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• Does the Remote I/O audio unit set the number of channels in the buffer ?

  25 novembre 2013, par awfulcode

  I'm using kxmovie (it's a ffmpeg-based video player) as a base for an app and I'm trying to figure out how the RemoteI/O unit works on iOS when the only thing connected to a device is headphones and we're playing a track with more than 2 channels (say a surround 6 track channel). It seems like it is going with the output channel setting and the buffer only has 2 channels. Is this because of Core Audio's pull structure ? And if so, what's happening to the other channels in the track ? Are they being downmixed or simply ignored ?

  The code for the render callback connected to the remoteio unit is here :

  - (BOOL) renderFrames: (UInt32) numFrames
  
                 ioData: (AudioBufferList *) ioData
  
  {
  
      NSLog(@"Number of channels in buffer: %lu",ioData->mNumberBuffers);
  
  
  
      for (int iBuffer=0; iBuffer < ioData->mNumberBuffers; ++iBuffer) {
  
          memset(ioData->mBuffers[iBuffer].mData, 0, ioData->mBuffers[iBuffer].mDataByteSize);
  
      }
  
  
  
  
  
      if (_playing && _outputBlock ) {
  
  
  
          // Collect data to render from the callbacks
  
          _outputBlock(_outData, numFrames, _numOutputChannels);
  
  
  
          // Put the rendered data into the output buffer
  
          if (_numBytesPerSample == 4) // then we've already got floats
  
          {
  
              float zero = 0.0;
  
  
  
              for (int iBuffer=0; iBuffer < ioData->mNumberBuffers; ++iBuffer) {
  
  
  
                  int thisNumChannels = ioData->mBuffers[iBuffer].mNumberChannels;
  
  
  
                  for (int iChannel = 0; iChannel < thisNumChannels; ++iChannel) {
  
                      vDSP_vsadd(_outData+iChannel, _numOutputChannels, &zero, (float *)ioData->mBuffers[iBuffer].mData, thisNumChannels, numFrames);
  
                  }
  
              }
  
          }
  
          else if (_numBytesPerSample == 2) // then we need to convert SInt16 -> Float (and also scale)
  
          {
  
              float scale = (float)INT16_MAX;
  
              vDSP_vsmul(_outData, 1, &scale, _outData, 1, numFrames*_numOutputChannels);
  
  
  
              for (int iBuffer=0; iBuffer < ioData->mNumberBuffers; ++iBuffer) {
  
  
  
                  int thisNumChannels = ioData->mBuffers[iBuffer].mNumberChannels;
  
  
  
                  for (int iChannel = 0; iChannel < thisNumChannels; ++iChannel) {
  
                      vDSP_vfix16(_outData+iChannel, _numOutputChannels, (SInt16 *)ioData->mBuffers[iBuffer].mData+iChannel, thisNumChannels, numFrames);
  
                  }
  
              }
  
  
  
          }        
  
      }
  
  
  
      return noErr;
  
  }

  Thanks !

  edit : Here's the code for the ASBD (_ouputFormat). It's getting its values straight from the remoteio. You can also check the whole method file here.

  if (checkError(AudioUnitGetProperty(_audioUnit,
  
                                      kAudioUnitProperty_StreamFormat,
  
                                      kAudioUnitScope_Input,
  
                                      0,
  
                                      &_outputFormat,
  
                                      &size),
  
                 "Couldn't get the hardware output stream format"))
  
      return NO;
  
  
  
  
  
  _outputFormat.mSampleRate = _samplingRate;
  
  if (checkError(AudioUnitSetProperty(_audioUnit,
  
                                      kAudioUnitProperty_StreamFormat,
  
                                      kAudioUnitScope_Input,
  
                                      0,
  
                                      &_outputFormat,
  
                                      size),
  
                 "Couldn't set the hardware output stream format")) {
  
  
  
      // just warning
  
  }
  
  
  
  _numBytesPerSample = _outputFormat.mBitsPerChannel / 8;
  
  _numOutputChannels = _outputFormat.mChannelsPerFrame;
  
  
  
  NSLog(@"Current output bytes per sample: %ld", _numBytesPerSample);
  
  NSLog(@"Current output num channels: %ld", _numOutputChannels);
  
  
  
  // Slap a render callback on the unit
  
  AURenderCallbackStruct callbackStruct;
  
  callbackStruct.inputProc = renderCallback;
  
  callbackStruct.inputProcRefCon = (__bridge void *)(self);
  
  
  
  if (checkError(AudioUnitSetProperty(_audioUnit,
  
                                      kAudioUnitProperty_SetRenderCallback,
  
                                      kAudioUnitScope_Input,
  
                                      0,
  
                                      &callbackStruct,
  
                                      sizeof(callbackStruct)),
  
                 "Couldn't set the render callback on the audio unit"))
  
      return NO;

• Compile FFMPEG for command line usage

  3 septembre 2014, par Lior Iluz

  I’ve been trying to compile FFMPEG so I can use it with my Android application with commands. The result should be 1 static file, "ffmpeg", that is not package dependent. No .so files.

