Clement Nedelcu's Development Journal

As part of my recent developments on my upload site Filetrip.net, which comes with interesting video playback capabilities, I've added the possibility for visitors who watch a video once and interrupt playback to return to the video later on and resume where they left off. In short: you are watching a video, you suddenly or accidentally close the tab or visit another site. When you go back to the video page and start playing again, the video will resume where you left off. I was wrong to assume that this was an upcoming feature for JwPlayer, seeing as one of the authors stated that they " don't support this explicitely ". So I designed it myself with minimal coding. Note that this has been tested on JWPlayer 5 and above, but I cannot guarantee that it will always work in the future. Here is how I am going to detail this tweak: 1. Introduction and requirements 2. Remembering the position 3. Setting the starting offset 4. Cookie data limitations Intro...

I've decided to start this blog for a simple reason: I was recently doing some research on various subjects, and was unable to find any clear documentation. And here I was thinking the World Wide Web had all the answers. Perhaps my contributions will help some of my fellow developers! This first article is about how to draw a video using the MediaPlayer class in WPF (C# only - my apologies to VB.NET users: I'm allergic to VB). I was in the middle of preparing a training session at Avanquest Software when I read something in the WPF MOC: using the MediaElement control isn't the only way you can draw a video on a surface. Doh! I investigated a little further on the subject but couldn't find anything on the subject. What does this do? This article will explain how to use the MediaPlayer class to play a video on a surface. To demonstrate the wide range of possibilities offered by this mechanism, I will explain how to draw the same video clip on 9 different controls simulta...