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• Evolution of Multimedia Fiefdoms

  1er octobre 2014, par Multimedia Mike — General

  I want to examine how multimedia fiefdoms have risen and fallen through the years.

  
  
  

  Back in the day, the multimedia fiefdoms were built around the formats put forth by competing companies : there was Microsoft/WMV, Apple/MOV, and Real/RM as the big contenders. On2 always wanted to be a player in this arena but could never quite catch a break. A few brave contenders held the line for open source and also for the power users who desired one application that could handle everything (my original motivation for wanting to get into multimedia hacking).

  The computer desktop was the battleground for internet-based media stream. Whatever happened to those days ? Actually, if memory serves, Flash-based video streaming stepped on all of them.

  Over the last 6-7 years, the battleground has expanded to cover mobile devices, where Flash’s impact has… lessened. During this time, multimedia technology pretty well standardized on a particular stack, namely, the MPEG (MP4/H.264/AAC) stack.

  The belligerents in this war tried for years to effectively penetrate new territory, namely, the living room where the television lived. This had been slowgoing for years due to various user interface and content issues, but steadily improved.

  Last April, Amazon announced their entry into the set-top box market with the Fire TV. That was when it suddenly crystallized for me that the multimedia ecosystem has radically shifted. Now, the multimedia fiefdoms revolve around access to content via streaming services.

  Off the top of my head, here are some of the fiefdoms these days (fiefdoms I have experience using) :

  • Netflix (subscription streaming)
  • Amazon (subscription, rental, and purchased streaming)
  • Hulu Plus (subscription streaming)
  • Apple (rental and purchased media)

  I checked some results on Can I Stream.It ? (which I refer to often) and found a bunch more streaming fiefdoms such as Google (both Play and YouTube, which are separate services), Sony, Xbox 360, Crackle, Redbox Instant, Vudu, Target Ticket, Epix, Sony, SnagFilms, and XFINITY StreamPix. And surely, these are probably just services available in the United States ; I know other geographical regions have their own fiefdoms.

  What happened ?

  When I got into multimedia hacking, there were all these disparate, competing ecosystems. As a consumer, I didn’t care where the media came from, I just wanted to play it. That’s what inspired me to work on open source multimedia projects. Now I realize that I have the same problem 10-15 years later : there are multiple competing ecosystems. I might subscribe to fiefdoms X and Y, but am frustrated to learn that something I’d like to watch is only available through fiefdom Z. Very few of these fiefdoms can be penetrated using open source technology.

  I’m not really sure about the point about this whole post. Multimedia technology seems really standardized these days. But that’s probably just my perspective because I have spent way too long focusing on a few areas of multimedia technology such as audio and video coding. It’s interesting that all these services probably leverage the same limited number of codecs. Their differentiation comes from the catalog of content that each is able to license for streaming. There are different problems to solve in the multimedia arena now.

• How do you use FFMPEG to transcode h264_qsv from Apple PRORES Quicktime ?

  4 décembre 2022, par RCJetPilot

  I am trying to transcode an Apple Prores 444 to H.264 using qsv without success.

  


  If I use this command line :

  


  ffmpeg -i 10minute_Pipeline_Test.mov -c:v h264_qsv -c:a aac -pix_fmt qsv  chris.mp4

  


  I get :

  


