I have a Windows Store (Metro) application. I need to add support for scanning barcodes.
I tried using ZXing first. From what I was able to get working, you actually need to click and save an image for it to do the processing. There's no nice overlay of a red line "scanner" nor does it process a live feed. This isn't a very elegant solution. It works far better on Android. Basically, this won't work as I need a constant video and a constant search for a barcode to be in focus.
This blog (http://www.soulier.ch/?p=1275&lang=en) mentions that extrapolating a frame out of a WinRT video stream is not allowed in managed code which means I'd need to use C++.
So, are there any components out there that do this? Anything free or paid that I can get that would be written in C++ and can find and extrapolate a barcode? Learning C++ is not on my bucket list.
You can capture frames while displaying a preview with C# only. Here's an example control that does it:
https://winrtxamltoolkit.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#WinRTXamlToolkit/Controls/CameraCaptureControl/CameraCaptureControl.cs
Basically you need to create a MediaCapture object and associate it with a CaptureElement control to display the preview. Then you can use CapturePhotoToStreamAsync() to capture a frame to a stream of your selected encoding format and then have a go at it with your bar code reading code.
I made a lib for WinRT using ZXing & Imaging SDK.
It works well (but does not include any additional focus feature).
There is a lib and a sample app that you can try.
It works for barcodes and QRCode (barcode by default but just change the optional parameter in the scan function code to use QRCode)
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I´m using froogaloop to work with Vimeo in order to use it in my sites. My problem here is that I´d like to customize the player as you can see here in the "Customize to your taste" part -> http://vimeo.com/player
The last point is a simplified control interface that I would like to use, but I´m not capable to do it. These are the parameters that we seem to be able to tweak -> http://developer.vimeo.com/player/embedding#universal-parameters
Any idea about how to work with these features?
Thanks!
Plus and PRO members can choose to customize their embeds (https://vimeo.com/s/tce). Those options are not available as embed code parameters.
I am trying to build an audio recorder app similar to iOS7 built in one and looking for guidance on what controls to use for the recording app. I understand I will be using a tableview for the list of previous recordings and a UIView for the top recording view and on tapping record adjust the table view and move down the black recording view.
How should I implement the endless horizontal scrolling view? Should I use a collection view and keep adding elements to the model array as the time increments. Also what should I use for the timer. Is there something like setInterval for Objective C like in Javascript that I can use to keep updating the UI at regular time interval?
If someone also knows of a cocoa pod or sample code that would be greatly appreciated.
For recording the simplest audiorecorder is AVAudioRecorder. Here is a simple implementation of an audio recording app: https://github.com/calmez/Recorder. AVAudioRecorder has simple metering methods where you can read volume output of the channels
Honestly though, Apple would probably use CoreAudio to get the audio because it is more optimized. Novocaine is a good core audio engine that could get you started https://github.com/alexbw/novocaine
For rendering the waveform, I would guess that Apple probably uses OpenGL. I don't see how to do it easily and efficiently otherwise. You could draw them using the standard drawing APIs for UIView like this project does (https://github.com/fulldecent/FDWaveformView) but I don't see this animating well.
For the timer, there is NSTimer
I'm very frustrated with Google DoubleClick's AS3 documentation. I'm not an advanced ActionScript coder and I have limited experience with streaming video, but I feel like their API is omitting a lot of information about how these classes actually work.
I'm attempting to load an FLV to play in an expanded unit. Their video component API shows how to control playback of a video, but it doesn't say anything about how to actually load an flv file through code into the component.
http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/docs/sdk/flash/as3/en/com_google_ads_studio_video_VideoPlayer.html
I found a controller API, but I have no idea how a "controller" works, or what it is, and the API doesn't explain anything outside of vague general information. I assume the controller needs to be somehow associated with the video player component, but there's nothing anywhere on Google that explains this in any form.
http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/docs/sdk/flash/as3/en/com_google_ads_studio_video_VideoController.html
So, in conclusion, what I want is simple. I want to programically load an flv file into a video component on the stage, and have it play. I feel like this is a simple thing to do. I can do this with netstream objects and regular means, but Google has explained nothing in it's API on how to achieve this in studio rich media, and I have no idea how the inner workings of it's components function. Can anyone tell me how to achieve this?
For using video in Studio, you use either the basic or advanced video player component, and component inspector to specify your video, then upload all your assets.
You can literally browse through hundreds of templates, including filtering for features like video, and choose one that best fits your needs along with documentaion here.
http://www.richmediagallery.com/resources/template-database
Basic video overview
https://support.google.com/richmedia/answer/1719810?hl=en
I could only add 2 links to my answer above
Here is the AS3 API for video
http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/docs/sdk/flash/as3/en/com_google_ads_studio_video_VideoPlayer.html
And the one for video player advanced
http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/docs/sdk/flash/as3/en/com_google_ads_studio_video_VideoPlayerAdvanced.html
I am using this wrapper someone recommended for my iOS cocos2dx game link. It works when I call the showInterstitial() method, but when I try to use the showMoreApps the dialog appears for a split second and then disappears.
In my AppDelegate::applicationDidFinishLaunching() I do this
ChartboostX::sharedChartboostX()->setAppId("REDACTED");
ChartboostX::sharedChartboostX()->setAppSignature("REDACTED");
ChartboostX::sharedChartboostX()->startSession();
ChartboostX::sharedChartboostX()->cacheMoreApps();
And then when I want to call the showMoreApps I do this
ChartboostX::sharedChartboostX()->showMoreApps();
Have a look at my wrapper for Chartboost. It has been updated to use the latest version of the Chartboost SDK and works perfectly in my cocos2D-x game. I have not finished the android documentation yet but you can probably work it out yourself if you need to. The documentation for iOS is almost finished and quite easy to follow.(FYI the class ADELLE is the chartboost delegate and is an objective C++ class so you can use C++ in it as you normally would mixed in with the objective C. This is the same for AdWrapper.mm)
Check it out and see if it works for you.
https://github.com/Lochlanna/Chartboost-Cocos2D-x
I would like to implement a web application where you can upload a video (e.g. in mp4 format) and add custom messages to it or tag specific frames. I need to be able to determine the location, size and duration of the balloon containing the text. The interface should be easy enough to use and allow you to add a simple text or a link.
How could I implement this? Is there a platform I could use? Looking around I found this platform called WireWax which basically does everything I need, however there is no pricing section and I suspect that you have to contact them directly.
Another interesting product that I found is Popcorn.js which allows you to add annotations to videos, but I would have to create from scratch the interface to add messages.
Do you have any advice?
Popcorn.js does indeed have an interface. It's called Popcorn Maker, and it's here:
https://popcorn.webmaker.org/
It's open source, so you can modify it however you like. The source is here: https://github.com/mozilla/butter