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  • php request youtube video is not working [closed]

    - by m3tsys
    what is wrong to this code? header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash'); $video_id = $_REQUEST['id']; $content = readfile("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$video_id"); echo $content; or header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash'); $video_id = $_REQUEST['id']; $content = readfile("http://localhost/embed/player.swf?file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$video_id"); echo $content; Why this code is not working? How should look the code?

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  • The ‘Coolest’ Server You will Ever See [Video]

    - by Asian Angel
    What is a little bit of snow-covered server between friends, right? From YouTube: This is an experimental Free Air Cooling setup called a Helsinki Chamber. You can learn more about this experimental server cooling technology here. Snow is not a problem for servers in Finland [via Fail Desk] Our Geek Trivia App for Windows 8 is Now Available Everywhere How To Boot Your Android Phone or Tablet Into Safe Mode HTG Explains: Does Your Android Phone Need an Antivirus?

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  • No video signal after install

    - by tW4r
    Today I tried to install Ubuntu 12.10 to my machine, but all the time I encountered the same problem, I successfully boot from Ubuntu 12.04 DVD, and a purple background comes up with accessibility and keyboard icons at the bottom of the screen, then when you wait a while a monitor text comes up "No signal" (Keep in mind that this signal is only shown when there's cable in the monitor HDMI plug), and nothing happens, a little later disk drive stops flashing meaning that disk finished being read. Even if you reset the computer you still get no signal, you have to turn the power of and on again, and plug HDMI out and put it in again. My info: Graphics card: ATI/AMD Radeon HD 4850 Connection to monitor: HDMI Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster T220HD

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  • HTML5 video - Safari (Mac) - live HLS stream - seek in live buffer

    - by bsnote
    I have the following HTML: <head> </head> <body> <button type="button" onclick="onSeek();">Seek</button> <video id="video" src="http://<host>/somevideo.m3u8" autoplay controls> </video> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script> <script> function onSeek() { var video = $('#video')[0]; video.currentTime = -300; } </script> </body> When I open the page, the m3u8 playlist has already about 100 media segments (5 min). Since it's a live video it starts playing from one of the last media segments and video.currentTime is set to 0. video.seekable.start(i) and video.seekable.end(i) shows the seekable range which is 0..currentTime. How can I seek to the previous media segments, say 5 min back? video.currentTime = -300 doesn't work. It resets currentTime to 0.

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  • Error in code of basic game using multiple sprites and surfaceView [on hold]

