Projects

audio-music-player

Playing sounds like Midi, mp3 and Real Media requires plugins in all browsers. Flash players play some media files. This project experiments with ways to play sound in web pages which can work in all the browsers. The Audio player Gadget uses the embed tag and works with browsers using the plugins ... [More] with the supporting multimedia players like Quicktime and Real Player. This Gadget code is also an example of changing skins using css and storing skin setting in cookies. It also has an integrated and small footprint inline help using dhtml. The playlist is stored in cookies using PSV format. This can be backed up and restored like a cookie database. This gadget may not be a practical music player, but a nice code example and also helps understand music formats, cross browser plugins and media players. [Less]

processinginbrowser

This project is to create the necessary library/libraries to provide Processing sketches to work better in web browsers. Main features include giving access to webcam & audio input. Currently the focus is on building a new video capture library, which automatically detects if the medium is a ... [More] web browser. If so, video library fetches the video capture information from a Flash element on the same web page, instead of trying to access to a cam device (Java applets are not allowed to access any hardware input in browsers). [Less]