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Camera Vision - video surveillance on C#

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A C# video surveillance application, which allows monitoring several IP cameras simultaneously.
// Camara Vision
//
// Copyright � Andrew Kirillov, 2005-2006
// andrew.kirillov@gmail.com
//

namespace multisource
{
	using System;
	using System.Collections;
	using videosource;
	using jpeg;
	using mjpeg;

	/// <summary>
	/// MultimodeVideoSource - abstract class for video sources, which support
	/// multiple working mode
	/// </summary>
	public abstract class MultimodeVideoSource : IVideoSource
	{
		protected IVideoSource	videoSource;
		protected StreamType	streamType;
		private ArrayList		delegates = new ArrayList();

		// New frame event
		public event CameraEventHandler NewFrame
		{
			add
			{
				videoSource.NewFrame += value;
				delegates.Add((object) value);
			}
			remove
			{
				videoSource.NewFrame -= value;
				delegates.Remove((object) value);
			}
		}

		// Constructor
		public MultimodeVideoSource()
		{
		}

		// StreamType property
		public virtual StreamType StreamType
		{
			get { return streamType; }
			set
			{
				// update stream type if video source is not running
				if ((streamType != value) && (!videoSource.Running))
				{
					streamType = value;
					
					// save credentials and user data
					object	userData = videoSource.UserData;
					string	login = videoSource.Login;
					string	password = videoSource.Password;

					// create new base video source
					switch (streamType)
					{
						case StreamType.Jpeg:
							videoSource = new JPEGSource();
							break;
						case StreamType.MJpeg:
							videoSource = new MJPEGSource();
							break;
					}

					// set credentials and user data back to the new source
					videoSource.Login		= login;
					videoSource.Password	= password;
					videoSource.UserData	= userData;

					// add delegates to NewFrame event
					foreach (object handler in delegates)
						videoSource.NewFrame += (CameraEventHandler) handler;

					UpdateVideoSource();
				}
			}
		}

		// Video source property
		public abstract string VideoSource
		{
			get;
			set;
		}

		// Login property
		public string Login
		{
			get { return videoSource.Login; }
			set { videoSource.Login = value; }
		}

		// Password property
		public string Password
		{
			get { return videoSource.Password; }
			set { videoSource.Password = value; }
		}

		// FramesReceived property
		public int FramesReceived
		{
			get { return videoSource.FramesReceived; }
		}

		// BytesReceived property
		public int BytesReceived
		{
			get { return videoSource.BytesReceived; }
		}

		// UserData property
		public object UserData
		{
			get { return videoSource.UserData; }
			set { videoSource.UserData = value; }
		}

		// Get state of video source
		public bool Running
		{
			get { return videoSource.Running; }
		}

		// Start receiving video frames
		public void Start()
		{
			videoSource.Start();
		}

		// Stop receiving video frames
		public void SignalToStop()
		{
			videoSource.SignalToStop();
		}

		// Wait for stop
		public void WaitForStop()
		{
			videoSource.WaitForStop();
		}

		// Stop work
		public void Stop()
		{
			videoSource.Stop();
		}

		// Update video source
		protected abstract void UpdateVideoSource();
	}
}

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Software Developer IBM
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Started software development at about 15 years old and it seems like now it lasts most part of my life. Fortunately did not spend too much time with Z80 and BK0010 and switched to 8086 and further. Similar with programming languages – luckily managed to get away from BASIC and Pascal to things like Assembler, C, C++ and then C#. Apart from daily programming for food, do it also for hobby, where mostly enjoy areas like Computer Vision, Robotics and AI. This led to some open source stuff like AForge.NET, Computer Vision Sandbox, cam2web, ANNT, etc.

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