    - by Khagendra Nath Mahato
    I am a beginner to android and i was trying to make a basic game with the help of an online video tutorial. I am having problem with the multi-sprites and how to use with surfaceview.The application fails launching. Here is the code of the game.please help me. package com.example.killthemall; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import java.util.Random; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.BitmapFactory; import android.graphics.Canvas; import android.graphics.Rect; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.SurfaceHolder; import android.view.SurfaceView; import android.widget.Toast; public class Game extends Activity { KhogenView View1; @Override protected void onPause() { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.onPause(); while(true){ try { OurThread.join(); } catch (InterruptedException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); }} } Thread OurThread; int herorows = 4; int herocolumns = 3; int xpos, ypos; int xspeed; int yspeed; int herowidth; int widthnumber = 0; int heroheight; Rect src; Rect dst; int round; Bitmap bmp1; // private Bitmap bmp1;//change name public List<Sprite> sprites = new ArrayList<Sprite>() { }; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); View1 = new KhogenView(this); setContentView(View1); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.image)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad1)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad2)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad3)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad4)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad5)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad6)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good1)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good2)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good3)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good4)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good5)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good6)); } private Sprite createSprite(int image) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub bmp1 = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), image); return new Sprite(this, bmp1); } public class KhogenView extends SurfaceView implements Runnable { SurfaceHolder OurHolder; Canvas canvas = null; Random rnd = new Random(); { xpos = rnd.nextInt(canvas.getWidth() - herowidth)+herowidth; ypos = rnd.nextInt(canvas.getHeight() - heroheight)+heroheight; xspeed = rnd.nextInt(10 - 5) + 5; yspeed = rnd.nextInt(10 - 5) + 5; } public KhogenView(Context context) { super(context); // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub OurHolder = getHolder(); OurThread = new Thread(this); OurThread.start(); } @Override public void run() { // TODO Auto-generated method stub herowidth = bmp1.getWidth() / 3; heroheight = bmp1.getHeight() / 4; boolean isRunning = true; while (isRunning) { if (!OurHolder.getSurface().isValid()) continue; canvas = OurHolder.lockCanvas(); canvas.drawRGB(02, 02, 50); for (Sprite sprite : sprites) { if (widthnumber == 3) widthnumber = 0; update(); getdirection(); src = new Rect(widthnumber * herowidth, round * heroheight, (widthnumber + 1) * herowidth, (round + 1)* heroheight); dst = new Rect(xpos, ypos, xpos + herowidth, ypos+ heroheight); canvas.drawBitmap(bmp1, src, dst, null); } widthnumber++; OurHolder.unlockCanvasAndPost(canvas); } } public void update() { try { Thread.sleep(1000); } catch (InterruptedException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } if (xpos + xspeed <= 0) xspeed = 40; if (xpos >= canvas.getWidth() - herowidth) xspeed = -50; if (ypos + yspeed <= 0) yspeed = 45; if (ypos >= canvas.getHeight() - heroheight) yspeed = -55; xpos = xpos + xspeed; ypos = ypos + yspeed; } public void getdirection() { double angleinteger = (Math.atan2(yspeed, xspeed)) / (Math.PI / 2); round = (int) (Math.round(angleinteger) + 2) % herorows; // Toast.makeText(this, String.valueOf(round), // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } } public class Sprite { Game game; private Bitmap bmp; public Sprite(Game game, Bitmap bmp) { // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub this.game = game; this.bmp = bmp; } } } Here is the LogCat if it helps.... 08-22 23:18:06.980: D/AndroidRuntime(28151): Shutting down VM 08-22 23:18:06.980: W/dalvikvm(28151): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0xb3f6f4f0) 08-22 23:18:06.980: D/AndroidRuntime(28151): procName from cmdline: com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:06.980: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): in writeCrashedAppName, pkgName :com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:06.980: D/AndroidRuntime(28151): file written successfully with content: com.example.killthemall StringBuffer : ;com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:06.990: I/Process(28151): Sending signal. PID: 28151 SIG: 9 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.killthemall/com.example.killthemall.Game}: java.lang.NullPointerException 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:880) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:638) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at com.example.killthemall.Game$KhogenView.<init>(Game.java:96) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at com.example.killthemall.Game.onCreate(Game.java:58) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1049) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): ... 11 more 08-22 23:18:18.050: D/AndroidRuntime(28191): Shutting down VM 08-22 23:18:18.050: W/dalvikvm(28191): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0xb3f6f4f0) 08-22 23:18:18.050: I/Process(28191): Sending signal. PID: 28191 SIG: 9 08-22 23:18:18.050: D/AndroidRuntime(28191): procName from cmdline: com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): in writeCrashedAppName, pkgName :com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:18.050: D/AndroidRuntime(28191): file written successfully with content: com.example.killthemall StringBuffer : ;com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.killthemall/com.example.killthemall.Game}: java.lang.NullPointerException 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:880) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:638) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at com.example.killthemall.Game$KhogenView.<init>(Game.java:96) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at com.example.killthemall.Game.onCreate(Game.java:58) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1049) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): ... 11 more

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  • GWT & HTML5 Video in Mobile Safari

