of a given mp3 file, without using outside libraries? (python source highly appreciated) ...

Hide triangle of dropdownlist when using css with media print

I'm using @media print in my external css file to hide menus etc. However while printing the little triangle of a dropdownlist still shows. Is there a css setting available to hide it as well and only print the selected item? ...

Flex media framework

Does anybody know of a good media framework for Flex? I'd like to be able to create apps that can play not only those formats that the Flex framework provides support for, but other formats as well (like wav, wma, ogg and other...). EDIT 13.10.2008.: It was recently pointed out to me in the answers section that I should perhaps rephrase...

WAV file auto repeat in C#

I have a 10 second sound effect wave file. What I would like to do is take that file and repeat it n number of times and then save the longer WAV file to disk. This way I can create a much longer background effect rather than auto-repeat on the media player which is a bit stuttered between repeats. I am trying to do this in C#. ...

@import in @media not working in Firefox 3.0.3

This is what I have, which works in IE7, but not in Firefox: @media screen { @import 'screen.css'; } It works outside of the @media block in Firefox: @import 'screen.css'; UPDATE: This works: @media screen { .yui-d3f { border: 1px solid #999; height: 250px; } } What am I missing? ...

What are good sites for free sounds that developers can use in applications?

So far I have found: http://www.soundsnap.com/ ...

Resources for getting started with MCML?

Can anyone suggest some references or other resources that are useful in learning MCML? I have a small pet project I have been working on for a while using C# and .Net 3.5. I have reached a point where I want to be able to send output from it to Windows Media Center, but I have been having a hard time finding coherent explanations of ho...

How can I create a video from a directory of images in C#?

I have a directory of bitmaps that are all of the same dimension. I would like to convert these bitmaps into a video file. I don't care if the video file (codec) is wmv or avi. My only requirement is that I specify the frame rate. This does not need to be cross platform, Windows (Vista and XP) only. I have read a few things about us...

What do you use to test the handheld css on your website?

I've been adding css support for handheld to my website but haven't been able to find a good tool for testing. I tried using the webdeveloper plugin for Firefox but it doesn't work for me. Maybe that is because all my css is in the html and not a seperate css file. Are there any other testing tools available aside from going out and b...

Open Source Web Service/WCF media streamer

Does anyone know of an open source web service/wcf service that can stream media content to clients? In particular I am looking for something that could access my music collection and stream it to a client (could be a client browser, win mobile app or even iphone application). I guess it would have to be WCF based as I'm not sure that w...

Flash Media Server/PHP Application

I need help finding resources that would help me or at least point me in the right direction in building a Flash media server/PHP application. I basically want to improve my current application by instead of progressive download using flash media server so that the videos will not only stream well but they can't be downloaded by the end ...

with just a plain html and js file, how can i force a link to an mp3 to download instead of just play?

i have a link to a media file such as an mp3, and i want it to get downloaded when the user clicks on it, instead of just having the file get played. the page i have in mind is just a plain static html page. any ideas? ...

Protecting image media in an web application

Hi there, we are maintaing a database of image media in a large scale webapplication. The high resolution jpgs are big (> 15MB) and must not be made available for download in any way. Now we need to provide access to the details (crops) of the images to the clients (like a zoom-in function). The client should see a downskaled version of...