  ffmpeg version 4.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)
  configuration: --prefix=/root/ffmpeg_build --extra-cflags=-I/root/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/root/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/root/bin --extra-libs=-ldl --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-nonfree --enable-libmfx
  libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
  libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
  libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
  libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
  libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
  libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
  libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
  libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.2 : mono
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.3 : mono
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '10minute_Pipeline_Test.mov':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : qt  
    minor_version   : 537134592
    compatible_brands: qt  
    creation_time   : 2020-12-19T12:43:38.000000Z
    com.apple.quicktime.author: 
    com.apple.quicktime.comment: 
    com.apple.quicktime.copyright: 
    com.apple.quicktime.description: 
    com.apple.quicktime.director: 
    com.apple.quicktime.genre: 
    com.apple.quicktime.information: 
    com.apple.quicktime.keywords: 
    com.apple.quicktime.producer: 
    com.apple.quicktime.displayname: 
    timecode        : 12:43:37;28
  Duration: 00:10:06.72, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 167429 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Data: none (tmcd / 0x64636D74)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 1970-01-04T00:49:14.000000Z
      timecode        : 12:43:37;28
    Stream #0:1(eng): Video: prores (Standard) (apcn / 0x6E637061), yuv422p10le(tv, GBR, progressive), 1280x720, 164985 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 60k tbn, 60k tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 1970-01-01T00:00:04.000000Z
    Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: pcm_s24le (in24 / 0x34326E69), 48000 Hz, mono, s32 (24 bit), 1152 kb/s (default)
    Stream #0:3(eng): Audio: pcm_s24le (in24 / 0x34326E69), 48000 Hz, mono, s32 (24 bit), 1152 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2003-10-05T11:26:56.000000Z
File 'chris.mp4' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (prores (native) -> h264 (h264_qsv))
  Stream #0:2 -> #0:1 (pcm_s24le (native) -> aac (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[h264_qsv @ 0x56265b81a800] Selected ratecontrol mode is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x56265b81a800] Low power mode is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x56265b81a800] Current frame rate is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x56265b81a800] Current picture structure is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x56265b81a800] Current resolution is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x56265b81a800] Current pixel format is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x56265b81a800] some encoding parameters are not supported by the QSV runtime. Please double check the input parameters.
Error initializing output stream 0:0 -- Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
Conversion failed!
user@NUC:~$ ffmpeg -i 10minute_Pipeline_Test.mov -c:v h264_qsv -c:a aac -pix_fmt qsv  chris.mp4
ffmpeg version 4.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)
  configuration: --prefix=/root/ffmpeg_build --extra-cflags=-I/root/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/root/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/root/bin --extra-libs=-ldl --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-nonfree --enable-libmfx
  libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
  libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
  libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
  libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
  libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
  libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
  libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
  libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.2 : mono
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.3 : mono
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '10minute_Pipeline_Test.mov':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : qt  
    minor_version   : 537134592
    compatible_brands: qt  
    creation_time   : 2020-12-19T12:43:38.000000Z
    com.apple.quicktime.author: 
    com.apple.quicktime.comment: 
    com.apple.quicktime.copyright: 
    com.apple.quicktime.description: 
    com.apple.quicktime.director: 
    com.apple.quicktime.genre: 
    com.apple.quicktime.information: 
    com.apple.quicktime.keywords: 
    com.apple.quicktime.producer: 
    com.apple.quicktime.displayname: 
    timecode        : 12:43:37;28
  Duration: 00:10:06.72, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 167429 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Data: none (tmcd / 0x64636D74)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 1970-01-04T00:49:14.000000Z
      timecode        : 12:43:37;28
    Stream #0:1(eng): Video: prores (Standard) (apcn / 0x6E637061), yuv422p10le(tv, GBR, progressive), 1280x720, 164985 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 60k tbn, 60k tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 1970-01-01T00:00:04.000000Z
    Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: pcm_s24le (in24 / 0x34326E69), 48000 Hz, mono, s32 (24 bit), 1152 kb/s (default)
    Stream #0:3(eng): Audio: pcm_s24le (in24 / 0x34326E69), 48000 Hz, mono, s32 (24 bit), 1152 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2003-10-05T11:26:56.000000Z
File 'chris.mp4' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (prores (native) -> h264 (h264_qsv))
  Stream #0:2 -> #0:1 (pcm_s24le (native) -> aac (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Impossible to convert between the formats supported by the filter 'Parsed_null_0' and the filter 'auto_scaler_0'
Error reinitializing filters!
Failed to inject frame into filter network: Function not implemented
Error while processing the decoded data for stream #0:1
Conversion failed!


  


  If I use :

  


  ffmpeg -i 10minute_Pipeline_Test.mov -c:v h264_qsv -c:a aac  chris.mp4

  


  I get :

  