    - by KevMo
    I'm trying to code a site in GWT that plays videos with HTML5. Everything works great on the desktop, but mobile Safari on both the iPhone and iPad do not play the video. I can play a video using Video for Everybody. I've even copied the code to my own plain HTML page, and it works flawlessly. If I serve that same code via a GWT widget, mobile safari will not play the video. On the iPhone I see a gray box with a prohibitory sign around the play button, and on the iPad it shows up as a black box. I've made sure my doctype is <!DOCTYPE html>, but I don't know where else to start debugging. Perhaps it it because the code is injected via javascript? Any pointers on where to start looking would be greatly appreciated. Here is the exact code I am using for the video: <!-- "Video For Everybody" by Kroc Camen. see <camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody> for documented code =================================================================================================================== --> <video width="640" height="360" poster="poster.jpg" controls autoplay> <source src="http://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source> <source src="http://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.ogv" type="video/ogg"></source> <!--[if gt IE 6]> <object width="640" height="375" classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"><! [endif]--><!--[if !IE]><!--> <object width="640" height="375" type="video/quicktime" data="http://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4"> <!--<![endif]--> <param name="src" value="http://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4" /> <param name="autoplay" value="true" /> <param name="showlogo" value="false" /> <object width="640" height="384" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="player.swf?autostart=true&amp;image=poster.jpg&amp;file=http://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4"> <param name="movie" value="player.swf?autostart=true&amp;image=poster.jpg&amp;file=http://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4" /> <!-- fallback image --> <img src="poster.jpg" width="640" height="360" alt="Big Buck Bunny" title="No video playback capabilities, please download the video below" /> </object><!--[if gt IE 6]><!--> </object><!--<![endif]--> </video>

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  • How do i have 4GB of video memory with a 1GB video card?

    - by Tomas Spc Yaczik
    I ran the direct X diagnostic tool to take a look at my graphics capabilities and its telling me that the approximate video memory is clocked in at 4096MB. That doesn't make any sense, how is that possible? The only things that i can think of were that DirectX was inaccurate so i looked at the graphics statistics of my computer on CPU-Z which was included with the motherboard and that's telling me i have "negative" 1988MB. Not only is that not 4096MB, but its giving me a negative number and i know for a fact that you can't have a negative amount of memory???!!! The only things i can think of that would be amplifying my video memory output is the PCIe 3.0 bus, or that the motherboard is somehow including the on board video chip set with the video card which only then is only 2GB of video memory, which still has to be being amplified by something. Any suggestions?

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  • Fullscreen Video stutters on second monitor laptop

    - by nobrandheroes
    Fullscreen video on my new 1080p monitor is choppy when it comes from my laptop. The same video plays when not full screen. This goes for all video(Flash/MKV, etc), regardless of video resolution. I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series card in my Thinkpad Edge, Turion X2 2GHz. The computer plays 1080p fine. Things I've tried: Updating Drivers Switching cables Turning Hardware Acceleration Changing video players process priority Rebooting Turning of laptop screen Turning off unused processes Nothing Works. What is the likelyhood that my laptop cannot power a 1920x1280 display?

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  • Is there an easy to script 2d game world?

    - by Sandro
    For a school project we're developing a game that's a little like Conway's game of life, with different organisms taking up slots in the world and then eating each other. I would like to see this take place in a 2d world. Like being able to take starcraft and have zergling and marines play roles. The problem with starcraft is that the whole algorithm would have to be written inside of the game editor, and starcraft isn't free or open source. So is there another engine that is starcraft/warcraft/AOE-ish that can be scripted from outside of the game and is freely available? (I'm asking a lot here I know)

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  • If I wanted to make a Pac-Man Game?

    - by SoulBeaver
    I am immediately placing this as a community wiki thing. I don't want to ask for help in programming yet or have even a specific question about programming, but rather the process and the resources needed to make such a game. To put it simply: My college friend and I decided to give ourselves a really big challenge to further our skills in programming. In six months time we want to show ourselves a Pac-Man game. Pac-Man will be AI-controlled like the Ghosts and whichever Pac-Man lives the longest after a set of tries wins. This isn't like anything we've done so far. The goal here, for me, isn't to create a perfect game, but to try and complete it, learn a whole bunch in the process. Even if I don't finish in the time, which is a good possibility, I would want to have at least tried this. So my question is this: How should I start preparing myself? I already have started vector math, matrices, all that fun stuff. My desired platform would be DirectX 9.0c; is that advisable? Keep in mind that this is not a preference just for this project, but I wish to have some kind of future in graphics develepment, so I want to pick a platform that is future-safe. As for the game development in general, what should I take into consideration? I have never done a real game before, so any and all advise to development of mid-scale projects( if this would be a mid-scale project ) is greatly appreciated. My main concerns are the pit-falls and demotivators. Sorry if the question is so vague. If it doesn't belong here, then I will remove it. Otherwise, any and all advise regarding making larger projects is greatly appreciated.

