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24 September 2009
'Guest Button Pusher' - Nicole Kidman
Thursday 24th September 2009. New York. Show 2.
There's something I haven't mentioned before as it didn't seem important, but in our control tower at front-of-house we have developed a little tradition over the course of the tour. Bowie's 'Space Oddity' has been the final pre-show song and has pretty much become part of the show now, as the audience recognise it and know that the countdown has begun. There is a countdown in the song itself, followed by a great 'waa-waa-waa...' noise at which point lighting director Ethan would push a button to set off all the smoke machines in the 'pylon' of the stage. It's the beast waking up, the rocket firing, and it always gets a huge cheer from the crowd.
I'm not quite sure why, but for a while now we have had a different 'guest button pusher' each night. We get someone from the tour staff to come to the mix position and push the button. Most find this terrifying because at first glance it's pretty technologically intimidating up there but also because we don't tell them what the button does. They push, look around in bewildered fashion then crack up laughing (or scream) when they realise what it is they are making happen - especially when the entire crowd starts cheering.
So that's the tradition and we've had all sorts of people be guest smoke operator, crew guys, management people, guests, friends of friends, and tonight... Nicole Kidman. I kid you not gentle reader, the actual Nicole Kidman pushed the button to launch the rocket.
I'm tempted to end the story there to leave a sense of mystery and wonder, but we went on to have such a great show that it would be a great waste. Tonight was one of those nights where everything came together. The old Giants Stadium is a great sounding building and Joe was clearly on a roll. The band were on cracking form, the set list was perfect for the audience... it was magical. Out front, up on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, we were having a great time with a couple of surprise guests paying a visit, including Sir Mick Jagger himself. He was clearly enjoying himself, dancing with his two friends (one of whom was Nicole Kidman) and laughing whenever Bono would throw in a hook from a Rolling Stones song... Miss You, It's Only Rock and Roll, She's Like a Rainbow. Our celebrity guests stayed almost until the very end, just bailing before the houselights went up. As Nicole left (please note, we're on first name terms now) she promised she'd come and see us again. We await with baited breath...
It was a truly great night - we shall miss Giants Stadium when they tear it down. We joined the 'runner' to get back to Manhattan and perhaps overdid the exhortations to our driver not to lose his place in the posse. Due to our position lower down the food chain, the issue we often face in the runner is that we are in a van, following the band's cars. Sometimes the police escort include us within their vehicle group, other times we are simply following as best we can and hoping to not get left behind. Last night, after the first Giants Stadium show, we barely made it out of the parking lot before our rather timid driver had lost his place, other cars had cut in, the blue flashing lights were a speck in the distance and we were on our own to face the traffic with everyone else.
Similarly tonight we had hardly got started and our van had fallen behind the police escort with other traffic mounting up. Our cries of dismay seemed to do something slightly odd to our driver who, with dented pride, took the challenge in hand and absolutely went for it. Blinkers on and horn going, he floored the accelerator and did a Mad Max out of the parking lot, taking full advantage of the size of our vehicle, including driving over a grass verge and through an entry toll booth the wrong way. Amazingly, he did manage to catch up with the tail end of the police escort but wasn't content to leave it there and pulled up along side them as we neared the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. We were in the back, trying to maintain poise, assuring our possessed driver that this was far enough and that this would be the perfect time to stop driving like a maniac. But no! Through the Lincoln tunnel we went, and coming up the ramp on the Manhattan side our driver actually cut into the police escort, placing our large while minibus between Bono and Edge's cars. We were screaming by now and most of us had adopted the brace position from those aeroplane safety cards. The whole situation was exacerbated by the fact that the police were also clearly enjoying this midnight burn through mid-town, taking us through red lights and at one highly memorable moment, whilst clutching my head behind the drivers seat, I noticed that we had just shot past Macy's whilst on the wrong side of the road. We did get back to the hotel alive but I think we'll be a little more careful about winding up our drivers from here on in...
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06 April, 2010
What the ?
