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• AFTER PHP-FFMpeg not converting (error with ffmpeg)

  15 août 2016, par Magurean Dan Sergiu

  I have installed ffmpeg server side with all the dependencies, updated it. And then installed PHP-FFMpeg with Composer. Tested that ffmpeg is instaled with a ssh conexion.

  root@host [/opt/ffmpeg]# ffmpeg
  
  ffmpeg version N-81322-ge8b355a Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  
  built with gcc 4.4.7 (GCC) 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)
  
  configuration: --disable-yasm
  
  libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
  
  libavcodec     57. 51.100 / 57. 51.100
  
  libavformat    57. 46.100 / 57. 46.100
  
  libavdevice    57.  0.102 / 57.  0.102
  
  libavfilter     6. 51.100 /  6. 51.100
  
  libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
  
  libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  
  Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
  
  usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options]     outfile}...
  
  
  
  Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

  But when I try to convert a video file with a php script it throws me a very long error.
  PHP Code :

  <?PHP
  
  include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/vendors/install/vendor/autoload.php");
  
  $ffmpeg = FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create();
  
  $video = $ffmpeg->open($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/resources/uploads/96048/ffd3c5e349fa5745159deef163b5c253.wmv');
  
  $video
  
         ->filters()
  
         ->synchronize();
  
  $format = new FFMpeg\Format\Video\X264();
  
  $format->on('progress', function ($video, $format, $percentage) {
  
      echo "$percentage % transcoded";});
  
  $video
  
        ->save($format,$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/resources/uploads/96048/ffd3c5e349fa5745159deef163b5c253.mp4');
  
  ?>

  Error displayed :

  <b>Fatal error</b>:  Uncaught exception 'Alchemy\BinaryDriver\Exception\ExecutionFailureException' with message 'ffmpeg failed to execute command '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg' '-y' '-i' '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/23097/2efeb41a1a7085a1dbd469c4895ac23e.wmv' '-async' '1' '-metadata:s:v:0' 'start_time=0' '-threads' '12' '-vcodec' 'libx264' '-acodec' 'libfaac' '-b:v' '1000k' '-refs' '6' '-coder' '1' '-sc_threshold' '40' '-flags' '+loop' '-me_range' '16' '-subq' '7' '-i_qfactor' '0.71' '-qcomp' '0.6' '-qdiff' '4' '-trellis' '1' '-b:a' '128k' '-pass' '1' '-passlogfile' '/tmp/ffmpeg-passes57ad320a1b685j794u/pass-57ad320a1b716' '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/23097/2efeb41a1a7085a1dbd469c4895ac23e.mp4'' in /home/user/working/vendors/install/vendor/alchemy/binary-driver/src/Alchemy/BinaryDriver/ProcessRunner.php:100↵Stack trace:↵#0 /home/user/working/vendors/install/vendor/alchemy/binary-driver/src/Alchemy/BinaryDriver/ProcessRunner.php(72): Alchemy\BinaryDriver\ProcessRunner-&amp;gt;doExecutionFailure(''/usr/bin/ffmpe...')↵#1 / in <b>/home/user/working/vendors/install/vendor/php-ffmpeg/php-ffmpeg/src/FFMpeg/Media/Video.php</b> on line <b>168</b><br />↵"

  Then I have took the basic code displayed upwards and ran it directly through ssh.

  '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg' '-y' '-i' '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/23097/2efeb41a1a7085a1dbd469c4895ac23e.wmv' '-async' '1' '-metadata:s:v:0' 'start_time=0' '-threads' '12' '-vcodec' 'libx264' '-acodec' 'libfaac' '-b:v' '1000k' '-refs' '6' '-coder' '1' '-sc_threshold' '40' '-flags' '+loop' '-me_range' '16' '-subq' '7' '-i_qfactor' '0.71' '-qcomp' '0.6' '-qdiff' '4' '-trellis' '1' '-b:a' '128k' '-pass' '1' '-passlogfile' '/tmp/ffmpeg-passes57ad320a1b685j794u/pass-57ad320a1b716' '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/23097/2efeb41a1a7085a1dbd469c4895ac23e.mp4'

  And this is the response I get :

  ffmpeg version N-81322-ge8b355a Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  
    built with gcc 4.4.7 (GCC) 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)
  
    configuration: --disable-yasm
  
    libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
  
    libavcodec     57. 51.100 / 57. 51.100
  
    libavformat    57. 46.100 / 57. 46.100
  
    libavdevice    57.  0.102 / 57.  0.102
  
    libavfilter     6. 51.100 /  6. 51.100
  
    libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
  
    libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  
  Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.0 : stereo
  
  Input #0, asf, from '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/23097/2efeb41a1a7085a1dbd469c4895ac23e.wmv':
  
    Metadata:
  
