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• Architecture of video-based service for mobile phones

  27 juin 2015, par David Azar

  I guess this is more of a conceptual question than a technical one.

  I’m trying to figure out the best way to upload short videos to a server and also be able to download them and watch them on both Android and iOS.

  Lets focus on Android for the moment.

  I’ve done some experiments, and my results have been :

  • I’m able to compress 12-14MB video down to 500KB using FFMPEG lib with pretty good results in quality, but it takes about 12 seconds.

  • Next, im uploading those videos to my Parse backend as ParseFile to store them.

  • Finally, i can download them and watch them with no problem using a VideoView widget.

  Now, for the tests i’ve been running, these are great results. But i want to see if there is a better way to manage and scale all of this.

  My questions are :

  • Is there a better, lighter way to compress video ?

  • Is Parse the right way to go ?

  • How can i stream videos instead of downloading them and storing the on local storage before playing them ? i know this will cause my app to use significant space on disk and i dont want that.

  • How do big companies do this kind of tasks ?

  I’ve heard Amazon S3 is a cool thing for projects like this one, also Google Cloud Platform. I want to understand the best approach before building everything so i can do it the right way and also, provide the absolute best user experience for watching these videos.

• Metal Gear Solid VP3 Easter Egg

  4 août 2011, par Multimedia Mike — Game Hacking

  Metal Gear Solid : The Twin Snakes for the Nintendo GameCube is very heavy on the cutscenes. Most of them are animated in real-time but there are a bunch of clips — normally of a more photo-realistic nature — that the developers needed to compress using a conventional video codec. What did they decide to use for this task ? On2 VP3 (forerunner of Theora) in a custom transport format. This is only the second game I have seen in the wild that uses pure On2 VP3 (first was a horse game). Reimar and I sorted out most of the details sometime ago. I sat down today and wrote a FFmpeg / Libav demuxer for the format, mostly to prove to myself that I still could.

  Things went pretty smoothly. We suspected that there was an integer field that indicated the frame rate, but 18 fps is a bit strange. I kept fixating on a header field that read 0x41F00000. Where have I seen that number before ? Oh, of course — it’s the number 30.0 expressed as an IEEE 32-bit float. The 4XM format pulled the same trick.

  Hexadecimal Easter Egg
  I know I finished the game years ago but I really can’t recall any of the clips present in the samples directory. The file mgs1-60.vp3 contains a computer screen granting the player access and illustrates this with a hexdump. It looks something like this :

  
  
  

  Funny, there are only 22 bytes on a line when there should be 32 according to the offsets. But, leave it to me to try to figure out what the file type is, regardless. I squinted and copied the first 22 bytes into a file :

   1F 8B 08 00   85 E2 17 38   00 03 EC 3A   0D 78 54 D5
   38 00 03 EC   3A 0D
  

  And the answer to the big question :

  $ file mgsfile
  mgsfile : gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified : Wed Oct 27 22:43:33 1999
  

  A gzip’d file from 1999. I don’t know why I find this stuff so interesting, but I do. I guess it’s no more and less strange than writing playback systems like this.

• Fade in and Fade out Drawtext in FFMPEG [on hold]

  27 août 2019, par Puneet Saini

  This is my FFMPEG command to create text at the center of the video.

  ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf "[in]drawtext=fontfile=/myfont.ttf: textfile=text.txt: reload=1: fontcolor=ffb829: fontsize=36: alpha='if(lt(t,5.65),0,if(lt(t,6),t-5.65,1))': x=(w-text_w)/2: y=(h-text_h)/2: enable='between(t,5,15)'[out]" -y output.mp4

  I have an alpha option to fade in the text. However, I don’t know how to include another alpha option to fade out the text (syntax and how to include in the command). I know we can achieve something similar with filter_complex using

  fade=t=out:start_time=14.5:d=0.5:alpha=1

  However, I have to implement it with -vf and not filter_complex. Any pointers will be helpful. Thanks