I was there and I was not drunk but the show was not all that great. Bono looked like he was listening to the song because he forgot the lyrics. Don't get me wrong I love U2 but I travelled all the way to NY and walked away dissappointed. I waited for over ten years to hear Stay faraway so close (Live)and Bono just messed that song up. I saw the Edge's facial expression as he looked at Bono wondering what he was doing. I was so pissed I just went to the first bar to drown my sorrows. Thank GOD for The Red Lion Bar. They lifted my spirits back up. On a good note the Pasadena show was fantastic. I was not dissappointed.
Kristin Skinner
10 October, 2009
Im cryng...lol
thats the best story ever Willy... I read it hear at work and laughed out loud :-D i love these diaries ....your brilliant!
05 October, 2009
Greatest laugh I've had forever....sorry
OMG, I am hysterical right now, tears streaming down my face, thank you for sharing your stories, it makes me feel like I am part of the show with you all! Not only because you describe so well, but we share similar experiences but in different settings. Our crazy driver backing up on the freeway, with huge semitruck coming straight at us, because he missed our turn off, all of us crammed in the back seat screaming, holding our heads preparing for certain death, never to see my kids back home in Oregon again...etc etc sounds a bit like your drive, but of course you had a police escort.....lol, oh the things we do for a U2 show!! Great shows by the way, can't wait to get to Phoenix and LA!
05 October, 2009
ahahahah! So amazing Willie! Thanks for sharing these great moments with us! :)
03 October, 2009
Push the button
Thank you,Willie, for sharing your adventures with us. I have been reading your diary from the beginning of the tour, and in this way followed you and the crew and fans through all the cities. I just love your sense of humour and hope you will continue writing. I certainly hope you are still on board when the U2 "space center" hits Horsens in Denmark in august 2010. And I think Frank Panduro who made the arrangements to get U2 to the city should be the one who pushes the button in Horsens.
03 October, 2009
Double 0 Willie!
So is there a waiting list to "hit the button"? I'm guessing its an exclusive list. A fan can wonder right? Crazy driving story, never a dull moment on tour. Great show in Dublin July 27. Can't wait to see the boys again in Dallas Oct 12.
Brian Parsons
02 October, 2009
LOL!! LMAO....That's pretty darn funny...the whole drive out and crazy chase into Manhattan! Well described...I enjoyed that! Must have been fun to see Mick's reaction to Bono's personal touch in the concert. I love these snippets! Thanks for posting!!
02 October, 2009
push the button
can I be the button pusher in Paris in September,pretty please...s'il vous plait....??? oh la la...go on,go on,go on....you know you can make it happen and if no one else has asked??
02 October, 2009
Thank you for your awesome report on the show, Willie-- I was there, and loved every second of it. Truly "magical", indeed... The production is amazing, btw-- love your lighting design!! U2fanNYC PS- your driver sounds like the average new york cabbie, sans police escort, of course. ;-)
02 October, 2009
love it willy
thanks for the comments,,, only wished I had your type of driver, ours was a conductor and it took 2 hours to get back to 7th/56th..
02 October, 2009
Nicole Kidman
LOVE you're DIARY.......what a FANTASTIC Story.......and what 2 FANTASTIC Nights@Giants STADIUM were (I was at BOTH!).......keep the stories coming.......Love 'me!
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ECM a Cultural Archaeology is the title of a major exhibition at Munichs Haus der Kunst, which runs from November 23 to February 10. Curated by the museums director Okwui Enwezor, together with Markus Müller, the exhibition focuses on, amongst other subjects, the origins of ECM and the labels strong roots in jazz and improvisation. These are explored through photography and films including See The Music, director Theo Kotullas documentary with quintet performances by Marion Brown (alto saxophone), Leo Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn), Manfred Eicher (double bass), Thomas Stöwsand (cello, bassoon), and Fred Braceful (drums, percussion) in 1971. Other films include rare Norwegian footage of Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen in a performance documented immediately before the landmark 1974 recording of the Belonging album.
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It was late, Aragorn thought as he sought the comfort of his bed. Leaving his office, King Elessar used the quiet walk to his chambers to reflect on the day. Gondor was starting to run smoothly now that her King had stepped foreword to claim the throne. There had been surprisingly little fuss over Faramir returning the reigns of command to Isildur's heir.