      SfOriginalFPS   : 299700
  
      WMFSDKVersion   : 11.0.6001.7000
  
      WMFSDKNeeded    : 0.0.0.0000
  
      comment         : Footage: Small World Productions, Inc; Tourism New Zealand | Producer: Gary F. Spradling | Music: Steve Ball
  
      title           : Wildlife in HD
  
      copyright       : © 2008 Microsoft Corporation
  
      IsVBR           : 0
  
      DeviceConformanceTemplate: AP@L3
  
    Duration: 00:00:30.09, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 6977 kb/s
  
      Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: wmav2 (a[1][0][0] / 0x0161), 44100 Hz, 2 channels, fltp, 192 kb/s
  
      Stream #0:1(eng): Video: vc1 (Advanced) (WVC1 / 0x31435657), yuv420p, 1280x720, 5942 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
  
  Unknown encoder 'libx264'

  My question is what to do next ? I have wasted 3 days to make this work and this is the furthest I have come. How can I test if libx264 is installed corectly ? And if it is not installed corectly how cand I reinstal or make it work ?

  After a few modifications

  I have used an already installed ffmpeg, and removed a few commands (that were by default the same) and this time I used only the command line.

  The request

  '/home/user/working/vendors/install/ffmpeg-git-20160813-64bit-static/ffmpeg' '-y' '-i' '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/96048/ffd3c5e349fa5745159deef163b5c253.wmv' '-async' '1' '-metadata:s:v:0' 'start_time=0' '-vcodec' 'libx264' '-c:a' 'aac' '-b:v' '1000k' '-b:a' '128k' '-pass' '1' '-passlogfile' '/tmp/ffmpeg-passes57b053ce14a12ljm8a/pass-57b053ce14ad3' '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/96048/ffd3c5e349fa5745159deef163b5c253.mp4'

  The new result :

  ffmpeg version N-81328-gceab04f-static http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/  Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  
    built with gcc 5.4.1 (Debian 5.4.1-1) 20160803
  
    configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static --disable-debug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libwebp --enable-libspeex --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libfreetype --enable-fontconfig --enable-libxvid --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-gray --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libass --enable-gnutls --enable-libvidstab --enable-libsoxr --enable-frei0r --enable-libfribidi --disable-indev=sndio --disable-outdev=sndio --enable-librtmp --enable-libmfx --enable-libzimg --cc=gcc-5
  
    libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
  
    libavcodec     57. 51.102 / 57. 51.102
  
    libavformat    57. 46.101 / 57. 46.101
  
    libavdevice    57.  0.102 / 57.  0.102
  
    libavfilter     6. 51.100 /  6. 51.100
  
    libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
  
    libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  
    libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
  
  Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.0 : stereo
  
  Input #0, asf, from '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/96048/ffd3c5e349fa5745159deef163b5c253.wmv':
  
    Metadata:
  
      SfOriginalFPS   : 299700
  
      WMFSDKVersion   : 11.0.6001.7000
  
      WMFSDKNeeded    : 0.0.0.0000
  
      comment         : Footage: Small World Productions, Inc; Tourism New Zealand | Producer: Gary F. Spradling | Music: Steve Ball
  
      title           : Wildlife in HD
  
      copyright       : © 2008 Microsoft Corporation
  
      IsVBR           : 0
  
      DeviceConformanceTemplate: AP@L3
  
    Duration: 00:00:30.09, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 6977 kb/s
  
      Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: wmav2 (a[1][0][0] / 0x0161), 44100 Hz, 2 channels, fltp, 192 kb/s
  
      Stream #0:1(eng): Video: vc1 (Advanced) (WVC1 / 0x31435657), yuv420p, 1280x720, 5942 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
  
  -async is forwarded to lavfi similarly to -af aresample=async=1:min_hard_comp=0.100000:first_pts=0.
  
  [libx264 @ 0x442f5c0] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX FMA3 AVX2 LZCNT BMI2
  
  [libx264 @ 0x442f5c0] ratecontrol_init: can't open stats file
  
  Output #0, mp4, to '/home/user/working/resources/uploads/96048/ffd3c5e349fa5745159deef163b5c253.mp4':
  
    Metadata:
  
      SfOriginalFPS   : 299700
  
      WMFSDKVersion   : 11.0.6001.7000
  
      WMFSDKNeeded    : 0.0.0.0000
  
      comment         : Footage: Small World Productions, Inc; Tourism New Zealand | Producer: Gary F. Spradling | Music: Steve Ball
  
      title           : Wildlife in HD
  
      copyright       : © 2008 Microsoft Corporation
  
      IsVBR           : 0
  
      DeviceConformanceTemplate: AP@L3
  
      Stream #0:0(eng): Unknown: none
  
      Metadata:
  
        start_time      : 0
  
        encoder         : Lavc57.51.102 libx264
  
      Stream #0:1(eng): Unknown: none
  
      Metadata:
  
        encoder         : Lavc57.51.102 aac
  
  Stream mapping:
  
    Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (vc1 (native) -> h264 (libx264))
  
    Stream #0:0 -> #0:1 (wmav2 (native) -> aac (native))
  
  Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

• ffmpeg concatenation after using drawtext filter

  12 août 2016, par Sven Hoskens

  I’m fairly new to ffmpeg, but after a few days of searching on this issue, I’ve completely hit a brick wall. Any help would be appreciated.

