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• Enabling libfdk_aac in ffmpeg installed with Homebrew

  3 septembre 2019, par RocketNuts

  On macOs I always used to install or update ffmpeg through Homebrew. I use the libfdk_aac audio codec a lot so I always did this :

  brew reinstall ffmpeg --with-fdk-aac

  For some reason, since one or two brew updates, ffmpeg can no longer be installed with libfdk_aac.

  When converting a video and using -acodec libfdk_aac which has been working fine for years, I now get :

  Unknown encoder ’libfdk_aac’

  Is there a way to fix this ?

• Reverse Engineering Radius VideoVision

  3 avril 2011, par Multimedia Mike — Reverse Engineering

  I was called upon to help reverse engineer an old video codec called VideoVision (FourCC : PGVV), ostensibly from a company named Radius. I’m not sure of the details exactly but I think a game developer has a bunch of original FMV data from an old game locked up in this format. The name of the codec sounded familiar. Indeed, we have had a sample in the repository since 2002. Alex B. did some wiki work on the codec some years ago. The wiki mentions that there existed a tool to transcode PGVV data into MJPEG-B data, which is already known and supported by FFmpeg.

  The Software
  My contacts were able to point me to some software, now safely archived in the PGVV samples directory. There is StudioPlayer2.6.2.sit.hqx which is supposed to be a QuickTime component for working with PGVV data. I can’t even remember how to deal with .sit or .hqx data. Then there is RadiusVVTranscoder101.zip which is the tool that transcodes to MJPEG-B.

  Disassembling for Reverse Engineering
  Since I could actually unpack the transcoder, I set my sights on that. Unpacking the archive sets up a directory structure for a component. There is a binary called RadiusVVTranscoder under RadiusVVTranscoder.component/Contents/MacOS/. Basic deadlisting disassembly is performed via ’otool’ as shown :

    otool -tV RadiusVVTranscoder | c++filt
  

  This results in a deadlisting of both PowerPC and 32-bit x86 code, as the binary is a "fat" Mac OS X binary designed to run on both architectures. The command line also demangles C++ function signatures which gives useful insight into the parameters passed to a function.

  Pretty Pictures
  The binary had a lot of descriptive symbols. As a basis for reverse engineering, I constructed call graphs using these symbols. Here are the 2 most relevant portions (click for larger images).

  The codec initialization generates Huffman tables relevant to the codec :

  
  
  

  The main decode function calls AddMJPGFrame which apparently does the heavy lifting for the transcode process :

  
  
  

  Based on this tree, I’m guessing that luma blocks can be losslessly transcoded (perhaps with different Huffman tables) which chroma blocks may rely on a different quantization method.

  Assembly Constructs
  I started looking at the instructions (the x86 ones, of course). The binary uses a calling convention I haven’t seen before, at least not for the x86 : Rather than pushing function arguments onto the stack, the code manually subtracts, e.g., 12 from the ESP register, loads 3 32-bit arguments into memory relative to ESP, and then proceeds with the function call.

  I’m also a little unclear on constructs such as "call ___i686.get_pc_thunk.bx" seen throughout relevant functions such as MakeRadiusQuantizationTables().

  I’m just presenting what I have so far in case anyone else wants to try their hand.

• Summer Hacking 2011

  28 avril 2011, par Multimedia Mike — General

  I recently learned that iD — you know, the famed game company — has a series of summer tech camps :

  
  
  

  All I care to know is : Where were programs like these when I was 7-18 years old ? Born too early, I tell ya.

  That reminds me that the Google Summer of Code, 2011 Edition is getting underway soon. I guess it’s like summertime computer camp for college-aged students. FFmpeg / libav is once again a part of the program with 10 slots awarded by Google. Here are the students, projects, and mentors.

  Wish them luck.