Here’s the scenario..
You’re a Clarion developer, and you need a control that can play media files.
The control needs to be stable, it needs to support a wide range of video formats, and ideally it should be reasonably easy to implement.
Deja vu?
Yes, there are similar controls on the market. So what makes this one special?
For starters, it does NOT use the Windows Media Player OCX. Your users don’t have to install another program in order for this control to work. You can ship this control with your EXE! It also won’t display the Media Player logo in your APP!
It’s also a LOT more powerful than anything else that I have seen before. This control can play a HUGE range of file formats, including AVI, MPG, MP3, WMV, FLV (think “YouTube”!), ASF, MOV, OGG, AAC, and many others!
You can even use this control to play DVDs!! Complete with menus, clickable regions, everything! It can also play Audio CDs!
It can play streaming media from a URL, the feed from your webcam, the feed from your video capture card, or you can even use it as a screen capture tool!
It can record audio from your microphone (we’re already incorporated this into J-Skype).
You can apply filers to your videos – distort, invert, or superimpose a logo!
It even includes audio visualization engines!!!
Need I say more..?
If you’re looking for a media control for Clarion, I highly recommend J-Media. If you’re in any doubt about how good this control really is, why not download and try the demo.
How does it work?
No, I can’t take all the credit. I’m actually basing this on an open-source control called VLC from the VideoLAN project.
I’ve made several improvements to the VLC control, and what took me countless hours of fiddling with undocumented C++ code can now be added to your own Clarion APPs in a matter of minutes.
How do I implement it?
All you need to do is install J-Media, add the “J-Media Global Extension Template” to your Clarion APP, and then drop J-Media controls onto your Clarion windows! Loading a video file takes one line of code. Playing it takes another line of code. It’s really easy to use, and comes with example APPs and documentation.
User Testimonials
“J-Media is great! I already have a few training videos out for my app and the users like it a lot.” – Johan de Klerk, South Africa
“I’ve been testing J-Media during the past week, and it’s a very promising and wonderful tool.” – Gunnar Jorgensen, Norway
“J-Media is great!” – Chris Laurie, Acron, South Africa
“J-Media looks very nice. I like what you’ve done with VLC.” – Rohan Dunstan, Australia
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Useful Links
- Download J-Media
- View Online Documentation
- View Video Tutorials
- Other products by StrategyOnline
- The Blog
Frequently Asked Questions
J-Media
Numerous plugin DLLs are provided for the J-Media VLC control. These DLLs can be found in your Clarion\3rdParty\Examples\JMedia\Demo\Plugins folder. In order to use these plugin DLLs, simply create a subfolder in the same folder that your EXE is running from called “Plugins”, and copy the plugin DLLs into that folder.
Below are a list of the plugins that J-Media can implement. You can either ship all of these with your software, or you can ship only those that your clients will need.
(If you have installed the VLC client EXE, you can also view this list by typing “vlc -l” from the command prompt.)
memcpymmx MMX memcpy
i420_rgb_mmx MMX I420,IYUV,YV12 to RV15,RV16,RV24,RV32 conversions
i422_yuy2_mmx MMX conversions from I422 to YUY2,YUNV,YVYU,UYVY,UYNV,Y422,IUYV,cyuv
i420_ymga_mmx MMX conversions from I420,IYUV,YV12 to YMGA
i420_yuy2_mmx MMX conversions from I420,IYUV,YV12 to YUY2,YUNV,YVYU,UYVY,UYNV,Y422,IUYV,cyuv
memcpymmxext MMX EXT memcpy
memcpy3dn 3D Now! memcpy
live555 RTP/RTSP/SDP demuxer (using Live555)
live555 RTSP/RTP access and demux
mux_ts TS muxer (libdvbpsi)
quicktime QuickTime library decoder
a52sys Raw A/52 demuxer
a52tofloat32 ATSC A/52 (AC-3) audio decoder
a52tofloat32 ATSC A/52 (AC-3) audio decoder
a52tospdif Audio filter for A/52->S/PDIF encapsulation
a52 A/52 parser
a52 A/52 audio packetizer
access_directory Standard filesystem directory input
access_directory Directory EOF
access_fake Fake input
access_file File input
access_filter_dump Dump
access_filter_record Record
access_filter_timeshift Timeshift
access_ftp FTP input
access_http HTTP input
access_mms Microsoft Media Server (MMS) input
access_output_dummy Dummy stream output
access_output_file File stream output
access_output_http HTTP stream output
access_output_shout IceCAST output
access_output_udp UDP stream output
access_realrtsp Real RTSP
access_smb SMB input
access_tcp TCP input
access_udp UDP/RTP input
adjust Image properties filter
adpcm ADPCM audio decoder