  My use case : Our client wants to upload videos for multiple regions. Each video will be the same format, 1920x1080, mp4. For each region, they want to add a different image at the end of the video, for a few seconds. This image contains their logo, some additional info, and a variable code. They will enter this code alongside the uploaded video. The image stays the same, so is already present on the server.
  So basically, I have an input video, a video of an image, and a small code. I need to add this code to the video of the image (in a predefined position), and then I need to add the resulting video to the end of the input video. Once that is complete, I just need to output the video in 1920x1080 and in 1024x576.

  I have tried several things, but the concatenation step always fails with the manipulated video’s.

  Attempt 1

  In my first attempt, I used ffmpeg to create a video from an image, and add the text in the designated area.

  ffmpeg -y -f lavfi -i image.png -r 30 -t 10 -pix_fmt yuv420p -map 0:v -vf drawtext="fontfile=HelveticaNeue.dfont: text='GLNS/TEST/1234b': fontcolor=black: fontsize=20: box=1: boxcolor=white: boxborderw=7: x=179: y=805" imageVideo.mp4

  This command creates a .mp4 video of the correct size, with a duration of 10 seconds, and adds the text ’GLNS/TEST/1234b’ in the correct location.

  Next, I use the following command to concatenate the two videos. Both have the same resolution and codec.

  ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i config.txt -vf scale=1920:1080 outputHD.mp4 -vf scale=1024:576 outputSD.mp4

  config.txt contains following :

  file my_input_file.mp4
  
  file ImageVideo.mp4

  This concatenation works with regular videos. However, when I use it with ImageVideo.mp4 (the one created by the first command) I get this error log :

  [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f86dc924600] Auto-inserting h264_mp4toannexb bitstream filtereed=0.509x    
  
  [aac @ 0x7f86dc019e00] Number of bands (31) exceeds limit (5).
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [aac @ 0x7f86dc019e00] Number of bands (27) exceeds limit (8).
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f86dd857200] Error splitting the input into NAL units.
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f86dd829400] Invalid NAL unit size.
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f86dd829400] Error splitting the input into NAL units.
  
  [aac @ 0x7f86dc019e00] Number of bands (10) exceeds limit (1).
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f86dd816800] Invalid NAL unit size.
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f86dd816800] Error splitting the input into NAL units.
  
  [aac @ 0x7f86dc019e00] Number of bands (24) exceeds limit (1).
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:1: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  
  
  #this goes on for a few hundred lines

  The resulting output is identical to the input video, but does not contain the desired image video at the end.

  Attempt 2

  Since the above attempt didn’t work, I tried concatenating a video I let our designer make of the image with Adobe After Effects. This video was also saved as a .mp4 with the H264 codec. If I concatenate the input video and this one, I get a correct result. However, as soon as I add the code in the designated area with this command :

  ffmpeg -i new_image_video.mp4 -vf drawtext="fontfile=HelveticaNeue.dfont: text='GLNS/TEST/1234b': fontcolor=black: fontsize=20: box=1: boxcolor=white: boxborderw=7: x=179: y=805" -c:v libx264 imageVideo.mp4

  I get this error :

  [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7ff94c800000] Auto-inserting h264_mp4toannexb bitstream filter97x    
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] top block unavailable for requested intra mode -1
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] error while decoding MB 0 0, bytestream 49526
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] number of reference frames (1+3) exceeds max (3; probably corrupt input), discarding one
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] chroma_log2_weight_denom 28 is out of range
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] illegal long ref in memory management control operation 2
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] cabac_init_idc 32 overflow
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] no frame!
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] concealing 8160 DC, 8160 AC, 8160 MV errors in I frame
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b072a00] reference overflow 22 > 15 or 0 > 15
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b072a00] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b072a00] no frame!
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01a400] illegal modification_of_pic_nums_idc 20
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01a400] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01a400] no frame!
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01aa00] illegal modification_of_pic_nums_idc 20
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01aa00] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01aa00] no frame!
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] deblocking_filter_idc 8 out of range
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053800] no frame!
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] illegal memory management control operation 8
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] co located POCs unavailable
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] error while decoding MB 2 0, bytestream -35
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b053e00] concealing 8160 DC, 8160 AC, 8160 MV errors in B frame
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b072a00] number of reference frames (1+3) exceeds max (3; probably corrupt input), discarding one
  
