Author: vanevery

dsj – DirectShow Java wrapper

DirectShow Java Wrapper: humatic – dsj
Very Nice..
From the site:
Need to play Windows Media files and streams, DivX video or DVDs in java? Access WDM capture devices? Control a firewire DVCam? Then maybe this can help you. dsj is an ongoing project to provide a java wrapper around Microsoft’s DirectShow API. It offers a set of high level classes that give java easy access to functionality widely missed by java programmers and also lets you dive deeper into the interiors of Windows’ core api for 2D media. On the java side dsj tries to keep things open as possible – you may use it standalone or let it feed data into JMF or other APIs.

They also point to a bunch of Open Source projects that are of interest:
Related projects (dsj does not use OpenSource, GPL or LGPL licensed code, but – as you are here – these projects may be of interest, too) :
JMDS – DirectShow Capture api Java wrapper: jmds.dev.java.net    –    fobs4jmf – ffmpeg c++ & java bindings:  http://fobs.sourceforge.net
java VLC – VideoLan java bindings:  http://jvlc.ihack.it    –    DXInput – DirectInput Java wrapper: www.hardcode.de
jARToolkit – ARToolkit java bindings: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jartoolkit/ – jFFmpeg – JMF codec pack: http://jffmpeg.sourceforge.net/

TiVo hopping on the IPTV bandwagon

www.StreamingMedia.com
Why do I find this quote hilarious:
“The range and quality of broadband video is exploding on the Web, but it’s not TV until it is on the TV,” said Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo. “With the TiVoCast service, we are once again transforming the television experience by bringing the rapidly expanding array of video content on the Internet into the living room.”

All big names. Sadly, nothing about independent voices/video.. Actually, I do see a couple of new media brands in there: Heavy and Rocketboom.. It’s a start.

Video Comments, WordPress Plugin

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Keeping the conversation alive in media blogs

Video Blogging, Vlogging or what ever you want to call it was born into a tradition of self publishing on the internet and benefits greatly from the infrastructure developed for blogging. The tools to create media and now to distribute media online are accessible and affordable. Furthermore, video blogging is often considered participatory and socially interactive. Much of this is due to what blogs have done, enabled true two-way conversation through comments and loose networking through trackbacks.

Unfortunately, while video blogging benefits from these, it doesn’t really do much to improve or enhance this capability with video.

At ITP Research, myself and a couple of others have been working to change this or at least push commenting and trackbacks a bit further. We have created a Video Commenting plugin for WordPress that allows people to leave comments in-time with a video. This, we believe is one of the first steps to allowing conversation to happen around video and furthermore enable richer conversation with video.

Check it out, download it, modify it, use it… Video Comments, WordPress Plugin

From the site:
It’s really exciting to see the number of blogs that exist today, thousands of voices are talking about every possible topic. Blog syndication and commenting allows readers to subscribe, discuss and carry the conversation further, however, with the different forms of media becoming a normal part of many blogs there’s a need to keep this open communication open. Audio and video blogs are forming communities and to encourage conversation the viewers must be able to respond, so we developed a plug-in for WordPress called Video Comments.