Audio-Video in .NET with Elias Puurunen

Audio-Video in .NET with Elias Puurunen

Author: Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell April 16, 2025 Duration: 1:06:17
Can you integrate performant audio-video into your .NET application? Carl and Richard talk to Elias Puurunen about his work at Tractus Events, where he uses the NDI protocols to bring real-time audio and video streams into his C# application. Elias talks about the power of P/Invoke to access the underlying libraries for controlling video streams, including utilizing NVidia GPUs for extremely fast encoding and decoding. You could write this code in C++, but why?

Hosted by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell, .NET Rocks! is a long-running conversation with the people building the future of software. This isn't a dry lecture; it's a lively, technical deep dive where two seasoned developers explore the vast ecosystem around Microsoft .NET, Azure, and modern development practices with a diverse roster of expert guests. Each episode feels like you're pulling up a chair in a room full of brilliant minds, listening to unfiltered discussions about real-world coding challenges, architectural patterns, and the tools that shape our daily work. You'll hear practical advice, war stories from the trenches, and forward-looking insights that go far beyond the documentation. Tuning into this podcast means connecting with a community of professionals who are as passionate about the craft as you are, offering perspectives that can transform how you approach your next project. Whether you're deep into C# or just curious about cloud-native development, these conversations provide a valuable blend of knowledge, humor, and genuine enthusiasm for technology.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

.NET Rocks!
Podcast Episodes
Building an AI App with Calum Simpson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:38
What's it like building an AI-centric application? Carl and Richard talk to Calum Simpson of SSW about their product YakShaver. Calum talks about building a tool that speeds reporting on issues and ideas, so you can spen…
More Sustainable Software with Tom Kerkhove [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:01
What does it take to make more environmentally sustainable software? Carl and Richard talk to Tom Herkhove about Microsoft's efforts to make carbon footprint and emissions visible for applications. Tom talks about the Az…
The Role of LLMs in Visual Studio Productivity with Leslie Richardson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:14
How are large language models going to change the way we use Visual Studio? Carl and Richard speak with Leslie Richardson about her work in Visual Studio, starting with the debugger and now focusing on the broader produc…
Old Developers using New Tools with Brady Gaster [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:01
How are folks adapting to the new tools available for development today? Carl and Richard talk to Brady Gaster about his work on improving the tooling for software development at Microsoft - and the transformation that i…
Cake.SDK with Mattias Karlsson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:33
Ready to integrate build automation into your applications? Carl and Richard talk to Mattias Karlsson about the new Cake.SDK as an additional component of the Cake (C# Make) open source project. Mattias talks about integ…
GitHub Spec Kit with Den Delimarsky [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:28
How do you build quality software with LLMs? Carl and Richard talk to Den Delimarsky about the GitHub Spec Kit, which uses specifications to help LLMs generate code for you. Den discusses the iterative process of refinin…
CSLA 9 with Rocky Lhotka [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:47
The next version of CSLA is out! Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about his business objects framework that pre-dates .NET itself! Rocky discusses the surge in development that occurred for version 9, where a compan…
Digging Deeper into .NET Aspire with Chris Klug [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:51
Aspire has been around for almost two years. How do you use it effectively? Carl and Richard talk to Chris Klug about his experience with .NET Aspire. Chris discusses thinking cloud natively, whether you are going to the…
Valuable Testing with Egil Hansen [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:29
You write tests - but are they valuable tests? Carl and Richard talk to Egil Hansen about his approach to creating tests for applications. Egil discusses the types of testing and who they impact. Testing isn't only for y…
Local AI Models with Joe Finney [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:00
AI in the cloud dominates, but what can you run locally? Carl and Richard speak with Joe Finney about his work in setting up local machine learning models. Joe discusses the non-LLM aspects of machine learning, including…