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• Downloading, transcoding, then streaming on the fly with VLC

  12 avril 2012, par Alexis K

  I need to download a file from a web service the immediatley extract the audio, then transcode it, then stream it out.

  When I use :

  vlc.exe URL :sout=#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:http{dst=:8080/audio.mp3}

  it is really choppy when I listen to it on the other computer. What is strange also is that for some YouTube links, the above works well, but for others it dosen't work well. I am not sure why this is.

  However, when I download the audio first, then stream it out, like this
  vlc.exe "song.mp3" :sout=#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:http{dst=:8080/audio.mp3}

  it works well. The issue is I can't always download the song before hand (long pod casts or internet radio...).

  Is there a command or VLC optimization that I can use to help remedy this situation ? Or another program that would be good ?

• The First Problem

  19 janvier 2011, par Multimedia Mike — HTML5

  A few years ago, The Linux Hater made the following poignant observation regarding Linux driver support :

  Drivers are only just the beginning... But for some reason y’all like to focus on the drivers. You know why lusers do that ? Because it just happens to be the problem that people notice first.

  And so it is with the HTML5 video codec debate, re-invigorated in the past week by Google’s announcement of dropping native H.264 support in their own HTML5 video tag implementation. As I read up on the fiery debate, I kept wondering why people are so obsessed with this issue. Then I remembered the Linux Hater’s post and realized that the video codec issue is simply the first problem that most people notice regarding HTML5 video.

  I appreciate that the video codec debate has prompted Niedermayer to post on his blog once more. Otherwise, I’m just munching popcorn on the sidelines, amused and mildly relieved that the various factions are vociferously attacking each other rather than that little project I help with at work.

  Getting back to the "first problem" aspect— there’s so much emphasis on the video codec ; I wonder why no one ever, ever mentions word one about an audio codec. AAC is typically the codec that pairs with H.264 in the MPEG stack. Dark Shikari once mentioned that "AAC’s licensing terms are exponentially more onerous than H.264′s. If Google didn’t want to use H.264, they would sure as hell not want to use AAC." Most people are probably using "H.264" to refer to the entire MPEG/H.264/AAC stack, even if they probably don’t understand what all of those pieces mean.

  Anyway, The Linux Hater’s driver piece continues :

  Once y’all have drivers, the fight will move to the next layer up. And like I said, it’s a lot harder at that layer.

  A few months ago, when I wanted to post the WebM output of my new VP8 encoder and thought it would be a nice touch to deliver it via a video tag, I ignored the video codec problem (just encoded a VP8/WebM file) only to immediately discover a problem at a different layer— specifically, embedding a file using a video tag triggers a full file download when the page is loaded, which is unacceptable from end user and web hosting perspectives. This is a known issue but doesn’t get as much attention, I guess because there are bigger problems to solve first (c.f. video codec issue).

  For other issues, check out the YouTube blog’s HTML5 post or Hulu’s post that also commented on HTML5. Issues such as video streaming flexibility, content protection, fullscreen video, webcam/microphone input, and numerous others are rarely mentioned in the debates. Only "video codec" is of paramount importance.

  But I’m lending too much weight to the cacophony of a largely uninformed internet debate. Realistically, I know there are many talented engineers down in the trenches working to solve at least some of these problems. To tie this in with the Linux driver example, I’m consistently stunned these days regarding how simple it is to get Linux working on a new computer— most commodity consumer hardware really does just work right out of the box. Maybe one day, we’ll wake up and find that HTML5 video has advanced to the point that it solves all of the relevant problems to make it the simple and obvious choice for delivering web video in nearly all situations.

  It won’t be this year.

• FFMpeg for iPhone

  10 août 2012, par iHorse

  I am trying to create an app that will allow me to stream video FROM the iPhone TO a server. my current theory as to how to do this is to create a series of FFMpeg files and send them to the server. as far as i can tell i have compiled the FFMpeg library correctly for the iPhone.
  i followed these instructions here. a series of executable files appeared in the folder so i'm assuming it worked.

  my question is now what ? how do i get these into an app ? how do i make calls to these executable files ? and most importantly will this even work the way i want it to ?