any API to make flash file conversion? - C# Discussion Boards

10-Dec-08 1:52

Hello everyone,

Are there API provided by Microsoft to convert video file of other types to Flash video file? If no such API provided by Microsoft, any API provided by other parties?

thanks in advance,
George

Lev Danielyan10-Dec-08 2:20

10-Dec-08 2:20

I'm pretty much sure that Microsoft won't have that kind of API, since Flash is Adobe's (ex-Macromedia's) proprietary file format (at least it was, I'm not sure if Adobe opened the specs)

You can check the NetFFMpeg[^] project, which is a .Net wrapper to ffmpeg[^]

Regards,
Lev

George_George10-Dec-08 2:23

10-Dec-08 2:23

Thanks Lev!

I have tried the following code to embed a flash media player and embed a movie to play, which is bush.wmv. But the page is empty, do you know what is wrong please?

<html>
<body>
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" id="myMovieName"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="D:\Bush.wmv"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF><EMBED src="/support/flash/ts/documents/myFlashMovie.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400"
NAME="Bush" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED></OBJECT>
</body>
</html>

regards,
George

Lev Danielyan10-Dec-08 2:28

10-Dec-08 2:28

Well, I think this is not the right forum for this question Wink | ;)

But anyway, I think the problem is that you are trying to play Windows Media file (wmv) with Adobe's flash player.
I think you should first convert the wmv to flv.

Regards,
Lev

George_George10-Dec-08 2:38

10-Dec-08 2:38

Thanks Lev, I will try netffmpeg. Smile | :)

regards,
George

George_George10-Dec-08 2:51

10-Dec-08 2:51

Hi Lev,

Sorry for interrupting again. I have tried FFDDL, the document is very limited. My purpose is just to convert to Flash format, so I think maybe Adobe could have some SDK to do that? Do you have any ideas?

regards,
George

Lev Danielyan10-Dec-08 3:19

10-Dec-08 3:19

Nope, sorry, I haven't done any conversions to flash myself, I just gave you a hint Smile | :)

Regards,
Lev

George_George11-Dec-08 1:59

11-Dec-08 1:59

Thanks all the same, Lev! Smile | :)

regards,
George

Lev Danielyan11-Dec-08 2:03

11-Dec-08 2:03

You're welcome Smile | :)

Regards,
Lev

How can i??

hotthoughtguy10-Dec-08 1:35

hotthoughtguy

10-Dec-08 1:35

How can i build a program that hv two classes (child class and parant class) child class is inheriting from parant class.
Now child class has two methods
1.which returns the name of parant class
2.which returns the object of parant class

SeMartens10-Dec-08 1:45

SeMartens

10-Dec-08 1:45

Hi
you could use reflection. This would be in the child class.

<br />
  public string GetParentClassName() {<br />
     return this.GetType().BaseType.Name;<br />
  }<br />

Hmm, the child itself is an object of the parent class. Don't know exactly what you mean with this.

Regards
Sebastian

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

Me in Softwareland.

Lev Danielyan10-Dec-08 1:51

10-Dec-08 1:51

I am not sure what do you mean by saying the Name and Object of parent class,
but you can get the Type of the base class like this:

public class Dad {
}

public class Kid : Dad {

public Type GetParentType() {
return this.GetType().BaseType;
}
}

Regards,
Lev

hotthoughtguy10-Dec-08 2:14

hotthoughtguy

10-Dec-08 2:14

thanks...

thats what i want...

this was my 1st post on this site...

i really like this platform...

Limiting the number of lines in a TextBox

Nissim Salomon10-Dec-08 2:28

Nissim Salomon

10-Dec-08 2:28

Hi when you create a class that inherit from another class you must specify the base class type, this is the solution for your question.

class Base
{
    public Base()
    {

    }
}

class Derieved : Base
{
    public string GetPerentName()
    {
        return typeof(Base).Name;
    }

    public Base GetPerentObject()
    {
        return (Base)this;
    }
}

Dewald10-Dec-08 1:20

Dewald

10-Dec-08 1:20

I have a little server application that gives feedback to the user in two ways, one is to write entries to a log file and secondly by writing those same entries to a TextBox on the main form. The main form actually has very little other than this TextBox.

This server could run for months on end so I would like to limit the total number of lines in this TextBox to, let's say 1000, but on a FIFO basis. With a ListBox it would have been fairly simple - doing something like this, every time I add text to the control:

while (listBox1.Items.Count > 1000)
   listBox1.RemoveAt(0);

Is there an elegant way of doing the same with a TextBox?

Re: Limiting the number of lines in a TextBox

Lev Danielyan10-Dec-08 2:01

Re: Limiting the number of lines in a TextBox

10-Dec-08 2:01

Somewhat awkward solution is to do it like this:

textBox1.Text = textBox1.Text.Substring(textBox1.Lines[0].Length + Environment.NewLine.Length);

This isn't very effective, so maybe someone will offer a better solution...

Regards,
Lev

Luc Pattyn10-Dec-08 2:02

Luc Pattyn

10-Dec-08 2:02

Why would you use a TextBox at all? A ListBox is the right Control for showing unrelated lines of text, as in a logging application. A TextBox trying to give the same scrolling text result would be concatenating and removing text strings all the time.

And if you were to need some formatting (bold line, red line), make it DrawMode=UserDrawn...

Smile | :)

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Re: Limiting the number of lines in a TextBox

Lev Danielyan10-Dec-08 2:05