Capturing video on the web – VideoLan

I require students in the first semester at Raritan Valley Community College Interactive Media Program to include live video via their Flash projects. Some students will capture some live video. Some like to get it from the web but today the web has less and less downloads especially when you are looking for a particular topic. For example a student was doing some video of interstellar events like sun spots. Nasa has video on it.

There is a product that is open source that seems to let you capture most if not all incoming video via a web site and probably any input.
VideoLAN – VLC media player

It is a bit geekish to get the capture to work, but we succeeded with some trial and error to capture the video from Nasa into MP4 format and then we swiftly ran it through the Flash media encoder to Flash Video format for the student’s project.

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By Lon Hosford

Internet and Mobile Development Educator and Consultant Independent software developer with practical engineering project experience for clients such as AT&T, Avis, Bristol Myers Squibb, Ortho BioTech, Chanel, Avaya, Green Birdie Video, Aztec Learning Systems and Verizon Wireless. Lon is well known for translating client needs into useful applications. An interesting aspect of Lon's consulting work was the creation of industry jobs that did not exist before. That lead to hiring and training college students who were taught dead technologies at a time academia was woefully behind on the paradigm shifts in personal computing, the internet and today the distributed device environment often called mobile. Lon has taught thousands of students internet web development, animation and programming topics over two decades both privately and academically. He developed Multimedia Associated Degree program and courses for Raritan Valley Community College in the 1990s at a time when Macromedia Authorware and Director were tools. He is the founder, developer and educator for Raritan Valley Community College Web Developer Certification program also having its roots in the 1990s at the dawn of the internet. He also was a key curriculum developer and instructor for one of the Nation's first Web Developer Certification program offered through New Jersey Institute of Technology. Lon was also a technology instructor at the University of Phoenix Online. Lon over the years has produced educational video for topics including Paradox, Cobol, Java, Jasmine, C, C++, Linux, Flash, Cocos 2d and HTML. These courses were distributed and taught in Universities internationally when global was an emerging term.