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is P2P really serverless? [closed]

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Closed 9 years ago.
I am following this guide here. P2P
One of the advantages I had thought P2P would bring is the fact that it is a serverless setup.
Now that I have this working I noticed that you do need a resolver to keep track of who is connected.
To me this is really does require a server as you need a resolver to make P2P work in the first place.
Ami missing something?

It depends on your definition of a server I suppose. Using a P2P game for example most players will connect to a central point, be matched up and will then communicate between themselves with no involvement from the server.
This means the server doesn't have to host any data it simply has to coordinate those who do. It keeps resources down (as each client only needs to connect once) and the infrastructure is often more robust.
Do you need a central application to coordinate peers? Yes
Does that application need to stream content/data to each peer? No

C# video transcoding library [closed]

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Closed 10 years ago.
I need to transcode video streams using C#. The streams come in a variety of formats, like MP4, H264, H263, VP8. Is there any library for c# that can transcode a MemoryStream?

There is a ffmpeg-sharp library
ffmpeg-sharp is a wrapper library over the FFmpeg multimedia suite
that provides easy to use wrappers for use in CIL products under both
Mono and .NET
Also look at SharpFFmpeg
SharpFFmpeg is a C# binding of ffmpeg. The goal of SharpFFmpeg is to
provide the facility that allows .NET developers to easily create
audio and video applications.
And MeWiG - MEncoder GUI for Windows
MeWiG is a Windows Frontend to the MEncoder (part of MPlayer) using
the .NET Framework.You should be able to crop, scale, deinterlace, etc
and finally convert almost any digital video-source, without the need
for commandline-options.

When to choose socket programming over WCF? [closed]

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Closed 10 years ago.
What are some actual, realistic situations that one would need to use raw socket programming over WCF? I know performance is one, but are there any others?

There may be situations where you are talking to a third party system that requires communication via sockets (we have to with one).

When the software at the other end of the connection knows nothing about .NET or WCF - the WCF netTcpBinding assumes both ends are implemented using WCF.

say you need to send receive commands from a external device which does not support WCF communication.
Say you would want to pass some commands to a device connected to your serial port.

Looking for a MetaWebLog Client library for .NET. Does one exist? [closed]

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Closed 10 years ago.
I need to implement some code on top of a MetaWebLog API client library. The only thing I am finding on google is broken links from the last decade.
Does anyone know of a library (or code) that implements the MetaWebLog API from a standpoint of a client app?

JoeBlogs is a library that allows easy interaction with Wordpress blogs, and other blogs that support the metaWeblog XML RPC api.
Live Writer Provider Documentation and .Net Example
MetaWebLog To BlogML Converter — you can get the source code and use MetaweblogAPI.cs.

Matlus (http://www.matlus.com/metaweblog-api-c-library/) has an extremely simple to use MetaWeblog system that uses only System.IO.Stream for communication. It was by far the simplest Metaweblog example I could find.
http://metaweblogger.codeplex.com/

Binary Plist Serializing/Deserializing using C# [closed]

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Closed 10 years ago.
I have an iPhone client talking to a Windows server written in C#.The data from the device is sent as a binary plist.I am looking for a framework in C# that understands the binary plist and converts it into a dataset. On googling, I ran into plutil but that's a CLI and I need something that does it inline with the application.
Thanks

Plist serialization and de-serialization for C# and .NET.

I don’t know of any library for Windows that does this. But you might want to take the property list reading code from The Cocotron and port it to C#. It shouldn’t be too hard to do that.