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• Museum of Multimedia Software, Part 4

  20 août 2010, par Multimedia Mike — Software Museum

  This is the last part of the series, at least until some more multimedia software shows up at my favorite thrift shop or the other boneyards I scavenge.

  Miscellaneous Multimedia Programs
  This set includes the titles Matinee FMV Screensaver, MetaCreations Painter Classic, and Multimedia JumpStart. The second one is likely a creation program. I have no idea what the third one is, while the first title gives me chills just thinking about the implications.

  
  
  

  Miscellaneous Creativity Software
  Magic Theatre and Microsoft Home : Creative Writer. I think I loaded up the former once to find a very basic animation program. The latter isn’t necessarily multimedia-related but certainly classifies as creative software. It also reminds me of the ad I once spied in Entertainment Weekly magazine during the mid-1990s for a Microsoft music history CD-ROM. MS branched out into all kinds of niches.

  
  
  

  More Multimedia Creativity Software
  VideoCraft and U-Create Games & Animation. I wager these would be fun to play around with if I had the time.

  
  
  

  Showcase CD-ROMs
  "What Can You Make ? Showcase 7" from Macromedia and Microsoft Multimedia Pack 10.

  
  
  

  Basic Multimedia Software Discs
  As a multimedia nerd, these Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Video for Windows discs make me sentimental.

  
  
  

  Real Software Collection
  Grit your teeth and gaze upon CD-ROM distributions of Real’s software. There is a RealAudio disc back from when Real still called themselves Progressive Networks. "Everything you need to hear the web roar !"

  
  
  

  Clips
  And a few multimedia clip CD-ROMs, along with a disc that promises to test and tune your MPC setup.

  
  
  

  Wrap-Up
  I would be remiss if I neglected to mention a few more pieces of multimedia creation software in my collection. First, there’s the Barbie Storymaker. I actually gave that one a go, as you can tragically see from that link. Further, the Taco Bell fast food restaurant chain ran, as one of their many kids meal promotions, a series of 4 simple Comics Constructor CD-ROMs. I played briefly with it here and again during an exploration of XML data formats and the parsing thereof (which the software uses).

• ANSI Code Coverage Followup

  9 mars 2012, par Multimedia Mike — Programming

  The people behind sixteencolors.net noticed my code coverage project concerning the ANSI video decoder and asked what they could do to help. I had already downloaded 350 / 4000 of their artpacks but didn’t want to download the remainder if I could avoid it. They offered to run my tool against their local collection of files.

  Aside : They have all of the artpacks archived at Github.

  The full corpus of nearly 4000 artpacks contains over 146,000 files. Versus my sampling of 350 artpacks and 13,000 files that covered all but 45 lines of the ansi.c source file, the full corpus has files to exercise… 6 more of those lines. Whee. This means that there are files which exercise the reverse and concealed attributes, all 3 “erase in line” modes, and one more error path (which probably wasn’t a valid file anyway).

  Missing features mostly cluster around different video modes, including : 320×200 (25 rows), 640×200 (25 rows), 640×350 (43 rows), and 640×480 (60 rows) ; on the plus side, nothing tripped the “unsupported screen mode” case. There are no files that switch modes during playback.

  I guess statistical sampling theory holds out here– a small set of randomly chosen files would do a fine job covering code. But this experiment is about finding the statistical outliers.

• Nginx with rtmp-module stalls between streams

  14 janvier 2015, par churchmf

  I’m experiencing some troubles using NGINX with rtmp-module as a media server. I wish to present a continuous video as a live stream (with up to 60 second latency). However, due to some hardware constraints, I am unable to stream directly from the device. Instead, I can save out X amount of seconds from the device’s buffer as an MP4. My solution has been to save X seconds of video from the device then stream that X seconds, rise and repeat. This has been working mostly well, except for stalls ( 20 seconds) in the stream between calls.

  I have searched far and wide for a solution to this however most of the people experiencing this problem have the collection of videos before starting the stream and can simply concatenate them.

  My running theory is that when a stream finishes, it does an unpublish event in NGINX followed by a timeout period. This prevents the NGINX server from receiving the next publish until the timeout period has expired. I have tried adjusting nginx.config values related to timeouts, respawns, restarts, and publish, but to no avail.

  Pseudocode :
  while true
   > capture X seconds of video to "output.mp4" (this takes less than 300ms)
   > stream the MP4 with FFMPEG (takes X seconds using -re)

  FFMPEG call :
  ffmpeg -re -i "output.mp4" -vcodec libx264 -preset veryfast -maxrate 2000k -bufsize 4000k -g 60 -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 128k -ac 2 -ar 44100 -f flv rtmp :/MYSERVER/live/output

  I am using JWPlayer client side to watch the video stream, however I experience similar issues using VLC.

  I have been trying to figure this out for a few days and I would appreciate any insight an expert to video streaming and NGINX can give. Thank you !