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• Improper use of system() call ?

  28 mai 2013, par Dima1982

  I have a particle system program that generates a .dat file with particle coordinates in every iteration. The end goal is to run the program multiple times via a script with different parameters. So, I am trying to setup my program in a way that, for every run, all relevant data are going to be stored in a folder.

  What I do is to generate PNGs from the .dat files with Gnuplot, call ffmpeg to create a video out of the PNGs, use WinRAR to compress the .dat files and finally clean up, by deleting all the intermediate files. This works, when I do it in the working directory.

  Now I try to create a new directory and do the same stuff in there. My code :

  // Load the proper library to use chdir() function
  
  #ifdef _WIN32
  
  #include 
  
  #elif defined __linux__ || defined __APPLE__&&__MACH__
  
  #include 
  
  #endif
  
  
  
  // Make output directory and change working directory to new directory
  
      ostringstream dirCommand;
  
      dirCommand << "mkdir " << folderName_str;
  
      system(dirCommand.str().c_str());
  
      const char* test  = folderName_str.c_str();
  
      #ifdef _WIN32
  
          if(_chdir(test))
  
          {
  
              printf( "Unable to locate the directory: %s\n",test);
  
              return;
  
          }
  
      #elif defined __linux__ || defined __APPLE__&&__MACH__
  
          if(chdir(test))
  
          {
  
              printf( "Unable to locate the directory: %s\n",test);
  
              return;
  
          }
  
      #endif
  
          else
  
              printf("Created output directory...\n");

  Already for this part, I know that there are going to be objections. I have looked extensively on SO and many people favor SetCurrentDirectory() for Windows, or they are skeptical about using system(). In my defense, I am a novice programmer and my knowledge is really limited...

  Now, when I try to make the video with FFMpeg and then rar/tar my files :

  // Make video
  
          std::cout << "Generating Video..." << endl;
  
          ostringstream command;
  
          command << "ffmpeg -f image2 -r 1/0.1 -i output_%01d.png -vcodec mpeg4 " << videoName_str << ".avi -loglevel quiet";
  
          std::system(command.str().c_str());
  
  
  
          // Clean Up!
  
          std::cout << "Cleaning up!" << endl;
  
          ostringstream command2;
  
          #ifdef _WIN32
  
              command2 << "rar -inul a " << videoName_str << ".rar *.dat settings.gp loadfile.gp";
  
          #elif defined __linux__ || defined __APPLE__&&__MACH__
  
              command2 << "tar cf " << videoName_str << ".tar *.dat settings.gp loadfile.gp";
  
          #endif
  
          std::system(command2.str().c_str());

  I get very different behaviors in Win/ Linux.

  Win 7 x64, Visual Studio 2010/12

  In windows, the folder is created. The .dat files are generated correctly and gnuplot plots the PNGs as well. When ffmpeg is called, nothing happens. No error message from FFMpeg or anything. The same goes for WinRAR. Maybe, for the last thing, I can use the command line utility of 7z which is free !

  Linux Mint 14 x64, Qt 4.8.1

  Strangely enough, the behavior is inverted from that of Windows. As soon as the dir is changed, only the first .dat file is generated. It is as if every subsequent call I make to fprintf() for my file generation does not work, or gets lost somewhere. Gnuplot works, as do ffmpeg and tar !!

  I am really perplexed. Any help, would be really appreciated.

• Encode uncompressed avi from webcam

  17 août 2013, par shaun

  I have to record videos for a project I'm doing. Two of these are USB cameras and another is a n IP overhead camera.All three are connected to a laptop computer. After recording the videos I need to be able to open them in an editor (not for editing particularly but for modeling stuff in them for which I need a timeline). I have chosen Sony Vegas Pro for my editor. I have been able to record the uncompressed avi using gstreamer with this command :

  gst-launch v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! 'video/x-rawyuv,width=640,height=480,framerate=10/1' ! mux. avimux name=mux ! filesink location=temp.avi

  I had to set the framerate to 10 because I was using two USB cameras and a framerate of 30 on both could not be accomodated in the bandwidth of the USB controller. I do not care about audio in my file so I don't grab audio. Similary, while encoding I wouldn't care about audio as well. This is raw uncompressed avi. I was not able to open this in Sony Vegas Pro. I believe I need to encode this uncompressed avi using a codec that will be opened by Sony Vegas Pro (I don't know which codecs Sony likes, so I'll probably try different ones until one of them opens).

