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• MPEG-DASH not working. MPD validation fails

  16 novembre 2017, par Marko36

  I am trying to serve video using MPEG-DASH. No success. I have tried the following :

  Following the instructions on webproject.org, using FFMPEG, I have created several variants of the original video and the DASH MPD manifest, containing metadata. However, the manifest does not validate using http://dashif.org/conformance.html. This validator itself is quite useless, as it provides unusable info about the error. I have found in a post from 2014, that one of the errors generated by FFMPEG is capital letters in some metadata (not a critical one, but could have been fixed for years !). Other errors detected, but not described. No tangible info from any of these other validators either : http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/dash/?page_id=605 (produces rubbish info), https://github.com/Eyevinn/dash-validator-js (throws an exception)

  Following instructions on mozilla.org, produces the same non-working result, as the instructions are nearly identical (including same resolution*bitrate sets), except that Mozilla omits the use of dash.js, which is deemed necessary by the rest of the internet.

  This guide on Bitmovin, utilizing x264 and MP4Box does not work either. Going by the instructions, I have to recode the original x264 video twice. The final version of videos are in some cases twice the size of their intermediate versions and 720p video is actually larger than its 1080p, higher bitrate counterpart. No need to go further. (Yet, this is the only way that actually produced segments..)

  I have spent 3 days on the above, read about all there is on the web from the other frustrated adopters, and ran out of options. I would really apreciate some pro tips ! Thanks !

• Merge commit '07a2b155949eb267cdfc7805f42c7b3375f9c7c5'

  21 octobre 2017, par James Almer

  Merge commit '07a2b155949eb267cdfc7805f42c7b3375f9c7c5'
  * commit '07a2b155949eb267cdfc7805f42c7b3375f9c7c5' :
  
    Bump major versions of all libraries
  A few API deprecated 2 years ago or more are also postponed here for
  
  varying reasons.
  FF_API_LOWRES :
  
  Since this functionality depends on AVStream->codec, i figure the two can
  
  be removed at the same time in the next bump or so.
  FF_API_AVCTX_TIMEBASE :
  
  Couldn't get this one to work. Not just libavcodec but apparently also
  
  libavformat and ffmpeg.c expect AVCodecContext->time_base to be set for
  
  decoding. Upon removal some tests report a different generic stream time
  
  base (like 1/25), and others lose packet duration values. I guess it's
  
  somehow tied to the AVStream->codec clusterfuck.
  
  It can be dealt with alongside FF_API_LAVF_AVCTX in the next bump.
  FF_API_OLD_FILTER_OPTS_ERROR :
  
  This one is meant to remain after FF_API_OLD_FILTER_OPTS is removed.
  
  Its purpose is displaying the corrected command line using the new syntax
  
  as a suggestion as part of the error message.
  Merged-by : James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
  

  • [DH] libavcodec/version.h
  • [DH] libavdevice/version.h
  • [DH] libavfilter/version.h
  • [DH] libavformat/version.h
  • [DH] libavresample/version.h
  • [DH] libavutil/version.h
  • [DH] libpostproc/version.h
  • [DH] libswresample/version.h
  • [DH] libswscale/version.h
  • [DH] tests/ref/fate/api-mjpeg-codec-param
  • [DH] tests/ref/fate/api-png-codec-param

• How you can use the Piwik AOM plugin to improve your data and make better online marketing decisions

  13 septembre 2017, par André Kolell — Plugins, AdWords, Bing, Case Study, Criteo, eccommerce tracking, Facebook Ads, how to install piwik analytics, how-to piwik, integration, piwik, Taboola

  Hi, this is André, one of the authors of the Piwik Advanced Online Marketing plugin, which has just hit 5,000 downloads on the Piwik marketplace. In this blog post I’ll show you how Piwik AOM improves your data and enables you to make better online marketing decisions.

  Piwik itself is excellent in tracking all kinds of visitor data, like where a visitor is coming from and what he’s doing on your page or app (pageviews, events, conversions). But what Piwik did not yet take a closer a look at, is how much you’ve invested into your marketing activities and how profitable they are.

