Using Flash video metadata to display annotations
Now that you can create a streaming Flash video player with PHP or Ruby and you know add metadata for cuepoints to Flash videos you are ready for something e...
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How to create and use Flash video metadata to add cue-points with flvtool2
Adding cue-points allows you to spice up your flash videos created with FFMpeg. Adding metadata to a FLV will allow you to introduce cue-points that have the...
How to Create a Streaming Flash Video Player Using Ming PHP or Ruby
I mentioned in creating Flash videos using FFMpeg that you could use Ming to create your own Flash video player. I’ve added a patch to the ruby -ming extensi...
Ruby Ming Extension Patch to Add Video Streaming
After playing with the Ruby Ming extension a little more I found that they don’t have support for SWFVideoStreams so I made a patch to add it. The patch also...
Creating Flash Videos Using FFMpeg
One of the hardest parts about doing video on the Internet in the past has been knowing what video format to use. With the rise of video sharing sites like y...
Building The Ming Ruby Extension
I’ve been trying out Ming SWF output library in PHP for a few days and I thought I would give the Ruby extension a try to see how well it worked. It turns ou...
Even Amazon Can Hurt
It just goes to show that even the most redundant sites in the world have their limits. Amazon is mostly unusable ATM because they tried to sell XBox360s at ...
PHP ImageMagick MagickWand Examples
A while back I explained how to compile the ImageMagick extension for PHP and this past week I got around to creating some example code to make some of the c...
Using Java to get detailed DNS information
Not long ago I was curious about using Java to look up DNS information so I decided to put together a little DNSBL/RBL checker so I could experiment with Jav...
Upgrade to PHP 5.2 and Get JSON For Free
A few days ago when PHP 5.2 was released one of the things that caught my eye was that it now includes the JSON extension. For anyone doing AJAXy type stuff ...