*Overview:*
Making a multimedia website. Primary focus is to click and drag video clips from any computer file to the website instantly. Has to be very simple and user friendly. Editing videos by creating effects, cut/slash video parts, adding animation, fill effects, caption, different fonts of videos, etc. We do not want a software for the user to download, everything has to be done on the website.
Is this possible in asp.net.
asp.net by itself cannot do this.
You will need help from several sources:
Third party libraries to transform uploaded video from mpg, flash,
mov to whatever you will use.
Anti Virus software to scan the files before they can be transformed
Silverlight to edit video online
But yes, asp.net can support the underline web site.
You can use Silverlight. It runs on client side and can be hosted in asp.net.
Yes it is possible as with most things, but I am not sure you realise what a big piece of coding you are talking about. There are a number of online video editors (YouTube being the most famous) but the issues you will face are huge, such as multiple codecs and conversion to and from and bandwidth issues for uploading videos and downloaded edited content.
Have a look at some of the online video editors:
http://savedelete.com/10-best-and-free-online-video-editing-software.html
and then consider how much budget you have to create your tool. You may wish to use a more clientside approach with silverlight or adobe air but still you face a huge amount of coding to do this right. You will also need to draw upon third party and open source libraries for the actual editing of the videos.
Good luck with the project.
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I am working in ASP.NET MVC. I want to add videos in my view. I have read article on Working With Videos in ASP.NET
But i want a generic way to play all type of videos in my web page. This article, although good, but confuses me that how to identify file format and then use related type of Web Helper. There are hundreds of video file formats, how to play all of them, by a single strategy. Mentioned article only describes three formats. Please guide me in this regard.
Your issue is less ASP.NET MVC and more general video playback accross multiple devices in different formats.
Your best option would be to use something like FlowPlayer, which allows you to add a player using either Flash or HTML5/JS (depending on the browser's feature set)
I think to say you want to play all types of videos is the wrong way to start. First of all I would think about what video types you want to support. This can be restricted by things such as the encoded videos available, file size, browser support.
Once you have decided on this you can look in to finding the most suitable player for the job.
I am more of a server side programmer so bear with me on this. How exactly are user interfaces for websites designed? I mean which tools are usually used? Lets say for example, stackoverflow.com which has lot of dynamic content. How are the various areas designed? I am pretty sure its not in Visual studio. Probably the server side code is in asp.net but what about the actual UI? (layout, images, tables, buttons etc)
What is the usual workflow for an activity like this? Say, I have a design on paper. Where do I go from there? How do you wire in the code after the interface design is complete?
How do you handle the fact that in a page, some of the stuff is static and some areas are dynamic? (like the ask question page I am on now)
As you said, It boils down to the requirement of the webpage.
For a professional (fairly big) website, many teams are involved for example, creative team to do the paper work and design of UI elements and controls, graphics team to actually design images, UI Developers for placing the contents appropriately and CSS, architects to decide on performance for various items (and taking a call on static/dynamic nature of controls)
Generally designers use some external tools for designing HTML pages to provide templates and same can be used later in visual studio to make actual pages. There are many such tools available in the market such as Dreamweaver There are many freeware also available in the market for designing client and CSS rich websites. You can search on Google for these.
If your website requirement is not very client rich, you can still design using visual studio or use new Microsoft product Webmatrix which gives you user friendly tools to make a website look fabulous.
The paper design is the first correct step.
How to continue:
You can get the 960 grid system from http://960.gs/ and start from this one. Its a nice trick that have ready to use css templates that you can build on them your design.
The image effects:
The shadow and borders and other thinks that you ask is usually make on Photoshop, but now the new browsers support many of them using css. For example: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/css-box-shadow/
Software that can help on design:
- MS Expression
- DreamWeaver
Hi foks
I need a software but I am not a multimedia builder I am a .net developer I want to choose a software to build my first multi-media application I have to do something with this software :
1- it must be portable between different Windows operation
2- it would be independent I mean I don't want to install other software before it.
3- it must run at the autorun for CD
4- I need search ability for some values in the information
5- I don't want someone copy my information easily.
6- The information are videos and rich text
7- it has ability to change on specific screen resolution
Please guide me which softwares I mean a software to build this application are suitable for me I need something to build more easy not very complex but I need beautifull User Interface at the result.
You should try medichance's multimedia builder. It is doing the exact things you described.
http://www.mediachance.com/mmb/
It sounds like you are wanting to develop a multimedia distribution which has videos and text for the end user. That's very similar to a tutorial or training CD or DVD. There are many ways to develop this sort of content, but perhaps the easiest (although not particularly .NET-related) would be a web-based site stored on disc.
Design the product using HTML, CSS, and your preferred video format for web. (Silverlight, Flash, Quicktime...)
To address your points:
Web-based data is extremely portable, not just between Windows installations but across platforms and browsers.
