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Opening a YouTube video in a lightbox or something on page load

My client wants a YouTube video (embeded object) to popup when a user comes to their site. Does anyone know how it do this and what to use. It should be a lightbox or shadowbox, something that's not a popup. The video should run automatically and ideally close when it's over. Maybe I can specify a time until auto-close or something? ...

Creating thumbnail from video - choosing the image to be used during preview

Hello, making a thumbnail from video using the picker is straight forward. However, when I press PLAY in the picker and then chose the video, my thumbnail is alway black. I was hoping it makes a screenshot - however this method only takes the first image of the video - and ONLY IF IT HASN'T BEEN PLAYED! How can I make a thumbnail at an...

ffmpeg encoding sample wanted?!?

I found this tutorial about ffmpeg the thing i do not get is how to encode video. can any one, please provide a tutorial.. with explanations for that? (not that i dont get this official one but i'd love to see more comments) ...

Get bitrate of video stream with Cocoa.

Hi, I'm trying to get the bitrate of a video stream with Cocoa. Not the bitrate of the overall file but just the stream. I've looked at QTKit's documentation but I couldn't find anything to do this.. ...

iPhone 4.0 Playing Video after Audio Gives blank screen.

Hello, I have an app that has multiple tabs and in one of those tabs I load a page which contains jPlayer (HML5 audio player) in order to play background music for the user. On another tab I have links to video files. When the music is playing on one tab and the person clicks on the video link it initially starts up in portrait mode and...

Python scene change detection

Hi there, I am wondering if anyone has any experience with Python and video processing. Essentially, I would like to know if there are any libraries that would allow me to do scene detection in a video? If not, are there any that can allow me to split the video up into a series of frames and let me mess about with the pixels? Thanks! ...

UITableViewCell - Play Multiple Movie Files from an Array

Hello All iOS4 - iPhone 4 & 3GS I have a Table based application using Custom UITableViewCell's. The custom Cell has a UIButton within it for playing a movie file. At the moment I have Arrays to populate the information within each cell depending on the Indexpath. All information within the Cell is placed within cellForRowAtIndexPath a...

Parallelization and H.264 (or probably any compression codec)? Why's it so hard?

My limited (and probably wrong?) understanding of video compression is that intra-frames are completely independent. In other words, all the picture data for a intra frame (key frame) is stored in its entirety for that frame. It's the following inter frames (P and B frames in H.264, I think) that depend on the data in other frames to b...

REALLY Need help - How to attach a video to an email ?? [2 new problems]

[UPDATE 2]: Hi there again, after still trying to attach a video to an email, I think (not sure though!) that I am a little closer to my goal, but I discovered two problems... PROBLEM 1: FILENAME DOESN'T SHOW PROPERLY: what I was trying was to toast the name of the video I clicked on to see how I can get the name. This is what I have ...

Augmented reality help

Hi, Im trying to do the following and I would like if its possible before losing too much time on it. I want to use something like FLARToolKit to do the following: Upon detecting a marker the object to be shown is a video on 2d plane. Anyone has done it or has some examples/tutorials? How hard will it be to implement? Thank you ...

DirectShow DVD manipulation and capturing.

Hi, I am new to DirectShow. My intention was to develope a small application (C#) that handles video processing. The main tasks i need are : 1 - Display video content from a DVD. 2 - Navigate to specific points of time in the video. 3 - Capture specific frames into still images and save them to files. Sounded easy at first, but aft...

Can't get a video thumbnail in Android 2.0+

I tried to create a video thumbnail as described here. I also read the reference here. In my app I first let the user choose a video with: startActivityForResult(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT).setType("video/*"), ACTIVITY_PICKVIDEO); Then I determine the video ID with: fileID = Integer.parseInt(contentUri.getLastPathSegment()...

Recording SWF and Converting to FLV.

Hello Friends, I have tonss of videos in database and they can't be accessed directly but I can play them one by one and can record them. Now I want to write a program (probably in C#) that will get a URL and will start Internet Explorer or any other default browser to start the link. Once the link will be started, video will be playing...

things to consider in developing an embeddable video player

If you're going to develop an embeddable video player in a web browser. What will you use in the ff: Programming language with respect to portability: API Library (if any) Video file type to play ...

i can store video file in SDcard but it is 0bytes im unable to record video it always showing 0bytes is there any mistake in my code please help me

package com.VideoRecord; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.ContentResolver; import android.content.ContentValues; import android.content.Intent; import android.media.MediaPlayer; import android.media.MediaRecorder; import android.net.Uri; import android.os.Bundle; impo...

how to install a video component in joomla

Hi i want to install a video component in Joomla,,,, since I am new to joomla i am finding it difficult to deal with the components can anyone help me,,, any help is appreciable ...

iPad custom video controls - MPMediaPlayback

I'm looking to build some customs controls for video playback. I've had a look at the documentation and it looks like implementing MPMediaPlayback will do the trick. Does anyone have an example of this or am I barking up the wrong tree... Cheers Niall ...

how to play html5 video without using autoplay because it buffers EVERYTHING and slows really down page load

Sample code is at the end of the post for reference. Sorry for being so long winded, just trying to be through and leave no possible relevant info out. This seems like I painted myself in a bit of a corner. I have a show hide toggle function that seems to work fine. I have a small army of DIVs that are each shown and hidden when menu...

iPhone "cannot play" .mp4 H.264 video file

Hi folks, I'm trying to setup a simply mobile page for a client with a link to an .mp4 video file. Lke so: <a href="My_Video_File.mp4" target="_blank">Watch MP4 Video</a> And then I've obviously got my video file sourced properly and the .mp4 has the following characteristics: Dimension: 480 * 272 Codecs: AAC, H.264, MPEG-4 SDSM, MP...

What is the Wordpress Add Video icon supposed to do?

I love Wordpress, and for the most part it is self-explanitory and easy to use. However, the "Add Video" icon on the edit post page seems to be almost completely useless. Here's what I did: Press the "Add Video" button Uploaded a video file from my local machine called ballon.mpg Pressed the "Insert into post" button The result i...