ASP.NET Video Starter Kit version 5.3 introduced more powerful photo crawling and batch uploading script for uploading photos in one step making it possible to upload and manage thousands of photos in few hours within website making website rich from content.

ASP.NET Photo Crawling Script:
Photo Crawling Script is powerful script written in ASP.NET which can facilitate website administrator to fastly upload and manage hundreds of photos within an hour to website by using single step. Main feature of script includes

i: Crawl photos from local computer or server by providing local destination path, or third party websites by providing direct url.
ii: Fetch and download photos to server from path provided.
iii: Allow site administrator to choose photos that he want to be part of website and remove useless photos.
iv: Assign category for uploaded photos. gallery if created, blog posted if generated..... read more.

You can use the following sample code to publish any format video to flash flv, mp4, vp8 webm, ogg vorbis, grab thumb in one step using ASP.NET Media Handler Pro.

Note: You need to download latest ffmpeg build with support of VP8 codec

Sample Code:
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         _mhandler.InputPath = RootPath + "\\contents\\original";
        _mhandler.OutputPath = RootPath + "\\contents\\output";
         VideoInfo info = new VideoInfo();
        _mhandler.FileName = "sample.wmv";
        _mhandler.OutputFileName = "sample";
         //***************************************
         //FLV Encoding
&.... read more.

Everyone who has visited YouTube.com in the past four years knows that you can embed video in a web page. But prior to HTML5, there was no standards-based way to do this.  Every video you've watched on the web has been funneled through a third party plugin (QuickTime, RealPlayer, Flash). 

HTML5 defines a standard way to embed video in a web page, using a <video> element. Support for the <video> element is still evolving, which is a polite way of saying it doesn’t work yet. At least, it doesn’t work everywhere. But don’t despair! There are alternatives and fallbacks and options.

Video Codecs:

There are tons of video codecs. The three most relevant codecs are H.264, Theora, and VP8.

i H.264 is also known as “MPEG-4 part 10,” a.k.a. “MPEG-4 AVC,” a.k.a. “MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding.” H.264 was also devel.... read more.

You can use the following code through ASP.NET Media Handler Pro
component to extract all frames of video into jpg images.
Extracting Frames:

Re Encoding Frames / Images into Video:
Example below will encode all jpg frames into flash flv video, you can
encode it in any format.
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_mhandler.InputPath = RootPath + "\\contents\\thumbs";
_mhandler.OutputPath = RootPath + "\\contents\\flv";
_mhandler.FileName = &qu.... read more.

ASP.NET Video Uploader Control (.ascx file) include complex script that can handle video uploading, publishing to flash flv format, grabing single or multiple thumbs, set meta data for flash flv video, output validation and retrieve useful information from video in one step just by dragging control on page by allowing developer to avoid writing lots of code.
Features:
Main features in ASP.NET Video Uploader Control includes,

• Video Uploading
• Video publishing using .NET Media Handler Pro component.
• Set Meta Information for flash flv video.
• Grab single or multiple thumbs.
• Post watermark on output video. (optional)
  
• Validation of source and output video.
• Create audio mp3 file (optional).
• and more.

Languages:
ASP.NET Video Uploader Control suppo.... read more.

Embedding videos is the powerful way to manage and share videos and increase your website visibility on the web.
You can use Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition as a complete web application for managing, sharing and streaming embedded videos in ASP.NET.
Video Starter Kit support three types of content management.

• Site Videos: In this case only site videos will be allowed to be manage on website.
• Embedded Videos: In this case only third party videos via embedded script to be allowed on website.
  
• Both: In this case both site videos and third party videos allowed to be managed on website.

Embedding videos has lots of advantages.

• No disk space uses.
• No special encoding tool or sdk requires.
• No bandwidth consumes while streaming videos.
• Site performance maintain.

You can create .... read more.

Embedding videos is the powerful way to manage and share videos and increase your website visibility on the web.
You can use Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition as a complete web application for managing, sharing and streaming embedded videos in ASP.NET. Video Starter Kit support three types of content management.

• Site Videos: In this case only site videos will be allowed to be manage on website.
• Embedded Videos: In this case only third party videos via embedded script to be allowed on website.
  
• Both: In this case both site videos and third party videos allowed to be managed on website.

Embedding videos has lots of advantages.

• No disk space uses.
• No special encoding tool or sdk requires.
• No bandwidth consumes while streaming videos.
• Site performance maintain.

You can create embedded.... read more.

Microsoft Silverlight is a web application framework that provides functionalities similar to those in Adobe Flash.
Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition can be work as SilverLight web application to provide features for streaming wmv videos through silverlight players instead of flash streaming.
Configuring Silverlight Player / Streaming in Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
You can easily configure video starter kit to publish videos in wmv format and later stream through silverlight player.
Steps:
i: Go to control panel -> configuration.
ii: Click on Advance tab and choose output type as "Silverlight WMV"
iii: Click update button to save your settings.
After choosing Silverlight WMV all videos will be encoded in wmv streaming format so that it will be stream through silverlight player.
Silverlight Player:
The following silverlight player used in Video Starter Kit - Ad.... read more.

Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition ver 5.1 Release with lots of improvements and new features.
New Features:
New features added in VSK - AE ver 5.1 are

• Archive contents.
• Set Meta information and Page title for dynamic and static pages from centralize location. This will help you to set Meta information and page title for pages easily without changing data on every page. It will ease your work if you setup Video Starter Kit Advance Edition for variety of purposes.
• Improved google sitemap for posting contents (tags, categories, videos) to google via sitemap.
• Fully compatible with ASP.NET Photo Sharing Script & ASP.NET Blog Kit.
• Lots of more improvements in control panel and main section.

For complete detail about Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition (Youtube Clone) visit
read more.

