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Selection of projects using MediaSPIP
2 mai 2011, parThe examples below are representative elements of MediaSPIP specific uses for specific projects.
MediaSPIP farm @ Infini
The non profit organizationInfini develops hospitality activities, internet access point, training, realizing innovative projects in the field of information and communication technologies and Communication, and hosting of websites. It plays a unique and prominent role in the Brest (France) area, at the national level, among the half-dozen such association. Its members (...) -
Sélection de projets utilisant MediaSPIP
29 avril 2011, parLes exemples cités ci-dessous sont des éléments représentatifs d’usages spécifiques de MediaSPIP pour certains projets.
Vous pensez avoir un site "remarquable" réalisé avec MediaSPIP ? Faites le nous savoir ici.
Ferme MediaSPIP @ Infini
L’Association Infini développe des activités d’accueil, de point d’accès internet, de formation, de conduite de projets innovants dans le domaine des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication, et l’hébergement de sites. Elle joue en la matière un rôle unique (...) -
Contribute to a better visual interface
13 avril 2011MediaSPIP is based on a system of themes and templates. Templates define the placement of information on the page, and can be adapted to a wide range of uses. Themes define the overall graphic appearance of the site.
Anyone can submit a new graphic theme or template and make it available to the MediaSPIP community.
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Introducing WebM, an open web media project
20 mai 2010, par noreply@blogger.com (christosap)A key factor in the web’s success is that its core technologies such as HTML, HTTP, TCP/IP, etc. are open and freely implementable. Though video is also now core to the web experience, there is unfortunately no open and free video format that is on par with the leading commercial choices. To that end, we are excited to introduce WebM, a broadly-backed community effort to develop a world-class media format for the open web.
WebM includes :
- VP8, a high-quality video codec we are releasing today under a BSD-style, royalty-free license
- Vorbis, an already open source and broadly implemented audio codec
- a container format based on a subset of the Matroska media container
The team that created VP8 have been pioneers in video codec development for over a decade. VP8 delivers high quality video while efficiently adapting to the varying processing and bandwidth conditions found on today’s broad range of web-connected devices. VP8’s efficient bandwidth usage will mean lower serving costs for content publishers and high quality video for end-users. The codec’s relative simplicity makes it easy to integrate into existing environments and requires less manual tuning to produce high quality results. These existing attributes and the rapid innovation we expect through the open-development process make VP8 well suited for the unique requirements of video on the web.
A developer preview of WebM and VP8, including source code, specs, and encoding tools is available today at www.webmproject.org.
We want to thank the many industry leaders and web community members who are collaborating on the development of WebM and integrating it into their products. Check out what Mozilla, Opera, Google Chrome, Adobe, and many others below have to say about the importance of WebM to the future of web video.
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Introducing WebM, an open web media project
19 mai 2010, par noreply@blogger.com (christosap)A key factor in the web’s success is that its core technologies such as HTML, HTTP, TCP/IP, etc. are open and freely implementable. Though video is also now core to the web experience, there is unfortunately no open and free video format that is on par with the leading commercial choices. To that end, we are excited to introduce WebM, a broadly-backed community effort to develop a world-class media format for the open web.
WebM includes :
- VP8, a high-quality video codec we are releasing today under a BSD-style, royalty-free license
- Vorbis, an already open source and broadly implemented audio codec
- a container format based on a subset of the Matroska media container
The team that created VP8 have been pioneers in video codec development for over a decade. VP8 delivers high quality video while efficiently adapting to the varying processing and bandwidth conditions found on today’s broad range of web-connected devices. VP8’s efficient bandwidth usage will mean lower serving costs for content publishers and high quality video for end-users. The codec’s relative simplicity makes it easy to integrate into existing environments and requires less manual tuning to produce high quality results. These existing attributes and the rapid innovation we expect through the open-development process make VP8 well suited for the unique requirements of video on the web.
A developer preview of WebM and VP8, including source code, specs, and encoding tools is available today at www.webmproject.org.
We want to thank the many industry leaders and web community members who are collaborating on the development of WebM and integrating it into their products. Check out what Mozilla, Opera, Google Chrome, Adobe, and many others below have to say about the importance of WebM to the future of web video.
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RoQ on Dreamcast
18 mars 2011, par Multimedia Mike — Sega DreamcastI have been working on that challenge to play back video on the Sega Dreamcast. To review, I asserted that the RoQ format would be a good fit for the Sega Dreamcast hardware. The goal was to play 640x480 video at 30 frames/second. Short version : I have determined that it is possible to decode such video in real time. However, I ran into certain data rate caveats.
