We've just released an upgrade for AllVIdeos to version 2.5.4. This new version is an essential upgrade for your site if you're using our latest uber component, K2 (http://k2.joomlaworks.gr/), as it extends K2's forms to playback videos. We have also updated the internal Longtail (former JW) media players (for Flash and Windows Media content) to add new functionality (e.g. embed and link features) and improve performance utilizing the latest Flash and Silverlight codecs for media playback. So,
Publication date: 2009-03-24
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Mono and the Google Summer of Code 2009
Once again, the Mono project will be participating in the fabulous Google Summer of Code. This is a great opportunity for students that want to get involved with open source to contribute, learn and get paid for their work during the summer. We have been very lucky in recruiting some great students in the past years and these students have taken on some very sophisticated tasks over the years. MonoTorrent, ParallelFX, FastCGI for mod_mono, WinForms designer and theming, Genda
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Hot Hot Hot: Silverlight 3 Pluggable Codec Architecture (OGG, Theora, Vorbis and Dirac).
Burried in the list of what is new in Silverlight 3 there is this gem: Extensible media format support: With the new Raw AV pipeline, Silverlight can easily support a wide variety of third-party codecs. Audio and video can be decoded outside the runtime and rendered in Silverlight, extending format support beyond the native codecs. What the above means is that with Silverlight 3 in addition to the built-in codecs for VC-1 and H.264 and the built-in containers (ASF and
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Guestcasting on Windows Mobile World 9 podcast
Last week I had a chance to join an interesting Windows Mobile podcast - Windows Phone World, hosted by Dawid from Polish Pda.pl and Surur from WMPowerUser . While the overall focus was on various things WM, we also discussed how things other companies are doing related to that. So varios news and interesting things from Symbian, Android, featurephones, etc; have been covered as well. The agenda of the podcast included: Samsung Omnia top in Europe OmniaHD - with WM - real or not? Sp
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