Behind the scenes
A good argument for using a framework is the ability to extend the built in capabilities of the framework. For example, there was a comment on the ‘Getting Sstarted with OSMF Plugins‘ post that asked about using embedded images in theWatermarkPlugin sample. Here are the steps that I took to get an embedded asset (instead [...]
In the past media players have had a problem. They all have custom implementations. When building a media player the developer encounters multiple services to load content, track analytics & quality of service information as well as handle advertising & custom user interactions among other things. The Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) provides a solution to these [...]
So i’ve been playing with DailyMugShot.com for the past couple of months. DailyMugShot is just that – you take 1 picture every day of your mug. Well I wanted all my mugshots and there wasn’t a direct way of downloading them from the site. They have an RSS feed for your shots, but it only [...]
After working on a little automation tool for video encoding process we ran into an interesting issue with AIR applications and command line arguments. Here is the scenario: Encoding process ends. The encoding process passes a file path to the waiting AIR application via command line. If the AIR app is not running, it starts [...]
If you don’t know what Yammer is, it is a twitter like communication tool for your company: Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: “What are you working on?” Whats nice about Yammer is it is an internal tool that [...]
