media

Audio File Bloat in Adobe Flash CS4

Whenever I import an MP3 into Flash CS4, I see massive file size increases within the FLA. Not only does the file size of the MP3 in the Library bloat, but the file size and export time of the FLA increase dramatically as well. This leads to all sorts of memory errors and slow performance. MP3 File in Windows Explorer: MP3 File in Fl...

Which mobile platform to use creation of a musicians support application - recording and playback?

I'm a programmer looking to play in the mobile world. The application I'd like to play with would support my musical hobbies. I suspect a mobile phone with a music player could easily be programmed to support a classical musicians practice sessions. Should be Easy: Play an A at 440 Hz (or 438,442) for tuning. Should be easy: Metronom...

Static vs. shared libraries for a media player

I'm not going to go into detail on the "media player" part except the fact that it will obviously use plug-ins, which will be a simple dynamic library that is loaded at runtime. Now, I could link those plug-ins dynamically to their dependencies, or I could link them statically. Both have their advantages and disadvantage - I'm not counti...

Could you suggest a good media streaming server for mobile phone clients?

I am looking for an open source media streaming server. It should have an API. I want to be able to stream videos to a mobile phones. Could you tell me the relative advantages and disadvantages of the software. Currently I am experimenting with red5 ...

Developing a epg guide for mce

Hi there I am looking for some resources on how to create an epg guice for microsoft media center. Any tips appreciated. Chev ...

Looking for something better than Zemanta and Apture

I'm looking for some tool like Zemanta or Apture to embed in a self developed cms, but I wonder if does exist something less tricky. From a end user point of view, Apture (www.apture.com) does a fantastic job, but its javascript layer on top of the web page (bad solution, to me) and the fact that there isn't any plugin available for FC...

Extract frame from VOB(DVD) file

I need to generate thumbnail from video files, i m using IMediaDet to get frame from video, it not working for (*.vob) file DVD, how can i get thumbnail from DVD in C# .. ...

Video Format Analyzer

Hi, I have a video file I don't know what format it is. Is there a software can analyze what kind of video container / compression format it uses? I tried Gspot, but it doesn't work (Show "Unknown format") I am sure the file is using some kind of public standard codec because I can use a media converter convert it to avi or mpg4 file...

Iam creating a poker game in Flash AS3, what are the best design patterns I can use?

Iam creating a Flash AS3 based Poker game for my company. Some like zynga poker, what are the best design patterns that I can use in my game. All suggestions are welcome, I am looking to create a good designed game which can support huge number of players. ...

how can I play the songs one after another in windows media player

I'm developing a VS 2008 C# coded Windows media player using axWindows media player control available in Visual Studio. I have stored the song paths in a SQL server 2005 database and I'm able to play one song at a time now. I want my application to play the songs from the database continuously without asking anything. How can I achieve t...

JMF replacement

JMF is old, and doesn't support a lot of codecs properly. I get by these days by using FFMPEG in the background, but I would like to switch to a native java solution if one exists, does anyone know of a current open source Java project that has media manipulation functionality? ...

Developing a fullscreen "media player" on linux

Hi all, I'm a Windows developer and I need to develop a Linux application. The goal is to have a fullscreen application being able to display different media types (images, videos, flash). There might be multiple media files being displayed at the same time on the screen (if the screen is split in multiple zones). Can someone point me ...

Looking for a .NET version of PHPMotion

I realize that there is not .NET "Version" but I'm looking for an app similar to PHPMotion that runs in ASP.NET. Does anyone know of something like this? ...

Run Tools without DLL Files - Visual Basic 2008

Hello, I have a Windows Media Player with my application. And when I debug, it gives me someother dll files with the program, and it would be a pain in the butt to carry those files around with me. How would I get rid of these but keep my Windows Media Player implemeted to the program? Is their a way I can add this to the project files ...

Embed quicktime movie. a "Play again" button at the end?

Forgive me if this was a silly question that I missed in the documentation, but I have no idea how this is done (having a "replay" button at the end of a video). I am guessing it's a callback to a javascript function when the movie ends? And load some new markup (with the replay button) in the function. Any thoughts? ...

How to detect silence in audio files?

I'm working on a tool to edit .srt (subtitle) files within the browser (the tool is to be used for linguistic annotation). In desktop tools that are used for similar purposes, the user has access to the wave form, and can "see" where silences are in the signal, and thus select a particular phrase for transcription. Such a tool might be ...

Efficient way to update mm:ss from a playing MP3 file

I'm re-inventing the wheel here, but as I'm a beginner programmer I'm curious as to the best way to do this... As part of an Android app, I'm developing a very simple media player. It plays the file, and I want a m:s timer, so the user can see how far into the file they are (e.g. "04:56"). I'm probably missing the obvious, but what's th...

on iphone, how can i stream several videos one after one?

Right now i am use using mpmovieplayercontroller, but i need to close mpmovieplayercontroller for play another video. Is there a way to play several videos without closing the mpmovieplayercontroller? thx ...

problem in playing mp4 video file in android

hello.. i am trying to play a mp4 video file from remote url in android media player.but i am getting an error code -- Command PLAYER_PREPARE completed with an error or info PVMFErrNoResources error (1, -15) i hv searched for the error code and found that this error is returned if the resource required in processing of a request is n...

how to deploy Windows Media Encoder ?

Hi All, I have created a small screen capture application using .NET. How can i deploy Windows Media Encoder 9 (WMEncoder.exe) setup with the installation. ? I tried by registering DLLs using regsvr32, but didn't workout very well. is there anyway that i could do this using installshield or another package ? Thanks -Aruna ...