Martin Grayson: Adventures of a 'Devigner' : Media

New Silverlight 2 Media Player for my blog!

Martin Grayson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:36:00 GMT

UPDATE: Get the latest blog media player code from Blacklight, our new CodePlex project!

I have been meaning to start video blogging (vlogging) for some time. I think you can get stuff across far more simply that way. However, I hadn't gotten around to building a simple video player for hosting on my blog - well, problem solved. I finally got off my backside and made one.

I decided to make my first video blog on the media player itself, so sit back and enjoy.

Introducing the new Video Blog Media Player

You can download the video too.

The source code for the media player is available from www.codeplex.com/blacklight if you want to change / host it yourself. Thanks to Tim Sneath for giving the example on how to host Silverlight on your blog.

You could also point to where I have hosted the page (if you don't have hosting yourself) - however, I cannot guarantee the connection or that the MediaPlayer will be bug free.

The player is hosted on this page... http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.html

You need to pass in a source to activate the player - i.e. http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.html?mediaSource=http://silverlight.services.live.com/11264/vlog_200808/video.wmv.

Happy vlogging!

Martin

BBC's One Big Weekend in 'One Big Zoomy Photo Thing'

Martin Grayson — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:39:00 GMT

Jesse Liberty notes the great use of deep zoom to show pictures from this weekend's One Big Weekend Festival from the BBC in the 'One Big Zoomy Photo Thing'. I listened to much of the event on the radio, and saw bits on the telly, and its now great to see the Beeb taking their media one step further. There are lots of little easter eggs to find too, here's one I found earlier...

Be warned though, you are likely to spend far too much time just browsing through the collection looking at random crowd members and the beads of sweat on Madonna's forehead!

Check it out here.

IBloks BETA now available!

Martin Grayson — Thu, 25 May 2006 11:15:00 GMT

As previewed at MIX06... the IBlock beta is now availble for testing. And it is addictive. Unless you have a couple of hours spare playing with IBloks, then stay well away.

This is set to be one of the first commercial WPF apps. What IBloks does incredible well is show WPF's simple and clean integration of picture, audio, video text and 3D. I have decided to make an IBloks dancing man of myself, photographing my face and body parts and adding them to the man, and then making him dance... just need to find a digital camera... I will upload him once I am done! :)

Martin