  ffmpeg version 4.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)
  configuration: --prefix=/root/ffmpeg_build --extra-cflags=-I/root/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/root/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/root/bin --extra-libs=-ldl --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-nonfree --enable-libmfx
  libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
  libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
  libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
  libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
  libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
  libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
  libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
  libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.2 : mono
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.3 : mono
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '10minute_Pipeline_Test.mov':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : qt  
    minor_version   : 537134592
    compatible_brands: qt  
    creation_time   : 2020-12-19T12:43:38.000000Z
    com.apple.quicktime.author: 
    com.apple.quicktime.comment: 
    com.apple.quicktime.copyright: 
    com.apple.quicktime.description: 
    com.apple.quicktime.director: 
    com.apple.quicktime.genre: 
    com.apple.quicktime.information: 
    com.apple.quicktime.keywords: 
    com.apple.quicktime.producer: 
    com.apple.quicktime.displayname: 
    timecode        : 12:43:37;28
  Duration: 00:10:06.72, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 167429 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Data: none (tmcd / 0x64636D74)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 1970-01-04T00:49:14.000000Z
      timecode        : 12:43:37;28
    Stream #0:1(eng): Video: prores (Standard) (apcn / 0x6E637061), yuv422p10le(tv, GBR, progressive), 1280x720, 164985 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 60k tbn, 60k tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 1970-01-01T00:00:04.000000Z
    Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: pcm_s24le (in24 / 0x34326E69), 48000 Hz, mono, s32 (24 bit), 1152 kb/s (default)
    Stream #0:3(eng): Audio: pcm_s24le (in24 / 0x34326E69), 48000 Hz, mono, s32 (24 bit), 1152 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2003-10-05T11:26:56.000000Z
File 'chris.mp4' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (prores (native) -> h264 (h264_qsv))
  Stream #0:2 -> #0:1 (pcm_s24le (native) -> aac (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Impossible to convert between the formats supported by the filter 'Parsed_null_0' and the filter 'auto_scaler_0'
Error reinitializing filters!
Failed to inject frame into filter network: Function not implemented
Error while processing the decoded data for stream #0:1
Conversion failed!
user@NUC:~$ ffmpeg -i 10minute_Pipeline_Test.mov -c:v h264_qsv -c:a aac  chris.mp4
ffmpeg version 4.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)
  configuration: --prefix=/root/ffmpeg_build --extra-cflags=-I/root/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/root/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/root/bin --extra-libs=-ldl --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-nonfree --enable-libmfx
  libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
  libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
  libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
  libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
  libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
  libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
  libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
  libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.2 : mono
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.3 : mono
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '10minute_Pipeline_Test.mov':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : qt  
    minor_version   : 537134592
    compatible_brands: qt  
    creation_time   : 2020-12-19T12:43:38.000000Z
    com.apple.quicktime.author: 
    com.apple.quicktime.comment: 
    com.apple.quicktime.copyright: 
    com.apple.quicktime.description: 
    com.apple.quicktime.director: 
    com.apple.quicktime.genre: 
    com.apple.quicktime.information: 
    com.apple.quicktime.keywords: 
    com.apple.quicktime.producer: 
    com.apple.quicktime.displayname: 
    timecode        : 12:43:37;28
  Duration: 00:10:06.72, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 167429 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Data: none (tmcd / 0x64636D74)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 1970-01-04T00:49:14.000000Z
      timecode        : 12:43:37;28
    Stream #0:1(eng): Video: prores (Standard) (apcn / 0x6E637061), yuv422p10le(tv, GBR, progressive), 1280x720, 164985 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 60k tbn, 60k tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 1970-01-01T00:00:04.000000Z
    Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: pcm_s24le (in24 / 0x34326E69), 48000 Hz, mono, s32 (24 bit), 1152 kb/s (default)
    Stream #0:3(eng): Audio: pcm_s24le (in24 / 0x34326E69), 48000 Hz, mono, s32 (24 bit), 1152 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2003-10-05T11:26:56.000000Z
File 'chris.mp4' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (prores (native) -> h264 (h264_qsv))
  Stream #0:2 -> #0:1 (pcm_s24le (native) -> aac (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[h264_qsv @ 0x55b3bb6e8800] Selected ratecontrol mode is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x55b3bb6e8800] Low power mode is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x55b3bb6e8800] Current frame rate is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x55b3bb6e8800] Current picture structure is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x55b3bb6e8800] Current resolution is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x55b3bb6e8800] Current pixel format is unsupported
[h264_qsv @ 0x55b3bb6e8800] some encoding parameters are not supported by the QSV runtime. Please double check the input parameters.
Error initializing output stream 0:0 -- Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
Conversion failed!


  


  I cannot get ANYTHING to work. I can transcode other h264 files without issue. I cannot seem to transcode this prores file.

  


  Here is a link to the source file if anyone can help I would REALLY appreciate it...

  


  https://www.dropbox.com/s/ejrfzad20yzaifm/10minute_Pipeline_Test.mov?dl=1

  


• 12 ways Matomo Analytics helps you to protect your visitor’s privacy

  5 mai 2020, par InnoCraft — Analytics Tips, Privacy, Security

  This post was originally published on January 11, 2017, and updated on May, 2020.

  At Matomo we think privacy matters. From the beginning, Matomo has had a strong focus on privacy and ensuring the privacy of your visitors and analytics data. 

  Here are some ways how you can ensure your users and visitors privacy by using Matomo (Piwik).

