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C# Wrapper for Media File Meta Data

I am looking for a nice wrapper for extracting media file attributes dependent of file type. I am creating a bit of a generic media library that can handle video, audio, images etc. They are not just .wmv or .mp3, i would like to be able to support various formats and dont want to pigeon hole myself to an sdk like WMP SDK that seem to on...

tuning recording video quality

Hello everyone, I am using the following code to record screen, but the recorded video quality is not very good. Any ideas how to improve it? My environment: Windows Vista + Windows Media Encoder + VSTS 2008 + C#. Here is the original desktop screen snapshot, http://i40.tinypic.com/zmxm6b.jpg Here is the recorded desktop screen snap...

mouse double click is not working quite good ...

Hello everyone, I am using the following code to record screen, when recording, when using mouse to double click some item, for example double click a ppt to open it in PowerPoint, it is not very responsive. I have tried and it is much better when using screen recording function of Windows Media Encoder 9. Any ideas what is wrong? My e...

PIP video programming asking for advice

Hello everyone, I want to capture screen and video (from video digital camera for current operator/speaker of compuer) at the same time, and for the output file, I want to have just one single video wmv file, which uses screen captured video as background and put video captured by video camera to the right bottom corner -- just to have...

Screen recording is not very clear

Hello everyone, I am using Windows Media Encoder 9 on Windows Vista + VSTS 2008 + C#. And I find the recorded video quality is not very good, the major issue is the details are not clear enough -- for example, when list a folder in explorer containing a lot of files (file names are not very clear), when quickly scroll-up/scroll-down a f...

Flash Whiteboard: Actionscript 3

I'm looking for a flash Actionscript 3 tutorial on how to create a whiteboard application with flash media server 3.5. Please anybody have any ideas where I can start looking for this information? ...

Editing files remotely on network storage

I would love to have a fat RAID drive array sitting somewhere on the Internet, and just use it for media storage -- essentially I want to play and edit files transparently whether I'm at work or at home. Is this possible? I'm looking at various NAS solutions like this, and while they all tout iTunes streaming and FTP access, I'd like to...

CakePHP Media view download directly from a string

I have a CakePHP controller action where I would like to let the user download an HTML page for publishing through our internal CMS. I'm thinking that the notion of a Media View is what I want, except that they seem to require a filename and path. I already have the HTML content stored in a string and if possible I would like to be able ...

Intranet music web application for an office media server?

My office is thinking of setting up a media server with speakers connected to it so that everyone in our office can queue up music via a web app. Right now we just pass around a speaker cable. Does anyone know of a Linux web app we could install or some third-party web service that would allow anyone with access to the site/account to q...

How could I download an mms audio stream in Ruby?

Hi, I would like to access an mms:// url, and stream the file in ruby. For example, in the same way that Net:HTTP works for http:// type urls. ...

Is there a working sample for the Android 1.5 VideoView/MediaPlayer class?

Hi folks, I'm new to Android dev. There's a very pretty state diagram of the MediaPlayer, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to actually use this class to play a video. There's a view samples around the 'net, but they seem to be for previous versions of the SDK. I've also checked the official samples, but with no luck. ...

How to determine how long a song is using winmm.dll?

I've P/Invoked the mciSendString method from WinMM.dll: [DllImport("winmm.dll")] private static extern long mciSendString(string strCommand, StringBuilder strReturn, int iReturnLength, IntPtr hwndCallback); I can play, pause, and stop songs (I can also open/close the CD drive, but that's not im...

recording screen issue

Hello everyone, I am using Windows Media Encoder 9, and in a dual screen environment, I want to record only the primary screen. Any ideas or samples how to implement this? Non-programming solution is also appreciated. :-) I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5. thanks in advance, George ...

Binding to Media keys on Apple keyboards under OSX 10.5

I am fairly new to OSX development, so this may be easy but google has not been helpful. I am trying to bind an action to the media keys you find on newer Apple keyboards (Play, Pause , etc). It appears that you cannot bind to these keys using the regular hotkey API but it must be possible since iTunes clearly manages. Is there some tr...

video codec programming issue

Hello everyone, I am programming on Windows Media Encoder 9 to record screen, and we can select two video codecs, (1) Windows Media Video 9 codec and (2) Windows Media Video 9 Screen codec. My questions, I am a little concerned about using (2), since I think for most client computer, they intalled with Windows Media Video 9 codec, bu...

Does software that uses media under a Creative Commons Share Alike license need to be distributed under a copyleft software license?

I was wondering if the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licenses expects software that uses it to be distributed under a copyleft software license. Does it make a difference if the media is just linked and can be changed or if the media is embedded inside the software? Bonus questions: Would the GPL conflict with the Creative Co...

Django: serving ADMIN media files

Hi all, I've been successfully serving media files for the normal MEDIA files, but when I tried serving admin media files, I failed. please kindly help me locating the problem, as I've tried to troubleshoot the problem for several hours already with no luck (been googling too and read the django doc about serving static files as well). ...

Play mp3 using Python, PyQt, and Phonon

I been trying all day to figure out the Qt's Phonon library with Python. My long term goal is to see if I could get it to play a mms:// stream, but since I can't find an implementation of this done anywhere, I will figure that part out myself. (figured I'd put it out there if anyone knew more about this specifically, if not no big deal...

How do you Require Login for Media Files in Django

I'm serving "sensitive" information in downloadable PDF's and Spreadsheets within a user registration section of a site. Is there a way to allow the django authentication to secure this media without serving it (and not have to manually login using basic auth)? I'm guessing theres (fingers crossed) not a way to do it with the psuedo co...

Best web media players for own website?

Custom control,simple,more features and plugins... ...