Recovering Workaholic
Posted: 08/16/2006 03:19 PM
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Tags: development work
Wow. It's been some time since I updated this blog (and the rest of the website... well, I won't go there!)
Lately, I've been working on a small app for the PIO's office at work: basically it's an upload/metadata utility for Window Media files. We're running Windows Media Services at work, and we have a collection of videos available for on-demand streaming. So basically, this application I'm building is to manage and categorize the available media files.
In the process of building the application, I've learned a couple of useful tricks:
1: The WM Plug-in has an extensive Javascript API. Covers everything from playback controls to management/creation of playlists.
2: It's possible (and cool) to create dynamic WM playlists using ASP.Net (they're basically XML files, so....)
The next thing I'm going to try to do (today) is manipulate a .WMV file server-side to extract a thumnail image of the video. Should be fun - but then, I'm a glutton for punishment!