Introducing Code.SnapStream.com
January 27th, 2006 at 6:21 pm by Jason
Before I worked for SnapStream, I was actively involved in building plug-ins for Beyond Media. As a former community developer, I’m very happy to announce the opening of a new SnapStream website, http://code.snapstream.com. The site is designed to be a central resource for developers working on Beyond TV and Beyond Media plugins or skins. However, that isn’t the really cool part.
The part that is most exciting is that it is a completely open wiki system. For those not familiar with a wiki, it is a web site that is editable by the visitors of that site. The changes are immediately visible, and other users can add, edit, or enhance content as they see fit. We have left it open for editing by anyone because we believe this is the best way to get the information that developers need as quickly as possible. This really boils down to the following three things:
1. If you are creating something and have a question there is a central location to look it up.
2. If you can’t find the answer then you can leave a note asking for someone to write an article about it.
3. If you know the answer to a question or if you found something really cool then you can write about it and share it with the community.
To give you a few ideas of items already on the site, there are
- the APIs for Beyond Media and Beyond TV APIs
- the Beyond Media SDK
- an article about the best practices for updating the Beyond Media UI from a background thread and
- documentation for Beyond TV’s third party guide updates.
If you have questions, someone has answers, so go check it out, and happy coding.
About the author: Jason Baumeister has been a Software Engineer for SnapStream Media for a little over six months. Before he started working here, he actively developed multiple plugins with the Beyond Media and Beyond TV SDKs. The extremely popular DVD Library plug-in, for example, is one of his creations.
January 29th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
sounds interesting jason……can this be used to add functionality like 1394/firewire recording? i’m not a coder but i assume there is a lot of pent of interest in adding functionality such as firewire recording, etc.