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• Launch Leech and the History of WMV

  14 septembre 2010, par Multimedia Mike — General

  I was combing through my programming archives again and came across an old Perl script called launch-leech.pl. This was a private script I used to maintain for the benefit of myself and a few friends. See, there was this site called Launch.com (URL doesn’t seem to do anything as of this writing but here’s the Wikipedia page). Purchased by Yahoo ! in 2001, Launch still maintained their independent branding. They also carried a lot of music videos, of which I am a huge junkie. launch-leech.pl was the tool I used to download the videos. This was particularly useful since I stubbornly clung to dialup internet access until mid-2004 and it would have been impossible to stream video at any decent quality (though there were 56k streams, so like I said– not possible at any decent quality).

  
  
  

  Technically
  I followed Launch.com for many years. To be honest, I only “followed” in that I figured out where their “latest videos” URL lived and regularly polled it. Each video had either a 6-, 7-, or 8-digit unique ID that could be plugged into the launch-leech.pl script which would then have a conversation with the relevant servers, determine the correct streaming URL with the highest quality, then download and save the URL by handing it off to an external program (first ASFRecorder, though I later switched to mmsclient).

  At one point, I even wrote a crawler that compiled an offline database of all the videos, their IDs and their metadata. I never thought of anything interesting to do with it, though.

  
  
  

  Windows Media Legacy
  During these glory days of leeching, Launch.com streamed using Windows Media. I admit, it’s a bit of a blur now — the site might have used Real or QuickTime, but I was obviously most in tune with the WM side. I remember when I first found the site circa 2000-2001, the videos were in MS MPEG-4v3, and the high quality bitrate was 300 kbits/sec. Eventually, Launch.com would stream WMV7, WMV8, and finally WMV9, with bitrates up to 700 kbits/sec. However, they never broke free of the 320×240 encoding resolution, which was frustrating. When I wasn’t able to notice any substantial difference between 300 and 700 kbits/sec, I felt it might be time to put those extra bits to work on a resolution upgrade.

  At least they were nice enough to re-encode a number of old videos using better codecs and bitrates with each revision, thus prompting me to scan through the site collecting updated video IDs for download.

  
  
  

  Epilogue
  I don’t clearly remember when I stopped visiting Launch.com. Video-wise, the web has been a blur of Flash video ever since about 2006. Meanwhile, I spent a lot of time collecting a bunch of music videos in the first half of the decade only to find that pretty much every version of every music video made since the dawn of time is available on demand thanks to YouTube. I have found that this phenomenon manifests in many areas as internet technology marches on.

  The Real Entertainment
  The launch-leech.pl tool represents a recurring pattern for me. I derive as much — if not more — entertainment from creating programs like launch-leech.pl (and implicitly reverse engineering something in the process ; in this case, a website) as I do from the intended entertainment media itself. I seem to have this issue a lot with games, too.

  Is this an issue for anyone else ? Am I the only one who would rather play with the box that a shiny toy comes packaged in ?

• When I append a silent audio (mp3) to an existing list of audio it garbles the final audio ?

  6 février 2020, par Marie

  After several hours I have narrowed down the issue with the garbled audio to be the 2-seconds silence audio mp3 I am appending (I think I had produced it once with Wavelab)

  However, I tried using ffmpeg according to a post to produce a similar 2 seconds audio but it too will corrupt/garble/chop voice in the final concatenation of audio files.

  ffmpeg -f lavfi -i anullsrc=r=44100:cl=mono -t 2 -q:a 9 -acodec libmp3lame SILENCE_2sec.MP3

  I typically will have several audio files to concatenate together but for simplicity I have able to narrow it to a couple of files simplifying to the following script. A simple Windows batch file you should be able to use and reproduce the issue at your end.

  rem 
  
  rem  
  
  SET EXE="S:\_BINS\FFmpeg 4.2.1 20200112\bin\ffmpeg.exe"
  
  
  
  SET ROOTPATH=.\
  
  
  
  SET IN_FILE="%ROOTPATH%MyList.txt"
  
  
  
