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thyscorpion20-Jul-06 8:57

20-Jul-06 8:57

hi i was looking for help in making a simple application for myself to convert my divx avi files to mp4 (ipod format)... i know there are a few free softwares available.. but i wanted to improve my programming skills and as i need such a program for myself currently i would be glad if i am helped in how to go about it in C#.NET FM2 or C++...
if someone has a link for such a tutorial or book. plz help me out.
or if someone can guide me throu this i will be more than glad..
thanks. Smile | :)

Re: convert avi to mp4 in C# or C++

Ed.Poore20-Jul-06 12:40

Ed.Poore

20-Jul-06 12:40

As far as I know DivX is a proprietary format so you must use their codecs, there might be some info on their website for interfacing with the dlls. Might be worth checking out their labs: http://labs.divx.com[^].

thyscorpion wrote:
but i wanted to improve my programming skills

IMHO, this is an extremely complex program to write if you're just starting off.

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Re: convert avi to mp4 in C# or C++

thyscorpion20-Jul-06 21:25

thyscorpion

20-Jul-06 21:25

.. yeah i agree its a damn complex thing to start with. thanks for your advise...
still is there any tutorial site or book that will help me achive my goal?
thanks!

Re: convert avi to mp4 in C# or C++

Ed.Poore20-Jul-06 21:43

Ed.Poore

20-Jul-06 21:43

I would think that the best place to start is some of the DivX forums. I don't know of any tutorial sites but will hunt around when I get some free time.

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Re: convert avi to mp4 in C# or C++

cbordeman23-Oct-12 9:54

cbordeman

23-Oct-12 9:54

Ever have any luck at this?

how a stream can be get from UDPClient socket

duaaali20-Jul-06 8:31

duaaali

20-Jul-06 8:31

hi i have to multicast live video on network but i cann't made stream using UDPClient socket. can anyone help me how a stream can be extracted from socket.
thanks

Re: how a stream can be get from UDPClient socket [modified]

Le centriste20-Jul-06 9:24

Le centriste

20-Jul-06 9:24

Forget what I said.

Use the System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream class. There is 4 constructors, all taking a socket as parameter.

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DateTime picker

Balaj_C20-Jul-06 8:14

Balaj_C

20-Jul-06 8:14

Is there a way to find out which field in the datetime picker has a current selection? i mean can i find if the hour field or minute field has a current selection or not?

balaji

Re: DateTime picker

Not Active20-Jul-06 9:16

Not Active

20-Jul-06 9:16

An interesting challenge. My initial thougth was sure, use the selectedText property, but damn it, it doesn't have that one Mad | :mad:

Only way I can think of is to handle the mouse events and calculate the position within the string based on the location of the event. Very complicated though.

Re: DateTime picker

Balaj_C20-Jul-06 9:26

Balaj_C

20-Jul-06 9:26

do know how to trap the events in the datetime control when the up or down arrow is clicked. I mean when the up arrow is clicked i want to do something or when down is click, i want to do something different and want to do it before the value changes because the value change will depend on the what i do on those events.

Re: DateTime picker

Not Active20-Jul-06 9:39

Not Active

20-Jul-06 9:39

Unfortunately there is no OnBeforeChanged event. Can't you handle the ValueChanged event and either revert to a previous value or allow the change?

OnValueChanged(...)
{
if( out of range )
dateTimePicker = OldValue;
else
do something
}

Storing binary data in MS Access database -- what do you think?

xkx3220-Jul-06 7:06

xkx32

20-Jul-06 7:06

Hi there,

I'm coding a photo gallery desktop program and I'm planning to store the images in an MS Access DB (OLE field). The size of the images I got is around 600 MB... ~ 400 KB each.

What do think? Can MS Access handle it or I should look for an alternative?

Please advise. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Alternative

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.20-Jul-06 7:12

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.

20-Jul-06 7:12

instead of storing the binary data in the access database store the location to the data. Either file names or URLs. I think such large amounts of data in access could cripple it.

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Moving Toolbars

hamidreza_buddy20-Jul-06 5:56

hamidreza_buddy

20-Jul-06 5:56

hi i want to know how should i make thise kind of Toolbars which can move around and when drag it out of the main Toolbar they become like a DialogBox.

Re: Moving Toolbars

RizwanSharp20-Jul-06 6:14

RizwanSharp

20-Jul-06 6:14

Use ToolStrips in .Net 2.0

Rizwan

Full screen

-Yoyosh-20-Jul-06 5:41

-Yoyosh-

20-Jul-06 5:41

I read the article
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/fullscreenmode.asp[^]

but this is nasty way to do that. Maybe C# 2.0 has already FullScreen property in some class for I could use it?

Re: Full screen

Not Active20-Jul-06 5:50

Not Active

20-Jul-06 5:50

You can set the WindowState property to Maximized. Or do you want the black backgound with your app in the center?

Re: Full screen

-Yoyosh-20-Jul-06 9:42

-Yoyosh-

20-Jul-06 9:42

Full screen and maximized window are 2 different things, the solution below is correct.

Re: Full screen

Not Active20-Jul-06 11:42

Not Active

20-Jul-06 11:42

Perhaps I'm missing something Confused | :confused:

I'm always looking to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. Both of these seem to produce the same results.

WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
TopMost = true;

Bounds = Screen.AllScreens[0].Bounds;
TopMost = true;

Re: Full screen

-Yoyosh-20-Jul-06 12:44

-Yoyosh-

20-Jul-06 12:44

First of all, u didnt said that I should used the line:
TopMost = true;
Second of all, the solution produced by that guy isn`t correct in 100% too. Maximization is an effect that u can achive by clicking appriopriate button on the top your window. Fullscreen gives ur application full screen, so no borders around, no start button, no the upper strip. U got every pixel on the screen up to u. Many computer games offer full screen, while many windows applications (form oriented) offers just a maximization.

cheers

Re: Full screen

Not Active20-Jul-06 14:30

Not Active

20-Jul-06 14:30

-Yoyosh- wrote:
First of all, u didnt said that I should used the line:
TopMost = true;

Nor did you ask for TopMost.

-Yoyosh- wrote:
Maybe C# 2.0 has already FullScreen property in some class for I could use it?

You also didn't specify that you wanted no borders. We'll just say it was miscommunication and move on. Smile | :)

Re: Full screen

Sean8920-Jul-06 6:01

Sean89

20-Jul-06 6:01

This works for full screen mode for me:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
{
this.Bounds = Screen.AllScreens[0].Bounds;
this.TopMost = true;
}

Does that help?

Re: Full screen

-Yoyosh-20-Jul-06 9:43

-Yoyosh-

20-Jul-06 9:43

Yes, exactly, thank you Smile | :)

Do you maybe know how to get rid of window bounds and the upper strip with name of the form and min, max and close buttons?

Re: Full screen [modified]

Sean8920-Jul-06 11:43

Sean89

20-Jul-06 11:43

Set the FormBorderStyle property of your form to "None".

That should do it Laugh | :laugh:

Re: Full screen

-Yoyosh-20-Jul-06 12:48

-Yoyosh-

20-Jul-06 12:48

oh yee it does Wink | ;)

thanx again

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