  For encoding this video, I have several options : mencoder, ffmpeg, gstreamer. But I am not able to figure out how to use these tools to get what I want. Ideally, I would like just to sort of "insert" a codec with other settings remaining the same. I don't really care about the how much space the resulting video takes since the length of the videos are not going to be more than 3 minutes and I have space available, so lossless codecs also work. I believe Sony reads mpeg avi's so if I can get that, it'll be great.

  Thanks for reading and I appreciate all the help.

• Piwik 1.12, New Features, API Improvements, Stability — The Last Piwik 1.X Release

  30 mai 2013, par Piwik team — Development

  We are very excited to announce the immediate availability of Piwik v1.12 !

  • Download Link
  • How to update Piwik ?
  • List of all tickets closed : Changelog

  Piwik v1.12 is a major new release with four big new features, seven smaller new features, several API improvements and all together 82 tickets fixed. This is also the last major 1.X release, which means after this release we will be working on releasing Piwik 2.0. This also means that you should upgrade to PHP 5.3 or higher if you haven’t already, since Piwik 2.0 will only support PHP 5.3 and above.

  Finally, this release contains two breaking changes to the API. If you use the Piwik API click here or scroll down to see if you’re affected.

  Table of Contents :

  1. New Big Feature – Beta Release Channel
  2. New Big Feature – Segment Editor
  3. New Big Feature – Page Speed Reports
  4. New Big Feature – Device Detection Reports
  5. Other Improvements
  6. API Changes and Improvements
  7. What we’re working on
  8. Participate in Piwik
  9. Summary

  New Big Feature – Beta Release Channel

  

  For those of you who want to help test Piwik 2.0-beta releases as soon as they come up, we’ve made it easier to use our beta releases. Navigate to the Settings > General Settings page and click the The latest beta release radio button. You will then be able to upgrade to beta releases.

  This isn’t truly a major feature, but we think it’s just as important because it will allow us to create more beta releases and thus catch more bugs before we make a final release. This means more releases and more stability for you.

  New Big Feature – Segment Editor

  

  The Segment Editor is a long-awaited new feature that allows you to view, save and edit your segments.

  Piwik has supported segmentation (filtering visits and reports by arbitrary criteria, like browser family) for quite some time now, but it has never been possible to visually create and modify them. Nor could they be saved for later recall.

  Thanks to the eighty individuals and company who funded this feature, it is now possible to :

  • visually segment your visitors, instead of creating URLs.
  • save segments and easily switch between them, instead of remembering URLs.
  • get suggestions for segments that might be helpful to view.
  • learn more in the Segmentating Analytics reports user documentation..

  New Big Feature – Page Speed Reports

  You can now see how long it took your webserver to generate and send pages over HTTP through the new Avg. Generation Time metric.

  This metric can be viewed on both the Pages and Page Titles reports :

  

  And the average page generation time for all the pages in your website/webapp is displayed on the visitors overview :

  

  You can use this new information to benchmark your webapp and web server.

  New Big Feature – Device Detection Reports

  Piwik 1.12 also includes a new plugin that provides reports on the device types (tablet, desktop, smartphone, etc.), device brands (Apple, Google, Samsung, etc.) and device models (iPad, Nexus 7, etc.) your visitors use to access your website :

  

  The new plugin also enhances Operating system detections (detecting sub versions of Linux, Windows, and more).

  Note : This plugin is not enabled by default, but will be in Piwik 2.0. If you want to view these reports now, you can activate the plugin in the Installed Plugins admin page. Navigate to Visitors > Devices to see the new reports. You may also use the new (beta) ‘Device type’.

  The new plugin was developed with the support of Clearcode.cc our technology partner

  

  Other improvements

  Majestic SEO Metrics

  

  We’ve added two new SEO metrics to the SEO widget, both of which are calculated by MajesticSEO.com. These metrics will tell you the number of external backlinks (the number of links to your site from other sites) and the number of referrer domains (the number of domains that link to your site).

  We thank the team at Majestic for their support and hard work in bringing you these metrics to your Piwik dashboards !

  Real-time Visitor Count Dashboard Widget

  

  There is now a simple new widget you can use to see the number of visitors, visits and actions that occurred in the last couple minutes. We call it the Real Time Visitor Counter !

  New segment parameter : siteSearchKeyword.

  There is now a new segment parameter you can use to segment your visits : siteSearchKeyword. This parameter will let you select visits that had site searches with a specific keyword.

