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• Finding Optimal Code Coverage

  7 mars 2012, par Multimedia Mike — Programming

  A few months ago, I published a procedure for analyzing code coverage of the test suites exercised in FFmpeg and Libav. I used it to add some more tests and I have it on good authority that it has helped other developers fill in some gaps as well (beginning with students helping out with the projects as part of the Google Code-In program). Now I’m wondering about ways to do better.

  Current Process
  When adding a test that depends on a sample (like a demuxer or decoder test), it’s ideal to add a sample that’s A) small, and B) exercises as much of the codebase as possible. When I was studying code coverage statistics for the WC4-Xan video decoder, I noticed that the sample didn’t exercise one of the 2 possible frame types. So I scouted samples until I found one that covered both types, trimmed the sample down, and updated the coverage suite.

  I started wondering about a method for finding the optimal test sample for a given piece of code, one that exercises every code path in a module. Okay, so that’s foolhardy in the vast majority of cases (although I was able to add one test spec that pushed a module’s code coverage from 0% all the way to 100% — but the module in question only had 2 exercisable lines). Still, given a large enough corpus of samples, how can I find the smallest set of samples that exercise the complete codebase ?

  This almost sounds like an NP-complete problem. But why should that stop me from trying to find a solution ?

  Science Project
  Here’s the pitch :

  • Instrument FFmpeg with code coverage support
  • Download lots of media to exercise a particular module
  • Run FFmpeg against each sample and log code coverage statistics
  • Distill the resulting data in some meaningful way in order to obtain more optimal code coverage

  That first step sounds harsh– downloading lots and lots of media. Fortunately, there is at least one multimedia format in the projects that tends to be extremely small : ANSI. These are files that are designed to display elaborate scrolling graphics using text mode. Further, the FATE sample currently deployed for this test (TRE_IOM5.ANS) only exercises a little less than 50% of the code in libavcodec/ansi.c. I believe this makes the ANSI video decoder a good candidate for this experiment.

  Procedure
  First, find a site that hosts a lot ANSI files. Hi, sixteencolors.net. This site has lots (on the order of 4000) artpacks, which are ZIP archives that contain multiple ANSI files (and sometimes some other files). I scraped a list of all the artpack names.

  In an effort to be responsible, I randomized the list of artpacks and downloaded periodically and with limited bandwidth ('wget --limit-rate=20k').

  Run ‘gcov’ on ansi.c in order to gather the full set of line numbers to be covered.

  For each artpack, unpack the contents, run the instrumented FFmpeg on each file inside, run ‘gcov’ on ansi.c, and log statistics including the file’s size, the file’s location (artpack.zip:filename), and a comma-separated list of line numbers touched.

  Definition of ‘Optimal’
  The foregoing procedure worked and yielded useful, raw data. Now I have to figure out how to analyze it.

  I think it’s most desirable to have the smallest files (in terms of bytes) that exercise the most lines of code. To that end, I sorted the results by filesize, ascending. A Python script initializes a set of all exercisable line numbers in ansi.c, then iterates through each each file’s stats line, adding the file to the list of candidate samples if its set of exercised lines can remove any line numbers from the overall set of lines. Ideally, that set of lines should devolve to an empty set.

  I think a second possible approach is to find the single sample that exercises the most code and then proceed with the previously described method.

  Initial Results
  So far, I have analyzed 13324 samples from 357 different artpacks provided by sixteencolors.net.

  Using the first method, I can find a set of samples that covers nearly 80% of ansi.c :

  <br />
0 bytes: bad-0494.zip:5<br />
1 bytes: grip1293.zip:-ANSI---.---<br />
1 bytes: pur-0794.zip:.<br />
2 bytes: awe9706.zip:-ANSI───.───<br />
61 bytes: echo0197.zip:-(ART)-<br />
62 bytes: hx03.zip:HX005.DAT<br />
76 bytes: imp-0494.zip:IMPVIEW.CFG<br />
82 bytes: ice0010b.zip:_cont'd_.___<br />
101 bytes: bdp-0696.zip:BDP2.WAD<br />
112 bytes: plain12.zip:--------.---<br />
181 bytes: ins1295v.zip:-°VGA°-.  н<br />
219 bytes: purg-22.zip:NEM-SHIT.ASC<br />
289 bytes: srg1196.zip:HOWTOREQ.JNK<br />
315 bytes: karma-04.zip:FASHION.COM<br />
318 bytes: buzina9.zip:ox-rmzzy.ans<br />
411 bytes: solo1195.zip:FU-BLAH1.RIP<br />
621 bytes: ciapak14.zip:NA-APOC1.ASC<br />
951 bytes: lght9404.zip:AM-TDHO1.LIT<br />
1214 bytes: atb-1297.zip:TX-ROKL.ASC<br />
2332 bytes: imp-0494.zip:STATUS.ANS<br />
3218 bytes: acepak03.zip:TR-STAT5.ANS<br />
6068 bytes: lgc-0193.zip:LGC-0193.MEM<br />
16778 bytes: purg-20.zip:EZ-HIR~1.JPG<br />
20582 bytes: utd0495.zip:LT-CROW3.ANS<br />
26237 bytes: quad0597.zip:MR-QPWP.GIF<br />
29208 bytes: mx-pack17.zip:mx-mobile-source-logo.jpg<br />
----<br />
109440 bytes total<br />

  A few notes about that list : Some of those filenames are comprised primarily of control characters. 133t, and all that. The first file is 0 bytes. I wondered if I should discard 0-length files but decided to keep those in, especially if they exercise lines that wouldn’t normally be activated. Also, there are a few JPEG and GIF files in the set. I should point out that I forced the tty demuxer using -f tty and there isn’t much in the way of signatures for this format. So, again, whatever exercises more lines is better.