  With the Piwik AOM plugin you can integrate data like advertising costs, advertising campaign names, ad impressions etc. from advertising platforms (such as Google AdWords, Microsoft Bing, Criteo, Facebook Ads and Taboola) and individual campaigns (such as such as cost per view/click/acquisition and fixed price per months deals) into Piwik and combine that data with individual Piwik visits.

  Piwik AOM adds a new marketing performance report to Piwik giving you a great overview of all your marketing activities with drill-down functionality :

  

   

  When taking a look at a specific visitor, Piwik AOM shows you the exact cost of acquiring a specific visit :

  

   

  Leveraging Piwik AOM’s full potential

  But although you can access Piwik AOM’s valuable data directly in the Piwik UI for ad-hoc analyses, Piwik AOM’s true strength comes into play when working with the raw data in an external business intelligence application of your choice, where you can further integrate Piwik AOM’s data with your most accurate backend data (like conversion’s contribution margins after returns, new vs. existing customer, etc.).

  Piwik AOM offers some API endpoints that allow you to fetch the data you need but you can also retrieve it directly from Piwik AOM’s aom_visits table, which includes all visits, all allocated advertising costs and advertising campaign details. As there is never data being deleted from aom_visits, the table can easily be connected to your ETL tool with its last update timestamp column. A third way to get data out of Piwik AOM is by developing your own Piwik plugin and listening to the AOM.aomVisitAddedOrUpdated event, which is posted whenever an aom_visits record is added or updated.

  Integrating Piwik AOM’s data with your backend data in the business intelligence application of your choice allows you to evaluate the real performance of your online marketing campaigns when applying different conversion attribution models, conduct customer journey analyses, create sophisticated forecasts and whatever you can think of.

  AOM Use case

  A company that followed this approach, is FINANZCHECK.de, one of Germany’s leading loan comparison websites. At the eMetrics summit 2016 in Berlin, Germany, I gave a talk about FINANZCHECK’s architectural online marketing setup. Until recently, FINANZCHECK used Pentaho data integration to integrate data from Piwik, Piwik AOM and additional internal tools like its proprietary CRM software into Jaspersoft, its data warehouse an BI solution. The enriched data in Jaspersoft was not only used for reporting to various stakeholders but also for optimising all kinds of marketing activities (e.g. bids for individual keywords in Google AdWords) and proactive alerting. Not long ago, FINANZCHECK started an initiative to improve its setup even further – I’ll hopefully be able to cover this in a more detailed case study soon.

  Roadmap

  In the past, we had the chance to make great progress in developing this plugin by solving specific requirements of different companies who use Piwik AOM. During the next months, we plan to integrate more advertising platforms, reimplement Facebook Ads, improve the support of individual campaigns and work on the general plugin stability and performance.

  Before you install Piwik AOM

  Before installing Piwik AOM, you should know that its initial setup and even its maintenance can be quite complex. Piwik AOM will heavily modify your Piwik installation and you will only benefit from Piwik AOM if you are willing to invest quite some time into it.

  If you are not familiar with Piwik’s internals, PHP, MySQL, database backups, cronjobs, creating API accounts at the advertising platforms or adding parameters to your advertising campaign’s URLs, you should probably not install it on your own (at least not in your production environment).

  Piwik AOM has successfully been tested with up to 25k visitors a day for a period of more than two years, running on an AWS server with 4 GB RAM, once CPU and a separate AWS RDS MySQL database.

  Ideas and Support

  If you have ideas for new features or need support with your Piwik AOM installation or leveraging your marketing data’s potential in general, feel free to get in touch with the plugin’s co-author Daniel or me. You can find our contact details on the plugin’s website http://www.advanced-online-marketing.com.

  How to get the Piwik AOM plugin ?

  The Piwik AOM plugin is freely available through the Piwik marketplace at https://plugins.piwik.org/AOM

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