Cloud Computing? Lately everybody is talking about it. So at ADAM's PlayDay last week, I decided to have a look what these "cloud services" could mean within an ADAM context. Why consider the "cloud ...

Thanks to the ADAM provider model, writing custom media engines to process media actions has always been a walk in the parc. Simply let your custom media engine inherit from MediaEngine, implement t ...

A partner who I am not going to mention by name for privacy reasons, told me through skype today that we should add the following blog article. So, here it is:[9:05:37] Alec Wadey: I think you should ...

Recently a partner approached us with an interesting request from a DocMaker customer. They had noticed that you can download InDesign documents as PDF files in DocMaker Studio and wondered if it w ...

ADAM supports indexing video since version 4.3 ADAM supports indexing video since version 4.3. We accomplish this by using the Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 library. There is a free edition available ...

In this post I'd like to show you how you can use the Adam MediaEngine framework in your own custom code.The scenario I'd like to cover is the need for storing alternate renditions of a ...

A DVD video folder contains several files Suppose you would like to index dvd-videos and those videos reside on a server, each video having it’s own folder. You would then get a structure like you see ...

Creating a custom Media Engine allows you to use new media software to perform Media Actions on files in ADAM, such as creating previews, extracting textual content or reading ...

Stefaan Van de Winkel from our partner Ordina recently made a custom media engine which uses FFmpeg to create image previews of movies. Not only did they write it, they were so kind to let us publis ...

The Windows Shell Media Engine that is provided out of the box with ADAM can also create previews of video-files. For many video formats there's nothing special that you have to do to make this ...