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• Combining audio and video in C# [on hold]

  1er décembre 2016, par Jay Malhotra

  Disclaimer : I know this question has already been asked but it is library-based and most of the answers I can see are 5+ years old or more, and usually refer to similarly old libraries.

  Basically, I have a video from youtube-dl (the library) and a video with audio on it (I would also like to know if there’s a way to just download the audio from a video using youtube-dl or another library).

  Anyway, I want to replace the audio of the video with the audio from the second video. Apparently this can be done with ffmpeg commands but I want to use NuGet because I’m at school and I don’t have the ability to install traditional software.

  Is there a library that can help me do this ?

• Who Invented FLIC ?

  26 mai 2011, par Multimedia Mike — Multimedia History

  I have been reading through “All Your Base Are Belong To Us : How 50 Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture” by Harold Goldberg. Despite the title, Zero Wing has yet to be mentioned (I’m about halfway done).

  
  
  

  I just made it through the chapter describing early breakthrough CD-ROM games, including Myst, The 7th Guest, and The 11th Hour. Some interesting tidbits :

  The 7th Guest
  Of course, Graeme Devine created a new FMV format (called VDX, documented here) for The 7th Guest. The player was apparently called PLAY and the book claims that Autodesk was so impressed by the technology that it licensed the player for use in its own products. When I think of an Autodesk multimedia format, I think of FLIC. The VDX coding format doesn’t look too much like FLIC, per my reading.

  Here’s the relevant passage (pp 118-119) :

  Devine began working on creating software within the CD-ROM disk that would play full-motion video. Within days he had a robust but small ninety-kilobyte player called PLAY that was so good, it was licensed by Autodesk, the makers of the best 3-D animation program at the time. Then Devine figured out a way to compress the huge video files so that they would easily fit on two CD-ROMs.

  Googling for “autodesk trilobyte play program” (Trilobyte was the company behind 7th Guest) led me to this readme file for a program called PLAY73 (hosted at Jason Scott’s massive CD-ROM archive, and it’s on a disc that, incidentally, I donated to the archive ; so, let’s here it for Jason’s tireless archival efforts ! And for Google’s remarkable indexing prowess). The file — dated September 10, 1991 — mentions that it’s a FLICK player, copyright Trilobyte software.

  
  
  

  However, it also mentions being a Groovie Player. Based on ScummVM’s reimplementation of the VDX format, Groovie might refer to the engine behind The 7th Guest.

  So now I’m really interested : Did Graeme Devine create the FLIC file format ? Multimedia nerds want to know !

  I guess not. Thanks to Jim Leonard for digging up this item : “I developed the flic file format for the Autodesk Animator.” Jim Kent, Dr. Dobbs Magazine, March 1993.

  The PLAY73 changelog reveals something from the bad old days of DOS/PC programming : The necessity of writing graphics drivers for 1/2 dozen different video adapters. The PLAY73 readme file also has some vintage contact address for Graeme Devine ; remember when addresses looked like these ?

  If you have any comments, please send them to :
  	Compuserve : 72330,3276
  	Genie : G.DEVINE
  	Internet : 72330,3276@compuserve.com
  

  The 11th Hour
  The book didn’t really add anything I didn’t already know regarding the compression format (RoQ) used in 11th Hour. I already knew how hard Devine worked at it. This book took pains to emphasize the emotional toll taken on the format’s creator.

  I wonder if he would be comforted to know that, more than 15 years later, people are still finding ways to use the format.

• Started Programming Young

  6 septembre 2011, par Multimedia Mike — Programming

  I have some of the strangest memories of my struggles to jump into computer programming.

  Back To BASIC
  I remember doing some Logo programming on Apple II computers at school in 5th grade (1987 timeframe). But that was mostly driving turtle graphics. Then I remember doing some TRS-80 BASIC in 7th grade, circa 1989. Emboldened by what very little I had learned in perhaps the week or 2 we took in a science class to do this, I tried a little GW-BASIC on my family’s “IBM-PC compatible” computer (they were still called that back then). I still remember what my first program consisted of. Even back then I was interested in manipulating graphics and color on a computer screen. Thus :

  10 color 1
  20 print "This is color 1"
  30 color 2
  40 print "This is color 2"
  ...
  

  And so on through 15 colors. Hey, it did the job– it demonstrated the 15 different colors you could set in text mode.

  What’s FOR For ?
  That 7th grade computer unit in science class wasn’t very thick on computer science details. I recall working with a lab partner to transcribe code listings into a computer (and also saving my work to a storage cassette). We also developed form processing programs that would print instructions to input text followed by an “INPUT I$” statement to obtain the user’s output.

  I remember there was some situation where we needed a brief delay between input and printing. The teacher told us to use a construct of the form :

  10 FOR I = 1 TO 20000
  20 NEXT I
  

  We had to calibrate the number based on our empirical assessment of how long it lasted but I recall that the number couldn’t be much higher than about 32000, for reasons that would become clearer much later.

  Imagine my confusion when I would read and try to comprehend BASIC program code I would find in magazines. I would of course see that FOR..NEXT construct all over the place but obviously not in the context of introducing deliberate execution delays. Indeed, my understanding of one of the fundamental building blocks of computer programming — iteration — was completely skewed because of this early lesson.

  Refactoring
  Somewhere along the line, I figured out that the FOR..NEXT could be used to do the same thing a bunch of times, possibly with different values. A few years after I had written that color program, I found it again and realized that I could write it as :

  10 for I = 1 to 15
  20 color I
  30 print I
  40 next I
  

  It still took me a few more years to sort out the meaning of WHILE..WEND, though.