Or perhaps more fuss than he was led to believe, he thought as he saw the firelight creeping under the door of the study Faramir had claimed for his own. Nudging the partially open door further into the room, Aragon looked first to the desk. The young Steward took his duties too seriously in the King's opinion, and it would be in the boy's nature to shoulder a heavier burden than was wise simply because he refused to deny any request brought to him. The large, imposing stone block was painfully neat, with a single pile of well-stacked sheets of parchment and an orderly pyramid of scrolls bearing the seal of the house of Mardil. Scrolls and parchment alike bore small, careful rows of script from the quill pen that also rested on the desk. But Faramir was not behind the desk.
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The Steward jumped and turned slightly to see who was also awake at this hour. Seeing who had intruded upon his thoughts, the young man scrambled to his feet. "My lord," he greeted in a rush, as if to make up for the neglect that allowed the King to enter his study without being properly hailed. "What do you wish?"
Aragorn smiled at Faramir's eagerness. "I wish my Steward would not wear himself out." Seeing Faramir's uneasy shifting, Elessar moved quickly to reassure his friend. "As I said, it is late. Why are you still here? What so weighs on your heart that you do not seek sleep?"
Faramir dropped his eyes. He did not want to think about the reason he was afraid to fall asleep. His dreams when the Black Breath lay upon him had not diminished. If anything, he saw more and more clearly with each repetition. "It is nothing, my lord."
Aragorn caught the Steward's chin as Faramir attempted to lower his face and looked into the young man's eyes. "It is not nothing," he stated. "What do you see?"
Sighing, Faramir reluctantly began to remember his dreams. "A black wave, sweeping over the land. Three ships, limping into port. Seven stars, seven stones and one white tree." Faramir met the King's eyes which were wide with amazement. "I should not see these things, my lord. Every night, I live the life of another, and always the wave comes."
"The Akallabeth," Aragorn whispered. "The breaking of the world, when all paths were bent." The King shook his head. "You see what few of even the Kings have seen. You see Númenor-that-was." The blood of Númenor ran nearly pure in Faramir, a trick of fate, perhaps a gift of his Dol Amroth heritage.
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"Then do not be my Steward," Aragorn offered reasonably. Faramir gave a start and turned around forgetting the moisture on his face in the wake of the King's shocking statement. Seeing that he had the young man's attention, Aragorn continued, "Faramir, son of Denethor, you have been through more than many men twice your age. If you cannot fulfill your duties as Steward, lay them aside for a moment."
"But, my lord-" Faramir began to protest, but was quickly cut off.
"In this I am not your lord. I do not want a Steward, Faramir." Here the young man hung his head, assured that he was still as useless as ever. "I want a friend." Faramir's head snapped up, his eyes wide and unsure. Aragorn pressed on. "You are your own man, Faramir. As a friend, I counsel you to speak with myself or Gandalf about these dreams. They cannot be allowed to continue as they have. As your King, I say that I would rather lose my Steward for as long as it takes to get him back whole than to lose him because he did not seek aid when he needed it."
Dazed, Faramir sank into the chair he had recently vacated. Was it possible? Could he truly open up to the Ki- Elessar, he sternly ordered himself to call the King by name. Letting his head fall into his hands, he stared at the fire through a curtain of raven hair, feeling all the while, the steady presence of the man behind him. A man who offered friendship when he did not need to. Searching the flames for answers, he began to talk.
"The land is beautiful, but empty and sad. Like the air in a room that has been closed for the winter. Always, I am some citizen, living a peaceful life . . ."
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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
Revision as of 04:22, 8 June 2014
Note: This is an entry in the Nokia Original Effect Wiki Challenge 2014Q2
This article provides an example app which is intended to be used as a template for applying filters to a real-time video with the ability to record video with the filters applied. The article will also describe key sections of code that are requirements for creating your own version of this app. The media player is loading... Recorded video using Nokia Imaging SDK with MagicPenFilter.