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  • 3.5mm headphone jack -> Component video?

    - by Isaac Waller
    Hello, I have a strange cord that has a male 3.5mm headphone jack on one side, and some component video and audio ouputs on the other. When I plug the headphone side into my computer, and the other side into my TV, I get audio across the cable, but no video. How can I send some video over the headphone jack in OS X? I know you can, because this cable is actually for a Beyblade toy and it somehow transferred video over this cable. Thanks, Isaac I think I found some more information (from Wikipedia:) "A four conductor version (of a 3.5mm headphone jack) is becoming a de facto standard output connector for compact camcorders, providing stereo sound plus a video signal." So how can I do this on Mac?

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  • What are the ways to do synchronized streaming video and text?

    - by Marc
    I would like to have two streams. One being traditional streaming video and another being text. I will also build an interface that allows the user to create the text portion while watching the video. The context of these videos are usually that of an individual being filmed doing a presentation and later the next day for example, a coach will make text annotations (structured data is a plus) with the result being the text stream. It seems this is possible with Silverlight (see the article in the latest MSDN). However, what other methods are there if any? If there any, please give the reasons for why you are recommending them. Thanks. Also, I would prefer something that inst a software as a service hosted solution, but, dont let that keep you from giving an answer. Also keep in mind, the user shouldn't have to do any re-encoding of the video source, the text stream should be separate with someway to synchronize a coach's comments to an arbitrary time stamp in the video.

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  • How many copies of files are needed by video server?

    - by Trilok
    A quick question. How many copies of the same movie are kept in a video server (a video streaming server)? Suppose a particular video is at max requested by 1000 users at the same instant of time, how many copies would be sufficient so that parallel streams can be provided to each user? Ideally 1 copy would solve the purpose, but what is the optimum number keeping the bandwidth and simultaneous access in mind?

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  • What is the best XNA book, which can teach you the 2d & 3d game programming from basic to advance?

    - by Setve
    1- What is the best XNA book, which can teach the 2d & 3d game programming from basic to advance? Is it possible after reading that book create professional looking 3d games??? 2- Any suggestion how can become professional game developer with XNA, and create cool 3d games? 3- Is it XNA industry standard for creating games? 4- Is it any work place can join as XNA game developer?

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  • Need advice on how to set up live video streaming to web/mobile devices

    - by jasondewitt
    I have a bunch of live udp video streams that currently are viewed by set top boxes in my network. I would like to pick this video up (I can do this with vlc now) and stream it out to other non-STB endpoints (webpage or a phone/tablet of some sort). Right now I am able to pick up the udp stream with vlc and convert it to an http stream on port 8080 of my vlc box. Then I can use the vlc client to pick up and watch that video stream. This is where I'm not sure where to go with it. I really doubt I would want everyone who is watching the video to make a connection back to my vlc server that is doing the encoding, so how do I distribute this live video to the people who want to see it?

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  • How do I disable auto- poster image generation on the video tag?

    - by ekallevig
    I'm using the 'poster' attribute on a video tag and the way it seems to work at least in webkit browsers is that it loads the poster image and then once enough of the video has loaded, it replaces that poster with an auto-generated poster from the video file itself. However, my poster images don't match the auto-generated posters which results in a weird experience of one image loading, then being replaced in a few seconds by the auto-generated image. Is there any way to prevent the auto-generated image from being used?

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  • Does it make the game more fun when the user is forced to progress thru the levels sequentially rather than letting them pick and play?

