Are there any good sites or URLs with video tutorials for using the various VMWare products (mainly Player and Server, but the other products would be interesting to see to)? I have found some paper documentation, but I think it would be interesting if there were some multimedia based videos to get myself oriented first. ...
I want to store a large number of sound files in a database, but I don't know if it is a good practice. I would like to know the pros and cons of doing it in this way. I also thought on the possibility to have "links" to those files, but maybe this will carry more problems than solutions. Any experience in this direction will be welcome...
When I insert a DVD or CD, I want to programmatically know what type of media(DVD or CD) is it. ...
Is there any elegant way in the Android API for detecting new media when it is written to the device? I’m mainly interested in photos taken by the camera, video taken by the camera and audio recorded from the mic. My current thinking is to periodically scan each media content provider and filter based on last scan time. I’m just wonder...
I have a directory of bitmaps that are all of the same dimension. I would like to convert these bitmaps into a video file. I don't care if the video file (codec) is wmv or avi. My only requirement is that I specify the frame rate. This does not need to be cross platform, Windows (Vista and XP) only. I have read a few things about us...
How can I play two or more video files/streams in different windows with frame-level synchronism? What tools, libraries or APIs could I use to do that? By frame-level synchronism I mean that my solution must guarantee that each frame of each video file must be shown at the same time its corresponding frames (from the other files) are s...
My client would like website visitors to embed videos in their profiles. We've suggested that we use YouTube for a quick and cost-effective (free) solution. However he is not keen that YouTube would control access to the videos which are an important part of his service. It seems unlikely that YouTube would suddenly pull the plug but to ...
Hello, Happy new year! My question is how to check if a microphone and a speaker are from the same sound card on Windows platform. If they are from different cards, then the logic to handling timing will be different. I'm using both DSound and WMME API. Thanks in advance. regards, Yun ...
My co-worker posted a question on his blog . He is referring to rendering an MPEG-4 stream in adobe air. He wants to know basically two things. Are there any technical articles floating around that... Describe how AIR renders. Describes a technique for painting on an AIR surface in a way that doesn't effect AIR per...
Is there a way to capture multimedia keys from a web site? ...
I'm looking to build some compression interfaces for windows audio, and I was wondering if anybody might know of some tips/tricks? I'd like to build my own software equalizer that will function with the whole windows audio system, not just a particular program. I know this can be done - my sound card has one built in, but doesn't have en...
I was in a project where I must be able to play almost audio/video files (format). The requirements: Video: .dat (vcd & svcd) .vob (dvd) .rmvb (real media) .mp4 (mpeg4/x264/h264) .wmv/.asf (windows media) .avi (xvid/divx/mpeg2,etc...) .mkv (matroska, optional) Audio: .mp3 (you probably know this) .ogg (vorbis) .wma (windows media) ...
Hello everyone, I have some streamed video setup on IIS. And I want to find or write some tool to test the performance, such as max supported simultenaous users/connections, and I also want to test such performance under user activity like pause, rewind or forward. Any ideas? I am using Windows Server 2008 x64 + IIS 7.0 Media Pack to s...
Hello everyone, I am implementing a similar scenario like Youtube for my web site -- uploading video and so that all people could watch. My question is, I think we need to encode the video after upload before other people could play remotely, but encode process is very slow (I tried with Microsoft Expression Encoder and also mplayer, en...
Hi, I have written an application that receives media files from a central server and plays those files according to a playlist. All works well. A client has contacted us and wants to use our application to play some audio files as presentations in a kiosk-style application. So far, so good, our application can handle this no problems. ...
Hello everyone, My purpose is simple, to find a sample which is just enough for my usage other than reading a long page sample. :-) My requirement is very simple, just embed a Silverlight player into web browser to play some specific videos, the videos are hosted on an IIS server, some are wmv format and some others are flash format. ...
Hello. How many people here use Flash Media Server? See, we have two computers. One has Flash Media Server Development edition AND Flash Media Live Encoder. This computer shall be the "server." The other computer simple has Flash Media Live Encoder. This computer shall be the "client." Now, the when we stream with Flash Media Live Enc...
I want to make an equalizer for the mp3 player I made, but I don't know which way is the easiest way to do it. I'm using mci in my player. Please help me!!! Thanks ...
Hello, I have a reqiurement, I need to play multiple audio songson ASP.Net page.Can anyone suggest the best way to implement this. I have page. There I will display the list of the songs in grid view. The gridview contains checkboxes and songs name. User should able to select the multiple check boxes and click play. When ever user cl...
I'm making a media player using MCI, but I don't know how to capture mouse events in MCI video window. Is there anybody can help me? Please!!! ...