media

How do I programatically sort through media?

I have 6 server with a aggregated storage capacity of 175TB all hosting different sorts of media. A lot of the media is double and copies stored in different formats so what I need is a library or something I can use to read the tags in the media and decided if it is the best copy available. For example some of my media is japanese conte...

AVI files play locally using WMP but not off my website WMP ActiveX

Hi All, I have a web page allowing clients to play uploaded videos. Several AVI files have recently been uploaded that play fine locally using WMP but over the web using WMP ActiveX playback fails and the browser hangs. The AVI codecs are video: MJPG, audio: PCM GSpot says all codecs are install on my Windows Vista OS, but seems the W...

Protecting an ASX file in PHP

I have a members only area on my site where users can login and view Windows Media streaming content. I have created a PHP script to serve the ASX file however I cannot validate this with session information. I think this is because the WMP is making the request and not a php page. Can anyone suggest an elegant way to protect ASX file...

Quantitative analysis of media and associated web information visualization

Has anyone had a look at the Media Cloud project ( www.mediacloud.org/ ) ? The code is here : http://www.mediacloud.org/code/ . I'm interested in this kind of visualization from web data. Some potential applications are given in the site's wikis. I'm interested in doing something like this( from a desktop app) : search the term "machin...

View print CSS in IE7 or IE8

I'm debugging a site that has problems with element positioning when printing (I have a separate print.css file linked by a link element with the media="print" attribute). This problem only occurs in IE7 and IE8. What I'm looking for is a way to view the page using the print media type, but while still having IE8's developer tools avail...

Setting a browser's media type

This sounds like a stupid question (to me), but I've searched and I can't find anywhere that seems to talk about it. Where is the media type for an agent set - is it hard-coded by the browser (or whatever) or is this configurable (specifically, IE)? I ask because I am writing a web app that will be mostly used by normal PCs, but there ...

Best way to approach app's own audio with in-app / out-of-app iPod music

My application is running some internal audio short files, per need. When that happens and if iPod music is on in the background, I stop it, play my sound, then continue it. all using [MPMediaMusicController iPodMusicPlayer]. Now, I want to add the ability to pick and play iPod music from inside my app. Currently, picking of the iPod mu...

Media Sharing CMS Site

We are trying to build a media sharing site. I want to use existing commercial or open source frameworks if they are available. I saw some sites like: http://www.phpmotion.com/ http://www.jamroom.net http://www.clip-share.com/ http://www.videoscript.us http://www.vidiscript.com/ http://www.alstrasoft.com/videoshare.htm Are there an...

MPEG to AVI library

Hi, I am searching for a library that can convert MPEG to AVI. Is there a good one for this purpose? Thanks in advance. (My program is written in VC++, Thanks) (I am using DirectShow.But I don't know how to use it to convert MPEG to AVI ? I know how to build graph and render video that already has an appropriate codec) ...

How to embed a wave file in html (cross platform)

I want to embed a wave file (or mp3) in html. There is no problem for windows platforms. User can install a windows media player plugin. But WMP does not support linux. Is there any way to do that besides using Flash? ...

Make an app wirelessly connect to an Xbox 360 (ala Connect360, Rivet, Vuze)

Programs like Connect360, Rivet, and Vuze can wirelessly connect to an Xbox 360 and share videos and pictures on your Mac with it. How do they do this? The simplest answer would be that Microsoft offers some sort of API, but I haven't been able to find one. Furthermore, the programs I listed have wildly different feature sets, and Micro...

Getting information from Windows Media p.

Can i get the file name of the current playing track/video from windows media player? It will be a small program, written in c++. I have some experience in c++ but no knowledge about this kind of problem. It would be great to show me a way to learn, to start building something ...

The second parameter of MFCreateAttributes function

Hi, I am learning Media Foundation, and there is a parameter in MFCreateAttributes function I don't quite understand. The sample code as the following : IMFAttributes *pAttributes = NULL; const UINT32 cElements = 10; // Starting size. <<<<<<<< I don't understand this parameter // Create an empty attribute store HRESULT hr = MFCreate...

Schema for Books, Magazines, other forms of media

I am going to be working on a project that will heavily involve indexing various forms of media including Books, Magazines, Web sites / pages, etc. What I am wondering is if there is a standard schema, xml, dtd, object model, database model, etc that anyone knows about and can point me to as a starting point or reference I greatly appr...

Instance of WMEncode causes crash (vb .net)

I'm trying to use the windows media encoder sdk to make a function to video capture my screen. I use the WMEncoderlib in VB .Net. When I do dim encoder as wmencode followed by encoder = new wmencode the program crashes immediately, no line numbers, nothing, vshost.exe even crashes when debugging. If I just say dim encoder as wmencod...

Window Media Player issues two requests for the audio on web page

I'm using Windows Media Player in a web page. I have version 11 installed so that is the version I'm testing with right now. The player is embedded on the page with this HTML: <OBJECT id='MS_mediaPlayer' width="400" height="45" classid='CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6' codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/control...

Playing multiple audio streams (mux) in silverlight

Is it possible to play a multiple audio streams (mux) in silverlight (at best simultaneous)? I need to implement a player that can load and play multiple tracks from the server together. The user can mute then any tracks to hear them selectively. Do you know some existing commercial or free solutions? ...

Media Foundation: The MFPlay object doesn't have to use MFStartup for the initialization?

Hi, Here is a question about MFStartup function in Media Foundation: According to the article "Initializing Media Foundation" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms704682%28VS.85%29.aspx), before using any Microsoft Media Foundation objects or interfaces, you must call the MFStartup function. But there is a sample from "MFPlay Tu...

media server: distributing tv tuner stream to multiple clients

Hi all, I am using a tv tuner (hauppage 1600) that is shows up as a character device (/dev/video0). I normally open this device using VLC and it displays cable TV. 1st problem) I would like to have an application access this device, read the stream, and distribute it to multiple clients. I have tried to use a java filereader to re...

encoding camera with audio source in realtime with WMAsfWriter - jitter problem

Hello I build a DirectShow graph consisting of my video capture filter (grabbing the screen), default audio input filter both connected through spliiter to WM Asf Writter output filter and to VMR9 renderer. This means I want to have realtime audio/video encoding to disk together with preview. The problem is that no matter what WM profil...