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• Optical Drive Value Proposition

  28 août 2010, par Multimedia Mike — General

  I have the absolute worst luck in the optical drive department. Ever since I started building my own computers in 1995 — close to the beginning of the CD-ROM epoch — I have burned through a staggering number of optical drives. Seriously, especially in the time period between about 1995-1998, I was going through a new drive every 4-6 months or so. This was also during that CD-ROM speed race where the the drive packages kept advertising loftier ‘X’ speed ratings. I didn’t play a lot of CD-ROM games during that timeframe, though I did listen to quite a few audio CDs through the computer.

  
  
  

  I use “optical drive” as a general term to describe CD-ROM drives, CD-R/RW drives, DVD-ROM drives, DVD-R/RW drives, and drives capable of doing any combination of reading and writing CDs and DVDs. In my observation, optical media seems to be falling out of favor somewhat, giving way to online digital distribution for things like games and software, as well as flash drives and external hard drives vs. recordable or rewritable media for backup and sneakernet duty. Somewhere along the line, I started to buy computers that didn’t even have optical drives. That’s why I have purchased at least 2 external USB drives (seen in the picture above). I don’t have much confidence that either works correctly. My main desktop until recently, a Mac Mini, has an internal optical drive that grew flaky and unreliable a few months after the unit was purchased.

  I just have really rotten luck with optical drives. The most reliable drive in my house is the one on the headless machine that, until recently, was the main workhorse on the FATE farm. The eject switch didn’t work correctly so I have to log in remotely, 'sudo eject', walk to the other room, pop in the disc, walk back to the other room, and work with the disc.

  Maybe optical media is on its way out, but I still have many hundreds of CD-ROMs. Perhaps I should move forward on this brainstorm to archive all of my optical discs on hard drives (and then think of some data mining experiments, just for the academic appeal), before it’s too late ; optical discs don’t last forever.

  So if I needed a good optical drive, what should I consider ? I’ve always been the type to go cheap, I admit. Many of my optical drives were on the lower end of the cost spectrum, which might have played some role in their rapid replacement. However, I’m not sold on the idea that I’m getting quality just because I’m paying a higher price. That LG unit at the top of the pile up there was relatively pricey and still didn’t fare well in the long (or even medium) term.

  Come to think of it, I used to have a ridiculous stockpile of castoff (but somehow still functional) optical drives. So many, in fact, that in 2004 I had a full size PC tower that I filled with 4 working drives, just because I could. Okay, I admit that there was a period where I had some reliable drives.

  That might be an idea, actually– throw together such a computer for heavy duty archival purposes. I visited Weird Stuff Warehouse today (needed some PC100 RAM for an old machine and they came through) and I think I could put together such a box rather cheaply.

  It’s a dirty job, but… well, you know the rest.

• How to solve Accord.Video.FFMPEG memory leak problem

  26 mai 2021, par mfwoo

  I am developing a digital billboard application that allow customer to click on the touch screen to go back and forth.

  


  Screen 0 -> touch -> Screen 1 -> touch -> Screen 2 -> time out -> Screen 0

  


  If no interaction happens Screen 0 will loop indefinitely. Every Screen is running its own MP4 file.

  


  However, for every running cycle of Screen 1, it gobbled up memory and in no time the application crash.

  


  Is it because of VideoFileSource's video object is not being dispose properly or because of some threading problem in video_NewFrame ?

  


  Because I get this error occasionally - "Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the windows handle is created"

  


  I am using VS2017 .NET Framework 4.5 with Accord.Video.FFMPEG by Accord.NET version 3.8

  


  Screen 0 MP4 size - 5.5MB
Screen 1 MP4 size - 5.6MB
Screen 2 MP4 size - 7.0MB

  


  Here is my code :-
...

  


  Bitmap image;
VideoFileSource video;
int screenIdx = 0;
bool enableClicking = true;
bool isTimeOut = false;
string VideoPath = @"d:\KioskApp\Bkgrnd\"

public frmMain()
    {
        InitializeComponent(); 
        StartFirstScreen();
        tmrScreen01.Interval = 10000;
        tmrScreen02.Interval = 10000;
    }
    
     private void StartFirstScreen()
    {
        try
        {
            string fileName = VideoPath + Screen00();
            video = new VideoFileSource(fileName);
            video.PlayingFinished += new Accord.Video.PlayingFinishedEventHandler(video_Finished);
            video.NewFrame += new Accord.Video.NewFrameEventHandler(video_NewFrame);
            video.Start();
            screenIdx = 1;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            string strErrMsg = strMsg + " - " + ex.Message;
            MessageBox.Show(strErrMsg);
        }
    }
    
    private void video_NewFrame(object sender, Accord.Video.NewFrameEventArgs eventArgs)
    {
        try
        {
            Invoke(new Action(() =>
            {
                System.Drawing.Image OldImage;
                OldImage = pictureBox1.Image;
                pictureBox1.Image = AForge.Imaging.Image.Clone(eventArgs.Frame);
                if (OldImage != null)
                    OldImage.Dispose();
            }));    
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            var strErrMsg = "video_NewFrame - " + ex.Message;
            MessageBox.Show(strErrMsg);
        }
    }
    
     private void video_Finished(object sender, Accord.Video.ReasonToFinishPlaying reason)
    {
        try
        {
            if (screenIdx == 1)
            {
                video.PlayingFinished -= video_Finished;
                video.NewFrame -= video_NewFrame;
                video = null;                    
                StartFirstScreen();
                return;
            }
            enableClicking = true;

