3 Responses for "Tweet, tweet!"

1. Pinaki Saha April 13th, 2009 at 4:42 pm 1

   Hi Lisa,

   We plan to stream using FMS 3.5. Our’s is a streaming VOD application. We are trying to use the new features of FMS to provide us with thumbnails of selective streams and save those thumbnails in our database for creating a playlist. I hear all about BitmapData.draw() and Client.videoSampleAccess.. however, I am wondering if there could be some code snippet to implement it from a web based application. We are using ASP.NET.

   I will appreciate if you could lead me to the right direction or help me with some samples/examples.

   Thanks,
   Pinaki.

2. lisa larson~kelley April 13th, 2009 at 5:04 pm 2

   Hi Pinaki,

   Yes, this is certainly possible; I would recommend looking into server-side ActionScript to set the permissions to allow bitmap access, and saving the bitmap data to a file using client-side ActionScript 3 code.

   You can look into using the AS3 corelib class JPGEncoder or PNGEncoder: http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/

   You might also look into ffmpeg-php for a solution.

   If for some reason you need to work in AS2 (gasp!) Quasimondo has a good one: http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000645.php.

   Hope this helps point you in the right direction!

   // Lisa

3. Pinaki Saha April 15th, 2009 at 2:22 pm 3

   Thank you very much Lisa! Luckily enough we are going with AS3 I will try out your recommendations.

   Warm regards,
   Pinaki.