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• Setting a timeout for av_read_frame

  20 décembre 2014, par user3663917

  I am new to FFMPEG and was trying to do HLS streaming using FFMPEG. When i tried using the function "av_read_frame" it returns a negative value whenever data is not available. Is there some method to make this function wait till some data is received or to make this function wait till a timeout is reached ?

• aacenc_pred : rework the way prediction is done

  29 août 2015, par Rostislav Pehlivanov

  aacenc_pred : rework the way prediction is done
  This commit completely alters the algorithm of prediction.
  
  The original commit which introduced prediction was completely
  
  incorrect to even remotely care about what the actual coefficients
  
  contain or whether any options were enabled. Not my actual fault.
  This commit treats prediction the way the decoder does and expects
  
  to do : like lossy encryption. Everything related to prediction now
  
  happens at the very end but just before quantization and encoding
  
  of coefficients. On the decoder side, prediction happens before
  
  anything has had a chance to even access the coefficients.
  Also the original implementation had problems because it actually
  
  touched the band_type of special bands which already had their
  
  scalefactor indices marked and it’s a wonder the asserion wasn’t
  
  triggered when transmitting those.
  Overall, this now drastically increases audio quality and you should
  
  think about enabling it if you don’t plan on playing anything encoded
  
  on really old low power ultra-embedded devices since they might not
  
  support decoding of prediction or AAC-Main. Though the specifications
  
  were written ages ago and as times change so do the FLOPS.
  Signed-off-by : Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker@gmail.com>
  

  • [DH] libavcodec/aac.h
  • [DH] libavcodec/aaccoder.c
  • [DH] libavcodec/aacenc.c
  • [DH] libavcodec/aacenc.h
  • [DH] libavcodec/aacenc_pred.c
  • [DH] libavcodec/aacenc_pred.h

• 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.