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• Convert FLV video with alpha channel to PNGs with transparency

  8 octobre 2012, par AZAR

  I have some FLV videos with alpha channels, and I want to convert each of them to PNG images using ffmpeg but keep the transparency.

  So far, I've tried this :

  ffmpeg -i input.flv -an -y %d.png

  But this outputs the PNG files with black background.

  Is there any way to do this ?

  Alternate acceptable solution : If I can output the images and give the alpha channel a certain color of my choice. I can then remove it later via imagemagick and convert that color to transparency.

• Dreamcast Archival

  24 mai 2011, par Multimedia Mike — Sega Dreamcast

  Console homebrew communities have always had a precarious relationship with console pirates. The same knowledge and skills useful for creating homebrew programs can usually be parlayed into ripping games and cajoling a console into honoring ripped copies. For this reason, the Dreamcast homebrew community tried hard to distance itself from pirates, rippers, and other unsavory characters.

  
  
  

  Funny how times change. While I toed the same line while I was marginally a part of the community back in the day, now I think I’m performing a service for video game archivists and historians by openly publishing the same information. I know of at least one solution already. But I think it’s possible to do much better.

  Pre-existing Art
  Famed Japanese game hacker BERO (FFmpeg contributors should recognize his name from a number of Dreamcast-related multimedia contributions including CRI ADX and SH-4 optimizations) crafted a program called dreamrip based on KOS’s precursor called libdream. This is the program I used to extract 4XM multimedia files from Alone in the Dark : The New Nightmare.

  Fun facts : The Sega Dreamcast used special optical discs called GD-ROMs. The GD stands for ‘GigaDisc’ which implied that they could hold roughly a gigabyte of data. How long do you think it takes to transfer that much data over a serial cable operating at 115,200 bits/second (on the order of 11 Kbytes/sec) ? I seem to recall entire discs requiring on the order of 27-28 hours to archive.

  If only I possessed some expertise in data compression which might expedite this process.

  KallistiOS’ Unwitting Help
  The KallistiOS (KOS) console-oriented RTOS provides all the software infrastructure necessary for archiving (that’s what we’ll call it in this post) Dreamcast games. KOS exposes the optical disc’s filesystem via the /cd mount point on the VFS. From there, KOS provides functions for communicating with a host computer via ethernet (broadband adapter) or serial line (DC coder’s cable). To this end, KOS exposes another mount point on the VFS named /pc which allows direct access to the host PC’s filesystem.

  Thus, it’s pretty straightforward to use KOS to access the files (or raw sectors) of the Dreamcast disc and then send them over the communication line to the host PC. Simple.

  Compressing Before Transfer
  Right away, I wonder about compiling 3 different compression libraries : libz, libbz2, and liblzma. The latter 2 are exceptionally CPU-intensive to compress. Then again, it doesn’t really matter how long the compressor takes to do its job as long as it can average better than 11 Kbytes/sec on a 200MHz Hitachi SH-4 CPU. KOS can be set up in a preemptive threading mode which means it should be possible to read sectors and compress them while keeping the UART operating at full tilt.

  A 4th compression algorithm should be in play here as well : FLAC. Since some of these discs contain red book CD audio tracks that need archival, lossless audio compression should be useful.

  This post serves as a rough overview for possible future experiments. Readers might have further brainstorms.

• Decoding RIMM streaming file format

  10 septembre 2011, par Thomas

  I want to decode the video (visual) frames within a Blackberry RIMM file. So far I have a parser, and some corresponding container documentation from RIM. 

  The video codec is H264 and is explicitly set on the device using one of the video.encodings properties. However, FFMPEG is not able to decode the frames and this is driving me nuts.

  Edit 1 : The issues seems to be lack of SPS and PPS in the frames, and artificially inserting them have proven unsuccessful so far (all grey image). Blackberry 9700 sends

  0x00 0x00 0x ?? 0x ?? 0xType

  where Type is according to table 7-1 in the H264 spec (I and P frames). We believe the 0x ?? 0x ?? represent the size of the frame, however the size does not always correspond to the size found by the parser (the parser seems to be working correctly).

  I have a windows decoder codec from blackberry, called mc_demux_mp2_ds.ax, and can play some MPEG-4 files captured the same way, but it is a binary for windows. And the H264 files will not play either way. I am aware of previous attempts. The capture url for javax.microedition.media.Manager is

  encoding=video-3gpp_width=176_height=144_video_codec=H264_audio_codec=AAC

  and I am writing to an output stream. Some example files here.

  Edit 2 :Turns out that about 3-4 of the 12-15 available video capture modes are flat out failing and refusing to output data, even in the simplest of test applications. So any working solution should implement MPEG-4, H264 and H263 in both AMR and AAC, in so getting fallback alternatives when one sound codec and/or resolution fails. Reboots, hangs and what not litters the Blackberry video implementation and vary from firmware to firmware ; total suckage.