mediaplayback

mx:MediaPlayback Flex tag

I'm trying to compile gui/flex/songs.mxml in the fourth edition of Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java book and am getting a compilation error with Flex 3.4. Here is a simplified version of the example that gives the same error: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" backgroundCo...

flash/shockwave audio&video player which lets a user record start and end points

We have a bunch of audio and video assets on our site. Currently we play audio with a little shockwave mp3 player and video (flvs) with flvplayer. I have a requirement to record a 'usage' of a particular resource whereby the user selects a video or sound clip, then sets a start point and an end point in it, to select a ten second snipp...

WPF wmv/mpg files skipping and jumping

I am trying to play some WMV/MPG files using the MediaElement control and for some reason, the video files jump and skip while they are playing. I have played them on their own, outside of the WPF application and they seem to play ok, so why might this be? I do scale them so that they are smaller, could that be an issue? Also, if you ...

SpeedRatio & MediaTimeline

I'm trying to be able to affect SpeedRatio on a MediaElement whilst having the media play in a continous loop. This is possible through code behind; I can reset the position of the media once it has ended, but that creates a seam in the playback. For seamless playback, I use a MediaTimeline, but when I use I media timeline, I can't c...

DirectShow EVR resizing window problem

So I've been looking into the world of media playback for windows and I've started making a C# Media Player using DirectShow. I started off using the VRM-7 windowed video renderer and it was brilliant except it had a couple of small problems (multi monitors, fullscreen). But after some research I found that it's deprecated and I should b...