August 20th, 2008 - Posted By nito -
Recently I had to integrate video playback on my job’s Java OpenGL engine, which uses JOGL.
Java has a support to media playback through it’s Java Media Framework, which unfortunately, on it’s current version (2.1.1e) does not support many formats for video playback.
So I quickly looked for alternatives, including IBM Toolkit for mpeg4, that hadn’t a sufficient production performance I was looking for, and didn’t offer an easy option for frame grabbing or plugin extensions as JMF does.
Next was Fobs4JMF, which is JMF + ffmpeg. This solution was much more interesting, since it offers a wide variety of codecs (ogg, mp3, m4a, divx, xvid, h264, mov, etc) and is based on the solid ffmpeg solution to decode audio and video.
My implementation, uses the plug-in capabilities of JMF to extend a custom renderer that does a pixel type conversion and rendering to a texture:
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July 16th, 2008 - Posted By nito -
Joss Whedon, creator of Firefly, Buffy, Angel… is intending to make some noise on the Internet, as he says
” It is time for us to change the face of Show Business as we know it.”
Dr. Horrible, a three act musical made by him and some friends will be broadcasted for free on the internet from today till the 20th of this month an then will be available for purchase :
“We intend to make it available for download soon after it’s published. This would be for a nominal fee, which we’re hoping people will embrace instead of getting all piratey.”
Kinda of an interesting method of marketing, you get to “taste” it, and if you like it, you can have it. Very indie, and pretty much mimics the way everyone whose is not in the industry do to get their work some attention, (despite the taking away of air part).
So if you wanna watch it for free, check it out:
- Act 1 is already up;
- Act 2 “airs” tomorrow (17th July);
- Act 3 “airs” Saturday (19th July)
On the 20th it will be gone!
And let’s see how far this goes! Good luck Mr Whedon!
July 13th, 2008 - Posted By nito -