        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            var strErrMsg = "video_Finished - " + ex.Message;
            MessageBox.Show(strErrMsg);

        }
    }
    
    void startLastScreen()
    {
        string fileName = string.Empty;
        video.SignalToStop();
        fileName = VideoPath + Screen02();
        screenIdx = 0;
        if (object.ReferenceEquals(null, video))
        {
            video = new VideoFileSource(fileName);
        }
        else
        {
            video = null;
            video = new VideoFileSource(fileName);
        }

        video.PlayingFinished += new Accord.Video.PlayingFinishedEventHandler(video_Finished);
        video.NewFrame += new Accord.Video.NewFrameEventHandler(video_NewFrame);
        video.Start();
        enableClicking = false;
    }
    
    private void pictureBox1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!enableClicking && screenIdx != 1) return;

        tmrScreen01.Stop();
        tmrScreen02.Stop();
        
        //  Check clickable area before allow to proceed to the next screen     
        string fileName = string.Empty;
        video.SignalToStop();
        video.Stop();

        if (screenIdx == 0)
        {
            fileName = VideoPath + Screen00();
            screenIdx = 1;
        }
        else if (screenIdx == 1)
        {
            fileName = VideoPath + Screen01();
            screenIdx = 2;
            
        }
        else if (screenIdx == 2)
        {
            fileName = VideoPath + Screen02();
            screenIdx = 0;
           
        }

        if (object.ReferenceEquals(null, video))
        {
            video = new VideoFileSource(fileName);
        }
        else
        {
            video = null;
            video = new VideoFileSource(fileName);
        }
        video.PlayingFinished += new Accord.Video.PlayingFinishedEventHandler(video_Finished);
        video.NewFrame += new Accord.Video.NewFrameEventHandler(video_NewFrame);
        enableClicking = false;
        isTimeOut = false;
        video.Start();
    }


  


  ...

  


• Matomo’s privacy-friendly web analytics software named best of the year 2022

  25 janvier 2023, par Erin

  W3Tech names Matomo ‘Traffic Analysis Tool of the Year 2022’ in its Web Technologies of the Year list of technologies that gained the most sites

  Matomo, a world-leading open-source web analytics platform, is proud to announce that it has received W3Tech’s award for the best web analytics software in its Web Technologies of the Year 2022. Matomo is the first independent, open-source tool named Traffic Analysis Tool of the Year – with previous winners including Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel.


  W3Tech, a trusted source for web technology research, determines winners for its annual Web Technologies of the Year list by technologies that gained the most websites. W3Tech surveys usage across millions of websites globally – comparing the number of sites using a technology on January 1st of one year with the number of sites using it the following year.

  W3Tech commenting on the Traffic Analysis Tool winners, said : “Matomo, the privacy-focused open source analytics platform, is the traffic analysis tool of the year for the first time, while Google Analytics and the other previous winners all lost a bit of market share in 2022. The Chinese Baidu Analytics ranks second this year. Snowplow, another open source tool, is an unexpected third.”


  Matomo launched in 2007 as an open-source analytics alternative to Google Analytics, keeps businesses GDPR and CCPA-compliant. Matomo is trusted by over 1.4 million websites in 220 countries and is translated into over 50 languages.


  Matomo founder Matthieu Aubry says, “As the first independent, open-source traffic analysis tool to receive this recognition, Matomo is humbled and honoured to lead the charge for change. It’s a testament to the hard work of our community, and it’s a clear sign that consumers and organisations are looking for ethical alternatives.


  “This recognition is a major win for the entire privacy movement and proves that the tide is turning against the big tech players who I believe have long prioritised profits over privacy. We are committed to continuing our work towards a more private and secure digital landscape for all.”


  In W3Tech’s Web Technologies of the Year 2022, Matomo was also judged third Tag Manager, behind Google Tag Manager and Adobe DTM.


  Matomo helps businesses and organisations track and optimise their online presence allowing users to easily collect, analyse, and act on their website and marketing data to gain a deeper understanding of their visitors and drive conversions and revenue. With 100% data ownership, customers using the company’s tools get the power to protect their website user’s privacy – and where their data is stored and what’s happening to it, without external influence. Furthermore, as the data is not sampled, it maintains data accuracy. 


  Aubry says its recent award is a positive reminder of how well this solution is performing internationally and is a testament to the exceptional quality and performance of Matomo’s powerful web analytics tools that respect a user’s privacy.


  “In 2020, the CJEU ruled US cloud servers don’t comply with GDPR. Then in 2022, the Austrian Data Protection Authority and French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) ruled that the use of Google Analytics is illegal due to data transfers to the US. With Matomo Cloud, the customer’s data is stored in Europe, and no data is transferred to the US. On the other hand, with Matomo On-Premise, the data is stored in your country of choice.


  “Matomo has also become one of the most popular open-source alternatives to Google Analytics for website owners and marketing teams because it empowers web professionals to make business decisions. Website investment, collateral, and arrangement are enriched by having the full picture and control of the data.”

  

  About Matomo

  Matomo is a world-leading open-source web analytics platform, trusted by over 1.4 million websites in 220 countries and translated into over 50 languages. Matomo helps businesses and organisations track and optimise their online presence allowing users to easily collect, analyse, and act on their website and marketing data to gain a deeper understanding of their visitors and drive conversions and revenue. Matomo’s vision is to create, as a community, the leading open digital analytics platform that gives every user complete control of their data.

  For more information/ press enquiries Press – Matomo