Posts Tagged ‘video’

Xamarin for C# Developers – Another Real World Programmer Presentation

Posted: April 7, 2017 in Microsoft, Programming, Software Development, Uncategorized, Xamarin
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Want to learn all about Xamarin and how you can use it, while not spending most of your time watching code scroll by in a video? I figured there was room for an explainer without being a close-captioner for a code tutorial. Enjoy my latest video!

https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=AhvofyQCrhw

From the description, along with links:

Have you been considering Xamarin for your cross-platform mobile app? This presentation will help.

In this non-code-heavy presentation, we’ll discuss:

* What is Xamarin
* Development Environment Gotchas
* Creating a Sample To Do List App without writing any code
* Reviewing a real Xamarin app that’s “in the wild”
* Review native, platform-specific integrations
* Discuss gotchas when using Xamarin, and mobile apps in general
* Answer audience questions

Why not code-heavy? Because there are many examples you can follow online. This presentation will provide valuable information you can consider while reviewing the myriad of tutorials available to you with a simple Bing or Google search, or visiting Pluralsight, Microsoft Virtual Academy, or Xamarin University.

If you have any feedback, please leave in the comments, or ask me on Twitter: @Auri

Here are the links relevant for this presentation:

Slides: https://1drv.ms/p/s!AmKBMqPeeM_1-Zd7Y…

Indy.Code Slides with Cost and Performance Figures: https://1drv.ms/p/s!AmKBMqPeeM_1-JZR4…
(you can find the Indy.Code() presentation on my YouTube channel)

Google Xamarin vs. Native iOS with Swift/Objective C vs. Android with Java Performance Article: https://medium.com/@harrycheung/mobil…

Example code for push notifications, OAuth Twitter/Facebook/Google authentication, and more: https://github.com/codemillmatt/confe…

Link to Microsoft Dev Essentials for $30/month free Azure credit and free Xamarin training: https://aka.ms/devessentials

Microsoft Virtual Academy Multi-Threading Series: https://mva.microsoft.com/en-us/train…

 

How to stream Azure Media Services MP4 to HTML5 Video Player

Posted: August 13, 2015 in Uncategorized
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I struggled with this for a few days while trying to convert a Silverlight video player to HTML5, and finally found an answer. Posting here in case anyone else is having trouble!

You need to specify the format as MPEG DASH to get it to smoothstream the MP4 file to the HTML5 video player. This is done by adding a format parameter to the manifest URL, as follows:
Note the (format=mpd-time-csf) at the end of the URL. There are a number of other formats you can stream, including the Silverlight SmoothStream, Adobe’s streaming format, Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming for iOS devices, and more. This is all done for you automatically by Azure’s Media Services. Pretty darn cool.
I struggled to find this, too, so quite happy I finally got things working. Here’s the source URL from Microsoft for more details: