Vongo

We’ll i’m glad that the late nights and long work days are paying off! Exciting news. Vongo TV is a Windows Media Center application for downloading Vongo movies using a remote control (or keyboard) .

http://www.shellypalmermedia.com/?p=687

The 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards Advanced Media Technology Nominees October 14, 2007

The 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards Ceremony will be held on January 7, 2008 at the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV (the opening night of the CES show). For more information, please contact: Cheryl Daly or visit http://www.emmyonline.tv

The nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use Of Commercial Advertising on Stand-Alone Broadband Devices (Personal Computers) are:

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  Anything Goes Program, JWT


• 
  Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments The Coca-Cola Company/EepyBird.com


• 
  The L Word in Second Life


• 
  Showtime Networks/Electric Sheep Company

The nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use for Creation and Distribution of Interactive Commercial Advertising Delivered Through Multi-Channel Broadband Devices (Digital Set Top Boxes)

are:

• 
  Rbk Monday Night Football Experience


• 
  Brightline iTV/Reebok International


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  Axe Boost Your E.S.P. Interactive Channel Experience Brightline iTV/Unilever

The nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Synchronous Enhancement of Original Television Content For Interactive Use (Two Screen Environment TV /PC or TV / Mobile Device) are:

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  MLB.com GameDay with Pitch – F/X, MLBAM


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  March Madness on Demand, CBSSports.com/CBS Sports


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  RaceView on NASCAR.com,  Turner Sports/Sportvision


• 
  MLB Extra Innings Interactive,  DIRECTV

The nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Creation of Non-Traditional Programs or Platforms are:

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  Disney.com DXD, Walt Disney Internet Group


• 
  Nike +, R/GA


• 
  MTV’s Virtual Laguna Beach, MTV Networks

The nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use of Personal Media Display and Presentation Technology (PSP, Cell Phone, Personal Media Player, Mobile Devices) are:

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  MobiTV Interactive, MobiTV Inc.


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  ESPN MVP, ESPN


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  Bravo To Go, Bravo

The nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use of “On Demand” (Consumer Scheduled or Programmed) Technology Over Broadband Networks For Active “lean-forward” Viewing (PC) are:

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  Denver’s Favorite Animal,  Grey Worldwide


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  PGA.com Pipeline, Turner Sports


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  Disney.com XD,  Walt Disney Internet Group


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  MLB Mosaic,  Ensequence

The nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use of “On Demand” (Consumer Scheduled or Programmed) Technology Over Broadband Networks For Passive “lean-backward” Viewing (TV) are:

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  Switched Digital Video: Revolutionizing TV Time Warner Cable/BigBand Networks


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  Vongo TV, Starz Entertainment, LLC


• 
  Adoniss 2, TVN Entertainment

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SOAP UI is a valuable tool for creating SOAP requests and responses.

There is a stand alone application and an Eclipse plugin.

http://www.soapui.org/eclipse/index.html

I was checking out fulasagoog today and found a posting from Betriebsraum weblog about stopping an FLV from downloading. This not only saves bandwidth costs, but also saves reduces processing power and memory usage. The basic concept is to create a snapshot of the video using the bitmapdata object, overlay this snapshot over the video, hide the video and replace the FLV player's source with a tiny FLV. Utterly brilliant and probalby something that we should be using for Vongo. I am including the code snippet to refer to later, this was originally posted at Betriebsraum blog. (This is not my original work).

Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
import flash.display.*;
import mx.utils.Delegate;
var flvDummy:String = "dummy.flv";
var flvMovie:String = "trusted_computing.flv";
var snapBmd:BitmapData;
function onFlvReady(evObj:Object):Void {
  switch (fp.contentPath) {
    case flvMovie :
      createSnapshot();
      stopLoading();
    case flvDummy :
      // 
      break;
  }
}
function onFlvProgress(evObj:Object):Void {//
  trace("flv loading: "+fp.contentPath+" "+evObj.bytesLoaded+" "+evObj.bytesTotal);
}
function createSnapshot():Void {
  snapBmd = new BitmapData(fp.width, fp.height, true, 0x00000000);
  snapBmd.draw(fp);
  snap_mc = this.createEmptyMovieClip("snap_mc", 1);
  snap_mc.attachBitmap(snapBmd,0,"auto",true);
}
function stopLoading():Void {
  fp.contentPath = flvDummy;
  fp._visible = false;
  fp._x = -2000;
  fp._y = -2000;
}
function init():Void {
  fp.addEventListener("ready",Delegate.create(this, onFlvReady));
  fp.addEventListener("progress",Delegate.create(this, onFlvProgress));
  fp.volume = 0;
  fp.autoPlay = false;
  fp.contentPath = flvMovie;
}
init();

Vongo is nominated for an emmy in enhanced or interactive programming-new delivery platform.

The other finalists include:

ABC.com - full episode streaming player (this is a Schematic project…also worked on Vongo) MLB.TV Mosaic

Hopefully vongo will pull out the “W–dubbuya”…

Interactive award finalists press release[…]