ripping carefully since 1978

haXe FLV Video Streaming Multithread Server is small and fast multithread FLV video and audio streaming server, written competely in universal haXe language by Nicolas Canasse, the author of MTASC compiler and the author of haXe language.haXe Video server supports webcam and mic recording, improved the FLV and AMF support. There’s simple test application which you can run in just few easy steps.To test the haXe FLV Video Streaming Multithread Server:

• unpack the distributive
• run the server.bat
• open video.swf
• click “Record Cam” button
• dance, sing and clap your hands say yeah to the camera
• click “Stop” button
• click “Play Rec. Video”
• see all your actions recorded.

The first beta of haXe Video, the multithread FLV video streaming server was released February 11, 200. The goal was to create lightweight and fast media server for streaming the audio- and video- files with high performance.

Filesize of haXe Video distributive is 7 MB, where 7 MB is the size of sample video FLV file provided within the distributive. No misprint here. To be precise, the total size of all haXe Video server source files is 131 KB. Moreover, as Nicolas wrote, it is less actually: 15.3 KB for AMF+FLV+RTMP protocols and 12.5 KB for the server itself, plus + 6.8 KB for the sample UI and logic.

That’s about lightweight.

Some think that Canasse is kidding; however, he doesn’t.

As I see, a lot of people come here searching for DVD rippers.

There’s a lot of tool at the market which help to rip the DVD off of the disk.

Ripping a DVD to avi, mpeg, xvid or divx is just easy, if you have the dvd ripping software. There’s a lot of tools at the market like the auto gordian knot (autogk) and DVD decrypter.

DVD decrypter rips the raw DVD video and audio data off of DVD disk drive, allowing you to decrypt the CSS protection. Finally you can disable any DVD protection toos, such as Macrovision. A lot of DVD codecs and a GUI interface of AutoGK take the raw DVD data through an AV processing pipeline to produce a single windows video file which you can view as regular avi file.

But it is interesting to know how legal DVD ripping is

Wikipedia says:

“Ripping (also referred to as digital audio extraction) is the process of copying the audio or video data from one media form, such as DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray or CD, to a hard disk”

Then:

“Although it is legal in the United States to make backup copies of software, the legality of ripping music for personal use without the permission of the copyright holder is controversial. Historically, copying media for personal use has been deemed “fair use,” however the RIAA, which represents many music copyright holders has argued that copying rights have not been granted to end users. Selling software to circumvent copy-protection in commercial DVDs is illegal.”

But I wonder why is Ripping? What is “ripping” itself?

The origin of the word “rip” in this context is interesting. It originally came from Amiga/Atari/Commie64 D00DZ that used to “rip” audio and graphic images from games, and it often implied that a bit of hacking was necessary to extract the data. Apparently it’s now used to refer to directly reading the digital data from an audio CD; while the connection is somewhat obvious, there’s rarely any hacking involved on the part of the ripper grin) - says theeggeadventure.com and then:

Origins of Ripping

This is the slang term for ???Audio across SCSI??? or ???Digital Audio Extraction.??? This method of recording digitally copies (extracts) the music bit by bit directly from the CD??™s surface, and does not degrade the quality of the music by converting it to analog.
The term “Digital Audio Extraction” sounds like something only a dentist should use. What does it mean?
Unless your computer is really old, it will do digital audio extraction. This is the process of taking files off of a CD and making them into separate song files. It’s also known as “ripping.” Ripper software programs are often used to make MP3 files from CDs, which is the origin of all the Napster fuss.
In better English it is called ???Audio Extraction???. The etymology of ???ripping??? is probably ??? to rip-off (a CD) from its file.

Please note: these article is created as note for myself.

Daniel Cassidy has implemented the XPath support for the haXe universal language.

The aim is to fully implement XPath in compliance with W3C standard. This very alpha version of XPath for haXe still needs some features to be finished, like compilation to JavaScript, implementation such XPath functions as id(), namespace-uri() and lang(), namespaces support and some more small features, related to details of XML implementation in haXe.

Here’s XPath for haXe documentation.

See also: haXe: installation and creation of your first Flash application with haXe compiler

haXe is universal high level programming language and its free compiler. haXe lets you create applications fir such platforms as JavaScript, Flash Player 6-8, Flash Player 9 (ActionScript 3) and Neko. Author of this technology is Nicolas Cannasse, the creator of the fastest flash compiler MTASC (now you’ve got a feeling about quality of haXe). Learn more about haXe.

To install haXe compiler (for Windows users):

1. Go to haXe download page and download installation file.
2. Unpack. Start haxesetup.exe. Installation goes on in best guerrilla tradition, without unnecessary buzz. One second — and you see the message about succesful installation.
3. Reboot your machine (to enable PATH variables, added at the previous step).

To create your first Flash application using haXe compiler:

1. Create test class file ‘Text.hx’ containing the following code (haXe source files have ‘*.hx’ extension):

   class Test {
       static function main() {
           trace("Hello World !");
       }
   }

2. Create compile.hxml file (’*.hxml’ files are used to tell compilation directives to haXe compiler) with the following code:

   -swf test.swf
   -main Test

3. Double-click compile.hxml file to open it.
4. Compiled ‘test.swf’ file will appear in the same folder. You can open it to see the result!

???? embed compiled swf file into web page, use standard html code for embedding flash files (test.html file):

<html>
<head><title>haXe Flash</title></head>
<body bgcolor=”#dddddd”>
<object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″
width=”400″
height=”300″
id=”haxe”
align=”middle”>
<param name=”movie” value=”test.swf”/>
<param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” />
<param name=”quality” value=”high” />
<param name=”scale” value=”noscale” />
<param name=”salign” value=”lt” />
<param name=”bgcolor” value=”#ffffff”/>
<embed src=”test.swf”
bgcolor=”#ffffff”
width=”400″
height=”300″
name=”haxe”
quality=”high”
align=”middle”
allowScriptAccess=”always”
type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”
pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”
/>
</object>
</body>
</html>

Have good day with haXe!

These instructions is the compilation of the haXe Usage, haXe downloads and Getting Started with haXe/Flash pages.

For further studying and using haXe visit the last link and other haXe tutorials, for example, haXe for Flash9 as replacement of ActionScript 3.

Something is not clear? Don’t hesitate to ask here or in the haXe mailing list.