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• Spotlight : Alwaysdata.com the company behind Piwik.org web hosting [Interview]

  11 avril 2013, par matt — About, Community

  Piwik is the result of the work of many talented individuals and companies. Today we’d like to showcase Alwaysdata.com, the awesome web hosting company providing managed hosting for all Piwik.org websites and services.

  I recently met and asked a few questions to Cyril, co-founder of Alwaysdata.com and Piwik core developer. Learn more in the interview below !

  

  1. What is Alwaysdata ?
  2. Who are your customers and what kind of work do you do ?
  3. What sets Alwaysdata apart from the large web hosting competition ?
  4. Are you using Piwik internally or with customers ? If so, how are you using Piwik ?
  5. What is the next big thing for Alwaysdata ?
  6. Learn more

  What is Alwaysdata ?

  We are a French web hosting company created in 2006. If you need to host a website — a Piwik installation, for example — or even your domains/emails, we provide infrastructure and maintenance services.

  Who are your customers and what kind of work do you do ?

  We have several types of clients :

  • Individuals who need hosting for their personal site and who benefit from storage space with direct SSH access.
  • Web agencies who need hosting for their clients’ sites.
  • The largest customers, often on dedicated servers, for hosting their site/infrastructure.

  Our work falls into three categories :

  1. Support (via administration, telephone, Twitter, IRC, etc.)
  2. Development (in Python), primarily to add new features
  3. System administration, either for maintenance (e.g. adding servers), or for preparing new features

  What sets Alwaysdata apart from the large web hosting competition ?

  Two things :

  • Availability. We are a small team and often know our customers quite well. We are all on IRC, so you can contact us directly if you need any assistance.
  • Features. We are halfway between traditional web hosting and the cloud, combining the advantages of both.

  Are you using Piwik internally or with customers ? If so, how are you using Piwik ?

  All of our customers can view statistics for their sites via our global Piwik installation, without having to configure anything.

  To provide these analytics reports to our customers, we implemented import of the raw access logs in Piwik. The Log import toolkit is now a feature included in Piwik.

  What is the next big thing for Alwaysdata ?

  We are going to upgrade our pricing : instead of fixed costs, each of our clients will now pay exactly what they consume. This allows our clients the benefit of a very high quality service for the lowest possible price.

  We are also going to add native support for more technologies : Java, Node.js, ZeroMQ, etc.

  Thank you for your time and all the best to Alwaysdata for the future !

  —

  Note from Matt, Piwik founder : Cyril and the team at Alwaysdata.com have been consistently great in their system administration work for Piwik.org services, providing a fast and reliable web hosting experience with top notch support and security practises. They also handled the migration of all services from our old servers with total piece of mind.

  Alwaysdata contributed to Piwik the popular Log Analytics toolkit. They are great software developers and system administrators with a passion for their work. Since 2006, they have been maintaining optimized hosting services for the entire web infrastructure (websites, domains, emails, databases, etc.), from the simplest to the most exotic. We do recommend their managed hosting services.

  Learn more

  • Visit their website at Alwaysdata.com
  • Learn more about their Managed hosting on dedicated servers
  • Learn more about other companies and individuals who make a difference in Piwik.

• How to replace 'flags' with 'frame types' on ffmpeg's extract_mvs.c

  15 février 2018, par helmo

  I am in the process of extracting motion vectors from ffmpeg to use in a computer vision project. I have been looking for an easy way to extract this information in a meaningful way.

  While reading through different posts and other websites, I came across the extract_mvs.c in the example folder of FFmpeg. I noticed that out of the data produced by this file (after it has been compiled) there is a flag column which I would like to modify, to make it print frame types instead of 0x0s as shown below.

  The idea for modifying flags it I got from the author of the code himself.

