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• Multimedia Exploration Journal : The Past Doesn’t Die

  12 juillet 2011, par Multimedia Mike — Game Hacking

  New haul of games, new (old) multimedia formats.

  Lords of Midnight
  Check out the box copy scan for Lords of Midnight in MobyGames. In particular, I’d like to call your attention to this little blurb :

  
  
  

  Ahem, "Journey through an immense world — the equivalent of 8 CD-ROMs." Yet, when I procured the game, it only came on a single CD-ROM. It’s definitely a CD-ROM (says so on the disc) and, coming from 1995, certainly predates the earliest DVD-ROMs (which can easily store 8 CD-ROMs on a disc). Thus, I wanted to jump in a see if they were using some phenomenal compression in order to squeeze so much info into 600 or so megabytes.

  I was surprised to see the contents of the disc clocking in at just under 40 megabytes. An intro movie and an outro movie account for 75% of that. Format ? None other than that curious ASCII anomaly, ARMovie/RPL with Escape 122 codec data.

  Cyclemania

  
  
  

  Cyclemania is one of those FMV backdrop action games, but with a motorcycle theme. I had a good feeling I would find some odd multimedia artifacts here and the game didn’t disappoint. The videos are apparently handled using 3-4 discrete files per animation. I’ve documented my cursory guesses and linked some samples at the new MultimediaWiki page.

  Interplay ACMP
  This is unrelated to this particular acquistion, but I was contacted today about audio files harvested from the 1993 DOS game Star Trek : Judgment Rites. The files begin with the ASCII signature "Interplay ACMP Data". This reminds me of Interplay MVE files which begin with the similar string "Interplay MVE File". My theory is that these files use the ACOMP compression format, though I’m still trying to make it fit.

  Wiki and samples are available as usual if you’d like to add your own research.

• Is there a set of working P/Invoke declarations for FFMpeg, libavutil, libavformat and libavcodec in .NET ?

  11 février 2014, par casperOne

  I'm currently looking to access libavutil, libavformat and libavcodec (all part of FFMpeg) from .NET.

  Currently, I'm getting the libraries from the automated builds of the shared FFMpeg package performed every night for Windows 32-bit.

  I am also using the code from the ffmpeg-sharp project. In that project, I have removed a number of classes that were not compiling (they are wrapper classes not the P/Invoke declarations).

  The code compiles fine, but I am running into a few issues.

  First, it appears that the build of av*.dll uses the cdecl calling convention, as I was receiving a number of PInvokeStackImbalanceException when trying to call av_open_input_file. This was easy enough to change to get it to work right. The AVFormatContext structure is populated.

  After that, I want to call av_find_stream_info to get information about the streams in the file. However, when calling that with the AVFormatContext retrieved from the call to av_open_input_file, an AccessViolationException is thrown indicating that I am trying to read or write from protected memory.

  Has anyone used P/Invoke to access the libavutil, libavformat and libavcodec dll libraries through P/Invoke and have gotten it to work ?

  I should mention that working with the command-line version of FFMpeg, while a solution, is not a viable solution in this case, access needs to occur through the libraries. The reason for this is that I'd have to thrash the disk way too much to do what I need to do (I have to do a frame-by-frame analysis of some very high definition video) and I want to avoid the disk as much as possible.

• Is there a set of working P/Invoke declarations for FFMpeg, libavutil, libavformat and libavcodec in .NET ?

  30 août 2011, par casperOne

  I'm currently looking to access libavutil, libavformat and libavcodec (all part of FFMpeg) from .NET.

  Currently, I'm getting the libraries from the automated builds of the shared FFMpeg package performed every night for Windows 32-bit.

  I am also using the code from the ffmpeg-sharp project. In that project, I have removed a number of classes that were not compiling (they are wrapper classes not the P/Invoke declarations).

  The code compiles fine, but I am running into a few issues.

  First, it appears that the build of av*.dll uses the cdecl calling convention, as I was receiving a number of PInvokeStackImbalanceException when trying to call av_open_input_file. This was easy enough to change to get it to work right. The AVFormatContext structure is populated.

  After that, I want to call av_find_stream_info to get information about the streams in the file. However, when calling that with the AVFormatContext retrieved from the call to av_open_input_file, an AccessViolationException is thrown indicating that I am trying to read or write from protected memory.

  Has anyone used P/Invoke to access the libavutil, libavformat and libavcodec dll libraries through P/Invoke and have gotten it to work ?

  I should mention that working with the command-line version of FFMpeg, while a solution, is not a viable solution in this case, access needs to occur through the libraries. The reason for this is that I'd have to thrash the disk way too much to do what I need to do (I have to do a frame-by-frame analysis of some very high definition video) and I want to avoid the disk as much as possible.