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• Dreamcast Development Desktop

  28 mars 2011, par Multimedia Mike — Sega Dreamcast

  Some people are curious about what kind of equipment is required to program a Sega Dreamcast. This is my setup :

  
  
  

  It’s a bit overcomplicated. The only piece in that picture which doesn’t play a role in the Dreamcast development process is the scanner. The Eee PC does the heavy lifting of development (i.e., text editing and cross compilation) and uploads to the Dreamcast via a special serial cable. Those are the most essential parts and are really the only pieces necessary for a lot of algorithmic stuff (things that can be validated via a serial console). But then I have to go up a level where I output video. That’s where things get messy.

  
  
  

  The Mac Mini and giant monitor really just act as a glorified TV in this case. Ideally, it will be more than that. The DC outputs audio and video via composite cables to a Canopus DV capture bridge. That’s connected via FireWire to the external hard drive underneath the Mac Mini, which is connected to the Mac. Adobe Premiere Pro handles the DV capture / display.

  One day I hope to have something worthwhile to capture.

• ffmpeg stream offset command (-itsoffset) not working

  12 juillet 2013, par jen

  I would really appreciate if someone could give some pointers regarding the use of itsoffset with ffmpeg. I have read a number of posts on this subject, some of them explain very clearly how to re-synchronize audio and video with -itsoffset, but I haven't been able to make it work.
  My avi file is encoded with ffmpeg, in two passes, using the following command for the second pass :

  ffmpeg -i whole-vts_01.avs -pass 2 -y -vcodec libxvid -vtag XVID -b:v 1300K -g 240 -trellis 2 -mbd rd -flags +mv4+aic -acodec ac3 -ac 2 -ar 48000 -b:a 128k output.avi

  For whatever reason, I end up with a 1 sec delay in the video (or the audio is 1 sec early). It doesn't happen too often but I see it from time to time.
  Among other attempts, I have tried the following :

  (1) ffmpeg -i output.avi -itsoffset 00:00:01.0 -i output.avi -vcodec copy -acodec copy -map 0:0 -map 1:1 output-resynched.avi
  
  (2) ffmpeg -i output.avi -itsoffset 00:00:01.0 -i output.ac3 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -map 0:0 -map 1:0 output-resynched2.avi
  
  (3) ffmpeg -itsoffset -00:00:01.00 -i output.avi output-resynched8.avi
  
  (4) ffmpeg -i output.avi -itsoffset -1.0 -i output.avi -vcodec copy -acodec copy -map 0:1 -map 1:0 output-resynched13.avi

  Here are the results :

  1. Audio garbled and only 5m 35 s long vs. 1h 41m.
  2. (Output.ac3 is audio component of output.avi) Video and audio
     identical to original, offset didn't work
  3. Audio did get shifted, but original encoding parameters replaced with default ones (as expected).
  4. Audio garbled and only 9m 56s long vs. 1h 41m.

  I see that many people explain, and apparently use the process described above, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Am I missing something obvious ? I would very much like to be able to use -itsoffset as it is cleaner than my workaround solution.

  FWIW, here is a different, and longer way of obtaining the desired result :

  First create a shifted video only file using -ss :

  ffmpeg -i output.avi -ss 1.0 -vcodec copy -an oupput_videoshifted.avi

  Then extract the audio :

  ffmpeg -i output.avi -vn -acodec copy outputaudioonly.ac3

  And finally remux both components :

  ffmpeg -i output_videoshifted.avi -i output_audioonly.ac3 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -map 0:0 -map 1:0 output-resynched14.avi

  The process works, is fast enough, but I would really prefer to use the one pass -itsoffset solution.

• Curator of the Samples Archive

  13 mai 2011, par Multimedia Mike — General

  Remember how I mirrored the world-famous MPlayerHQ samples archive a few months ago ? Due to a series of events, the original archive is no longer online. However, me and the people who control the mplayerhq.hu domain figured out how to make samples.mplayerhq.hu point to samples.multimedia.cx.

  That means... I’m the current owner and curator of our central multimedia samples repository. Such power ! This should probably be the fulfillment of a decade-long dream for me, having managed swaths of the archive, most notably the game formats section.

  How This Came To Be

  If you pay any attention to the open source multimedia scene, you might have noticed that there has been a smidge of turmoil. Heated words were exchanged, authority was questioned, some people probably said some things they didn’t mean, and the upshot is that, where once there was one project (FFmpeg), there are now 2 projects (also Libav). And to everyone who has wanted me to mention it on my blog— there, I finally broke my silence and formally acknowledged the schism.

  For my part, I was just determined to ensure that the samples archive remained online, preferably at the original samples.mplayerhq.hu address. There are 10 years worth of web links out there pointing into the original repository.

  Better Solution

  I concede that it’s not entirely optimal to host the repository here at multimedia.cx. While I can offer a crazy amount of monthly bandwidth, I can’t offer rsync (invaluable for keeping mirrors in sync), nor can the server provide anonymous FTP or allow me to offer accounts to other admins who can manage the repository.

  The samples archive is also mirrored at samples.libav.org/samples. I understand that service is provided by VideoLAN. Right now, both repositories are known to be static. I’m open to brainstorms about how to improve the situation.