  ECHO file '%ROOTPATH%HELLO.mp3' > MyList.txt
  
  ECHO file 'SILENCE_2sec.MP3' >> MyList.txt
  
  
  
  SET OPTIONS= -f concat -safe 0 -i  %IN_FILE%  -c copy -y
  
  
  
  SET OUT_FILE="%ROOTPATH%CONCATENATED_AUDIO_2.MP3"
  
  
  
  SET INFO_FILE="INFO.TXT"
  
  
  
  %EXE% %OPTIONS%  %OUT_FILE% 1> %INFO_FILE% 2>&1 
  
  
  
  ECHO ======================== >> %INFO_FILE%
  
  ECHO IN_FILE=%IN_FILE%  >> %INFO_FILE% 
  
  ECHO EXE=%EXE%  >> %INFO_FILE% 
  
  ECHO OPTIONS=%OPTIONS%  >> %INFO_FILE% 
  
  ECHO ======================== >> %INFO_FILE%

  Here is the console info output from the ffmpeg, let me know if you need other output include ones from ffprobe

  ffmpeg version git-2020-01-10-3d894db Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  
    built with gcc 9.2.1 (GCC) 20191125
  
    configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libdav1d --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libmfx --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth --enable-libopenmpt --enable-amf
  
    libavutil      56. 38.100 / 56. 38.100
  
    libavcodec     58. 65.103 / 58. 65.103
  
    libavformat    58. 35.101 / 58. 35.101
  
    libavdevice    58.  9.103 / 58.  9.103
  
    libavfilter     7. 70.101 /  7. 70.101
  
    libswscale      5.  6.100 /  5.  6.100
  
    libswresample   3.  6.100 /  3.  6.100
  
    libpostproc    55.  6.100 / 55.  6.100
  
  [mp3 @ 000000000036af80] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
  
  Input #0, concat, from '.\MyList.txt':
  
    Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 32 kb/s
  
      Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 24000 Hz, mono, fltp, 32 kb/s
  
  Output #0, mp3, to '.\CONCATENATED_AUDIO_2.MP3':
  
    Metadata:
  
      TSSE            : Lavf58.35.101
  
      Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 24000 Hz, mono, fltp, 32 kb/s
  
  Stream mapping:
  
    Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
  
  Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
  
  [mp3 @ 0000000000372d00] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 17280 >= 17255
  
  size=      11kB time=00:00:02.73 bitrate=  33.2kbits/s speed=2.73e+03x    
  
  video:0kB audio:11kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 2.137446%
  
  ======================== 
  
  IN_FILE=".\MyList.txt"   
  
  EXE="S:\_BINS\FFmpeg 4.2.1 20200112\bin\ffmpeg.exe"   
  
  OPTIONS= -f concat -safe 0 -i  ".\MyList.txt"  -c copy -y   
  
  ========================  

  I believe I am running FFmpeg 4.2.1, recently installed (20200112)

  You may produce the HELLO.mp3 by saving the following link

  https://translate.google.com.vn/translate_tts?en=UTF-8&q=Hello+&tl=en&client=tw-ob

  FYI, I am still a novice of ffmpeg and using it more like a black box with the help I received in this very super forum.
  Please be as explicit as you can with command line options on how I can fix this issue.
  Thank you.

  Additional Hints Debugging :

  If I append more files after the silence audio it seems that the silence audio impacts (garbles, chops) the previous audio.
  You may try the following for the list of audio files input.

  ECHO file '%ROOTPATH%HELLO.mp3' > MyList.txt
  
  ECHO file 'SILENCE_2sec.MP3' >> MyList.txt
  
  ECHO file '%ROOTPATH%HELLO.mp3' >> MyList.txt
  
  ECHO file '%ROOTPATH%HELLO.mp3' >> MyList.txt

  I typically add one or more silence file to derive a post silence effect after the actual audio. That’s my current logic. However if you have an alternative to appending a silence in the process of concatenating several audio files or appending x-seconds silence to an existing audio file. I can use that method as well from my coding.

  Thank you.

