video

Service to make an audio podcast from a video one?

Video podcast ??? Audio only mp3 player I'm looking for somewhere which will extract audio from video, but instead of a single file, for an on going video podcast. I would most like a website which would suck in the RSS and spit out an RSS (I'm thinking of something like Feedburner), though would settle for something on my own machin...

Video Thumbnails in Java

I want to generate a thumbnail preview of videos in Java. I'm mostly JMF and video manipulation alienated. Is there an easy way to do it? What about codecs? Will I have to deal with it? Any video type is suported? (including Quicktime) ...

How do I dynamically create a Video object in AS2 and add it to a MovieClip?

I need to dynamically create a Video object in ActionScript 2 and add it to a movie clip. In AS3 I just do this: var videoViewComp:UIComponent; // created elsewhere videoView = new Video(); videoView.width = 400; videoView.height = 400; this.videoViewComp.addChild(videoView); Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to accomplish t...

What's the best way to embed video in a Windows Mobile 6 application?

App needs to run on the .Net Compact Framework v.3.5. Video can be any format, but I do need to be able to know when it's finished playing, so I can start another one. I'm hoping for a method that doesn't involve unmanaged code, if possible. ...

What's a good program to record video or screencast being played on screen?

What's a good program to record videos or screencasts being played on screen? ...

How to do Flash pseudo-streaming?

I need to build something that starts serving a H.264 encoded video to a flash player halfway through the file (to support skipping to a point in the video that has not been buffered yet). Currently, the videos are in the FLV container format, but transcoding is an option. I managed to re-write the file header and metadata information ...

The best Django webcasts/videos

I'm currently learning Django though reading the Django Book, but I'm a huge fan of webcasts/screencasts/videos and haven't found any good ones so far. Are there any and which ones would you recommend? ...

How do I protect content in AIR?

I want to develop some educational content, which I want to distribute to children using Adobe AIR. The content will contain videos. Now, from what I see, AIR will put the content onto the local file system, for anyone to see. I want to prevent this. Is there a way out? ...

Trying to convert bunch of jpegs into a movie

I have 28,000 images I need to convert into a movie. I tried mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=640:h=480:fps=30:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2 -nosound -o ../output-msmpeg4v2.avi But it seems to crap out at 7500 frames. The files are named webcam_2007-04-16_070804.jpg webcam_2007-04-16_071004.jpg webcam_2007-04-16_071204.jpg ...

How to transform a XAML/WPF file to a video (AVI, WMV, etc.)

I have a simple WPF (XAML) file that has some animated shapes and text. The animation has no interactive behavior. I want to record this animation as a video file that I later intend to use as the "intro" screen to a screencast. What I think I need: C# code that takes an input XAML file and spits out a high quality WMV at (for example a...

How to play WMV in a WindowMediaPlayer activeX controlled by a flash component?

How to play WMV in a WindowMediaPlayer activeX controlled by a flash component? I've seen it done here: http://sport5.co.il/ Does anyone know how? ...

Bursty writes to SD/USB stalling my time-critical apps on embedded Linux

I'm working on an embedded Linux project that interfaces an ARM9 to a hardware video encoder chip, and writes the video out to SD card or USB stick. The software architecture involves a kernel driver that reads data into a pool of buffers, and a userland app that writes the data to a file on the mounted removable device. I am finding th...

pseudo-streaming of wmv files

Is it possible to do pseudo-streaming(eg start playback at any point) with wmv files and silverlight? This is possible using Flash in a progressive download setup but can it be done on the Microsoft track? ...

Embedding Live Video from an IP WebCam

We are using a Sony SNC-RZ30N IP-based webcam to monitor osprey nests and would like to stream the video feed via our own webserver. Rather than use the built-in webserver of the camera (which requires either ActiveX or Java on the client side) to display the live feed, I would like to weed out just the live feed and display it on our c...

Video capture on Linux?

We need to capture live video and display easily on Linux. We need a cheap card or USB device with a simple API. Anyone want to share some experience? ...

Why do some conversions from wmv to flv with ffmpeg fail?

Ive been smashing my head with this for a while. I have 2 completely identical .wmv files encoded with wmv3 codec. I put them both through ffmpeg with the following command: /usr/bin/ffmpeg -i file.wmv -ar 44100 -ab 64k -qscale 9 -s 512x384 -f flv file.flv One file converts just fine, and gives me the following output: FFmpeg versio...

Conferences that offer videos for downloading?

One thing I love about ruby is that all of the conference's videos are posted online , so that people that could not attend can watch them. I'm sure most of you know about Confreaks , which offers them for download. Are there sites like that for other programming languages/conferences (or is google video the best shot)? ...

How to programatically create videos ?

Is there a freely available library to create a MPEG (or any other simple video format) out of an image sequence ? It must run on Linux too, and ideally have Python bindings. ...

chapters in videos for the iPhone

Is it possible to use chapters in videos for the iPhone in an application? For example: I have a 3 minutes video to play. I have chapter 1 starting at 0s, chapter 2 at 50s, chapter 3 at 95s. Can I start plating the video at 50s (chapter 2) until the end? Can I make it play just the chapter 2 from 50s to 95s? My question is not about h...

What is the best tool to convert common video formats to FLV on a Linux CLI

Part of a new product I have been assigned to work on involves server-side conversion of the 'common' video formats to something that Flash can play. As far as I know, my only option is to convert to FLV. I have been giving ffmpeg a go around, but I'm finding a few WMV files that come out with garbled sound (I've tried playing with the ...