It would be free from dependencies for the most part, assuming the user has a web browser with applicable add-ons to view the video content (such as a Flash or Silverlight plug-in).
You can use a text editor to create an autorun.inf file which will automatically load the main file (usually index.html).
The user can use the browser search functionality to easily find keywords in the pages. If you need the ability to search the entire contents of the multimedia package, that will add a small amount of complication.
The downside to a web-based product is that the files are plain text and anyone can easily copy the data. The question I have is whether you want to try and prevent copying of the entire product (say, as a CD) or just the information it displays?
There shouldn't be any problems displaying videos and rich text in a web environment, provided you've converted them to a format that is compatible with the intended distribution. (For example, if your audience uses Windows and you know they will have a Flash plugin, then a Flash-based video format would be ideal.)
Assuming that you mean reflow by "change on specific screen resolution," this was one of the main reasons I thought of web-based media. The browser of course be capable of displaying content with appropriate resizing capability just as most web sites which are crafted with consideration for multiple screen sizes. This is simply a matter of using appropriate CSS to ensure that elements appear just as logical on a widescreen, high-resolution monitor as they do on the lowest expected resolution screen.
To build a multimedia site, consider Adobe's products such as DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Flash, Fireworks, etc. (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/web/whatsnew/)
If you would prefer to develop an application using .NET Framework, instead you may want to consider Windows Presentation Foundation (http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/when-to-adopt-wpf.aspx) however there may be prerequisites depending on how you build the application.
let's say i want to play an mp3 song in the background of the website alog the user's travesal between the different pages...
is is possible?
I would not recommend doing this, it will annoy users and possibly alienate your users without sound. The easiest way is to have another frame play the music. Another way is to have a popup come up and play the music [which stays up between pages].
Within a single frameless page? I can't think of any possible straightforward solution.
Off my head, the altenatives are:
1. frames (parent frame plays the audio, child frame holds the site pages)
2. pop-up window which plays the audio
3. a single page which puts in page content via ajax and loads into the main container while the audio is played outside the container
4. use flash and puts in content via actionscript into the flash display panel
Personally, I would not recommend any of the above :P
Multimedia is the best way to enhance the user interface of any application. In .NET there is many ways to play an Audio using any .NET technology supporting languages. One of the simple way to acheive is Multimedia Control Interface, shirtly we call it as MCI, wrapping high-level system components, such as Windows Media Player to play our audio files.
visit this link.. to get more information.. about it
http://vivekthangaswamy.blogspot.com/2006/11/using-cnet-play-multimedia-files-using.html
How would you make the contents of Flex RIA applications accessible to Google, so that Google can index the content and shows links to the right items in your Flex RIA. Consider a online shop, created in Flex, where the offered items shall be indexed by Google. Then a link on Google should open the corresponding product in the RIA.
Currently the best technique for making an RIA indexable by search engines is called progressive enhancement (or graceful degradation, depending on which way you see it). Basically you create a simple HTML version of the application using the same data as the application loads. This version should be dynamically generated by some kind of backend server technology. This HTML version can be indexed by Google, but each page also contains a check that determines if the visitor is capable of viewing the rich version, and if so replaces the HTML content with the Flash, Flex or Silverlight application, preferably in such a way that the application starts in a state where it shows the same data as the current page. "Replaces" can mean that it just embeds the application on top of the HTML content, or that it redirects the user to a page that embeds it. The former solution is preferable, because the latter can be considered cloaking.
One way of keeping the HTML and RIA versions of a shop synchronized is to decide on a URL scheme and make sure that RIA uses some kind of deep linking technique. If a visitor arrives to a specific item via a search engine, say /items/345 the corresponding pseudo-URL in the RIA should be the same, so that you can embed the RIA on top of the page and set that URL as a parameter to make the RIA display that same page as soon as it has loaded.
This summer, Google and Yahoo! announced that they would begin using a custom version of Flash Player to index Flash based applications by exploring them "in the same way that a person would". Now, two months later there is still no evidence that this is actually happening. Ryan Stweart had to cancel his Flex SEO competition because it became evident that no one could win. The problem seems to be that event though the technique may very well work (although I'm sceptical), the custom Flash Player needs some kind of network interface to be able to load any referenced resources, like XML data, other SWFs, etc., and this is currently not implemented by Google. This means that for an application that loads all it's data dynamically, like say, all that I can think of, Googlebot will not actually see anything relevant. Yahoo! ignores SWF based content altogether.
Oh, and it just so happens that I talk about Flex and SEO on the latest episode of the Flex show =)
There is a massive thread available here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/58926
But essentially, google already indexes .SWF files (you can test this out yourself by restricting search results to just .SWF files). It can search any text content within the SWF file.
However, if the text information in your site comes from a database / web server. Then it won't be able to access this information easily.
One example of getting this to work is using an XML file as your index page, then using an XSLT transform to render it using Flex. "Ted On Flex" has good information about this.
http://flex.org/consultants