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ASP.Net Media Suite - Review

Does anyone have a review of ASP.Net Media Suite located on http://www.aspnetmedia.com/ The tool seems pretty nice, but i've never heard of the company. I'm hesitant to purchase and install something from an unknown source. Can anyone vouch for the product? ...

throttling control in Windows Media Service

Hello everyone, I am wondering whether on Windows Server 2003, in Windows Media Service, we could setup/configure throttling settings for any file types (even the file types not supported by streaming by Windows Media Service), for example, setup .flv file download/streaming throttling bit rate to 100k or setup the bitrate throttling co...

Offsite media streaming setup

I've got a media-rich site that's going just beyond the what our server can handle in terms of storage. Estimate between 500 gigs and 2 terabytes. The media is uploaded through the website usually 500k to 30 megs at a time and are just videos and photos users have uploaded. Using the PHP FTP functions the media is then copied from the...

Windows Media Format SDK based encoder drops frame rate and will not recover

I have an application that runs 24/7 encoding video from a capture card. It goes into an encoder build against the Windows Media Format SDK. Under some circumstances (maybe a CPU spike?) the encoder will decide to drop to about 1/4 of the frame rate and never seems to recover. It just gets stuck at the lower frame rate until it is res...

Sequenced video playback (cutlists) in Java.. can it be done?

If I have a bunch of video files, all in precisely the same format, shape, whatever, then can I play them back seamlessly without jumps or gaps? The effect from the end user's point of view would be as though they are watching one video. I understand that this is possible in DirectX, but I'd rather use Java if possible. ...

Good CMS/Publishing platform with media plugin and nice urls

Hi, I'm looking for a good publishing platform with a good media gallery. I'll need to show several sorts of video and images, so a good media gallery is a must. I've tried drupal, but I don't like the node organization structure. I'm searching for a simple URL scheme, because in the future I may want to migrate my static html site to t...

How to simply stream video from Adobe Flash Media Server? (Linux)

Hello, I'm stumped on how to get started with Adobe Flash Media Server. On Linux. All I need to do is: Accept a request for rtmp://myserver.com:1935/stream/static/abcdef0123456789 Tell FMS that $filename is located at /var/media/ab/cd/ef/abcdef0123456789 Have FMS send /var/media/ab/cd/ef/abcdef0123456789 to the client. Handle seekin...

Protecting media files for embedded Flash Player

For a Flash Player embedded in a site (think MySpace, for instance), how are the files concealed from the user so that he is not able to just download them? I am assuming that given the flash player, running client-side, is able to access the files, they are in fact also downloadable if you know how. But how do sites like MySpace or You...

Playing sounds with C++?

How would i make it so in my program there is a button when that button is clicked i want it to play a .wma file without opening and media player? ...

Respond to media keys in Silverlight

Is it possible for a Silverlight application to respond to media keys like play/pause and volume? ...

Changing media specific CSS properties from Javascript

I have a CSS property (font) that I need to be able to change from Javascript (a pulldown). However, this font should only be used when printing (@media print). So, the javascript can't just change the value of the font, because that will effect the screen view as well. Is there a way to change ONLY the print version of the font proper...

using Windows Media Encoder to record screen

Hello everyone, Is it easy to write some .Net code to record screen and audio (from computer mic), then output to an wmv file. Any reference code? BTW: I searched all codes from WME SDK, no such sample code. thanks! George ...

Java RTSP client/server library

Hi. Is anyone aware about good RTSP client/server Java library? Search on Google reveals JMF, which is very outdated. Thanks. ...

fails to set default audio device using Windows Media Encoder

Hello everyone, I am refering the following document section "Windows Media API for Capturing the Screen" to capture screen and the original code works ok. When I am adding additional feature (I just added several lines to make it record from default audio device), it fails at thew following line (I debugged and looks like it fails at C...

C# program always crash when creating Windows Media Encoder object

Hello everyone, I am using Windows Vista x86 + VSTS 2008. When creating new Windows Media Encoder object using statement WMEncoder encoder = new WMEncoder(); My program always crash in VSTS 2008. Here is the screen snapshot. Any ideas what is wrong? http://i40.tinypic.com/2v96uqo.jpg thanks in advance, George ...

how to improve my code to make better video quality?

Hello everyone, I am using the following code to leverage Windows Media Encoder to record screen. I am using Windows Vista, screen resolution 1024 × 768, 32-bit. My issue is, the video could be recorded successfully, but when I playback the recorded video, the quality of video is not very good -- e.g. characters are very obscure. I am w...

Windows Media Encoder installation issue

Hello everyone, I have a program written in C# and dependent on Windows Media Encoder 9 Series SDK. In order for my program to run on other target machines, I have to install the whole Windows Media Encoder on target machines. My question is, I want to reduce the overhead of installation the whole Windows Media Encoder on target mach...

Where to save pictures on Android?

My application uses quite a lot of pictures that are downloaded from the internet and cached locally on the Android phone. I am wondering, what is the correct way to save those pictures. There are several ways I see, that are not fully satisfying. Save them on SD Card in a public folder Uses up space that wont be freed on uninstall Us...

What are good sites that provide free media resources for hobby game development?

Please redirect me if this is a duplicate. I haven't been able to find a suitable question. I really suck at graphics / music / 3D modeling / animation and it's a must-have when you have a hundred hobby game development projects you're working on. I'm looking for different quality sources on the web that provide free resources. [EDIT] ...

how to improve video quality?

Hello everyone, I am using the following code snippets to record screen, and in most situations recorded wmv file is clear enough, but for some part of video it is not very clear (grey color for some parts). What I record is ppt with full screen mode. I am using Windows Media Encoder 9. Here is my code snippet, IWMEncSourceGroup SrcGr...