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Where can I find facial detection software, algorithms, etc?

I'm interested in writing software that depends on being able to identify that there is a face in a picture (or video frame). It doesn't have to ID the face - so no metrics other than: Is there a human face in the picture (or more than one) Where, approximately, are the eyes and mouth or nose tip (whatever it keyed on.) It's popping...

Video Conversion API

Can someone recommend a good API for converting video types to FLV format? Something that is in .NET would be best, but anything will work. ...

Program to convert vob file to format that flash video encoder can read

Client sent their commercials on dvd and I only have access to the vob files. Looking for freeware to convert these files to either mpeg or avi so that flash can encode them. ...

H.264 Streaming Requirements

I am looking for more information about the minimum requirements needed for a visitor to successfully stream a 1 Mbps 640x360 H.264-encoded video. I know that the user needs the latest Flash 9 version. I am looking for the minimum requirements for their computers. We want to switch to this codec for our videos, but do not want to ruin o...

Can you recommend a Shockwave Flash (SWF) to "movie" converter for OS X?

I've Googled this in various ways, and there's no shortage of software to do it. Since this is something I'm unlikely ever to do again, I'd prefer a free solution, but I'm also willing to pay if the best solution requires it. I'm a fairly skilled software developer in multiple languages, so if anyone knows of a library that will do it (...

Windows (ideally .NET callable) API to join MP4 and/or 3GP files?

I'm working on our back-end encoder service which does an awful lot of video transcoding, and a very small amount of joining of video files. The transcoding is done using the On2 Flix engine for Windows which works very well, but unfortunately it isn't able to join files (at least as far as I can ascertain - neither the help nor the su...

How are most AS3 Video Players Created?

Are most flash video players created all programmatically? Or they done using static buttons that are referenced in classes? Is it better to create all your buttons on the fly or does it not really matter? ...

showing video through apache 5.5

I have a problem while showing .flv video file through apache 5.5 server. I am using jsp2.0 & javascript, flash video player in html. Whenever i am trying to run the video.jsp page which contains 10mb .flv video file through apache 5.5 server, my c drive is getting full. It also does not show the video on page & my whole laptop is becomm...

How can I get the original capture timestamp from my home movie files:: AVI and MPG4?

I have over a TB of home movies with horrible file names. Finding what you want is impossible. I would like to rename all files to the time they were originally recorded (not the file time they were placed on my computer). Some applications (like Ulead Video Studio) can access this information, which I believe is embedded in the CODEC. ...

Why don't flash videos play after upgrading to Flash 10?

Upgraded to Flash 10 today and now many flash videos aren't playing on a lot of sites, including a couple i've created. What's the fix? edit Let me clarify here. this question is intended to find the code change that is needed to allow users of all versions of flash, including the most recent release, to be able to see them. ...

Creating an MJPEG video stream in c#

I have images being sent to my database from a remote video source at about 5 frames per second as JPEG images. I am trying to figure out how to get those images into a video format so I can stream a live video feed to Silverlight. It seems to make sense to create a MJPEG stream but I'm having a few problems. Firstly I was trying to str...

Using PHP to Access a User's Webcam

I'd like to allow users to record videos directly from their webcam. I haven't done much work with PHP but am stuck with it for this project. We currently have a system in place for video uploading and encoding, but nothing to actually access a user's webcam. How would you recommend I proceed? ...

Read/Write 'Extended' file properties (C#)

Hi I'm trying to find out how to read/write to the extended file properties in C# e.g. Comment, Bit Rate, Date Accessed, Category etc that you can see in Windows explorer. Any ideas how to do this? EDIT: I'll mainly be reading/writing to video files (AVI/DIVX/...) ...

Best video manipulation library for python?

I'd like to include some simple video editing functionality for the python application I'm writing and googling comes up with: pymedia pyglet (using the media module) gst-python Requirements: Small footprint. I'm already using wxpython (just because), which bloats up the final .exe pretty easily so preferably whatever I use to imp...

Live Video Streaming with PHP

I have a PHP/AJAX/MYSQL chat application. I want to add video chatting to my application. How can I create live video streaming to be used for live video conferences/chatting in a PHP application. What are the key-terms I need to know if I wanted to build such a system? Is it a good idea in the first place to use PHP? Is there something ...

Alternatives to RealServer (Helix) and Real Player.

For years we've been using RealNetworks' Helix server to serve streaming video courses. It has been a pretty reliable solution up until now. As of late, our support calls due to RealPlayer issues has gone from 2 or 3 a week (mostly PEBKAC or firewall issues) to up to about 10 a day. I've been arguing to dump Real in favour of somethin...

Play two or more videos synchronously

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...

Java Video Player

I need a java api, that cannot use JMF, to play video interpreted by the SO codecs but i want to retrieve the each frames in java code. Somebody know some? ...

Video clip does not release the form on ending

Hello all, I have the following code which plays a video clip but when it is finished it does not release the form but instead leaves the last frame of the video. how do I get it to clear when playback ends so that I can see the orignal contents of the form it took over to play the video? _video = new Video("video.wmv"); _video.Owner =...

IV50 codec (.AVI) to something else, e.g. QuickTime (.MOV)

I have some old .AVI files made by my kids with a Logitech webcam that I can not view. They seem to be encoded using IV50. Does anyone know of a tool to convert these files to something more widely supported, like Quciktime? (movavi seems to do it but I only have a few .AVI files to convert and I'd rather not have to buy something.) ...