    - by BeachRunnerJoe
    Hello. For the first time in my game, I'm stuck with a real design dilemma. I guess that's a good thing ;) I'm building a word puzzle game that has five levels, each with 30 puzzles. Currently, the user has to solve one puzzle at a time before moving to the next. However, I'm finding the user occasionally gets stuck on a puzzle, at which point they can no longer play until they solve it. This is obviously bad because many people will just quit playing the game and delete the app since they get frustrated and can't play any other puzzles until the current puzzle is solved. The only elegant solution I can find to helping the player get unstuck is changing the design of the game to allow the users to pick any puzzle to play at any time. This way, if they get stuck, they can come back to it later and at least they have other puzzles to play in the meantime. It's my opinion, however, that this new flow design doesn't make the game as fun as the original flow design where the player has to complete a puzzle before moving to the next. To me, it's like anything else, when you only have one of something, it's more enjoyable, but when you have 30 of something, it's far less enjoyable. In fact, when I present the user with 30 puzzles to choose from that they need to solve before unlocking the next level, it almost seems as tho I'm making them feel like it's work they have to do. I even had a tester voluntarily tell me that being forced to complete a puzzle before moving to the next is more motivating. My questions are... Do you agree/disagree? Do you have any suggestions for how I can help the player get unstuck? Thanks so much in advance for your thoughts! EDIT: I should mention that I've already considered a few other solutions to helping the user get unstuck, but none of them seem like good ideas. They are... Add more hints: Currently, the user gets two hints per puzzle. If I increase the hint count, it only makes the game more easy and still leaves the possibility of the user getting stuck. Add a "Show Solution" button: This seems like a bad idea because it's my opinion this takes the fun out of the game for many people who would probably otherwise solve the puzzle if they didn't have the quick option to see the solution.

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  • Does it make the game more fun when the user is forced to progress through the levels sequentially rather than letting them pick and play?

    - by BeachRunnerJoe
    Hello. For the first time in my game, I'm stuck with a real design dilemma. I guess that's a good thing ;) I'm building a word puzzle game that has five levels, each with 30 puzzles. Currently, the user has to solve one puzzle at a time before moving to the next. However, I'm finding the user occasionally gets stuck on a puzzle, at which point they can no longer play until they solve it. This is obviously bad because many people will probably just quit playing the game and delete the app. The only elegant solution I can find to helping the player get unstuck is changing the design of the game to allow the users to pick any puzzle to play at any time. This way, if they get stuck, they can come back to it later and at least they have other puzzles to play in the meantime. It's my opinion, however, that this new flow design doesn't make the game as fun as the original flow design where the player has to complete a puzzle before moving to the next. To me, it's like anything else, when you only have one of something, it's more enjoyable, but when you have 30 of something, it's far less enjoyable. In fact, when I present the user with 30 puzzles to choose from, I'm concerned I might be making them feel like it's a lot of work they have to do and that's bad. I even had a tester voluntarily tell me that being forced to complete a puzzle before moving to the next is actually motivating. My questions are... Do you agree/disagree? Do you have any suggestions for how I can help the player get unstuck? Thanks so much in advance for your thoughts! EDIT: I should mention that I've already considered a few other solutions to helping the user get unstuck, but none of them seem like good ideas. They are... Add more hints: Currently, the user gets two hints per puzzle. If I increase the hint count, it only makes the game more easy and still leaves the possibility of the user getting stuck. Add a "Show Solution" button: This seems like a bad idea because it's my opinion this takes the fun out of the game for many people who would probably otherwise solve the puzzle if they didn't have the quick option to see the solution.