• I have an application in flask where it streams a camera using ffmpeg, the problem is that I can not display the video from the camera using the GPU [closed]

  17 janvier, par Ruben

  I'll put you in context, I am using flask (python) to display a camera in the browser to stream it, for this I use the following Python code :

  


  command = [
     'ffmpeg',
     '-loglevel', 'warning',
     '-rtsp_transport', 'tcp',
     '-i', self.config['url'],
     '-map', '0:v:0', # fuerzo que solo procese el video
     '-vf', f'fps={self.config["fps"]},scale=640:360:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease',
     '-c:v', 'h264_nvenc', # especificamos que queremos tirar de la gpu de nvidia
     '-preset', 'p7', # ajusta para la maxima calidad/velocidad (p1 mas rapida pero peor calidad - p7 más lento pero mejor calidad)
     '-qp', self.config['quality'], # control de calidad del codificador (0 [mejor calidad] - 51 [peor calidad])
     '-pix_fmt', 'yuv444p', # se mete explicitamente el formato de pixeles
     '-color_range', 'pc',
     '-an', # desactiva el audio
     '-f', 'image2pipe',
     'pipe:1'
] 

self.process = subprocess.Popen(
   command,
   stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
   stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
   bufsize=10**8
)


  


  The problem is that it does not display the video streaming, but it connects correctly to the camera.

  


  On the other hand, It show me the following warnings, which may have something to do with the display, it's probably the second warning that has to do with the pixel format :

  


  DEBUG :main:FFmpeg [camera1] : Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.1 : mono
DEBUG :main:FFmpeg [camera1] : [swscaler @ 0x560f70b78680] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly

  


  The server has different encodes installed :

  


  DEV.LS h264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 (decoders : h264 h264_v4l2m2m h264_qsv h264_cuvid ) (encoders : libx264 libx264rgb h264_nvenc h264_omx h264_qsv h264_v4l2m2m h264_vaapi nvenc nvenc_h264 )

  


  Y uso el h264_nvenc, tambien el servidor tiene soporte de aceleración de hardware con :

  


  libavutil 56. 70.100 / 56. 70.100
libavcodec 58.134.100 / 58.134.100
libavformat 58. 76.100 / 58. 76.100
libavdevice 58. 13.100 / 58. 13.100
libavfilter 7.110.100 / 7.110.100
libswscale 5. 9.100 / 5. 9.100
libswresample 3. 9.100 / 3. 9.100
libpostproc 55. 9.100 / 55. 9.100
Hardware acceleration methods :
vdpau
cuda
vaapi
qsv
drm
opencl

  


  Between them h264_nvenc uses cuda

  


  I expand a little on the information it provides me when using h264_nvenc :

  


