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• Music Video Idiosyncrasies

  18 juin 2011, par Multimedia Mike — General

  So I’m watching a fairly recent music video for a song named "XXXO" from an artist named M.I.A. when I’m suddenly assaulted by this imagery :

  
  
  

  ... and I enter nervous convulsions. You see, while this might seem to be an odd video effect to the casual viewer, to a multimedia hacker, it appears to be deliberately antagonistic. To anyone who has written a video codec, this scene looks like an entire casserole of video bugs, combining creeping plane offsets errors, chroma problems, and interlacing havoc. The craziest part is to realize that this is probably some kind of standard video effect / filter type. Upon a repeat viewing, I realized that the entire video sort of looks like an amateur video editor’s first week using video software.

  Elsewhere in the video, a YouTube-style video frame vortex highlights the proceedings. I guess I need to come to terms with the fact that the ubiquitous player frame is just part of the digital Zeitgeist now :

  
  
  

  Vintage Video Strangeness
  I’m a long-time music video junkie but I have a tendency of examining them entirely too closely. I first saw Paula Abdul’s video for "Cold-Hearted" when I was just starting to understand multimedia technology and how it interacted with emerging home computers. Imagine how confused I was when I tried to make sense of the actions performed by our eMaestro "Chuck" whom Paula has instructed to "hit it". First, he hits a key followed by 3 quick strikes on a second key :

  
  
  

  Then, the "start music" action is apparently bound to a particular key on the electronic keyboard :
  
  

  
  
  

  Which kicks off the electronic metronome on the computer. Each identical-sounding beat quizzically maps to a different frequency transform :

  
  
  a one...
  
  and a two...
  
  and a three...
  

  I had no trouble believing things up to this point. But even though I didn’t understand what was going on with that frequency transform, I knew that it must have had something to do with the audio. And if the audio was the same, the visualization ought to be the same. Though, to be fair, I will concede that the first and third ticks pictured bear some mutual resemblance.

  Anyway, the software is probably real even if the keyboard interaction was stylized. Can anyone identify the software ? What about the computer ? This is perhaps the best view the video gives us :

  
  
  

  So, remember, don’t base your understanding of technology — or anything, really — on stylized media representations. Don’t even get me started on the movie "Sneakers." That had me confused about cryptography and computer security for many years.

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  14 mars 2017, par InnoCraft — Community

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• Android FFMPEG - Low FPS & File Size is massive

  2 mai 2018, par Alexzander Flores

  I am new to Android app development and I have been asked to make a video splitter app. I am trying to use FFMPEG, but the library size is massive and makes the .APK file 140MB. How can I solve this ? Similar apps are around 15MBs in size.

  Also, the framerate starts at 30FPS and drops to around 2.2FPS over time when trying to split a 30 second long video into two parts. How can I solve this ? This is my code currently :

  package splicer.com.splicer;
  
  
  
  import android.Manifest;
  
  import android.content.Context;
  
  import android.content.Intent;
  
  import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
  
  import android.database.Cursor;
  
  import android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever;
  
  import android.media.MediaScannerConnection;
  
  import android.net.Uri;
  
  import android.provider.MediaStore;
  
  import android.support.v4.app.ActivityCompat;
  
  import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;
  
  import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
  
  import android.os.Bundle;
  
  import android.text.method.ScrollingMovementMethod;
  
  import android.view.View;
  
  import android.widget.Button;
  
  import android.widget.TextView;
  
  
  
  import com.github.hiteshsondhi88.libffmpeg.ExecuteBinaryResponseHandler;
  
  import com.github.hiteshsondhi88.libffmpeg.FFmpeg;
  
  import com.github.hiteshsondhi88.libffmpeg.LoadBinaryResponseHandler;
  
  import com.github.hiteshsondhi88.libffmpeg.exceptions.FFmpegNotSupportedException;
  
  
  
  public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
  
  
  
      private Button button;
  
      private TextView textView;
  
      private FFmpeg ffmpeg;
  
  
  
      static {
  
          System.loadLibrary("native-lib");
  
      }
  
  
  
