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• FFMPEG | Streaming video frames from server

  11 décembre 2013, par Aqueel

  I am sending frames of a video in form of JPEG images to my server on RMTP stream. At server side, I want to connect the stream (ip + port) to ffmpeg so that it can grab images from stream and create a video stream from them. Actually my server is listening on an IP and port for incoming frames. This part is done. Where I am stuck is that how to convert these frames to a video stream using FFMPEG. Can anyone please tell me how to achieve this ? I know image2pipe is what I should go with but I have not found its syntax and documentation on google. So please help me.

  Thanks and best regards

• Sequencing MIDI From A Chiptune

  28 avril 2013, par Multimedia Mike — Outlandish Brainstorms

  The feature requests for my game music appreciation website project continue to pour in. Many of them take the form of “please add player support for system XYZ and the chiptune library to go with it.” Most of these requests are A) plausible, and B) in process. I have also received recommendations for UI improvements which I take under consideration. Then there are the numerous requests to port everything from Native Client to JavaScript so that it will work everywhere, even on mobile, a notion which might take a separate post to debunk entirely.

  But here’s an interesting request about which I would like to speculate : Automatically convert a chiptune into a MIDI file. I immediately wanted to dismiss it as impossible or highly implausible. But, as is my habit, I started pondering the concept a little more carefully and decided that there’s an outside chance of getting some part of the idea to work.

  Intro to MIDI
  MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It’s a standard musical interchange format and allows music instruments and computers to exchange musical information. The file interchange format bears the extension .mid and contains a sequence of numbers that translate into commands separated by time deltas. E.g. : turn key on (this note, this velocity) ; wait x ticks ; turn key off ; wait y ticks ; etc. I’m vastly oversimplifying, as usual.

  MIDI fascinated me back in the days of dialup internet and discrete sound cards (see also my write-up on the Gravis Ultrasound). Typical song-length MIDI files often ranged from a few kilobytes to a few 10s of kilobytes. They were significantly smaller than the MOD et al. family of tracker music formats mostly by virtue of the fact that MIDI files aren’t burdened by transporting digital audio samples.
  
  I know I’m missing a lot of details. I haven’t dealt much with MIDI in the past… 15 years or so (ever since computer audio became a blur of MP3 and AAC audio). But I’m led to believe it’s still relevant. The individual who requested this feature expressed an interest in being able to import the sequenced data into any of the many music programs that can interpret .mid files.

  The Pitch
  To limit the scope, let’s focus on music that comes from the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System or the original Game Boy. The former features 2 square wave channels, a triangle wave, a noise channel, and a limited digital channel. The latter creates music via 2 square waves, a wave channel, and a noise channel. The roles that these various channels usually play typically break down as : square waves represent the primary melody, triangle wave is used to simulate a bass line, noise channel approximates a variety of percussive sounds, and the DPCM/wave channels are fairly free-form. They can have random game sound effects or, if they are to assist in the music, are often used for more authentic percussive sounds.

  The various channels are controlled via an assortment of memory-mapped hardware registers. These registers are fed values such as frequency, volume, and duty cycle. My idea is to modify the music playback engine to track when various events occur. Whenever a channel is turned on or off, that corresponds to a MIDI key on or off event. If a channel is already playing but a new frequency is written, that would likely count as a note change, so log a key off event followed by a new key on event.

  There is the major obstacle of what specific note is represented by a channel in a particular state. The MIDI standard defines 128 different notes spanning 11 octaves. Empirically, I wonder if I could create a table which maps the assorted frequencies to different MIDI notes ?

  I think this strategy would only work with the square and triangle waves. Noise and digital channels ? I’m not prepared to tackle that challenge.

  Prior Work ?
  I have to wonder if there is any existing work in this area. I’m certain that people have wanted to do this before ; I wonder if anyone has succeeded ?

  Just like reverse engineering a binary program entails trying to obtain a higher level abstraction of a program from a very low level representation, this challenge feels like reverse engineering a piece of music as it is being performed and automatically expressing it in a higher level form.

• Unmapping memory-mapped images that are created during processing

  23 avril 2013, par user2309283

  I have a pretty big issue, although I only have the symptoms, and a theory on the cause.

  I have a C++ application under Windows 7x64 that uses system calls to FFMPEG 0.7.13 to extract frames from videos. When running, the parent application maintains a nice, predicable memory footprint in memory profilers (task manager, RAMMap) of about 2MB. I can see the individual calls to FFMPEG also come and go without incident. The trouble is, after about 100 calls to FFMPEG, and 70,000+ PNGs created (no one directory has more than 1500 pngs), the Windows memory page size raises gradually from about 2.5GB to over 7.0GB, and the system is brought to its knees. The sum of the processes for all users is no where near the reported Memory Page amount.

  I thought it might be Windows Search indexing related, so I turned off the indexing for the output directories in question using SetFileAttributes() and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED, and while it seems to be working as advertised, it does not seem to combat the issue at hand. My current running theory is that all of these extracted PNGs are either fully or partially memory mapped, by FFMPEG or something else. I can also see the output PNGs under the RAMMap Physical Pages tab as standby mapped files.

  Question :
   Is there enough information here to possibly diagnose the exact problem ?
   Do I have a way to combat this issue ?

  Thanks in advance...