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Is there a way to stream a stored Flash video to multiple people in sync, but let one of them control playback (play/pause/seek/etc.)

Hi, I don't know much about deploying Flash video streaming solutions, and I want to know if the following can be accomplished in Flash. I am creating an application where multiple people can watch a video at the same time , but one of those people controls the playback of the video for everyone. Furthermore, the controller is not alw...

What's the most secure streaming video format?

I have a project that needs to play video but not allow downloading. I'd love to use Flash, but I've seen applications that let you download files from YouTube -- this makes me wonder if Flash isn't that secure. Must I use Quicktime or Windows Media? ...

Programmatically convert a video to FLV

Hi all, i am currently working on a web application that needs to accept video uploaded by users in any format (.avi, .mov, etc.) and convert them to flv for playing in a flash-based player. Since the site is OpenCms-based, the best solution would be a ready-made plugin for OpenCms that allowed to upload and play videos doing the transc...

Flex: Dynamically create a preview image for a video....

I'm using the VideoDisplay to play flv's, mov's, and mp4's and everything is working great. They are all being loaded via progressive download and are not being streamed. What I'd like to do is to grab a single specified frame (like whatever is being shown at the 10 second mark), convert it to a bitmap and use that bitmap as the previe...

Flex VideoDisplay text quality

I am trying to display arbitrary mp4 videos in a flex application. Often videos have text on them. Sometimes when I have to scale the video down (on the client size height or width less then videoHeight or videoWidth) keeping the aspect ratio Flash Player makes text look blurry. Is there way to tell Flash to handle scaling more accur...

How would you display Video on the web?

Sorry if the question is confused, as I'm confused myself. I'm working around these requirements: I'm building a public website where I need to display video. I need to control what the player looks like I'm the sole publisher of the video, meaning it can't be on YouTube for example I need as much protection as possible in terms of pro...

How can I play a youtube video in swfloader?

hi, I embed a youtube video in my air application. It loaded and played well, but I cannot play more than one video at the time, only one video is played at the time, do you know why? The code is: url:String = "http://in.youtube.com/v/fVGk5qm6Mac&hl=en&fs=1"; //texturl.text=url; swfloader.load(url) please anyone ...

Convert a silverlight application to video format

Hello, I'm planning to make an animation with Silverlight, i want to export the animation to a video format, to be able to share it on video sharing website. How can i do this ? ...

Where can I find videos of someone (who knows what they're doing) writing PHP ?

Its been YEARS since I did any PHP. I am working in .NET but supposed to be teaming up with some PHP people. I'd really like to get up to speed a little in whats changed in the language and the IDE tools - but I really don't have the time nor energy to learn anything. I probably won't have to write any PHP, but I want to. I'm looking t...

Flash Fullscreen not working in Flash player versions 9.0.47.0 and 9.0.28.0

The fullscreen functionality for my Flash video player does not work in Flash player versions 9.0.47.0 and 9.0.28.0. It works on all other versions 9.0.115.0 and above. On clicking the fullscreen button, the function gets triggered but the video does not go fullscreen, it stretches inside the video player. Is there any additional handli...

FFmpeg: A few errors including invalid frame size and incomplete frame

Hello all, I use this ffmpeg command to take clips from a large VOB files that is on a DVD: ffmpeg.exe -i E:\VTS_02_2.vob -ss 00:00:57 -t 00:16:15 vids\VTS_02_2.vob It worked first for a VOB file but then I got these errors: c:\ffmpeg>ffmpeg.exe -i E:\VTS_02_2.vob -ss 00:00:57 -t 00:16:15 vids\VTS_02_2.vob FFmpeg version SVN-r15625,...

WMV Streaming of a DirectX render

I've written a real-time visualisation app in DirectX. The thing is, it should be displayed on multiple computers, as a videostream. I'm guessing WMV will be the easiest codec to do it in, since it's MS and all that. So, how would I convert a series of DirectX screengrabs to a fluent 30fps WMV video stream? ...

Working way to make video from images in C#

Does anybody have a known reliable way to create a video from a series of image files? Before you mod me down for not searching for the answer before posting the question, and before you fire off a simple message like "use FFMPEG," read the rest of this message. I'm trying to create a video, it doesn't matter too much what format as lo...

Maintaining video website performance

I am setting up a online video playing web site (like Youtube). My technical challenge is to serve a lot of hits and still maintain performance. My current solution is to set up several back-end servers, having each server cache a part of the video which could save the time to read the video file from disk I/O. Another front-end server...

Is it possible to start a video playing in a tooltip in Silverlight?

In Silverlight a tooltip can have as many elements in it as you want. However, it doesn't receive focus so you can't have user interactivity in it. Could you, though, start a video playing as soon as the tooltip opens and have the video stop as soon as the tooltip closes? ...

Need media sharing web-app, control access by group

I am trying to find a good media sharing web app. Something that will let instructors upload audio or video files easily. And I need to let restrict access to the files to only the students in the class. I have tried PHPMotion, and it's great for the uploading and sharing part, but it's a way of sharing files with everyone. I need to...

How to read input from a webcam in C++?

Hello, is it possible to read data from a generic webcam in C++ as you would from a stream object? Is there a common API or standard that works with all webcams? I'm talking about C++ in *nix environment. Thanks in advance. ...

Best device to view MSDN WebCast videos?

I am planning to buy portable video player (with MP4 support) to view the msdn web casts, mostly WMV files. Has anyone tried viewing the web casts on a portable player. Which one would you recommend. (e.g. Apple iPod nano 4G) Do keep in mind these web casts show code being written in Visual Studio, so the display needs to be clear enou...

MPEG file not loading entirely the first viewing

I've got several MPEG files that I'm using on my site. The first time the user clicks on the link, it will open up and play about 3/4 of the video, while the second time it will play entirely. Was thinking it might be a proxy issue, but it is happening in both dev and prod. Any ideas? ...

Cause of video artifact/artefact

Hi folks, ![alt text][1] The above screenshot shows some artifacting which is occuring during a software decode of a .DV video file, compliant to SMPTE 314m... The artefacting is believed to be cause by a AC/DC coefficient problem, is this likely? Any information is appreciated. ...