  Ignore URL letter case when importing log files.

  We’ve added a new option to the log import script, –force-lowercase-path. When used, the importer will change URL paths to lowercase before tracking them. This way http://domain.com/MY/BLOG will be treated the same as http://domain.com/my/blog.

  Updated ISP Names

  

  We’ve also modified the Providers report so prettier and more up-to-date names of ISPs are displayed.

  Customize the background/text/axis color of graphs.

  

  It is now possible to change the background color, text color and/or axis color of the graph images generated by the ImageGraph plugin. To access this functionality, use the following URL query parameters when generating an image :

  • backgroundColor
  • textColor
  • axisColor

  For example :

  http://demo.piwik.org/index.php?module=API&method=ImageGraph.get&idSite=7&apiModule=UserSettings&apiAction=getBrowser&token_auth=anonymous&period=day&date=2013-03-21,2013-04-19&language=en&width=779&height=150&fontSize=9&showMetricTitle=0&aliasedGraph=1&legendAppendMetric=0&backgroundColor=efefef&gridColor=dcdcdc&colors=cb2026

  Send your users to a custom URL after they logout.

  If you manage a Piwik installation with many users and you want to send them to a custom page or website after they log out of Piwik, you can now specify the URL to redirect users after they log out.

  API Changes and Improvements

  BREAKING CHANGE – renamed segment parameters.

  The following segment parameters have been renamed :

  • continent renamed to : continentCode
  • browserName renamed to : browserCode
  • operatingSystem renamed to : operatingSystemCode
  • lat renamed to : latitude
  • long renamed to : longitude
  • region renamed to : regionCode
  • country renamed to : countryCode
  • continent renamed to : continentCode

  If you use one of the old segment parameter names, Piwik will throw an exception, so you should notice when you’re using an old name.

  BREAKING CHANGE – changes to the input & output of the Live.getLastVisitsDetails method.

  The following changes were made to the Live.getLastVisitsDetails API method :

  • The method no longer uses the maxIdVisit query parameter. It has been replaced by the filter_offset parameter.
  • Site search keywords are now displayed in a <siteSearchKeyword> element. They were formerly in <pageTitle> elements.
  • Custom variables with page scope now have ‘Page’ in their element names when displayed. For example, <customVariablePageName1>, <customVariablePageName2>, etc.

  Filter results of MultiSites.getAll by website name.

  It is now possible to filter the results of MultiSites.getAll by website name. To do this, set the pattern query parameter to the desired regex pattern.

  Get suggested values to use for a segment parameter.

  The new API method API.getSuggestedValuesForSegment can now be used to get suggested values for a segment parameter. This method will return a list of the most seen values (in the last 60 days) for a certain segment parameter. So for browserCode, this would return the codes for the browsers most visitors used in the last 60 days.

  Use extra tracking query parameters with the JS tracker (such as ‘lat’ & ‘long’).

  We’ve added a new method to the JavaScript tracker named appendToTrackingUrl. You can use this method to add extra query parameters to a tracking request, like so :

  _paq.push(['appendToTrackingUrl', 'lat=X&long=Y']);

  What we’re working on

  As we said above, Piwik v1.12 is the last in the 1.X series of releases. This means we are now officially working on Piwik 2.0.

  Piwik 2.0 will be a big release, to be sure, but it’s going to bring you more than just a couple new features and a bag of bug fixes. For Piwik 2.0 we will be revisiting the user needs and the ideals that originally prompted us to create Piwik in order to build our vision of the future of web analytics.

  Piwik 2.0 won’t just be a bigger, better web app, but a new platform for observing and analyzing the things that matter to you.

  Participate in Piwik

  Are you a talented developer or an experienced User Interface designer ? Or maybe you like to write documentation or are a marketing guru ?

  If you have some free time and if you want to contribute to one of the most awesome open source projects around, please get in touch with the Piwik team, or read this page to learn more…

  Summary

  For the full list of changes in Piwik 1.12 check out the Changelog.

  Thank you to the core developers, all the beta testers and users, our official supporters, the translators & everyone who reported bugs or feature requests. Also thank you to softwares we use, and the libraries we use.

  If you are a company and would like to help an important project like Piwik grow, please get in touch, it means a lot to us. You can also participate in the project —

  –> if you like what you read, please tell your friends and colleagues or write on your website, blog, forums, stackoverflow, etc. <–
  

  Peace. Enjoy !