With the introduction of universal apps and WinRT for Windows Phone 8.1, the Silverlight/WP8.0 method of accessing the camera has changed. Within the latest Nokia Imaging SDK is a IImageProvider called CameraPreviewImageSource which allows you to process frames from a video stream before capturing a final image to process. However, unless you were to provide your own video encoder, you cannot record the video being output by the CameraPreviewImageSource.
WinRT provides a MediaCapture class which provides video preview, image capture, and video record capabilities. The preview can be output to a new XAML class called a CaptureElement. There is no traditional way to apply the Nokia Imaging SDK to the preview (or record) output of the MediaCapture class. However, the MediaCapture class will accept Media Foundation Transforms through the AddEffectAsync method. This article will describe the key sections of code that are required to add a Media Foundation Transform to the app and how to incorporate the Nokia Imaging SDk into it.
Many parts of this app were inspired by or even pulled directly from code provided by other developers on this site.
References coming soon....
C++ Universal Component
The Media Foundation Transform must be coded in C++ and the interfaces that must be implemented within the transform class are quite complicated. Thankfully, there exist several samples of a Media Foundation transform that do not require much modification for our purposes. A good sample to start with is the MediaExtensions sample from the Univeral Apps sample set from Microsoft. The sample contains a GrayscaleTransform component from which this app's transform is based.
Preparing the C++ Component
Add Media Foundation Libraries
Next, the Media Foundation libraries need to be added to the linker. For each C++ project (WP8.1 and Win8), right-click on the project name and select properties. Expand the Linker group and select Input. Change the Configuration (at the top) from Active to All Configurations and change Platform from Active to All Platforms so that the following changes are applied to every configuration and platform.
To the end of the "Additional Dependencies" block, add mfplat.lib and mfuuid.lib separated by a semi-colon(;).
Add Common Folder from sample & Include Directories
At the root of the sample app (this app or the MediaExtensions app) is a folder labeled Common which contains several C++ header files (AsyncCB.h, CritSec.h, ExtensionsDefs.h, etc) . These are necessary for the media transform code to compile. Copy the entire Common folder to the root of your own solution.
Next, go to the property page for each C++ project in your app and change the configuration and platform to all as before. Expand the C/C++ menu and click on General. To the end of the Addition Include Directories, add a semicolon (;) and the path "..\..\Common" so that VS2013 can find the header files we just copied.
Modify pch.h
Replace the contents of your pch.h file with the following:
#pragma once
#include <collection.h>
#include <ppltasks.h>
// Windows Header Files:
#include <windows.h>
#include <mfapi.h>
#include <mfidl.h>
#include <mfapi.h>
#include <mferror.h>
#include <d3d11.h>
#include <D2d1helper.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <Strsafe.h>
#include <objidl.h>
#include <new>
#include <wrl\client.h>
#include <wrl\implements.h>
#include <wrl\ftm.h>
#include <wrl\event.h>
#include <wrl\wrappers\corewrappers.h>
#include <windows.media.h>
#include <ppltasks.h>
#include <ExtensionsDefs.h>
using namespace Platform;
using namespace Microsoft::WRL;
using namespace Microsoft::WRL::Wrappers;
Add the Nokia Imaging SDK
Add the Nokia Imaging SDK to all projects in the solution using NuGet. You do NOT have to manually add a reference to the Imaging SDK to the C++ projects. They will not appear as a reference under the properties, but they will be included in the project anyways.
Add NativeBuffer.h
This class is copied entirely from galazzo 's article here: http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Nokia_Imaging_SDK_in_native_code#Wrapping_buffers_into_a_Bitmap
The Transform Class
To the Shared C++ project Add both a .h header and .cpp c++ file. Creating these two files from scratch is beyond the scope of this article. Instead copy the contents of the ImagingEffect.cpp and ImagingEffect.h from the sample to your project. (These files are too large to post directly in this article.) There are several functions within this class that this article will highlight in the next section so that you can modify or add to this class.