  Encoder h264_nvenc [NVIDIA NVENC H.264 encoder]:&#xA;    General capabilities: dr1 delay hardware&#xA;    Threading capabilities: none&#xA;    Supported hardware devices: cuda cuda&#xA;    Supported pixel formats: yuv420p nv12 p010le yuv444p p016le yuv444p16le bgr0 rgb0 cuda&#xA;h264_nvenc AVOptions:&#xA;  -preset            <int>        E..V....... Set the encoding preset (from 0 to 18) (default p4)&#xA;     default         0            E..V.......&#xA;     slow            1            E..V....... hq 2 passes&#xA;     medium          2            E..V....... hq 1 pass&#xA;     fast            3            E..V....... hp 1 pass&#xA;     hp              4            E..V.......&#xA;     hq              5            E..V.......&#xA;     bd              6            E..V.......&#xA;     ll              7            E..V....... low latency&#xA;     llhq            8            E..V....... low latency hq&#xA;     llhp            9            E..V....... low latency hp&#xA;     lossless        10           E..V.......&#xA;     losslesshp      11           E..V.......&#xA;     p1              12           E..V....... fastest (lowest quality)&#xA;     p2              13           E..V....... faster (lower quality)&#xA;     p3              14           E..V....... fast (low quality)&#xA;     p4              15           E..V....... medium (default)&#xA;     p5              16           E..V....... slow (good quality)&#xA;     p6              17           E..V....... slower (better quality)&#xA;     p7              18           E..V....... slowest (best quality)&#xA;  -tune              <int>        E..V....... Set the encoding tuning info (from 1 to 4) (default hq)&#xA;     hq              1            E..V....... High quality&#xA;     ll              2            E..V....... Low latency&#xA;     ull             3            E..V....... Ultra low latency&#xA;     lossless        4            E..V....... Lossless&#xA;  -profile           <int>        E..V....... Set the encoding profile (from 0 to 3) (default main)&#xA;     baseline        0            E..V.......&#xA;     main            1            E..V.......&#xA;     high            2            E..V.......&#xA;     high444p        3            E..V.......&#xA;  -level             <int>        E..V....... Set the encoding level restriction (from 0 to 62) (default auto)&#xA;     auto            0            E..V.......&#xA;     1               10           E..V.......&#xA;     1.0             10           E..V.......&#xA;     1b              9            E..V.......&#xA;     1.0b            9            E..V.......&#xA;     1.1             11           E..V.......&#xA;     1.2             12           E..V.......&#xA;     1.3             13           E..V.......&#xA;     2               20           E..V.......&#xA;     2.0             20           E..V.......&#xA;     2.1             21           E..V.......&#xA;     2.2             22           E..V.......&#xA;     3               30           E..V.......&#xA;     3.0             30           E..V.......&#xA;     3.1             31           E..V.......&#xA;     3.2             32           E..V.......&#xA;     4               40           E..V.......&#xA;     4.0             40           E..V.......&#xA;     4.1             41           E..V.......&#xA;     4.2             42           E..V.......&#xA;     5               50           E..V.......&#xA;     5.0             50           E..V.......&#xA;     5.1             51           E..V.......&#xA;     5.2             52           E..V.......&#xA;     6.0             60           E..V.......&#xA;     6.1             61           E..V.......&#xA;     6.2             62           E..V.......&#xA;  -rc                <int>        E..V....... Override the preset rate-control (from -1 to INT_MAX) (default -1)&#xA;     constqp         0            E..V....... Constant QP mode&#xA;     vbr             1            E..V....... Variable bitrate mode&#xA;     cbr             2            E..V....... Constant bitrate mode&#xA;     vbr_minqp       8388612      E..V....... Variable bitrate mode with MinQP (deprecated)&#xA;     ll_2pass_quality 8388616      E..V....... Multi-pass optimized for image quality (deprecated)&#xA;     ll_2pass_size   8388624      E..V....... Multi-pass optimized for constant frame size (deprecated)&#xA;     vbr_2pass       8388640      E..V....... Multi-pass variable bitrate mode (deprecated)&#xA;     cbr_ld_hq       8388616      E..V....... Constant bitrate low delay high quality mode&#xA;     cbr_hq          8388624      E..V....... Constant bitrate high quality mode&#xA;     vbr_hq          8388640      E..V....... Variable bitrate high quality mode&#xA;  -rc-lookahead      <int>        E..V....... Number of frames to look ahead for rate-control (from 0 to INT_MAX) (default 0)&#xA;  -surfaces          <int>        E..V....... Number of concurrent surfaces (from 0 to 64) (default 0)&#xA;  -cbr               <boolean>    E..V....... Use cbr encoding mode (default false)&#xA;  -2pass             <boolean>    E..V....... Use 2pass encoding mode (default auto)&#xA;  -gpu               <int>        E..V....... Selects which NVENC capable GPU to use. First GPU is 0, second is 1, and so on. (from -2 to INT_MAX) (default any)&#xA;     any             -1           E..V....... Pick the first device available&#xA;     list            -2           E..V....... List the available devices&#xA;  -delay             <int>        E..V....... Delay frame output by the given amount of frames (from 0 to INT_MAX) (default INT_MAX)&#xA;  -no-scenecut       <boolean>    E..V....... When lookahead is enabled, set this to 1 to disable adaptive I-frame insertion at scene cuts (default false)&#xA;  -forced-idr        <boolean>    E..V....... If forcing keyframes, force them as IDR frames. (default false)&#xA;  -b_adapt           <boolean>    E..V....... When lookahead is enabled, set this to 0 to disable adaptive B-frame decision (default true)&#xA;  -spatial-aq        <boolean>    E..V....... set to 1 to enable Spatial AQ (default false)&#xA;  -spatial_aq        <boolean>    E..V....... set to 1 to enable Spatial AQ (default false)&#xA;  -temporal-aq       <boolean>    E..V....... set to 1 to enable Temporal AQ (default false)&#xA;  -temporal_aq       <boolean>    E..V....... set to 1 to enable Temporal AQ (default false)&#xA;  -zerolatency       <boolean>    E..V....... Set 1 to indicate zero latency operation (no reordering delay) (default false)&#xA;  -nonref_p          <boolean>    E..V....... Set this to 1 to enable automatic insertion of non-reference P-frames (default false)&#xA;  -strict_gop        <boolean>    E..V....... Set 1 to minimize GOP-to-GOP rate fluctuations (default false)&#xA;  -aq-strength       <int>        E..V....... When Spatial AQ is enabled, this field is used to specify AQ strength. AQ strength scale is from 1 (low) - 15 (aggressive) (from 1 to 15) (default 8)&#xA;  -cq                <float>      E..V....... Set target quality level (0 to 51, 0 means automatic) for constant quality mode in VBR rate control (from 0 to 51) (default 0)&#xA;  -aud               <boolean>    E..V....... Use access unit delimiters (default false)&#xA;  -bluray-compat     <boolean>    E..V....... Bluray compatibility workarounds (default false)&#xA;  -init_qpP          <int>        E..V....... Initial QP value for P frame (from -1 to 51) (default -1)&#xA;  -init_qpB          <int>        E..V....... Initial QP value for B frame (from -1 to 51) (default -1)&#xA;  -init_qpI          <int>        E..V....... Initial QP value for I frame (from -1 to 51) (default -1)&#xA;  -qp                <int>        E..V....... Constant quantization parameter rate control method (from -1 to 51) (default -1)&#xA;  -weighted_pred     <int>        E..V....... Set 1 to enable weighted prediction (from 0 to 1) (default 0)&#xA;  -coder             <int>        E..V....... Coder type (from -1 to 2) (default default)&#xA;     default         -1           E..V.......&#xA;     auto            0            E..V.......&#xA;     cabac           1            E..V.......&#xA;     cavlc           2            E..V.......&#xA;     ac              1            E..V.......&#xA;     vlc             2            E..V.......&#xA;  -b_ref_mode        <int>        E..V....... Use B frames as references (from 0 to 2) (default disabled)&#xA;     disabled        0            E..V....... B frames will not be used for reference&#xA;     each            1            E..V....... Each B frame will be used for reference&#xA;     middle          2            E..V....... Only (number of B frames)/2 will be used for reference&#xA;  -a53cc             <boolean>    E..V....... Use A53 Closed Captions (if available) (default true)&#xA;  -dpb_size          <int>        E..V....... Specifies the DPB size used for encoding (0 means automatic) (from 0 to INT_MAX) (default 0)&#xA;  -multipass         <int>        E..V....... Set the multipass encoding (from 0 to 2) (default disabled)&#xA;     disabled        0            E..V....... Single Pass&#xA;     qres            1            E..V....... Two Pass encoding is enabled where first Pass is quarter resolution&#xA;     fullres         2            E..V....... Two Pass encoding is enabled where first Pass is full resolution&#xA;  -ldkfs             <int>        E..V....... Low delay key frame scale; Specifies the Scene Change frame size increase allowed in case of single frame VBV and CBR (from 0 to 255) (default 0)&#xA;</int></int></int></boolean></int></int></int></int></int></int></int></boolean></boolean></float></int></boolean></boolean></boolean></boolean></boolean></boolean></boolean></boolean></boolean></boolean></int></int></boolean></boolean></int></int></int></int></int></int></int>

  


  If anyone has some idea or needs more information to help me, I would appreciate it.