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• Right choice to play audio and video content

  22 juin 2012, par deimus

  What I'm doing :

  I need to play audio and video files that are not supported by Apple on iPhone/iPad for example mkv/mka files which my contain several audio channels.

  I'm using libffmpeg to find audio and video streams in media file.
  Video is being decoded with avcodec_decode_video2 and audio with avcodec_decode_audio3
  the return values are following for each function are following

  • avcodec_decode_video2 - returns AVFrame structure which encapsulates information about the video video frame from the pakcage, specifically is has data field which is a pointer to the picture/channel planes.
  • avcodec_decode_audio3 - returns samples of type int16_t * which I guess is the raw audio data

  So basically I've done all this and successfully decoding the media content.

  What I have to do :
  I've to play the audio and video accordingly using Apples services. The playback I need to perform should support mixing of audio channels while playing video, i.e. let say mkv file contains two audio channel and a video channel. So I would like to know which service will be the appropriate choice for me ? My research showed that AudioQueue service might be useful audio playback, and probably AVFoundation for video.

  Please help to find the right technology for my case i.e. video playeback + audio playback with possible audio channel mixing.

• Solving The XVD Puzzle

  15 avril 2012, par Multimedia Mike — General, multimedi archaeology, silicon valley, vg2, xvd, zygo

  I downloaded a multimedia file a long time ago (at least, I strongly suspected it was a multimedia file which is why I downloaded it). It went by the name of ‘lamborghini_850kbps.vg2′. I have had it in my collection for at least 7 years. I couldn’t remember where I found it. I downloaded it before it occurred to me to take notes about this sort of stuff.

  I found myself staring at the file again today and Googled the filename. This led me to a few Japanese sites which also contained working URLs for a few more .vg2 samples. Some other clues led me to a Russian language forum where someone had linked to a site that had Win32 codec modules that could process the files. The site was defunct but the Internet Archive Wayback Machine kept a copy for me, as well as copies of several more .vg2 samples from a defunct Japanese site previously involved with this codec.

  Sometimes this internet technology works really well. But I digress.

  Anyway, through all this, I finally found a clue : XVD. and wouldn’t you know, there is already a basic page on the MultimediaWiki describing the technology. In fact, while VG2 is a custom container, the MultimediaWiki states that the video component has a FourCC of VGMV, and there is already a file named VGMV.avi in the root V-codecs/ samples directory, something I vow to correct (that’s a big pet peeve of mine– putting samples in the root V-codecs/ or A-codecs/ directories).

  XVD… XVD… XVD… why does that sound so familiar ? Oh, of course ; there is a company named XVD and they have an office in the Bay Area which I have passed on numerous occasions, like this morning :

  
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  Someone originally connected with the multimedia technology in question operates a website which contains an unofficial history of the XVD tech. At first, I was wondering if the technology was completely defunct (and should therefore be open sourced). But if XVD’s solutions page (dated 2010) is to be believed, the technology is still in service, and purported to be better than H.264 and VC-1 : “The current generation of XVD video compression technology provides better video quality at any given data rate than standards-based codecs (H.264 or VC-1) with four times lower encoding complexity (when compared with H.264 Main Profile).”

  If they say so. For my part, I’m just happy that I have finally figured out what this lamborghini_850kbps.vg2 is so that I can properly catalog it on the samples site, which I have now done, along with other samples and various codecs modules.

  This episode reminds me that there’s a branch office of Zygo Corporation close to my home (though the headquarters are far, far away). The companies you see in Silicon Valley. Anyway, long-time open source multimedia hackers will no doubt recognize Zygo from the ZyGo FourCC & video codec transported in QuickTime files that was almost decode-able using an H.263 decoder.

  
  
  

  I may never learn what Zygo’s core competency actually is, but I will always remember their multimedia tech every time I run past their office.

• How can you run an exe as with no window, in the background and being the most efficient use of resources ? [closed]

  18 mars 2013, par Covenant Spokane

  I don't understand the way the windows totally functions so forgive the novice question.

  I want to setup a server running a video processing peogram called FFMpeg. The server will be used at an time to run that command line program in as many instances that the server can handle. I don't want the server to have 100 command windows open while its processing. Can an exe be run as a process or service or something so that it runs without a window and is as efficient as possible.