Static Transform Functions for NV12 & YUY2
Most of the work of the transform happens within the non-class functions TransformImage_NV12 and TransformImage_YUY2. These functions transform the video frame at the pointer pSrc and copy the new, transformed image to the pointer pDest. Another important variable within these functions is the pointer to a wide string, filterParams. This string contains parameters from the C# project that define which filters to use and what parameters to use with them.
auto size = Windows::Foundation::Size(dwWidthInPixels, dwHeightInPixels);
auto totalbytes = (int)dwHeightInPixels * (int)dwWidthInPixels * 2; //each macropixel of 4 bytes creates 2 pixels (YUYV)
Bitmap^ m_BitmapToProcess = AsBitmapYUY2(pSrc, (unsigned int)size.Width, (unsigned int)size.Height);
ApplyImagingFilters(m_BitmapToProcess, pDest, totalbytes, filterParams, ColorMode::Yuv422_Y1UY2V);
In order to use the Nokia Imaging SDK, the first step is to transform the raw byte data into a Bitmap. This is accomplished for the NV12 function using another function pulled directly from galazzo 's article again [[1]]. For YUY2 to Bitmap, the function was modified for the YUY2 format.
Nokia::Graphics::Imaging::Bitmap^ AsBitmapYUY2(const unsigned char* source, unsigned int width, unsigned int height)
int totalDimensionLength = width * height;
int size = totalDimensionLength * 4; //YUY2 buffer will be returned from the camera.
ComPtr<ImagingEffects::NativeBuffer> nativeBuffer;
MakeAndInitialize<ImagingEffects::NativeBuffer>(&nativeBuffer, (byte *)source, size);
auto iinspectable = (IInspectable *)reinterpret_cast<IInspectable *>(nativeBuffer.Get());
IBuffer ^buffer = reinterpret_cast<IBuffer ^>(iinspectable);
nativeBuffer = nullptr;
return ref new Bitmap(Windows::Foundation::Size((float)width, (float)height), ColorMode::Yuv422_Y1UY2V, 2*width, buffer);
ApplyingImagingFilters function
The use of the Nokia Imaging SDK in a C++ app is similar to a C# app. First, a source must be created. Then, several Effects or Filters are applied. Finally, the result is rendered to a designated target. In this app, the source is a BitmapImageSource that uses the previously created Bitmap in its constructor.
Nokia::Graphics::Imaging::BitmapImageSource^ bis = ref new BitmapImageSource(sourceBitmap);
FilterEffect^ filterEffect = ref new FilterEffect(bis);
IVector<IFilter^>^ Filters = ref new Platform::Collections::Vector<IFilter^>();
wchar_t* token = NULL;
wchar_t *next_token = NULL;
std::wstring s = std::wstring(filterParams);
token = wcstok_s(&s[0], L";", &next_token);
while (token != NULL)
auto filter = GetFilter(token);
token = wcstok_s(NULL, L";", &next_token);
filterEffect->Filters = Filters;
auto renderer = ref new Nokia::Graphics::Imaging::BitmapRenderer(filterEffect, colorMode);
auto renderOp = renderer->RenderAsync();
auto renderTask = create_task(renderOp);
renderTask.then([pDest, totalBytes](Nokia::Graphics::Imaging::Bitmap^ bitmap)
auto count = bitmap->Buffers->Length;
auto data = FromIBuffer(bitmap->Buffers[0]->Buffer);
//auto data = GetPointerToPixelData(bitmap->Buffers[0]->Buffer);
CopyMemory(pDest, data, totalBytes);
Next, filters are added to a FilterEffect via a loop run using the filterParams parameter. This will be described in the next section.
Finally, a BitmapRenderer is created using a specified ColorMode so that the output matches the format of the input. In the Nokia Imaging SDK, NV12 matches to Yuv420Sp and YUY2 matches to Yuv422_Y1UY2V. A pointer to the raw byte data is created from the IBuffer internal to the newly created Bitmap. This byte data is then copied to the pointer, pDest.
