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alsuse
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Joined: 29 Oct 2006
Location: United States
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Looking for posts that would help a beginner learn to deal with video conversion using C#. Any help would be appreciated.
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Cornucopia
Patently Pending
Joined: 22 Oct 2001
Location: E-Cnt. IL, USA (AGAIN!)
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Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel? There are already plenty of good video conversion apps out there (here).
Scott
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deadrats
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Joined: 29 Nov 2005
Location: United States
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| alsuse wrote: |
| Looking for posts that would help a beginner learn to deal with video conversion using C#. Any help would be appreciated. |
what?!? am i correct in assuming that you wish to learn how to code a video conversion application, using C# no less, and you hope to learn how to do this by reading posts on a forum?!?
there's no way that this is a serious inquiry.
no matter what, it is funny as hell. 
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El Heggunte
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Joined: 18 Jun 2009
Location: Atomiswave
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Not to mention that C# is evil. 
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alsuse
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Joined: 29 Oct 2006
Location: United States
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It's more of a learning type deal. It's not that I need an app to convert (i got plenty). I just want the know-how. Just wondering how to get started. I have OOP training and a good handle on programming languages. Just looking for pointers. I just figured this may have been visited before on the forum, so there may have been some useful posts somewhere.
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Cornucopia
Patently Pending
Joined: 22 Oct 2001
Location: E-Cnt. IL, USA (AGAIN!)
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Get a copy of the source code of Virtualdub. See how it's built.
So what it's not in C#, programming constructs and principles still apply.
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Tell you what, if you still want to do some video programming, I've got just the job (though currently non-paying) for you...PM me if you're interested.
Scott
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jagabo
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Bjs
RoadKill
Joined: 09 Feb 2004
Location: Australia
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Best place to start is with one of many code dev websites ... plenty of them with code resources available
codeproject ... click the C# on the bar running across the screen at the top and then chose interest type
programmingtutorials
cprogramming
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deadrats
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Joined: 29 Nov 2005
Location: United States
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| alsuse wrote: |
| It's more of a learning type deal. It's not that I need an app to convert (i got plenty). I just want the know-how. Just wondering how to get started. I have OOP training and a good handle on programming languages. Just looking for pointers. I just figured this may have been visited before on the forum, so there may have been some useful posts somewhere. |
ok, if you have a programming background, start by learning as much as you can about compression algorithms in general, don't worry about video compression right off the bat. learn about lossless compression, learn about various math concepts, like pascal's triangle, learn about matrices and matrix multiplication.
forget about object oriented programing, you don't need objects, classes, polymorphism, inheritance, stick with pascal or c/c++, learn how to write functions, stucts, unions, bit manipulation.
the reason i "laughed" was because video compression is one of the hardest programming tasks you can undertake, it generally takes a b.s. in comp sci level of programming knowledge to code a video compression app and even then, just looking at all the crappy apps out there, it's no easy task.
download every open source encoder you can get your hands on, ffmpeg, mencoder, x264, xvid, and if you have a solid knowledge of C you might be able to figure out what it going on.
if however you have a background primarily in oop, using languages like java and c# you're in for a rough ride.
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