  Using this same corpus, I tried approach 2– which single sample exercises the most lines of the decoder ? Answer : blde9502.zip:REQUEST.EXE. Huh. I checked it out and ‘file’ ID’s it as a MS-DOS executable. So, that approach wasn’t fruitful, at least not for this corpus since I’m forcing everything through this narrow code path.

  Think About The Future
  Where can I take this next ? The cloud ! I have people inside the search engine industry who have furnished me with extensive lists of specific types of multimedia files from around the internet. I also see that Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) instances don’t charge for incoming bandwidth.

  I think you can see where I’m going with this.

  See Also :

  • Running this experiment on 4000 artpacks / 146,000 files

• G.I. Joe Custom Multimedia

  30 mars 2012, par Multimedia Mike — General

  I received this 3-disc set of G.I. Joe CD-ROMs today :

  
  
  

  Copyright 2003, and labeled as PC ONLY. Each disc claims to have 2 episodes. So are these some sort of video discs ? Any gaming elements ? I dove in to investigate.

  So, it turns out that there are some games on these discs, done in Flash Player (which tells me that these were probably available on the web at some point). Here’s a shooting gallery game from the first disc :

  
  
  

  As promised by the CD-ROM copy, the menu does grant access to 2 classic G.I. Joe episodes. Selecting either one launches this :

  
  
  

  Powered by C-ezy ? Am I interpreting that correctly ? Anyway, the video player goes fullscreen and looks fine (given the source material). I can’t capture screenshots and controls are limited to : space for pause, ESC to exit player, and up/down to control volume. No seeking and certainly no onscreen controls. Pretty awful player.

  Studying the first disc, I find a 550 MB file with the name 5859Hasbro.egm. Coupled with ep58.cfg and ep59.cfg files in the same directory, I gather that the disc has G.I. Joe episodes 58 and 59 (though the exact episodes, “There’s No Place Like Springfield” parts 1 and 2, are listed on Wikipedia as being episodes 154 and 155 ; but who’s counting ?). The cfg files contain this text :

  ep58.cfg :
  EGM_GIJOE.exe
  5859Hasbro.egm /noend /track:0 /singletrack
  ep59.cfg :
  
  EGM_GIJOE.exe
  
  5859Hasbro.egm /noend /track:1 /singletrack
  

  The big EGM file starts with the string “Egenie Player”. After that, I see absolutely no clues. The supporting EGM_GIJOE.exe file has some interesting strings : “Decore Bits Per Pixel” (I know I have seen “Decore” used to mean “decoding core” in some libraries), “Egenie Player – %s, Version :%s”, “4th June 2002″, a list of common FourCC tags seen in AVI files, “Brought to you by Martin, Patrick Bob and Bren” (do you suppose “Patrick Bob” is one person’s name ?), a list of command line options…

  Aha ! A URL : http:\www.e-genie.tv (yep, backslashes, not forward slashes). e-genie.tv seems to redirect to mygenie.tv, which… doesn’t appear to be strictly related to video technology these days.

• FFMPEG in Java (runtime error)

  4 juillet 2012, par Eric

  I want to write a program that converts video into frames using FFMPEG. When I use it on the Ubuntu terminal, it works fine. But when I try to put it into the Java code, it gives me a runtime error. Did I make a mistake in my code below ?

  import java.util.*;
  
  import java.awt.*;
  
  import java.lang.*;
  
  import java.lang.Runtime;
  
  import java.io.*;
  
  import java.io.IOException;
  
  
  
  public class ConvertVideoToImage
  
  {
  
      private SingletonServer ss = null;
  
  
  
      public ConvertVideoToImage(SingletonServer ss)
  
      {
  
          this.ss = ss;
  
      }
  
  
  
      public void run()
  
      {
  
          convertVideo();
  
      }
  
  
  
      public void convertVideo()
  
      {
  
          try
  
          {
  
              Runtime rt = Runtime.getRunTime().exec("ffmpeg" + "-i" +         "display.wmv" + "image%d.jpg");
  
          }
  
          catch(Exception e){}
  
      }
  
  
  
  }

  Edit :

  I have changed the code like you suggested, but it also doesn't work. And when I Googled it, I found out that someone put the full path inside the executable and it became like this :

  Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/home/pc3/Documents/ffmpeg_temp/ffmpeg -i display.wmv image%d.jpg")

  BTW, thanks for the reply. I have another question. Is it possible to make a counter for FFMPEG ? I used this command in the Ubuntu terminal to make it convert a video to 30 frames/1seconds :

  ffmpeg -i display.wmv image%d.jpg

  This will automatically generate numbers like image1.jpg, image2.jpg, to image901.jpg. Is it possible to make a counter for this ? Because I need to count the files and control the number.

  Thanks in advance.