Parsing the Filter Parameters & Creating the Filters
In this app, the filter parameters are passed solely as text data. Since C++ does not have Reflection function like C# does, the strings have to be matched to class names manually. In the string parameter, filterParamters, filters are separated by semicolons (;) and the specific arguments are separated by comma (,). Within the GetFilter function, each filter name is matched up and the number of parameters is counted to determine which filter is returned to the main function
IFilter^ GetFilter(wchar_t* filterParamters)
IFilter^ filter;
wchar_t* token = NULL;
wchar_t *next_token = NULL;
token = wcstok_s(filterParamters, L",", &next_token);
std::wstring s = std::wstring(token);
std::vector<wchar_t*> v;
if (s == L"LomoFilter")
token = wcstok_s(NULL, L",", &next_token);
while (token != NULL)
token = wcstok_s(NULL, L",", &next_token);
switch (v.size())
case 0:
filter = ref new LomoFilter();
case 4:
filter = ref new LomoFilter(wcstod(v[0], NULL), wcstod(v[1], NULL), (LomoVignetting)_wtoi(v[2]), (LomoStyle)_wtoi(v[3]));
else if (s == L"SolarizeFilter")
filter = ref new SolarizeFilter();
return filter;
This function allows the C++ transform to receive data from the C# portion of the app. When the transform is applied to the MediaCapture class via AddEffectAsync, only a string variable is passes and no instance of the transform is returned to the C# portion of the app. Therefore, one cannot pass data to the transform via conventional means. However, one of the parameters of the AddEffectAsync method takes an IPropertySet interface. This is essentially a dictionary of KeyValuePairs that must use WinRT-types.
This parameter comes through to the MF Transform through the SetProperties function.
HRESULT hr = S_OK;
IPropertySet^ properties = reinterpret_cast<IPropertySet^>(pConfiguration);
IVector<String^>^ filterList = safe_cast<IVector<String^>^>(properties->Lookup(L"filterList"));
auto size = filterList->Size;
wchar_t temp[100] = { 0 };
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
auto commandKey = filterList->GetAt(i);
auto commandArray = safe_cast<String^>(properties->Lookup(commandKey));
wchar_t* tempWide = const_cast< wchar_t* >(commandArray->Data());
wcscat_s(temp, commandKey->Data());
wcscat_s(temp, L",");
wcscat_s(temp, tempWide);
m_altFilterParams = std::wstring(temp);
catch (Exception ^exc)
hr = exc->HResult;
return hr;
This function parses the content of the IPropertySet and converts it to a std::wstring in the class called m_altFilterParams. However, the transform functions cannot access this class-member variable, so it must be passed via a pointer as an argument to the transform functions. This is done in OnProcessOutput:
// Invoke the image transform function.
assert(m_pTransformFn != nullptr);
if (m_pTransformFn)
auto s = m_altFilterParams;
(*m_pTransformFn)(m_rcDest, outputLock.GetTopRow(), outputLock.GetStride(), inputLock.GetTopRow(), inputLock.GetStride(), m_imageWidthInPixels, m_imageHeightInPixels, m_altFilterParams.data());
C# Universal App
Preparing the main App
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<Extension Category="windows.activatableClass.inProcessServer">
<ActivatableClass ActivatableClassId="ImagingEffects.ImagingEffect" ThreadingModel="both" />
The corresponding code for Win8 app should just change WindowsPhone.dll to Windows.dll.
MediaCapture & CaptureElement
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_devices = await DeviceInformation.FindAllAsync(DeviceClass.VideoCapture);
await StartMediaCapture();
var core = Windows.UI.Core.CoreWindow.GetForCurrentThread();
core.VisibilityChanged += core_VisibilityChanged;
_devices is a DeviceInformationCollection that will contain all the components capable of media capture on your device. The core_VisibilityChanged event handler contains logic that turns the video off when the window is not visible anymore and turns the video back on when the window is visible.
Warning: The core_Visibility event handler will NOT fire when you manually stop debugging in VS2013! If you just stop debugging, the next time any app accesses the camera, it will lock up the device! Always exit the app or at least navigate to a different app to cause the event to fire and shut down the camera.