  The extract_mvs.c file after it is compiled, returns information like this :

  framenum,source,blockw,blockh,srcx,srcy,dstx,dsty,flags
  
  2,-1,16,16,   8,   8,   8,   8,0x0
  
  2, 1,16,16,   8,   8,   8,   8,0x0
  
  2, 1,16,16,  24,   8,  24,   8,0x0
  
  2, 1,16,16,  40,   8,  40,   8,0x0
  
  2, 1,16,16,  56,   8,  56,   8,0x0
  
  2, 1,16,16,  72,   8,  72,   8,0x0
  
  2, 1,16,16,  88,   8,  88,   8,0x0
  
  ...
  
  297, 1,16,16, 248, 280, 248, 280,0x0
  
  297, 1,16,16, 264, 280, 264, 280,0x0
  
  297,-1,16,16, 278, 279, 280, 280,0x0
  
  297, 1,16,16, 280, 280, 280, 280,0x0
  
  297, 1,16,16, 296, 280, 296, 280,0x0
  
  297, 1,16,16, 312, 280, 312, 280,0x0
  
  297, 1,16,16, 328, 280, 328, 280,0x0
  
  297, 1,16,16, 344, 280, 344, 280,0x0

  Ideally what I want to achieve is :

  framenum,source,blockw,blockh,srcx,srcy,dstx,dsty,frametypes
  
  2,-1,16,16,   8,   8,   8,   8,B
  
  2, 1,16,16,   8,   8,   8,   8,B
  
  2, 1,16,16,  24,   8,  24,   8,B
  
  2, 1,16,16,  40,   8,  40,   8,B
  
  2, 1,16,16,  56,   8,  56,   8,B
  
  2, 1,16,16,  72,   8,  72,   8,B
  
  2, 1,16,16,  88,   8,  88,   8,B
  
  ...
  
  297, 1,16,16, 248, 280, 248, 280,P
  
  297, 1,16,16, 264, 280, 264, 280,P
  
  297,-1,16,16, 278, 279, 280, 280,P
  
  297, 1,16,16, 280, 280, 280, 280,P
  
  297, 1,16,16, 296, 280, 296, 280,P
  
  297, 1,16,16, 312, 280, 312, 280,P
  
  297, 1,16,16, 328, 280, 328, 280,P
  
  297, 1,16,16, 344, 280, 344, 280,P

  The part that requires modification in the file is shown here, where mv->flags needs to be replaced with frame type variable. I thought of making a reference to AVFrame struct with a pointer and call the pict-type. But not sure how the building blocks would be. Any help ?

• Store a live stream when internet connection is interrupted ?

  6 juin 2019, par Marcello Moreira

  I’m building a solution using drone and 3g/4g connection.
  I have an IP camera encoded in H.264 by a hardware encoder connected to a raspberry pi and a 3g/4g modem. The hardware encoder livestream de video via RTMP to a remote server I have. All these devices are in a moving platform, and sometimes the modem loses connection with internet for a few seconds/minutes. When this happens, I want to store the live footage in the raspberry with ffmpeg, and when the connection restores I can send it back to the server. I have access to the encoded livestream from the raspberry pi over LAN even when internet is down.

  I do not know how and where should I start.
  I see two approaches for this.

  First approach

  One is to do all the streaming via ffmpeg, and disable the automatic hardware stream, when ffmpeg detects that it can’t send stream to the remote server, it starts to store the video (like a buffer) until the connection is restore. The issue with this, is that I don’t know if ffmpeg can detect if internet connection is down, and how can I buffer the video. Also by doing this, when connection is restored, live video would have a huge delay, and I can’t have lot’s of delay in my solution.

  Second approach

  The second is simultaneously store with ffmpeg the live video, when internet goes down, a process records the timestamp, and keeps watching until internet connection is restored. Then it sends to my server only the missing piece. At my server I would need to figure out a way to join those streams back up.. (I would gladly accept tips on that too). Issue with this is that there’s limited space in my raspberry, so I can only store a limited amount. Also, my device may be turned off when it lands so I need to send the video recording ASAP after connection is restored.

  So, which approach seems to be the better one ?