  I managed to compile it with guardianProject and everything is working but the source was too old and lacks options I need.
  I’m using the latest Ubuntu on VirtualBox, all essentials are installed and updated (gawk, yasm, aptitude, etc...).

  There are multiple examples around the web. Here are the issues I’ve experienced with each of the options I tried. I’d appreciate help with either one of the following errors :

  1. Guardian project - I managed to compile it and get the ffmpeg file but it uses an old version of ffmpeg that doesn’t include the "-movFlags faststart" option. I tried throwing the new ffmpeg (2.3.3) in there but it just throws error. (I ran git submodule init and update)

  2. JayH5 - A more generic build file that basically should work with every ffmpeg. I updated the build script to work with the latest NDK and it seems to be working but than it fails on /home/dor/Desktop/ndk/android-ndk-r10/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.8/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-pkg-config not found, library detection may fail.
     I read about this and it seems to require a hack, which I don’t understand how to implement.

  3. Trovao - this is a very nice project and the build script even downloads the latest ffmpeg and x264 sources, and I even succeeded in compiling it to FFMPEG and X264 files but when I use it, I get this error : could not load library "libx264.so.142 which is weird, as x264 is there and the whole idea of this project is to cancel the need of .so files.

  I’d appreciate help with figuring out how to solve any of the issues. I prefer using the JayH5 build script as it seems the most straight forward out there...

  JayH5 build file :

  #!/bin/bash
  
  
  
  # set the base path to your Android NDK (or export NDK to environment)
  
  
  
  if [[ "x$NDK_BASE" == "x" ]]; then
  
      NDK_BASE=/opt/android-ndk
  
      echo "No NDK_BASE set, using $NDK_BASE"
  
  fi
  
  
  
  NDK_PLATFORM_VERSION=14
  
  NDK_ABI=arm
  
  NDK_COMPILER_VERSION=4.8
  
  NDK_SYSROOT=$NDK_BASE/platforms/android-$NDK_PLATFORM_VERSION/arch-$NDK_ABI
  
  NDK_UNAME=`uname -s | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` # Convert Linux -> linux
  
  HOST=$NDK_ABI-linux-androideabi
  
  NDK_TOOLCHAIN_BASE=$NDK_BASE/toolchains/$HOST-$NDK_COMPILER_VERSION/prebuilt/$NDK_UNAME-x86
  
  CC="$NDK_TOOLCHAIN_BASE/bin/$HOST-gcc --sysroot=$NDK_SYSROOT"
  
  LD=$NDK_TOOLCHAIN_BASE/bin/$HOST-ld
  
  
  
  BUILD_PATH=build/ffmpeg
  
  
  
  ./configure \
  
  $DEBUG_FLAG \
  
  --arch=arm \
  
  --target-os=linux \
  
  --enable-runtime-cpudetect \
  
  --enable-pic \
  
  --disable-shared \
  
  --enable-static \
  
  --cross-prefix=$NDK_TOOLCHAIN_BASE/bin/$NDK_ABI-linux-androideabi- \
  
  --sysroot="$NDK_SYSROOT" \
  
  --extra-cflags="-march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=softfp -fPIC -DANDROID" \
  
  --extra-ldflags="" \
  
  --enable-ffmpeg \
  
  --disable-ffplay \
  
  --disable-ffprobe \
  
  --disable-ffserver \
  
  --disable-network \

• Server Move For multimedia.cx

  1er août 2014, par Multimedia Mike — General

  I made a big change to multimedia.cx last week : I moved hosting from a shared web hosting plan that I had been using for 10 years to a dedicated virtual private server (VPS). In short, I now have no one to blame but myself for any server problems I experience from here on out.

  The tipping point occurred a few months ago when my game music search engine kept breaking regardless of what technology I was using. First, I had an admittedly odd C-based CGI solution which broke due to mysterious binary compatibility issues, the sort that are bound to occur when trying to make a Linux binary run on heterogeneous distributions. The second solution was an SQLite-based solution. Like the first solution, this worked great until it didn’t work anymore. Something else mysteriously broke vis-à-vis PHP and SQLite on my server. I started investigating a MySQL-based full text search solution but couldn’t make it work, and decided that I shouldn’t have to either.