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Before you can begin capturing video, the MediaCapture instance must be initialized using InitializeAsync along with correct VideoDeviceId being passed within the MediaCaptureInitializationSetings parameter.
app.MediaCapture = new MediaCapture();
var selectedDevice = _devices.FirstOrDefault(x => x.EnclosureLocation != null && x.EnclosureLocation.Panel == Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Panel.Back);
if (selectedDevice == null)
selectedDevice = _devices.First();
await app.MediaCapture.InitializeAsync(new MediaCaptureInitializationSettings
VideoDeviceId = selectedDevice.Id
The next major step is to select the resolution and ColorMode (SubType) of the preview and record streams. This is accomplished with the GetAvailableMediaStreamProperties on the MediaCapture's VideoDeviceController. The output is an IReadOnlyList of IMediaEncodingProperties. Given that a video device has been selected, casting the IMediaEncodingProperty to a VideoEncodingProperties will yield the information required. The output of the Preview and Recording streams will be different.
_encodingPreviewProperties = app.MediaCapture.VideoDeviceController.GetAvailableMediaStreamProperties(MediaStreamType.VideoPreview);
_encodingRecorderProperties = app.MediaCapture.VideoDeviceController.GetAvailableMediaStreamProperties(MediaStreamType.VideoRecord);
var selectedPreviewProperties = _encodingPreviewProperties.First(x => ((VideoEncodingProperties)x).Width == 800);
await app.MediaCapture.VideoDeviceController.SetMediaStreamPropertiesAsync(MediaStreamType.VideoPreview, selectedPreviewProperties);
var selectedRecordingProperties = _encodingRecorderProperties.First(x => ((VideoEncodingProperties)x).Width == _encodingRecorderProperties.Max(y => ((VideoEncodingProperties)y).Width));
await app.MediaCapture.VideoDeviceController.SetMediaStreamPropertiesAsync(MediaStreamType.VideoRecord, selectedRecordingProperties);
Adding the effect comes next. This is accomplished by passing a simple string parameter to the AddEffectAsync method on the MediaCapture instance. The actual filters that should be used are passed within a PropertySet class as the third argument of AddEffectAsync. To the PropertySet instance, first, add a "filterList" with the name of the filters to be used as List of strings. Next, for each filter, use the filter name as a key and add a comma-delimited series of parameters for the filter. Add an empty string for no parameters.
PropertySet testSet = new PropertySet();
testSet.Add("filterList", new List<string>() { "LomoFilter" });
testSet.Add("LomoFilter", String.Format("0.5,0.8,{0},{1}", (int)LomoVignetting.High, (int)LomoStyle.Blue));
await app.MediaCapture.AddEffectAsync(MediaStreamType.VideoPreview, "ImagingEffects.ImagingEffect", testSet);
Finally, a call to StartPreviewAsync() will begin the camera preview.
It is not necessary to stop the Preview when Recording is started. However, the Effect MUST be applied to only one of these streams, otherwise the effect will run TWICE within both the preview output and the recording.
First, call ClearEffectsAsync and pass the MediaStreamType.VideoPreview as an argument to remove the effect from the preview. Then, add the effect to the VideoRecord stream using the same filter parameters before called StartRecordToStorageFileAsync (or any other recording method).
await app.MediaCapture.ClearEffectsAsync(MediaStreamType.VideoPreview);
await app.MediaCapture.AddEffectAsync(MediaStreamType.VideoRecord, "ImagingEffects.ImagingEffect", params);
await app.MediaCapture.StartRecordToStorageFileAsync(MediaEncodingProfile.CreateMp4(VideoEncodingQuality.HD720p), _tempStorageFile);
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There's a 1922 Wallace Stevens poem called "The Emperor of Ice Cream." In it an old woman has died, and there is to be a wake. Death itself gives occasion for the survivors to party, with the help of "concupiscent curds" of freshly made ice cream. Both stanzas end with the same line: "The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream." Whatever else it means, the poem suggests that life goes on, that ice cream really helps the process, and that families and homemade ice cream are natural allies.
