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Are there any decent resources to learn how to work with video files and/or file conversion?

I've been digging around for a good conversion utility to rip some .mkv files I have to other formats (specifically .avi so I can burn to a DVD). I figure this would be a good opportunity for me to get hands-on experience doing this kind of thing. I'm a .NET developer (C#), so I'm keen on finding resources focused on that technology st...

Does webcam recording with Flex strictly requires a media server (FMS, Red5, Wowza,etc.)?

Hi! I'm trying to implement a flex app that will be able to record a video from a webcam and then upload it to a server. I've only found tutorials and examples that require a media server running such as Red5, Flash Media Server and Wowza and an open rtmp stream to the server. However, I want to know if it's possible to record a video...

video storage

I am working on an .net client server application, a new requirement is to allow user upload/copy videos into the system, there will be about 50 videos (500 MB each) per year. The application stores data in SQL 2005, but obviously storing the half GB video in SQL server is not great idea. Any suggestion on how to manage the upload/copy a...

Loop video with SWFObject variables?

Is there a way to loop a video with SWFObject Ive tried so.addVariable('repeat', 'true'); so.addVariable('repeat', 'list'); so.addVariable('repeat', 'always'); ...

SetPosition

Task: grabbing arbitrary frames from mpeg2 video files. Now I use custom render filter for grabbing, but problem with positioning video on required frame. I use SetPosition(), after Pause() for passing frames through graph, wait for filter receive first frame and Stop(). If I get frame by frame, first i receive exact for this time fr...

Python Video Framework

Hi, I'm looking for a Python framework that will enable me to play video as well as draw on that video (for labeling purposes). I've tried Pyglet, but this doesn't seem to work particularly well - when drawing on an existing video, there is flicker (even with double buffering and all of that good stuff), and there doesn't seem to be ...

Adding Text Into a Video and Saving the Output...

What I'm trying to do is take a 'input' video file (I can make it whatever file type will make this the easiest) and then, through my code, add text to the video file. So, for example, it would take 'Sample1.mpg' and output 'Sample2.mpg'. It wouldn't show the video (I've found some tutorials that talk about overlaying text as the vid...

PHPMotion - Do I need ffmpeg etc if I just upload in .flv?

My shared host won't let me install ffmpeg and some similar libraries, will it work if I just upload in flv? ...

Extract wav file from video file

I am developing an application in which I need to extract the audio from a video. The audio needs to be extracted in .wav format but I do not have a problem with the video format. Any format will do, as long as I can extract the audio in a wav file. Currently I am using Windows Media Player COM control in a windows form to play the vide...

"Man in the middle" driver ?

I had an idea, but don't know if it could be possible to do : Could it be possible to code a usb cam driver who can multiplex a video source to any software that needs it ? a sort of "man in the middle" driver :) ...

Quicktime playback delay on windows

I'm building an app which needs high playback performance. I choose Quicktime as video engine. I experimented different playback performance with different version: - v7.1.3 has the best performance : when pressing play in the QT player, the video starts immediatly - newer quicktime release have very poor playback performance, the delay...

MPMoviePlayerController on iPhone 3.0 SDK

Did Apple change anything about the MPMoviePlayerController class on the iPhone 3.0 SDK? My app no longer pops up a video when I tap the correct button, no error popup or anything. ...

Thumbnail image of Silverlight video

Hello everyone, For the popular video player, like sl2videoplayer, http://www.codeplex.com/sl2videoplayer, my question is how is the thumbnail image of Siverlight video is displayed before we click play (in the scenario of non-autoplay). thanks in advance, George ...

encoding H.264 video (or similar) on the iPhone directly?

What's the best way to encode video (with audio) on the iPhone? It looks like QTKit isn't available... so I might have to link with ffmpeg, but ffmpeg doesn't look like it encodes H.264 (judging from their home page.) If it is possible, I'm also curious how fast I can expect it to perform on the ARM. I imagine it might take minutes t...

Automated transcoding H.264 video on Linux

I've got a video camera that I'm using to capture video; the camera records in H.264 at 720p resolution. I'd like to transcode this stuff to a simpler, smaller format; something that will work properly on digital photo frames that support video, for example. As well, I'd like to transcode to DVD format where possible, so I can burn DVD...

Getting audio/video device names and GUIDs in Mac OS X

I'm trying to script an audio/video capture application that requires me to specify both a name (eg: Built-in Microphone) and an ID (eg: AppleHDAEngineInput:1) to identify the device. The problem I'm having is that in my existing application, I only have access to the name of the device (e.g. Built-in Microphone or USB Video Class Video...

bing video implementation

I just see the bing Video search , it is very good looking, I am planning to make some thing like that, I have different source of video (like Youtube, uploded video etc) I just want to implement the "mouse hover" video play and pause functionality. how can I implement that, any idea? ...

What is the best way to post embedded audio (.wma) on a website?

I post video files to websites I develop with embedded youtube, works great. What is currently the best way to post audio files the same way, e.g. a .wma file? ...

How to mute audio in flash video clip programattically

I have a site that has as almost all Flash site have music. I want to have a video commercial play and I was wondering if there is a way to make the audio stop while the video is still playing, and then turn back on when I exit the video area. ...

A good video to explain version control?

Does anyone know where I can find a good video to explain version control to someone (mainly subversion)? One that explains it in the simplest terms (like for someone who has never heard of version control before). (not for me, its for a fellow coder) ...