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• Has anyone used Azure vm's for gpu-accelerated video enc/decoding with FFmpeg/libav ?

  4 mai 2017, par user3776020

  I am trying to use NVIDIA hardware acceleration with FFmpeg/libav on a Microsoft Azure GPU vm (any of the new N-series). I am able to get it working with a comparable AWS vm, but am not having luck with Azure.

  I have a different question posted here detailing the specific problem I’m running into (Trouble with hardware-assisted encoding/decoding via FFmpeg on Azure GPU vm’s (ubuntu 16.04)), but have since realized that the better question to ask is if anyone has been able to achieve it, full-stop.

  If so, would you please share the details of your environment (type of vm, os version, installation commands, etc). Thanks !

• How to wrap a C library parameter ?(Creating x264 .Net wrapper)

  6 décembre 2016, par Rella

  so in dll we have x264_param_t structure\object and a function for its setting up x264_param_apply_profile. in C we use such code to set it up

  x264_param_t param;
  
  x264_param_default_preset(&param, "veryfast", "zerolatency");
  
  param.i_threads = 1;
  
  param.i_width = width;
  
  param.i_height = height;
  
  param.i_fps_num = fps;
  
  param.i_fps_den = 1;
  
  // Intra refres:
  
  param.i_keyint_max = fps;
  
  param.b_intra_refresh = 1;
  
  //Rate control:
  
  param.rc.i_rc_method = X264_RC_CRF;
  
  param.rc.f_rf_constant = 25;
  
  param.rc.f_rf_constant_max = 35;
  
  //For streaming:
  
  param.b_repeat_headers = 1;
  
  param.b_annexb = 1;
  
  x264_param_apply_profile(&param, "baseline");

  I want to create wrapper for such.. thing. so I have libx264.dll and visual studio 2010 pro.

  How can I create .Net C# wrapper for it ?

  I am a beginner in P\Invoke stuff so I do not get a lot of it...

  what I want to achive is is frame by frame level of working with x264... By now I need only encoding parts... And all needed sample code for doing it in C is in How does one encode a series of images into H264 using the x264 C API ? . So I need to write a wrapper only for stuff mentioned there... So I am asking - how to create a wrapper on Parameter and on Function that sets up thap param. And I would love to see how to call that wrapper back from c#. So if you could provide any code in support I’d be glad to see it.

• Different ways of embedding the Piwik tracking code for faster website performance

  18 avril 2017, par InnoCraft — Community, Development

  Many studies have shown that performance matters a lot. For each 100ms a websites takes longer to load, a business may lose about 0.1% to 1% in revenue. It also matters because Google judges page speed as a ranking factor for search results page. At InnoCraft, we help our clients optimizing their Piwik integration and recommend different ways of embedding the tracking code tailored to their needs. The best way to embed the tracking code depends on your website, what you want to achieve, and how important tracking is to you.

  This technical blog post mainly focuses on improving the time to load your website. This is an important metric as for example Google usually measures the time it took to load a page. Many businesses therefore want to get to the page load event as quickly as possible.

  The regular way of embedding the tracking code

  By default, Piwik is embedded in the header or footer of your website. This is a sensible default. While it is loaded asynchronously and deferred, it still does delay the onload event. Depending on the performance of your Piwik, how fast your website loads, how your website’s resources are embedded, and other factors you may want to consider alternatives. Three of them I will introduce below.

  Embedding the tracker after the load event

  To ensure that your website will always load even if the Piwik server is un-available, you may want to load the tracking code only after the website is loaded like this :

  var _paq = _paq || [];
  
  _paq.push(["trackPageView"]);
  
  _paq.push(["enableLinkTracking"]);
  
  
  
  function embedTrackingCode() {
  
     var u="https://your.piwik.domain/";
  
     _paq.push(["setTrackerUrl", u+"piwik.php"]);
  
     _paq.push(["setSiteId", "1"]);
  
  
  
     var d=document, g=d.createElement("script"), s=d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; g.type="text/javascript";
  
     g.defer=true; g.async=true; g.src=u+"piwik.js"; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s);    
  
  }
  
  
  
  if (window.addEventListener) { 
  
      window.addEventListener("load", embedTrackingCode, false); 
  
  } else if (window.attachEvent) { 
  
      window.attachEvent("onload",embedTrackingCode); 
  
  } else {
  
      embedTrackingCode();
  
  }

  The downside is you won’t track all of your visitors because some will have already left your website by the time your website is fully loaded. Especially when you have a JavaScript-heavy website or when your website takes longer to load in general. To detect the load event correctly cross browser, you may want to use a library like jQuery.

  Delaying the tracking

  Another technique is to load the tracking with a little delay at the end of your website like this :

  setTimeout(function () {
  
      embedTrackingCode();
  
  }, 5);

  This time the tracking script will still track most of your visitors but does not slow down loading the rest of your website as much as it would do by default (at least perceived). In some cases, you will notice a performance improvement when looking at the “time to load” but it depends on your website.

  Not loading the JavaScript Tracker at all

  With Piwik you also have the option to not embed the tracking code into your websites at all and instead generate reports from the webserver logs using Piwik Log Analytics. This works very well but some data might not be available like the device resolution which can be only captured using JavaScript. On the bright side this solution also captures users with ad blockers or tracking blockers.

  Questions ?

  We invite you to test different ways to see what makes sense for you and how it affects your website performance as well as the perceived performance. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with us.

  Read on

  The last post in this series is Performance optimizations you can apply today to load the Piwik JavaScript tracker faster.