Entries Tagged 'Video' ↓

Joel Neubeck has posted an article on capturing the Webcam in Silverlight 4. The article includes source code and covers JPG storage to the local file system via FJCore.

Impressive video from TechFest demonstrating a research project where multiple sources of real time video are ’stitched’ together to create a large panoramic scene. Almost like PhotoSynth for Video.

As you probably know, there was some fanfare a few weeks ago about an application from Microsoft Research called SongSmith. Despite the bizarre promo video and campy sonic style the app is brilliant under the covers and can analyze vocals and generate musical accompaniment to match.

Well, it didn’t take long for the web community to run with it.

Oh…it gets better
Roxanne by The Police
Creep by Radiohead
Wonderwall by Oasis
Roxanne by The Police
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
Just What I Needed by The Cars
White Wedding by Billy Idol

Looks like Vodafone has launched a Silverlight based video on demand service for the German market.

This is a nice, buttoned up, implementation of Silverlight.

The Momochrome Blog has a demo of their latest app called mono.flv. It’s a server extension for IIS that allows Silverlight to deliver Flash Video (.flv) content. It does his by converting .flv files to .wmv on the fly, then saves the output for future requests.
Further reading on the Monochrome blog

The SingTel Singapore Grand Prix is running a promotion called the SingTel Grid Girls.

In this Silverlight application you choose from one of 20 Grid Girls then complete a quiz to get your compatibility match. If you’re not a match you see a video of her looking disappointed, make a match and you get a special little prize.

Not too shabby.

Frogs69 (Remy?) announced on the on the Silverlight Streaming Blog that Microsoft will be opening a pilot program for revenue sharing on the Silverlight Streaming Service.

This spring we’ll be launching a pilot program to offer turnkey advertising with the Silverlight Streaming video service.

This pilot program will allow a control group of Silverlight Streaming account holders to take Silverlight videos and automatically insert contextual advertisements into the end-user video playback experience.

I wish i had something to offer, do you? I’d love to check it out.

Yeah, I said it. Oprah.

According to ReadWriteWeb Oprah’s doing a 10 week interactive series via Silverlight and Skype. The course is expected to draw a half million viewers.

Oprah just might bring Silverlight to the mainstream in a way that the Olympics and Library of Congress never could.

An anonymous reader tipped us off to ViewOn TV v0.3. ViewOn is a WPF Media Library and Player similar to iTunes or Zune desktop. It’s got some nice features like:

• Music Player
• Video Player
• Preloaded with Online radio
• iPod Support
• CD/DVD Ripping

The UI is not ground breaking, but it’s nice and clean. The app supports browsing by genre or cover art, visualizations, scrollbar location preview, and a nice little color chooser. It also supports compact mode which is handy.

Ok, this has to be the coolest Silverlight Video implementation I’ve seen to date. Beautiful and consistent theme, fluid transitions and a hip full motion video background. Check it. Rai Click presenta SANREMO ANCHE NOI