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• Multimedia Exploration Journal : The Past Doesn’t Die

  12 juillet 2011, par Multimedia Mike — Game Hacking

  New haul of games, new (old) multimedia formats.

  Lords of Midnight
  Check out the box copy scan for Lords of Midnight in MobyGames. In particular, I’d like to call your attention to this little blurb :

  
  
  

  Ahem, "Journey through an immense world — the equivalent of 8 CD-ROMs." Yet, when I procured the game, it only came on a single CD-ROM. It’s definitely a CD-ROM (says so on the disc) and, coming from 1995, certainly predates the earliest DVD-ROMs (which can easily store 8 CD-ROMs on a disc). Thus, I wanted to jump in a see if they were using some phenomenal compression in order to squeeze so much info into 600 or so megabytes.

  I was surprised to see the contents of the disc clocking in at just under 40 megabytes. An intro movie and an outro movie account for 75% of that. Format ? None other than that curious ASCII anomaly, ARMovie/RPL with Escape 122 codec data.

  Cyclemania

  
  
  

  Cyclemania is one of those FMV backdrop action games, but with a motorcycle theme. I had a good feeling I would find some odd multimedia artifacts here and the game didn’t disappoint. The videos are apparently handled using 3-4 discrete files per animation. I’ve documented my cursory guesses and linked some samples at the new MultimediaWiki page.

  Interplay ACMP
  This is unrelated to this particular acquistion, but I was contacted today about audio files harvested from the 1993 DOS game Star Trek : Judgment Rites. The files begin with the ASCII signature "Interplay ACMP Data". This reminds me of Interplay MVE files which begin with the similar string "Interplay MVE File". My theory is that these files use the ACOMP compression format, though I’m still trying to make it fit.

  Wiki and samples are available as usual if you’d like to add your own research.

• Can ffmpeg write metadata encoder when transcoding alac/flac to aac audio file ?

  11 juin 2022, par David I

  I have a collection of alac and flac files from Bandcamp and an ffmpeg instance compiled with libfdk_aac https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Centos#libfdk_aac and am trying to convert these to lossy audio aac files for non-critical listening.

  


  With ffmpeg -i Liholesie\ -\ Shamanic\ Twilight\ -\ 09\ Gray\ Wings.m4a -c:a libfdk_aac -vbr 4 -c:v copy 09_Gray_wings_vbr4.m4a an expected aac .m4a audio file is produced, album art included, works well. There's one slight detail missing :

  


  During the ffmpeg conversion process ffmpeg says :

  


  Output #0, ipod, to '09_Gray_wings_vbr4.m4a':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : M4A 
    minor_version   : 512
    compatible_brands: M4A isomiso2
    title           : Gray Wings
    artist          : Liholesie
    album_artist    : Liholesie
    album           : Shamanic Twilight
    comment         : Visit https://liholesie.bandcamp.com
    date            : 2021
    track           : 9
    encoder         : Lavf59.24.100
  Stream #0:0: Video: mjpeg (Baseline), yuvj444p(pc, bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 700x700 [SAR 72:72 DAR 1:1], q=2-31, 90k tbr, 90k tbn (attached pic)
  Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, s16 (default)
    Metadata:
      handler_name    : SoundHandler
      vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]
      encoder         : Lavc59.33.100 libfdk_aac 
..




  


  and the file produced looks like that when ffprobed except that the Metadata : encoder field is missing :

  


  Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '09_Gray_wings_vbr4.m4a':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : M4A 
    minor_version   : 512
    compatible_brands: M4A isomiso2
    title           : Gray Wings
    artist          : Liholesie
    album_artist    : Liholesie
    album           : Shamanic Twilight
    date            : 2021
    encoder         : Lavf59.24.100
    comment         : Visit https://liholesie.bandcamp.com
    track           : 9
  Duration: 00:06:57.78, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 155 kb/s
  Stream #0:0[0x2](und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 152 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      handler_name    : SoundHandler
      vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]
  Stream #0:1[0x0]: Video: mjpeg (Baseline), yuvj444p(pc, bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 700x700 [SAR 72:72 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn (attached pic)


  


  Is there a way to write the encoder field in the Metadata section when transcoding (or is "encoder" not supported for aac m4a ? That would be weird since ffmpeg says what it says when specifying output during transcoding) .

  


  Any hints on how to write a self-defined text to said tag during transcoding are also welcome.

  


• ffmpeg .mov to .avi conversion creates static

  22 août 2021, par dizzystar

  I'm trying to convert from .mov (recorded in QuickTime) to .avi or mp4, preferably .avi. While I can get the video to render okay, I am unable to find any solution to get the audio to stay consistent. It renders as heavy static, and if my voice does come through, it sounds like one of those TV shows with someone sitting in the dark.

  


  When I bounce audio only from QuickTime, it comes out as m4a. I tried using ffmpeg and then tried VLC on the video. There is no combination in VLC that seems to be able to keep the sound, and I'm unable to find a working ffmpeg command. I would prefer to use ffmpeg so I could write a script to do batch conversions.

  


  I don't have much to go on, but here's a sampling of some commands I tried :

  


  ffmpeg -i input.mov output.avi

ffmpeg -i input.mov -c:v libx264 -c:a 0 -vf format=yuv420p -movflags +faststart output.avi

ffmpeg -i input.mov -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac -strict -2 -b:a 384k output.avi


  


  There were also several commands I found that including copy for the audio codec. I'm at a total loss here, and wondering if it is possible to do this conversion at all. I'm using Apple Big Sur.