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• Summary Video Accessibility Talk

  23 avril 2013, par silvia

  I’ve just got off a call to the UK Digital TV Group, for which I gave a talk on HTML5 video accessibility (slides best viewed in Google Chrome).

  The slide provide a high-level summary of the accessibility features that we’ve developed in the W3C for HTML5, including :

  • Subtitles & Captions with WebVTT and the track element
  • Video Descriptions with WebVTT, the track element and speech synthesis
  • Chapters with WebVTT for semantic navigation
  • Audio Descriptions through synchronising an audio track with a video
  • Sign Language video synchronized with a main video

  I received some excellent questions.

  The obvious one was about why WebVTT and not TTML. While for anyone who has tried to implement TTML support, the advantages of WebVTT should be clear, for some the decision of the browsers to go with WebVTT still seems to be bothersome. The advantages of CSS over XSL-FO in a browser-context are obvious, but not as much outside browsers. So, the simplicity of WebVTT and the clear integration with HTML have to speak for themselves. Conversion between TTML and WebVTT was a feature that was being asked for.

  I received a question about how to support ducking (reduce the volume of the main audio track) when using video descriptions. My reply was to either use video descriptions with WebVTT and do ducking during the times that a cue is active, or when using audio descriptions (i.e. actual audio tracks) to add an additional WebVTT file of kind=metadata to mark the intervals in which to do ducking. In both cases some JavaScript will be necessary.

  I received another question about how to do clean audio, which I had almost forgotten was a requirement from our earlier media accessibility document. “Clean audio” consists of isolating the audio channel containing the spoken dialog and important non-speech information that can then be amplified or otherwise modified, while other channels containing music or ambient sounds are attenuated. I suggested using the mediagroup attribute to provide a main video element (without an audio track) and then the other channels as parallel audio tracks that can be turned on and off and attenuated individually. There is some JavaScript coding involved on top of the APIs that we have defined in HTML, but it can be implemented in browsers that support the mediagroup attribute.

  Another question was about the possibilities to extend the list of @kind attribute values. I explained that right now we have a proposal for a new text track kind=”forced” so as to provide forced subtitles for sections of video with foreign language. These would be on when no other subtitle or caption tracks are activated. I also explained that if there is a need for application-specific text tracks, the kind=”metadata” would be the correct choice.

  I received some further questions, in particular about how to apply styling to captions (e.g. color changes to text) and about how closely the browser are able to keep synchronization across multiple media elements. The earlier was easily answered with the ::cue pseudo-element, but the latter is a quality of implementation feature, so I had to defer to individual browsers.

  Overall it was a good exercise to summarize the current state of HTML5 video accessibility and I was excited to show off support in Chrome for all the features that we designed into the standard.

• ffmpeg encoding slowly, not using much CPU

  30 juin 2012, par eblume

  I am using the latest (as of this post) version of ffmpeg on OS X as installed via homebrew (an OS X 3rd-party package manager with a good reputation.) I am trying to encode video that was recorded using Fraps on another machine to reduce the file size while preserving as much quality as is reasonably possible.

  Fraps records video in a .avi container and I believe does absolutely no encoding - instead, it's just a stream of image files. The resulting files are often enormous, obviously. I want to set up a cron job that finds recorded files and encodes them to H.264 with some sort of audio codec (I'm currently using libmp3lame but will revisit it when I get video working right - will probably switch to a lossless audio codec.)

  My problem is that while encoding seems to be working exactly how I want it - very few compression artifacts but about 5% of the original size - the encoding is taking forever. I'm averaging about 1.5 encoded frames per second, and these are 2-3 hours of 30FPS video. On top of that, my CPU is never fully utilized. On my dual-core CPU I am getting a median usage of about 40% of one core, with occasional peaks of 140% to 160%.

  So the question is : How can I speed up encoding ? I'm sure there's got to be some options I'm missing out on.

  Here's the command I use :

  ffmpeg -i INFILE -c copy -c:a libmp3lame -ar 44100 -q:a 5 \
  
                -threads 0 -c:v libx264 OUTFILE

  Thanks !

  EDIT : Actually, it looks like this command isn't compressing that well either - I'll do some digging but it seems that this might be being too generous with the bitrate for H.264. At first I was getting around 2Mb/s but it's gone up to almost 20Mb/s - looks like I'm basically not compressing at all.

• Revision 2326f9e727d47eccee4f729514a41d192661f490 : Essai de décorateur sur les Itérateurs. * Utiliser un décorateur pour ...

  21 décembre 2010, par Matthieu Marcillaud — Log

  Essai de décorateur sur les Itérateurs. * Utiliser un décorateur pour appeler les itérateurs. Cela permet d’utiliser quelques itérateurs existants dans PHP tel que GlobIterator ? ou DirectoryIterator ? en utilisant le connecteur « iter » dans les boucles en question. Le critère : args argument1, (...)