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• The New Samples Regime

  1er décembre 2011, par Multimedia Mike — General

  A little while ago, I got a big head over the fact that I owned and controlled the feared and revered MPlayer samples archive. This is the repository that retains more than a decade of multimedia samples.

  Conflict
  Where once there was one multimedia project (FFmpeg), there are now 2 (also Libav). There were various political and technical snafus regarding the previous infrastructure. I volunteered to take over hosting the vast samples archive (53 GB at the time) at samples.mplayerhq.hu (s.mphq for this post).

  However, a brand new server is online at samples.libav.org (s.libav for this post).

  Policies
  The server at s.libav will be the authoritative samples repository going forward. Why does s.libav receive the honor ? Mostly by virtue of having more advanced features. My simple (yet bandwidth-rich) web hosting plan does not provide for rsync or anonymous FTP services, both of which have traditionally been essential for the samples server. In the course of hosting s.mphq for the past few months, a few more discrepancies have come to light– apparently, the symlinks weren’t properly replicated. And perhaps most unusual is that if a directory contains a README file, it won’t be displayed in the directory listing (which frustrated me greatly when I couldn’t find this README file that I carefully and lovingly crafted years ago).

  The s.mphq archive will continue to exist — nay, must exist — going forward since there are years’ worth of web links pointing into it. I’ll likely set up a mirroring script that periodically (daily) rsyncs from s.libav to my local machine and then uses lftp (the best facility I have available) to mirror the files up to s.mphq.

  Also, since we’re starting fresh with a new upload directory, I think we need to be far more ruthless about policing its content. This means making sure that anything that is uploaded has an accompanying file which explains why it’s there and ideally links the sample to a bug report somewhere. No explanation = sample terminated.

  RSS
  I think it would be nifty to have an RSS feed that shows the latest samples to appear in the repository. I figure that I can use the Unix ‘find’ command on my local repository in concert with something like PyRSS2Gen to accomplish this goal.

  Monetization
  In the few months that I have been managing the repository, I have had numerous requests for permission to leech the entire collection in one recursive web-suck. These requests often from commercial organizations who wish to test their multimedia product on a large corpus of diverse samples. Personally, I believe the archive makes a rather poor corpus for such an endeavor, but so be it. Go ahead ; hosting this archive barely makes a dent in my fairly low-end web hosting plan. However, at least one person indicated that it might be easier to mail a hard drive to me, have me copy it, and send it back.

  This got me thinking about monetization opportunities. Perhaps, I should provide a service to send HDs filled with samples for the cost of the HD, shipping, and a small donation to the multimedia projects. I immediately realized that that is precisely the point at which the vast multimedia samples archive — with all of its media of questionable fair use status — would officially run afoul of copyright laws.

  Which brings me to…

  Clean Up
  I think we need to clean up some samples, starting with the ones that were marked not-readable in the old repository. Apparently, some ‘samples’ were, e.g., full anime videos and were responsible for a large bandwidth burden when linked from various sources.

  We multimedia nerds are a hoarding lot, never willing to throw anything away. This will probably the most challenging proposal to implement.

• Using FFMpeg with Runtime.exec() to do a simple transcoding

  1er novembre 2011, par Adam Ingmansson

  I know there are many questions touching this subject, but none have helped me solve my issue.

  Purpose :

  Transcoding a video taken,from a queue, from .mov to h.264 (for now only that)

  Solution :

  Building a java application that gets the next in the queue, transcodes it then repeat

  Problem :

  Running ffmpeg using Runtime.exec() is not working.
  Im using the StreamGobbler from this tutorial to capturing the output from the process.

  This code shows how i start my process :

  String[] command = new String[]{"./ffmpeg/ffmpeg","-i",videoFile.getPath(),"-vcodec","libx264","-fpre",preset,folder + recID + ".flv"};
  
  System.out.println("Running command..");
  
  Process p = r.exec(command);
  
  
  
   // any error message?
  
  StreamGobbler errorGobbler = new 
  
  StreamGobbler(p.getErrorStream(), "ERROR");            
  
  
  
  // any output?
  
  StreamGobbler outputGobbler = new 
  
  StreamGobbler(p.getInputStream(), "OUT");
  
  
  
  // kick them off
  
  errorGobbler.start();
  
  outputGobbler.start();
  
  
  
  //logProcessOutputAndErrors(p);
  
  
  
  int res = p.waitFor();
  
  if (res != 0) {
  
      throw new Exception("Encoding error: "+String.valueOf(res));
  
  }

  and this is the current modified version of StreamGobbler (the important part)

  InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
  
  BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
  
  String line=null;
  
  int c = 0;
  
  StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
  
  
  
  while (true) {
  
      c = br.read();
  
  }

  Sometimes ffmpeg just stalls, maybe waiting for my input (although there is no indication on screen).

  Sometimes it just ends.

  Sometimes (when I added the line "System.out.print((char) c) ;" in the while-loop above) i got loads of "¿¿ï" repeated over and over again, wich might be the actual encoding of the video wich I managed to capture instead of to a file.

  For those who wonders why i dont just go with a commandline or maybe even php :

  The purpose is an application that will run 24/7 transcoding anything and everything from a queue. The files are pretty large to begin with and takes about 15 min to transcode.

• grabbing image frame from RTSP

  22 mars 2013, par Christopher Haag

  I have read many posts on this topic, but have yet to find a solution that works.

  I have tried VLC as well as FFMPEG to capture a frame every 10 seconds from an RTSP stream my surveillance system produces. I receive UDP timeout, trying TCP errors with FFMPEG, this is the closest I have got it to working.

  I am looking for a command which I can throw into a windows batch file which will initiate the stream, and begin dumping a file of the same name into a directory (the image must overwrite itself every 10 seconds). Any help will be very much appreciated ! Thanks !