ByteScout Image To Video SDK – VB.NET – Background Picture

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background picture in VB.NET and ByteScout Image To Video SDK

Tutorial: how to do background picture in VB.NET

The coding tutorials are designed to help you test the features without need to write your own code. ByteScout Image To Video SDK helps with background picture in VB.NET. ByteScout Image To Video SDK is the SDK that is designed to generate video slideshow with 100+ 2d and 3D transition effects. Can generate WMV, AVI, WEBM video file with adjustable quality, framerate, output video size.

Fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Image To Video SDK for VB.NET plus the instruction and the VB.NET code below will help you quickly learn background picture. In order to implement this functionality, you should copy and paste code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your application. Enhanced documentation and tutorials are available along with installed ByteScout Image To Video SDK if you’d like to dive deeper into the topic and the details of the API.

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Module1.vb

      Imports BytescoutImageToVideo

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

        Try
            Console.WriteLine("Converting JPG slides to video, please wait...")

            ' Create BytescoutImageToVideoLib.ImageToVideo object instance
            Dim converter As ImageToVideo = New ImageToVideo()

            ' Activate the component
            converter.RegistrationName = "demo"
            converter.RegistrationKey = "demo"

            ' Set default "in" effect for slides (you can also set effects for each single slide)
            converter.Slides.DefaultSlideInEffect = 1 ' teFadeIn (1) - fades in effect for slides transition
            converter.Slides.DefaultSlideInEffectDuration = 500 ' 500 msec for in effect

            ' Set movie background picture
            converter.SetBackgroundPictureFileName("..\..\..\..\background.jpg")

            ' Add images and set slide durations 
            Dim slide As Slide
            slide = converter.AddImageFromFileName("..\..\..\..\slide1.jpg")
            slide.Duration = 3000 ' 3000ms = 3s
            slide = converter.AddImageFromFileName("..\..\..\..\slide2.jpg")
            slide.Duration = 3000
            slide = converter.AddImageFromFileName("..\..\..\..\slide3.jpg")
            slide.Duration = 3000

            ' Set output video size
            converter.OutputWidth = 640
            converter.OutputHeight = 480

            ' Set output video file name
            converter.OutputVideoFileName = "result.wmv"

            ' Run the conversion
            converter.RunAndWait()

            ' Release resources
            System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(converter)

            ' Open the result video file in default media player
            Process.Start("result.wmv")

            Console.WriteLine("Done. Press any key to continue...")
            Console.ReadKey()

        Catch ex As Exception
            Console.WriteLine("Error: " & ex.Message)
            Console.ReadKey()
        End Try

    End Sub

End Module