  
  
  # this goes on for a while...
  
  
  
  [h264 @ 0x7ff94b01a400] concealing 4962 DC, 4962 AC, 4962 MV errors in B frame
  
  Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  frame= 2553 fps= 17 q=-1.0 Lsize=   26995kB time=00:01:42.16 bitrate=2164.6kbits/s dup=0 drop=60 speed=0.697x    
  
  video:25258kB audio:1661kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.285236%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] frame I:35    Avg QP:17.45  size: 55070
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] frame P:711   Avg QP:19.73  size: 18712
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] frame B:1807  Avg QP:21.53  size:  5884
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] consecutive B-frames:  3.4%  5.0%  4.9% 86.6%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] mb I  I16..4: 38.2% 49.3% 12.5%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] mb P  I16..4: 12.4% 14.0%  1.0%  P16..4: 29.6%  4.8%  1.9%  0.0%  0.0%    skip:36.2%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] mb B  I16..4:  1.5%  1.2%  0.1%  B16..8: 27.3%  1.6%  0.1%  direct: 1.8%  skip:66.4%  L0:45.8% L1:51.4% BI: 2.8%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] 8x8 transform intra:49.5% inter:85.4%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 21.2% 22.3% 2.5% inter: 4.6% 7.0% 0.0%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] i16 v,h,dc,p: 23% 26% 10% 41%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 31% 19% 35%  3%  3%  3%  3%  3%  2%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 31% 20% 16%  5%  7%  6%  5%  5%  4%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] i8c dc,h,v,p: 67% 16% 15%  2%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] Weighted P-Frames: Y:7.3% UV:4.2%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] ref P L0: 66.3%  8.7% 17.9%  7.0%  0.1%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] ref B L0: 88.2% 10.1%  1.7%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] ref B L1: 94.9%  5.1%
  
  [libx264 @ 0x7ff94b810400] kb/s:2026.12
  
  [aac @ 0x7ff94b072400] Qavg: 635.626

  The resulting output is identical to the input video, but does not contain the desired image video at the end.

  One thing I have noticed : When I inspect the video files on mac (Get info) they always contain these lines at ’More info’ :

  Dimensions: 1920 x 1080
  
  Codecs: H.264, AAC
  
  Color profile: HD(1-1-1)
  
  Duration: 01:42
  
  Audio channels: 2
  
  Last opened: Today 11:02

  However, the video’s which pass through the drawtext filter have this :

  Dimensions: 1920 x 1080
  
  Codecs: AAC, H.264
  
  Duration: 00:10
  
  Audio channels: 2
  
  Last opened: Today 11:07

  As you can see, there is no color profile entry, and the codecs have switched places. I assume this is related to my issue, but I can’t seem to find a fix for it.

  PS : The application will run in a php environment (Symfony). I noticed the concat command wasn’t available in the Symfony bundle for ffmpeg, so I’m using the regular terminal commands. I’ll execute these using php.

  EDIT
  Attempt 3

  On advise of a coworker, I tried converting the video to .avi and reconverting to .mp4, in the hopes this would lose any corrupted or extra info included by the drawtext filter. This spits out a completely different error.

  [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f812413da00] Auto-inserting h264_mp4toannexb bitstream filtereed=0.516x    
  
  [concat @ 0x7f8124009a00] DTS 1569260 < 2551000 out of order
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846800] left block unavailable for requested intra4x4 mode -1
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846800] error while decoding MB 0 0, bytestream 47919
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846800] concealing 8160 DC, 8160 AC, 8160 MV errors in I frame
  
  [aac @ 0x7f8125809a00] Queue input is backward in time
  
  [aac @ 0x7f8125815a00] Queue input is backward in time
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846e00] number of reference frames (1+3) exceeds max (3; probably corrupt input), discarding one
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846e00] chroma_log2_weight_denom 26 is out of range
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846e00] deblocking_filter_idc 32 out of range
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846e00] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124846e00] no frame!
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8124802200] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 4902912, current: 4505491; changing to 4902913. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8125813000] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 1:1; previous: 4902912, current: 4505491; changing to 4902913. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124803400] reference overflow 20 > 15 or 0 > 15
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124803400] decode_slice_header error
  
  [h264 @ 0x7f8124803400] no frame!
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8124802200] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 4902913, current: 4506515; changing to 4902914. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8125813000] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 1:1; previous: 4902913, current: 4506515; changing to 4902914. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8124802200] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 4902914, current: 4507539; changing to 4902915. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  [mp4 @ 0x7f8125813000] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 1:1; previous: 4902914, current: 4507539; changing to 4902915. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
  
  
  
  # Again, this continues for quite a while.

• 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.