It's National Ice Cream Month in the United States. In Utah, where MyHeritage (USA) is headquartered, we've had a bout of hot days, with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). We're also caught up in family reunions and summer holiday gatherings. Many of these celebrations involve ice cream, and it's often homemade. I've been asking around; I'm not the only one for whom homemade ice cream conjures happy family memories.
At home we've been using a hand-cranked ice cream machine. It's on long-term loan from my father, who hasn't used it himself since my mother died several years ago. I remember her making strawberry ice cream with it, using home-grown strawberries. We've tried a few other flavors at my house, but we keep coming back to a simple recipe for lemon ice cream. We first experienced it at my brother-in-law's home in California a few years ago, at a memorable family reunion. He got the recipe from a distinguished family friend in Massachusetts, so it has a worthy pedigree. We threatened to hold a niece or nephew hostage, or something like that, until my brother-in-law shared the recipe.
The formula is still closely guarded, rather like the secret recipes of major cola drinks and fried chicken franchises. My mentioning it in connection with this article caused my teenage daughter to threaten my life, if I published the recipe. So if you want to try it, I guess you'll have to get yourself invited to one of my family's celebrations. My unscientific homemade ice cream poll of Facebook friends yielded the following results:
- Vanilla is very popular, in part because of all the fun things you can put in it or on top of it.
- Fresh peach, fresh raspberry, and fresh strawberry ice creams get high marks.
- Hand-cranked wins by a nose over electric, but electric is better for — swoon! — "keeping the freezer full," which is a cherished and enviable tradition in the family of a young lady to whom I used to pass notes in my tenth-grade English class.
- I hesitate to report that, apparently, the right combination of bananas and strawberries, blended and put in the freezer for a couple of hours, has the texture of ice cream "without the calories or the lactose."
Ice cream purists, please don't judge the source of that last item harshly. She's a very good person.
Look up the history of ice cream at Wikipedia, and you'll see that they trace it to a grape snow cone that was popular in the ancient Persian Empire. Many centuries later, it may have been the Arabs who pioneered the use of milk and made ice cream a commercial product in the 10th Century. In my hemisphere, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson are known to have served and eaten ice cream regularly.
My other favorite summer flavors are travel and a good book, not necessarily in that order. So here's a concluding scoop of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad, a rather jaded account of visiting Odessa:
We were only to stay here a day and a night and take in coal; we consulted the guide-books and were rejoiced to know that there were no sights in Odessa to see; and so we had one good, untrammeled holyday on our hands, with nothing to do but idle about the city and enjoy ourselves. We sauntered through the markets and criticised the fearful and wonderful costumes from the back country; examined the populace as far as eyes could do it; and closed the entertainment with an ice-cream debauch. We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. We never cared any thing about ice-cream at home, but we look upon it with a sort of idolatry now that it is so scarce in these red-hot climates of the East. (Chapter 36)
An "ice cream debauch" would definitely win points with my family. I may have to pick up some cream and a bag of ice on my way home tonight.


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Japanese teen Yuzuru Hanyu was golden in his first Olympics, winning the men's figure skating competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Friday.
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American Jason Brown finished ninth in his Olympic debut. The 19-year-old has become well-known in Sochi for his ponytail and his "Riverdance" free skate program.
Fellow American Jeremy Abbott, the 28-year-old Colorado native who wowed the crowd with his short program Thursday after an early and seemingly catastrophic fall, finished 12th overall. Four years ago in Vancouver he finished ninth in his first Olympic Games.
Both Brown and Abbott won bronze medals over the weekend as part of the U.S. team in the inaugural team figure skating event.
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ONTARIO, Canada - Canadian hospitals discovered this week that their chemotherapy drugs were watered down with too much saline.
Hospitals in Ontario have contacted nearly a thousand people since the discovery, including a couple who each received the diluted medicine.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A new Boston manager opened up Red Sox spring training with a smile on his face, and began the festivities with talk of changing the culture and turning the page.
"The most important thing is that we earn the trust of one another inside the clubhouse first," Farrell said. "And going from there is the style of play that people can identify with this group as a team, and (be) confident that the makeup of the group initially will put ourselves in a position to do that."
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