aiff AIFF demuxer
aout_directx DirectX audio output
aout_file File audio output
araw Raw/Log Audio decoder
araw Raw audio encoder
asf ASF v1.0 demuxer
audio_format Audio filter for PCM format conversion
au AU demuxer
avi AVI demuxer
bandlimited_resampler Audio filter for band-limited interpolation resampling
blend Video pictures blending
caca Color ASCII art video output
cdda Audio CD input
cinepak Cinepak video decoder
clone Clone video filter
cmml CMML annotations decoder
cmml CMML annotations decoder
crop Crop video filter
cvdsub CVD subtitle decoder
cvdsub Chaoji VCD subtitle packetizer
deinterlace Deinterlacing video filter
deinterlace Deinterlacing video filter
demuxdump File dumpper
direct3d DirectX 3D video output
distort Distort video filter
dmo DirectMedia Object decoder
dmo DirectMedia Object encoder
dolby_surround_decoder Simple decoder for Dolby Surround encoded streams
dtssys Raw DTS demuxer
dtstofloat32 DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder
dtstofloat32 DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder
dtstospdif Audio filter for DTS->S/PDIF encapsulation
dts DTS parser
dts DTS audio packetizer
dummy Dummy interface function
dummy Dummy access function
dummy Dummy demux function
dummy Dummy decoder function
dummy Dummy encoder function
dummy Dummy audio output function
dummy Dummy video output function
dummy Dummy font renderer function
dvbsub DVB subtitles decoder
dvbsub DVB subtitles encoder
dvdnav DVDnav Input
dvdread DVDRead Input (DVD without menu support)
equalizer Equalizer with 10 bands
export export
export M3U playlist exporter
export Old playlist exporter
export XSPF playlist export
faad AAC audio decoder (using libfaad2)
fake Fake video decoder
ffmpeg FFmpeg audio/video decoder/encoder ((MS)MPEG4,SVQ1,H263,WMV,WMA)
ffmpeg FFmpeg chroma conversion
ffmpeg FFmpeg audio/video encoder
ffmpeg FFmpeg demuxer
ffmpeg FFmpeg muxer
ffmpeg FFmpeg video filter
ffmpeg FFmpeg crop padd filter
ffmpeg FFmpeg deinterlace video filter
fixed32tofloat32 Audio filter for fixed32<->float32 conversion
fixed32tos16 Audio filter for fixed32->s16 conversion
flacdec Flac audio decoder
flacdec Flac audio encoder
flacdec Flac audio packetizer
flac FLAC demuxer
float32tos16 Audio filter for float32->s16 conversion
float32tos8 Audio filter for float32->s8 conversion
float32tou16 Audio filter for float32->u16 conversion
float32tou8 Audio filter for float32->u8 conversion
float32_mixer Float32 audio mixer
freetype Freetype2 font renderer
gestures Mouse gestures control interface
glwin32 OpenGL video output
gnutls GnuTLS TLS encryption layer
goom Goom effect
growl Growl Notification Plugin
h264 H264 video demuxer
headphone_channel_mixer Headphone virtual spatialization effect
hotkeys Hotkeys management interface
http HTTP remote control interface
i420_rgb I420,IYUV,YV12 to RGB2,RV15,RV16,RV24,RV32 conversions
i420_ymga Conversions from I420,IYUV,YV12 to YMGA
i420_yuy2 Conversions from I420,IYUV,YV12 to YUY2,YUNV,YVYU,UYVY,UYNV,Y422,IUYV,cyuv,Y211
i422_yuy2 Conversions from I422 to YUY2,YUNV,YVYU,UYVY,UYNV,Y422,IUYV,cyuv,Y211
id3tag ID3 tags parser
image Image video output
invert Invert video filter
ipv4 UDP/IPv4 network abstraction layer
ipv6 UDP/IPv6 network abstraction layer
libmpeg2 MPEG I/II video decoder (using libmpeg2)
linear_resampler Audio filter for linear interpolation resampling
linear_resampler Audio filter for linear interpolation resampling
logger File logging
logo Logo video filter
logo Logo sub filter
lpcm Linear PCM audio decoder
lpcm Linear PCM audio packetizer
m3u Playlist metademux
m4a MPEG-4 audio demuxer
m4v MPEG-4 video demuxer
magnify Magnify/Zoom interactive video filter
marq Marquee display
memcpy libc memcpy
mjpeg M-JPEG camera demuxer
mkv Matroska stream demuxer
mod MOD demuxer (libmodplug)
mosaic Mosaic video sub filter
motionblur Motion blur filter
motiondetect Motion detect video filter
mp4 MP4 stream demuxer
mpc MusePack demuxer
mpeg_audio MPEG audio layer I/II/III decoder
mpeg_audio MPEG audio layer I/II/III packetizer
mpgatofixed32 MPEG audio decoder
mpgatofixed32 MPEG audio decoder
mpga MPEG audio / MP3 demuxer
mpgv MPEG-I/II video demuxer
msn MSN Now-Playing
mux_asf ASF muxer
mux_avi AVI muxer
mux_dummy Dummy/Raw muxer
mux_mp4 MP4/MOV muxer
mux_mpjpeg Multipart JPEG muxer
mux_ogg Ogg/OGM muxer
mux_ps PS muxer
mux_wav WAV muxer
netsync Network synchronisation
normvol Volume normalizer
nsc Windows Media NSC metademux
nsv NullSoft demuxer
ntservice Windows Service interface
nuv Nuv demuxer
ogg OGG demuxer
opengl OpenGL video output
osdmenu On Screen Display menu
packetizer_copy Copy packetizer
packetizer_h264 H.264 video packetizer
packetizer_mpeg4audio MPEG4 audio packetizer
packetizer_mpeg4video MPEG4 video packetizer
