You can use the Windows Media Encoder SDK for many of your multimedia needs from within a VFP application.
This should help get you started.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/wm7/encoder.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/create/develop.asp

and this link has most of the important stuff (such as programming guide and programming reference)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmencode/htm/windowsmediaencoderautomation.asp


>Hello Everyone,
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>I just installed VFP beta 8.0, this is my first attempt at VFP. I come from hardware world namely VHDL, Verilog and C. I will be using VFP to develop my site which is called “2hdl.com” and “4hdl.com”.
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>If you know of any multimedia tutorial on VFP of any version that could get me started, I will appreciate it very much.
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>Thank you for your help, have fun programming :-)