      @Override
  
      protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  
          super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  
          setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  
  
  
          ffmpeg = FFmpeg.getInstance(getApplicationContext());
  
          try {
  
              ffmpeg.loadBinary(new LoadBinaryResponseHandler() {
  
  
  
                  @Override
  
                  public void onStart() {}
  
  
  
                  @Override
  
                  public void onFailure() {}
  
  
  
                  @Override
  
                  public void onSuccess() {}
  
  
  
                  @Override
  
                  public void onFinish() {}
  
              });
  
          } catch(FFmpegNotSupportedException e) {
  
              e.printStackTrace();
  
          }
  
  
  
          textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
  
          textView.setY(200);
  
          textView.setHeight(700);
  
          textView.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());
  
  
  
          button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
  
          button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
  
              @Override
  
              public void onClick(View view) {
  
                  openGallery();
  
              }
  
          });
  
      }
  
  
  
      /**
  
       * A native method that is implemented by the 'native-lib' native library,
  
       * which is packaged with this application.
  
       */
  
      public native String stringFromJNI();
  
  
  
      public void openGallery() {
  
          if(ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
  
              ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, new String [] {Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE}, 0);
  
          }
  
  
  
          if(ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
  
              ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, new String [] {Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE}, 0);
  
          }
  
  
  
          Intent gallery = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
  
          startActivityForResult(gallery, 100);
  
      }
  
  
  
      public String getRealPathFromURI(Context context, Uri contentUri) {
  
          Cursor cursor = null;
  
          try {
  
              String[] proj = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
  
              cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(contentUri,  proj, null, null, null);
  
              int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
  
              cursor.moveToFirst();
  
              return cursor.getString(column_index);
  
          } finally {
  
              if (cursor != null) {
  
                  cursor.close();
  
              }
  
          }
  
      }
  
  
  
      @Override
  
      protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, final Intent intent) {
  
          super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, intent);
  
          if(resultCode == RESULT_OK && requestCode == 100) {
  
              MediaMetadataRetriever retriever = new MediaMetadataRetriever();
  
              try {
  
                  retriever.setDataSource(getBaseContext(), intent.getData());
  
                  String time = retriever.extractMetadata(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_DURATION);
  
                  long splitCount = Long.valueOf(time) / 1000 / 15;
  
                  if(splitCount > 1) {
  
                      final String path = getRealPathFromURI(getBaseContext(), Uri.parse(intent.getData().toString()));
  
  
  
                      for(int a = 0, start = 0; a < splitCount; ++a, start += 15) {
  
                          // I am only testing with .mp4s atm, this will change before production
  
                          final String targetPath = path.replace(".mp4", "_" + (a + 1) + ".mp4");
  
  
  
                          ffmpeg.execute(new String [] {
  
                                  "-r",
  
                                  "1",
  
                                  "-i",
  
                                  path,
  
                                  "-ss",
  
                                  String.valueOf(start),
  
                                  "-t",
  
                                  String.valueOf(start + 15),
  
                                  "-r",
  
                                  "24",
  
                                  targetPath
  
                          }, new ExecuteBinaryResponseHandler() {
  
                              @Override
  
                              public void onStart() {}
  
  
  
                              @Override
  
                              public void onProgress(String message) {
  
                                  textView.setText("onProcess: " + message);
  
                              }
  
  
  
                              @Override
  
                              public void onFailure(String message) {
  
                                  textView.setText("onFailure: " + message + " --- " + path);
  
                              }
  
  
  
                              @Override
  
                              public void onSuccess(String message) {
  
                                  textView.setText("onSuccess:" + message);
  
                                  MediaScannerConnection.scanFile(getBaseContext(),
  
                                  new String [] { targetPath }, null,
  
                                  new MediaScannerConnection.OnScanCompletedListener() {
  
                                      public void onScanCompleted(String path, Uri uri) {}
  
                                  });
  
                              }
  
  
  
                              @Override
  
                              public void onFinish() {}
  
                          });
  
                      }
  
                  }
  
              } catch(Exception e) {
  
                  e.printStackTrace();
  
              } finally {
  
                  retriever.release();
  
              }
  
          }
  
      }
  
  }

  I don’t believe everything here is as optimal as it could be, but I’m just trying to prove the concept at the moment. Any help in the right direction would be amazing, thank you !