ASP.NET Kit s a complete code for posting, managing, reading and sharing across other blog engines via RSS or Feed Burners. It is also written in (c#, vb.net) and fully compatible with Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
It include all basic and advance features that is required for building Blog / Article website in ASP.NET.
It is released as a plugin for Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
Main Feature Includes

• Posting articles & blog posts with all actions including BBCode supported.
• Managing blogs in listings (Main Listing, Categorizing, Tagging, Archiving etc)
• Advance blog preview with all options for sharing, rating, commenting photos.
• Blog listing via RSS.
  
• Admin management.
• and lots of more features.

 You can easily integrate it into your existing Video Starter Kit - AE solution by just follow the simple instructions written in read.... read more.

ASP.NET Photo Sharing Script is a complete code for storing, managing and sharing photos and images on the web. It is written in (c# , vb.net) and fully compatible with Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition. It include all features that is required for building highly complex photo sharing web applications.
It is released as a plugin for Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
Main Feature Includes

• Uploading photos
• Managing photos in listings (Main Listing, Categorizing, Tagging, etc)
• Advance photo preview with all options for sharing, rating, commenting photos.
• Archiving photos.
• Admin management.
• and lots of more features.

ASP.NET Photo Sharing Script is totally compatible with Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition. You can easily integrate it into your existing Video Starter Kit - AE solution by just follow the simple instructions written in read me file.

Liv.... read more.

Media Sharing Script:
Script that is used for managing, publishing, sharing and streaming videos on the web across different platforms and devices is call Media Sharing Script.
ASP.NET Video Starter Kit is a Media Sharing Script written in .NET Framework (c# and vb.net) to help developers and users to setup video streaming application on the web easily. It is specially built for ASP.NET technology and platform and work in almost every tool that is directly and indirectly related to ASP.NET. It is currently available in two packages.
    * Video Starter Kit - Light Edition.
    * Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
Here we will discuss important points and features of Video Starter Kit Advance Edition. For more detail about Video Starter Kit - Light Edition click here.... read more.

Media Sharing Script:
Script that is used for managing, publishing, sharing and streaming videos on the web across different platforms and devices is call Media Sharing Script.
ASP.NET Video Starter Kit is a Media Sharing Script written in .NET Framework (c# and vb.net) to help developers and users to setup video streaming application on the web easily. It is specially built for ASP.NET technology and platform and work in almost every tool that is directly and indirectly related to ASP.NET. It is currently available in two packages.

• Video Starter Kit - Light Edition.
• Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.

Here we will discuss important points and features of Video Starter Kit Light Edition.

Video Starter Kit - Light Edition:
Video Starter Kit  - Light Edition is a complete Media Sharing Script / Video Portal written in .NET Framework (C#, VB.NET) wit.... read more.

When you encode normal video (4:3 aspect ration) to widescreen (16:9) video, or in reverse widescreen to normal video, video is stretch out and in result output distorted or bad in view and quality.
In order to avoid video stretching out and keep aspect ratio of video persistent, you can use technique called pillars. This is the "pure" method as it does not distort or lose any part of the original video or image. In this technique you will calculate space and add padding accordingly on proper direction to keep the aspect ratio of video consistent.
Logic to calculate padding size and direction.

1: Widescreen (16:9) to Normal (4:3) video conversion:

Example:
i: Calculate width and height of source video (16:9): e.g 800x450 = 1.7777.
ii: Width and height of normal video that you want to publish e.g 320x240 = 1.333.
iii: Actual widescreen height of.... read more.

Flash Video files can be stream & delivered in several different ways on the web. Main delivery options are.

• As a standalone .FLV file.
• Embedded in SWF file using Flash Authoring Tool.
  
• Progressive Download via HTTP.
• Streaming via RTMP to the Flash Player using Flash Media Server.

Standalone .FLV File:
It is the normal way to deliver Flash video using a Flash player to control. The .FLV file itself is only playable with an FLV player.
Embedded in SWF File:
In this approach, the entire file must be transferred before playback can begin. Changing the video requires rebuilding the SWF file.
Streaming via RTMP to the Flash Player using Flash Media Server.
Streamed via RTMP to the Flash Player using the Flash Media Serverread more.

ASP.NET Media Handler Pro is an ASP.NET video encoding utility that provide ability to publish / encode any format videos from one format to another format, prepare videos to be stream on the web, grab single / multiple thumbs, post watermark, retrieve information from videos and perform lots of other useful video processing tasks.
You can use ASP.NET Media Handler Pro component in any applications that is compatible with Microsoft .NET Framework.
Application may include.

• ASP.NET web applications written in C# or VB.NET.
• .NET windows based applications.
• .NET web services.
• .NET win services.
• and more.

Main purpose of ASP.NET Media Handler Pro is to

• Encode videos to be stream and play on variety of devices and web browsers.
• Grab thumbs to represent videos in galleries.
• Post watermark on videos while encoding to protect copyright conte.... read more.

At last we added blog section in our website http://www.mediasoftpro.com to provide information to customers regarding any development occurs in our products, services & tools.

In bog section we will add articles related to our products, additional utilities that we work on it and other technologies related to video encoding, streaming & managing.

In contrast we will post articles about.

• Video encoding in ASP.NET.
• Video streaming in ASP.NET (SilverLight, WMV & Flash Streaming).
• Media Sharing Script for ASP.NET.
• Video Projects for Encoding, Streaming & Managing for ASP.NET
• Using streaming utilities in ASP.NET including FFMPEG, Flash MX SDK, On2, Flash Streaming Servers & more.
• Using ASP.NET script for streaming videos.
• Youtube Clone for ASP.NET.
• Web Cam Streaming & Direct Video Broadcasting in ASP.NETread more.