On this page is a presentation of some of the software I’ve developed.
Video to FLV Converter .NET component
FLV is the video format from flash. This .NET component can convert virtually ANY video file to the excellent FLV format, thanks to the excellent Mencoder utility (included). This is not a stand-alone program. It is a dll wrapper written in .NET, which can be utilized by a .NET application running on a Windows Server, including ASP.NET (in both C# and Visual Basic.NET of course).
Converters like this are insanely expensive. This is the affordable, yet fully operational, alternative for this specific need of converting any video file to the FLV format for flash players.
It supports converting mpg, mpeg, avi, wmv, asf, mov and more into flv.
Price: $350. Does it not do what you expected? Get your money back within 14 days of your purchase.
After you have purchased it, you can …
- Use it in all of your applications.
- Install it on all your servers.
- Redistribute it with all the applications you sell.
- Let others in your company use it.
You can’t resell or give away the component itself.
How to install and use the FLV Converter
1. Copy the dll and the exe to your bin folder.
2. Give your .NET user (probably Network Service) permission to execute encoder.exe. This step may not be neccesary or may vary depending on your Windows security settings.
3. In your .NET project, make a reference to the dll.
4. In your Web.config, add this to your <appSettings> section:
<appSettings>
<add key=”FlvExePath” value=”C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\yourproject\Bin\encoder.exe”/>
</appSettings>
Replace the value with the actual location of encoder.exe.
5. In your code, call the converter method like this:
bool completed = GyxiFlvConverter.FlvConverter.ConvertVideoToFlv(source, target);
source: The physical path of your avi file.
target: The physical path where you want your flv file saved.
After the method has run and has returned true, the flv file has been created. The method virtually never returns false, but if it does, it means the flv file was not created. This happens if there is an error in the video file. For example, if it really a .doc that has just been renamed to .avi
Gyxi’s Image Spider
Use the Image Spider to download all images on a web site.
After having looked for an application like this, I found they were all too difficult to use, and I chose to make my own. I have made sure the threading is flawless and the user interface is fairly simple. I have also made sure it can handle many thousands of images and can keep running day and night for weeks until all images are downloaded.
I find it relevant to note, that this application does not work with all types of websites. For example, sites with scripting to images, flash navigation etc. instead of links can successfully hide their images from Gyxi’s Image Spider.
Install (Only works with Internet Explorer as your default browser – sorry)