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  • ffmpeg - creating DNxHD MFX files with alphas

    - by Hugh
    I'm struggling with something in FFMpeg at the moment... I'm trying to make DNxHD 1080p/24, 36Mb/s MXF files from a sequence of PNG files. My current command-line is: ffmpeg -y -f image2 -i /tmp/temp.%04d.png -s 1920x1080 -r 24 -vcodec dnxhd -f mxf -pix_fmt rgb32 -b 36Mb /tmp/temp.mxf To which ffmpeg gives me the output: Input #0, image2, from '/tmp/temp.%04d.png': Duration: 00:00:01.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A Stream #0.0: Video: png, rgb32, 1920x1080, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc Output #0, mxf, to '/tmp/temp.mxf': Stream #0.0: Video: dnxhd, yuv422p, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 36000 kb/s, 90k tbn, 24 tbc Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 [mxf @ 0x1005800]unsupported video frame rate Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?) There are a few things in here that concern me: The output stream is insisting on being yuv422p, which doesn't support alpha. 24fps is an unsupported video frame rate? I've tried 23.976 too, and get the same thing. I then tried the same thing, but writing to a quicktime (still DNxHD, though) with: ffmpeg -y -f image2 -i /tmp/temp.%04d.png -s 1920x1080 -r 24 -vcodec dnxhd -f mov -pix_fmt rgb32 -b 36Mb /tmp/temp.mov This gives me the output: Input #0, image2, from '/tmp/1274263259.28098.%04d.png': Duration: 00:00:01.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A Stream #0.0: Video: png, rgb32, 1920x1080, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc Output #0, mov, to '/tmp/1274263259.28098.mov': Stream #0.0: Video: dnxhd, yuv422p, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 36000 kb/s, 90k tbn, 24 tbc Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Press [q] to stop encoding frame= 39 fps= 9 q=1.0 Lsize= 7177kB time=1.62 bitrate=36180.8kbits/s video:7176kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.013636% Which obviously works, to a certain extent, but still has the issue of being yuv422p, and therefore losing the alpha. If I'm going to QuickTime, then I can get what I need using Shake, but my main aim here is to be able to generate .mxf files. Any thoughts? Thanks

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  • Apple video adapters: Mini-DVI to DVI + DVI to video?

    - by Ken
    I have: a Macbook (which has Mini-DVI output) an Apple Mini-DVI to DVI adapter (so I can hook up my Macbook to my DVI LCD) a Mac mini (which has DVI output) I see that I can get a DVI-to-Video (s-video and composite) adapter from Apple that will let me hook up my Mac mini to my TV set (which has only component, s-video, and composite -- nothing digital). So far so good. Question: Will that same adapter also let me hook my Macbook to my TV? That is, can I hook Macbook - Mini-DVI to DVI - DVI to video - TV set, and see picture? I know there are digital/analog/integrated variants of DVI, and it's not at all clear to me what pins these things have and what signals they're sending. One website I found suggested that it would work, and another suggested that it wouldn't even physically connect. So I'm looking for, ideally, someone who's actually tried it, or has these adapters sitting around to try. I know I can buy 2 adapters (Mini-DVI to Video, and DVI to Video) to do this, but at $20 a pop I'll avoid that if at all possible.

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  • Winamp has slow /skipping video playback on Windows 7

    - by Roy Rico
    Hello, I have Windows 7 x64 (7600 90-day trial version) and Winamp 5.6 installed. When I play a video in Windows Media Player, the video plays smooth, however when I play a video in winamp, the video is mostly ok when played back at the original size (but not completely), but if I play it back in fullscreen, the playback gets really slow. The video's audio track plays just fine. I have a DELL XPS 420 computer (8GB of RAM) with a Nvidia GeForce 8800 CTS 512 video card. I've updated to the latest drivers. I have the default Windows 7 codecs, and the CCCP codec pack which used to be all I needed under Windows XP to play all types of videos. Are the codecs needed for Windows Y the same? What's going on? UPDATE: As suggested, I turned off Aero and winamp ran just fine again. So I just have to wait for winamp to be rewritten to work with the way Vista/Windows 7 runs? UPDATE 2: Winamp has updated their player, and it works great with Windows 7 now.

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  • How to manage own bots at the server?

