Medientage München 2009
Archive for October, 2009
Ventuz goes Pop Art
October/30 2009…at least kind of.
I stumbled upon this on the web and thought that this should be possible in Ventuz too.
So I took two handful of scripts (so its Pro-only. Sorry!) and some axes and rects and shaked all well.
Et voilà:
Here is the Scene and here is the Presentation.
Press R for Reset and A for Auto-Reset (currently every 45 sec.)
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Script Editor shortcuts
October/28 2009Since we have a new and powerful Script Editor in version 5.18, I thought I should point you to some useful shortcuts in the editor.
Most of them correspond to the shortcuts in Visual Studio. Here are the most interessting:
Code Snippets:
- insert code snippet: CTRL + K, X
Bookmarks:
- toggle bookmark: CTRL + K, K
- goto next bookmark: CTRL + K, N
- goto previous bookmark: CTRL + K, P
Comment Selection:
- comment line or selection: CTRL + K, C
- uncomment line or selection: CTRL + K, U
Cut line:
- remove complete line: SHIFT + DEL
Quick info:
- display info: CTRL + K, I
List members:
- list class members: CTRL + K, L
You can download a complete list here!
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Impress your guests in your living room
October/12 2009Take a projector, a notebook or normal PC, the free Ventuz Express Edition and make it an “Impress” Edition by beaming some nice effects on the boring wall.
The girls will love your creativity! 
Best regards to “Strohmy” and thanks for the great support on our summer-drinking-party!
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KAUST inauguration in Saudi Arabia
October/12 2009Related to the big event in Saudi Arabia, I found some interesting clips on YouTube. Read more here…
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Video streams in Ventuz
October/2 2009Receiving video streams in Ventuz seems always to be a kind of mystery.
The existence of Windows ME II (aka Vista) doesn’t make things any better!
Recently a customer was struggling with streaming again so I decided to write this blog entry.
This is not meant as a complete specification – it´s more a collections of hints.
Generaly Ventuz supports video input stream via DirectShow. QuickTime streaming is not supported yet!
The stream ULR has to be specified in the File property of the Movie Clip node.
There are three protocols which can be used under XP: MMS, HTTP and UDP
MMS and HTTP should work without any additional efforts. A codec which is definitely working is WMV.
To stream MPEG2 via UDP you need e.g.:
http://www.elecard.com/products/products-pc/consumer/mpeg2-plugin-wmp/
Under Vista/ Win 7 MMS does not work because of:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mediasdkstuff/archive/2009/02/05/rendering-a-url-with-graphedit.aspx
Some MMS Urls can be rendered anyhow if you change the protocol of the Url from MMS to HTTP:
mms://steaming_url… -> http://steaming_url…
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