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• Interfacing to an Xbox Optical Drive

  1er octobre 2013, par Multimedia Mike — xbox

  The next generation Xbox is going to hit the streets soon. But for some reason, I’m still interested in the previous generation’s unit (i.e., the original Xbox). Specifically, I’ve always wondered if it’s possible to use the original Xbox’s optical drive in order to read Xbox discs from Linux. I was never curious enough to actually buy an Xbox just to find out but I eventually came across a cast-off console on a recycle pile.

  I have long known that the Xbox has what appears to be a more or less standard optical drive with a 40-pin IDE connector. The only difference is the power adapter which I surmise is probably the easiest way to turn a bit of standardized hardware into a bit of proprietary hardware. The IDE and power connectors look like this :

  
  
  

  Thus, I wanted to try opening an Xbox and plugging the optical drive into a regular PC, albeit one that supports IDE cables, and allow the Xbox to supply power to the drive. Do you still have hardware laying around that has 40-pin IDE connectors ? I guess my Mac Mini PPC fits the bill, but I’ll be darned if I’m going to pry that thing open again. I have another IDE-capable machine buried in my closet, last called into service when I needed a computer with a native RS-232 port 3 years ago. The ordeal surrounding making this old computer useful right now can be another post entirely.

  Here’s what the monstrosity looks like thanks to characteristically short IDE cable lengths :

  
  

  

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  Process :

  1. Turn on Xbox first
  2. Turn on PC

  Doing these things in the opposite order won’t work since the kernel really wants to see the drive when booting up. Inspecting the 'dmesg' log afterward reveals interesting items :
  

  <br />
hdd: PHILIPS XBOX DVD DRIVE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive<br />
hdd: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4<br />
hdd: UDMA/33 mode selected<br />
[...]<br />
hdd: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache<br />

  Why is that interesting ? When is the last time to saw disk devices prefixed by ‘hd’ rather than ‘sd’ ? Blast from the past. Oh, and the optical drive’s vendor string clearly indicates that this is an Xbox drive saying ‘hi !’.

  Time To Read
  When I first studied an Xbox disc in a normal optical drive, I noticed that I was able to read 6992 2048-byte sectors — about 14 MB of data — as reported by the disc table of contents (TOC). This is just enough data to play a standard DVD video animation that kindly instructs the viewer to please use a proper Xbox. At this point, I estimated that there must be something special about Xbox optical drive firmware that knows how to read alternate information on these discs and access further sectors.

  I ran my TOC query tool with an Xbox Magazine demo disc in the optical drive and it reported substantially more than 6992 sectors, enough to account for more than 2 GB of data. That’s promising. I then tried running 'dd' against the device and it was able to read… about 14 MB, an exact quantity of bytes that, when divided by 2048 bytes/sector, yields 6992 sectors.

  Future (Past ?) Work
  Assuming Google is your primary window into the broader internet, the world is beginning to lose its memory of things pertaining to the original Xbox (Microsoft’s naming scheme certainly doesn’t help searches). What I’m saying is that it can be difficult to find information about this stuff now. However, I was able to learn that a host needs to perform a sort of cryptographic handshake with the drive at the SCSI level before it is allowed to access the forbidden areas of the disc. I think. I’m still investigating this and will hopefully post more soon.

• avcodec/wmadec : fix WMA gapless playback

  5 octobre 2018, par bnnm

  avcodec/wmadec : fix WMA gapless playback
  Fixes trac issue #7473.
  Removes encoder delay (skip samples) and writes remaining frame samples after EOF to get correct sample count.
  Output is now accurate vs players that use Microsoft's codecs (Windows Media Format Runtime).
  Tested vs encode>decode WMAv2 with MS's codecs and most sample rate/bit rate/channel/mode combinations in ASF/XWMA.
  
  WMAv1 appears to use the same delay, from FFmpeg samples.
  Signed-off-by : bnnm <bananaman255@gmail.com>
  

  • [DH] libavcodec/wma.h
  • [DH] libavcodec/wmadec.c
  • [DH] tests/fate/wma.mak
  • [DH] tests/ref/fate/flcl1905

• using ffmpeg in Azure function to cut files using c#

  24 mars 2017, par abhishekmoondra1989

  I have written an Azure function in C# which will cut a big mp4 files into some small duration. I have copied everything that is required (ffmpeg executeable, video file) in home directory via KUDU console. But when I run the the function it runs for more than 5 minutes and it doesn’t give any files in the home directory.

  Function :

  using System;
  
  using System.Diagnostics;
  
  
  
  public static void Run(string input, TraceWriter log)
  
  {
  
      log.Info("Executing");
  
      using (var process = new Process())
  
      {
  
          process.StartInfo.FileName = @"D:\home\ffmpeg.exe";
  
          process.StartInfo.Arguments = @"-i D:\home\AmnestyInternational.mp4 -ss 00:00:03 -t 00:00:08 -async 1 D:\home\cut.mp4";
  
          process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
  
          process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
  
          process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
  
          log.Info(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory());
  
          log.Info("Cutting starts:"+DateTime.Now.ToString("h:mm:ss tt"));
  
          process.Start();
  
          string output = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
  
          process.WaitForExit();
  
          log.Info("Cutting ends :"+DateTime.Now.ToString("h:mm:ss tt"));
  
          log.Info(output);
  
      }
  
  }

  Output seen on Azure function Console :

  2017-03-24T11:06:00.705 Function started (Id=df082f54-719a-415f-b7f1-b10548a213be)
  
  2017-03-24T11:06:00.721 Executing
  
  2017-03-24T11:06:00.721 D:\Windows\system32
  
  2017-03-24T11:06:00.721 Cutting start :11:06:00 AM
  
  2017-03-24T11:07:14  No new trace in the past 1 min(s).
  
  2017-03-24T11:08:14  No new trace in the past 2 min(s).
  
  2017-03-24T11:09:14  No new trace in the past 3 min(s).
  
  2017-03-24T11:10:14  No new trace in the past 4 min(s).
  
  2017-03-24T11:11:00.758 Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host: Timeout value of 00:05:00 was exceeded by function: Functions.ManualTriggerCSharp1.

  When I try to execute this same command on KUDU console or my own PC it only take 1.5 mins and I get a file of the desired duration

  Could anyone please help me with this ? What I might be missing ?