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Suppose you want to capture a stream of public tweets in real-time, optionally filtering by select screen names or keywords in the text of the tweet. The solution is to use Twitter's streaming API...
During a recent interview with iPad/iPhone/iPod author J.D. Biersdorfer, I asked about Apple's new AirPlay streaming technology. Below, she described the new system.
What is AirPlay? What will ...
So here was my problem:
I needed to be able to produce hi-resolution movies of live screen presentations with audio.And because these presentations were two hours long people wanted chapter/section m...
Did you just get a smartphone with a front facing camera and realize the person on the other end needs a camera too? Perhaps you've recently discovered Chatroulette? At some point you've decid...
You don't need to understand online video to consume it, but anyone intent on producing the stuff has to know the basics. Simon Frost, technical architect for the BBC's iPlayer and a speaker at the u...
Answered by andstone : Feb 05 2010 03:23 PM
A friend of mine once showed me Qik, an amazing app available on most mobile phones.
What Qik allows you to do is conduct a live stream from your phone to your Qik profile on the web. You can send ... full answer >
Answered by adfm : Dec 09 2009 02:29 PM
I, too, have gone the Hulu/Netflix route. I supplement this combo with the occasional jaunt over to CBS. Pretty soon everyone will have a general purpose streaming media player embedded into their big... full answer >
Answered by metakey : Nov 05 2009 07:31 AM
Hello, kion.
The ability to seek in video may depend on your player implementation and on how your web server handles partial content (206) requests. While the obvious way is to use one of native FL... full answer >