    - by Nikolay Kuznetsov
    There is a game server and people can play in game rooms of 2, 3 or 4. When a client connects to server he can send a request specifying a number of people or range he wants to play with. One of this value is valid: {2-4, 2-3, 3-4, 2, 3, 4} So the server maintains 3 separate queues for game room with 2, 3 and 4 people. So we can denote queues as #2, #3 and #4. It work the following way. If a client sends request, 3-4, then two separate request are added to queues #3 and #4. If queue #3 now have 3 requests from different people then game room with 3 players is created, and all other requests from those players are removed from all queues. Right now not many people are online simultaneously, so they apply for a game wait for some time and quit because game does not start in a reasonable time. That's a simple bot for beginning has been developed. So there is a need to patch server code to run a bot, if some one requests a game, but humans are not online. Input: request from human {2-4, 2-3, 3-4, 2, 3, 4} Output: number of bots to run and time to wait for each before connecting, depending on queues state. The problem is that I don't know how to manage bots properly at the server? Example: #3 has 1 request and #4 has 1 request Request from user is {3,4} then server can add one bot to play game with 3 people or two bots to play game of 4. Example: #3 has 1 request and #4 has 2 requests Request from user is {3,4} then in each case just one bot is needed so game with 4 players is more preferrable.

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  • How can I log key presses in Game Maker?

    - by skeletalmonkey
    I'm trying to create a log of a players actions as they play a game of Spelunky. The easiest I've found to do this is to log what keys are pressed at each frame. What I don't know how to do is how to integrate this with the Game Maker source code of Spelunky. Is there a specific way to create a script that is checked every frame/tick (don't know the right term) and a command to find what buttons are pressed?

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  • bxslider and sproutvideo on iPad: video is just a black box when returning to slide [on hold]

    - by hm.
    I use sproutvideo inside of bxslider. I teste it well on chrome and firefox. On the iPad I have the following issue: I have the video in the forst screen and it loads fine, the slider stops when the video is running and when i switch to another slide and come back the video is still running. On the iPad, the video starts also, but when I go to anoter slide and back, the video disappears and I only see a black box. Any ideas what can be wrong?

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  • Advice on how to build html5 basic tile game (multi player, cross device)

    - by Eric
    I just read http://buildnewgames.com/real-time-multiplayer/ which explains the fundamentals and bets practices to build a massive real time multiplayer html5 game. My question is however given the “simplicity” of the game I need to build (simple kind of scratch game where you find or not something behind a tile), do I really need complex tools (canvas or node.js for example) ? The game The gamestakes place with a picture of our office as a background (tilemap). For HR purpose, we wish to create the following game fore employees: each day they can come to the website and click on a certain number of tiles (3 max per day) and find behind it motivation advice and interesting facts about the company. The constraints and rules the screen is divided into isometric 2D square tiles. There are basically an image (photograph of our office) number of tiles on the screen game: about 10,000 to much more (with scroll , see below) the players can scroll in 4 directions there are only 2 types of tiles: already open and closed player can open tiles that have not been yet open by other players there is no path for players : any player can click on any tile on the screen at any moment (if it’s not already done by another player) 2 players can’t be on the same tile at the same moment (or if they can, I’ll have to manage to see which one clicked on it first) only one type of player (all with similar roles), no weapon, no internal score… very simple game. no complex physics (collision only occurs if 2 players are on the same tile) The target I need to achieve: cross device, cross browsers high performance reaction (subsecond reactions) average nb of players per hour: up to 10K players per hour (quite high indeed but it’s because we aim at proving our case for the game to our business unit) So what I would like to know: 2D Tiled map: Do I need tiledmapeditor or can I enable me split the screen like here ? should I use canvas or plain html/css could be sufficient for my need? do I need a game engine/framework such as melon.js or crafty./js ? (even if the game play is extremely basic, I do need mouse and touché device support, mouse emulations on touch devices…) or ca I easily/quickly do it without? for my constraints and targets, should I use CPU acceleration ? for my constraints and targets, should I use web workers ? for the database, for a massively real time game should I avoid to put the current locations of player in MySQL as i feel it might slow me down. What kind of DB should I implement ? Thanks for your help !

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