First off : Have you ever wondered if the Dreamcast can read an 80mm optical disc ? It can ! I discovered this when I only had 60 MB of RoQ samples to burn on a disc and a spindle full of these 210MB-capacity 80mm CD-Rs that I never have occasion to use.
New RoQ Library
There are open source RoQ decoders out there but I decided to write a new one. A few reasons : 1) RoQ is so simple that I didn’t think it would take too long ; 2) it would be nice to have a RoQ library that is license-compatible (BSD-like) with the rest of the KallistiOS distribution ; 3) the idroq.tar.gz distribution, while license-compatible, has enough issues that I didn’t want to correct it.Thankfully, I was correct about the task not being too difficult : I put together a new RoQ decoder in short order. I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that the part I had the most trouble with was properly converting YUV -> RGB.
About the approach I took : While the original idroq.tar.gz decoder maintains YUV 4:2:0 codebooks (which led to chroma bugs during motion compensation) and FFmpeg’s decoder maintains YUV 4:4:4 codebooks, this decoder is built to convert the YUV 4:2:0 vectors into RGB565 vectors during the vector unpacking phase. Thus, the entire frame is rendered in RGB565 — no lengthy YUV -> RGB conversion after decoding — and all pixels are shuffled around as 16-bit units (minor speedup vs. shuffling everything as bytes).I also entertained the idea of maintaining YUYV codebooks (since the DC supports that colorspace as a texture format). But I scrapped that idea when I remembered it would lead to the same chroma bleeding problem seen in the original idroq.tar.gz decoder.
Onto The Dreamcast
I developed the library on a Linux computer, allowing it to output a series of PNM files for visual verification and debugging. Dropping it into a basic DC/KOS-compatible program was trivial and the first order of business was profiling.At first, I profiled the entire decode operation : open file, then read and decode each chunk while tossing away the results. I was roundly disappointed to see that, e.g., an 8.5-second RoQ sample needed a little more than 20 seconds to complete. Not real time. I performed a series of optimizations on the decoding library that netted notable performance gains when profiling on Linux. When I brought these same optimizations over to the DC, decoding time didn’t improve at all. This was my first suspicion that perhaps my assumptions regarding the DC’s optical drive’s data rate were not correct.
Dreamcast Data Rate Profiling
Let’s start with some definitions : In terms of data rate, an ’X’, i.e., 1X is the minimum data rate needed to read CD quality audio from a disc. At that speed, a drive should be able to stream 75 sectors each second. When reading mode 1/form 1 CD-ROM data, each sector has 2048 bytes (2 kbytes), so a single-speed data rate should achieve 150 kbytes/sec.The Dreamcast is supposed to possess a 12X optical drive. This would imply a maximum data rate of 150 kbytes/sec * 12 = 1800 kbytes/sec.
Rigging up a trivial experiment using the RoQ samples burned on a few different CD-R discs, the best data rate I can see is about 500-525 kbytes/sec, or around 3.5X.
Where’s the discrepancy ? My first theory has to do with the fact that not all optical media is created equal. This is why optical drives often advertise a slew of numbers which refer to the best theoretical speed for reading a CD vs. writing a CD-R vs. writing a CD-RW, etc. Perhaps the DC drive can’t read CD-Rs very quickly. To test this theory, I tried streaming a large file from a conventionally mastered CD-ROM. This worked well for the closest CD-ROM I had on hand : I was able to stream data at a rate that works out to about 6.5X.
I smell a science project for another evening : Profiling read speeds from a mastered CD-ROM, burned CD-R, and also a mastered GD-ROM, on each of the 3 Dreamcast consoles I possess (I’ve heard that there’s variance between optical drives depending on manufacturing run).
The Good News
I added a little finer-grained code to profile just the video decoding functions. The good news is that the decoder meets my real time goals : That 8.5-second RoQ sample encoded at 640x480x30fps makes its way through the video decoding functions on the DC in a little less than 5 seconds. If the optical drive can supply the data fast enough, the video decoder can take care of the rest.The RoQ encoder included with FFmpeg does not honor any bitrate parameters. Instead, I encoded the same file at 320x240. It reportedly decoded in real time and can be streamed in real time as well.
I say "reportedly" because I’m simply working from textual output at this point ; the next phase is to hook the decoder up to the display hardware.