packetizer_mpegvideo MPEG-I/II video packetizer
param_eq Parametric Equalizer
playlist Playlist
playlist M3U playlist import
playlist PLS playlist import
playlist B4S playlist import
playlist DVB playlist import
playlist Podcast parser
playlist XSPF playlist import
playlist New winamp 5.2 shoutcast import
png PNG video decoder
podcast Podcasts
portaudio PORTAUDIO audio output
ps MPEG-PS demuxer
ps MPEG-PS demuxer
pva PVA demuxer
rawdv DV (Digital Video) demuxer
rawvideo Pseudo raw video decoder
rawvideo Pseudo raw video packetizer
rc Remote control interface
realaudio RealAudio library decoder
real Real demuxer
rss RSS and Atom feed display
rv32 RV32 conversion filter
s16tofixed32 Audio filter for s16->fixed32 conversion
s16tofloat32swab Audio filter for s16->float32 with endianness conversion
s16tofloat32 Audio filter for s16->float32 conversion
s8tofloat32 Audio filter for s8->float32 conversion
sap SAP Announcements
sap SDP file parser for UDP
scale Video scaling filter
screen Screen Input
sdl_image SDL_image video decoder
sgimb Kasenna MediaBase parser
shout Shoutcast radio listings
shout Shoutcast TV listings
showintf Show interface with mouse
simple_channel_mixer Audio filter for simple channel mixing
spdif_mixer Dummy S/PDIF audio mixer
speex Speex audio decoder
speex Speex audio packetizer
speex Speex audio encoder
spudec DVD subtitles decoder
spudec DVD subtitles packetizer
stream_out_bridge Bridge stream output
stream_out_bridge Bridge stream output
stream_out_bridge Bridge stream output
stream_out_description Description stream output
stream_out_display Display stream output
stream_out_dummy Dummy stream output
stream_out_duplicate Duplicate stream output
stream_out_es Elementary stream output
stream_out_gather Gathering stream output
stream_out_mosaic_bridge Mosaic bridge stream output
stream_out_rtp RTP stream output
stream_out_standard Standard stream output
stream_out_transcode Transcode stream output
subsdec Text subtitles decoder
subtitle Text subtitles parser
svcdsub Philips OGT (SVCD subtitle) decoder
svcdsub Philips OGT (SVCD subtitle) packetizer
telnet VLM remote control interface
telx Teletext subtitles decoder
theora Theora video decoder
theora Theora video packetizer
theora Theora video encoder
time Time display sub filter
transform Video transformation filter
trivial_channel_mixer Audio filter for trivial channel mixing
trivial_mixer Trivial audio mixer
trivial_resampler Audio filter for trivial resampling
ts MPEG Transport Stream demuxer
tta TTA demuxer
twolame Libtwolame audio encoder
ty TY Stream audio/video demux
u8tofixed32 Audio filter for u8->fixed32 conversion
u8tofloat32 Audio filter for u8->float32 conversion
ugly_resampler Audio filter for ugly resampling
vcd VCD input
visual Visualizer filter
vobsub Vobsub subtitles parser
voc VOC demuxer
vod_rtsp RTSP VoD server
vorbis Vorbis audio decoder
vorbis Vorbis audio packetizer
vorbis Vorbis audio encoder
wall Wall video filter
waveout Win32 waveOut extension output
wav WAV demuxer
wingdi Windows GDI video output
wxwidgets wxWidgets interface module
wxwidgets wxWidgets dialogs provider
x264 H.264/MPEG4 AVC encoder (using x264 library)
xa XA demuxer
xml XML Parser (using libxml2)
xtag Simple XML Parser
dshow DirectShow input
dshow DirectShow input
skins2 Skinnable Interface
skins2 Skins loader demux
vout_directx DirectX video output
This information is published on the Developer Tools page.
Clarion
From Windows Vista, you may experience problems running certain Clarion accessory installers, whereby they will not be able to detect your installed versions of Clarion. Please see the following link for more information, as well as a workaround:
If you are experiencing problems compiling our example applications using Clarion 5.5.h, please take a look at the following article:
DebugView is a free application that you can download from Microsoft, which enables you to view debug output from our products. This can be very helpful in tracking down problems.
By default, our products do not generate debug messages, so you will not see anything in DebugView. To enable debug messages, simpy tick the “Send messages to DebugView” option found on each of products’ Global Extension Templates, as shown below.
Once you have turned on the “Send messages to DebugView” option, recompile and run your APP. You should then see messages appearing in DebugView.
Our 3rdParty documentation is now available from within the Clarion 7 IDE.
After installing any of our Clarion 3rdParty products, you can now access our help system as follows…
From within the Clarion 7 IDE, simply click on the “Help” menu, then click on “Accessory”, then “StrategyOnline”. Then click on “Online Product Documentation”.