  Ironically, just before I finished this entire move operation, I noticed that my SQLite-based FTS solution was working again on the old shared host. I’m not sure when that problem went away. No matter, I had already thrown the switch.

  How Hard Could It Be ?
  We all have thresholds for the type of chores we’re willing to put up with and which we’d rather pay someone else to perform. For the past 10 years, I felt that administering a website’s underlying software is something that I would rather pay someone else to worry about. To be fair, 10 years ago, I don’t think VPSs were a thing, or at least a viable thing in the consumer space, and I wouldn’t have been competent enough to properly administer one. Though I would have been a full-time Linux user for 5 years at that point, I was still the type to build all of my own packages from source (I may have still been running Linux From Scratch 10 years ago) which might not be the most tractable solution for server stability.

  These days, VPSs are a much more affordable option (easily competitive with shared web hosting). I also realized I know exactly how to install and configure all the software that runs the main components of the various multimedia.cx sites, having done it on local setups just to ensure that my automated backups would actually be useful in the event of catastrophe.

  All I needed was the will to do it.

  The Switchover Process
  Here’s the rough plan :

  • Investigate options for both VPS providers and mail hosts– I might be willing to run a web server but NOT a mail server
  • Start plotting several months in advance of my yearly shared hosting renewal date
  • Screw around for several months, playing video games and generally finding reasons to put off the move
  • Panic when realizing there are only a few days left before the yearly renewal comes due

  So that’s the planning phase. BTW, I chose Digital Ocean for VPS and Zoho for email hosting. Here’s the execution phase I did last week :

  • Register with Digital Ocean and set up DNS entries to point to the old shared host for the time being
  • Once the D-O DNS servers respond correctly using a manual ‘dig’ command, use their servers as the authoritative ones for multimedia.cx
  • Create a new Droplet (D-O VPS), install all the right software, move the databases, upload the files ; and exhaustively document each step, gotcha, and pitfall ; treat a VPS as necessarily disposable and have an eye towards iterating the process with a new VPS
  • Use /etc/hosts on a local machine to point DNS to the new server and verify that each site is working correctly
  • After everything looks all right, update the DNS records to point to the new server

  Finally, flip the switch on the MX record by pointing it to the new email provider.

  Improvements and Problems
  Hosting on Digital Ocean is quite amazing so far. Maybe it’s the SSDs. Whatever it is, all the sites are performing far better than on the old shared web host. People who edit the MultimediaWiki report that changes get saved in less than the 10 or so seconds required on the old server.

  Again, all problems are now my problems. A sore spot with the shared web host was general poor performance. The hosting company would sometimes complain that my sites were using too much CPU. I would have loved to try to optimize things. However, the cPanel interface found on many shared hosts don’t give you a great deal of data for debugging performance problems. However, same sites, same software, same load on the VPS is considerably more performant.

  Problem : I’ve already had the MySQL database die due to a spike in usage. I had to manually restart it. I was considering a cron-based solution to check if the server is running and restart it if not. In response to my analysis that my databases are mostly read and not often modified, so db crashes shouldn’t be too disastrous, a friend helpfully reminded me that, “You would not make a good sysadmin with attitudes like ‘an occasional crash is okay’.”

  To this end, I am planning to migrate the database server to a separate VPS. This is a strategy that even Digital Ocean recommends. I’m hoping that the MySQL server isn’t subject to such memory spikes, but I’ll continue to monitor it after I set it up.

  Overall, the server continues to get modest amounts of traffic. I predict it will remain that way unless Dark Shikari resurrects the x264dev blog. The biggest spike that multimedia.cx ever saw was when Steve Jobs linked to this WebM post.

  Dropped Sites
  There are a bunch of subdomains I dropped because I hadn’t done anything with them for years and I doubt anyone will notice they’re gone. One notable section that I decided to drop is the samples.mplayerhq.hu archive. It will live on, but it will be hosted by samples.ffmpeg.org, which had a full mirror anyway. The lower-end VPS instances don’t have the 53 GB necessary.

  Going Forward
  Here’s to another 10 years of multimedia.cx, even if multimedia isn’t as exciting as it was 10 years ago (personal opinion ; I’ll have another post on this later). But at least I can get working on some other projects now that this is done. For the past 4 months or so, whenever I think of doing some other project, I always remembered that this server move took priority over everything else.