  1. Owning the data gives you power to protect user privacy

  Whether you host Matomo on-premises yourself, or whether you use Matomo’s cloud, YOU keep control of your data and nobody else. By knowing exactly where your data is stored and having full control over what happens to it, you have the power to protect your user’s privacy. No-one else can claim ownership. 

  2. GDPR compliance

  GDPR is one of the most important privacy laws to have come out in the last few years. As such, Matomo takes GDPR compliance very seriously. There’s even a 12-step checklist for you to follow to ensure your Matomo is GDPR compliant. Not only that Matomo is HIPAA, CCPA, LGPD, and PECR compliant.

  3. Data anonymization

  For better privacy by default, Matomo implements a range of data anonymization techniques. One of the main techniques is not recording the full IP address of your visitors. Some countries even require you to anonymize additional info considered Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

  To change the IP anonymization settings go to “Administration > Privacy”. 

  

  4. Configuring Matomo to not process personal data or personally identifiable information (PII)

  To further protect the privacy of your visitors, you can learn how to not process any personal information or PII. 

  5. Deleting old visitor logs

  The is important because visitor logs contain information all the collected raw data about every visitor and every action. You can configure Matomo to automatically delete logs from the database. When you delete old logs, only the real time and visitor log reports will no longer work for this old time period, all other aggregated reports will still work.

  For privacy reasons, we highly recommend that you keep the detailed Matomo logs for only 3 to 6 months and delete older log data. This has one other nice side effect : it will free significant database space, which will, in turn, slightly increase performance !

  

  6. Supporting the Do Not Track preference

  Do Not Track enables users to opt out of any tracking by websites they do not visit, including analytics services, advertising networks, and social platforms. By default, Matomo respects users preference and will not track visitors which have specified “I do not want to be tracked” in their web browsers. Get more information about DoNotTrack.

  To make sure Do Not Track is respected, go to “Administration => Privacy”.

  7. Including an Opt-Out Feature on your website or app

  By embedding the Opt-Out feature in your website, you give your visitors the possibility to opt-out of the tracking. When you go to “Administration > Privacy”, you will be able to copy and paste an HTML Iframe code to embed the opt-out feature for example into your privacy policy page or in your ‘Legal’ page. Your users can then click on a link to opt-out.

  On the Matomo Marketplace there are also some plugins available to customize the Opt-Out experience. For example AjaxOptOut and CustomOptOut.

  

  8. Disabling Live features

  The Real-Time, Visitor Log and Visitor Profile features give you insights into the tracked raw data by showing you details about every visitor and every action they performed. To protect the privacy of your visitors you may decide to prevent access to such features by disabling the “Live” plugin in “Administration => Plugins”. This way only aggregated reports will be shown in your Matomo.

  9. Disabling fingerprinting across websites

  By default, when one of your visitors visits several of your websites, Matomo will create a fingerprint for this user that will be different across the websites to increase the visitors’ privacy. You can make sure that this feature is disabled by going to “Administration => Config file” and verifying that the value of “enable_fingerprinting_across_websites” is set to zero.

  10. Disabling tracking cookies

  Matomo uses first-party cookies to store some information about visitors between visits. In some countries, the legislation requires websites to provide a way for users to opt-out of all tracking, in particular tracking cookies. You can disable cookies by adding one line in the Matomo Javascript code.

  11. Creating the tool of your dreams by developing your own plugins and getting access to the API

  Matomo is an open platform that lets you extend and customise the tracking ; reporting ; and user interface to your needs and to protect your visitors’ privacy the way you want or need it. Learn more in the Matomo Developer Zone. You may also have a look at our Matomo Marketplace where you can find several free and premium features to extend your Matomo.

  12. Transparency

  By default, all information and all collected data in your Matomo server are protected and nobody can access it. However, Matomo allows you to optionally make your collected data public and you can export any Matomo report including the whole dashboard to embed it into your website. This way you can show your users exactly which information you track. When you decide to make reports public, we do our best to protect privacy and automatically hide any Personally Identifiable Information such as the Visitor Profile and we make sure to not show any Visitor IP address and the Visitor ID.

  Bonus tip – A privacy policy template for you

  When you use Matomo to track your visitors, we recommend you update your Privacy Policy to explain how Matomo is used and what data it gathers. Here’s a Privacy Policy template for you to copy on your site.

  Continuous privacy improvements

  We are always interested in improving the privacy. If you miss any feature or have an idea on how to improve the privacy, please let us know.

  More information about all the Matomo features

  If you want to learn more about all the features in Matomo, have a look at our User Guides and FAQ entries.