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• Prevent suspend event when streaming video via HTML video tag

  24 septembre 2014, par jasongullickson

  I seem to be having the opposite problem of most people who are streaming video using the HTML video tag ; I’m saturating the client with data.

  When playing a long video served via ffserver (webm container) everything works great but eventually the browser (Chrome in this case) will begin throwing "suspend" events. After a number of these ( 50-100), a "stalled" event will fire and playback will stop.

  I believe the problem is that once Chrome has buffered a certain amount of video it goes into "suspend" and stops downloading more data. I’ve tested this theory by throttling the speed at which video data is delivered, and if I keep the delivered frame rate close to the playback rate, I can prevent this from happening, but of course deliberately holding back server performance isn’t ideal.

  What I’m looking for is either a way to suppress this "suspend" behavior altogether, or alternatively a way to respond to the event that prevents the eventual "stalled" state.

  Presumably the browser at some point exits the "suspend" state and begins requesting data again, but I haven’t actually observed this occurring. I’m using a chain of mpeg2 -> ffmpeg -> ffserver to stream the video so if the browser is attempting to resume loading data I don’t see the request in my application. I could use a proxy or a sniffer to watch for the traffic but I would expect that maybe there is an ffserver log that can tell me the same thing ? In any event if it’s attempting to resume the download it’s failing, and there’s no indication server-side that there’s a reason for the request to fail (in fact I can pull up the same video feed from ffserver and see it playing correctly).

  So I feel like I’ve isolated this to a client-side playback issue, and one where the browser is voluntarily giving up on loading the data, but I’m not sure how to convince it to "not do that", or at least attempt to resume when it runs the buffer dry.

• Evolution of Multimedia Fiefdoms

  1er octobre 2014, par Multimedia Mike — General

  I want to examine how multimedia fiefdoms have risen and fallen through the years.

  
  
  

  Back in the day, the multimedia fiefdoms were built around the formats put forth by competing companies : there was Microsoft/WMV, Apple/MOV, and Real/RM as the big contenders. On2 always wanted to be a player in this arena but could never quite catch a break. A few brave contenders held the line for open source and also for the power users who desired one application that could handle everything (my original motivation for wanting to get into multimedia hacking).

  The computer desktop was the battleground for internet-based media stream. Whatever happened to those days ? Actually, if memory serves, Flash-based video streaming stepped on all of them.

  Over the last 6-7 years, the battleground has expanded to cover mobile devices, where Flash’s impact has… lessened. During this time, multimedia technology pretty well standardized on a particular stack, namely, the MPEG (MP4/H.264/AAC) stack.

  The belligerents in this war tried for years to effectively penetrate new territory, namely, the living room where the television lived. This had been slowgoing for years due to various user interface and content issues, but steadily improved.

  Last April, Amazon announced their entry into the set-top box market with the Fire TV. That was when it suddenly crystallized for me that the multimedia ecosystem has radically shifted. Now, the multimedia fiefdoms revolve around access to content via streaming services.

  Off the top of my head, here are some of the fiefdoms these days (fiefdoms I have experience using) :

  • Netflix (subscription streaming)
  • Amazon (subscription, rental, and purchased streaming)
  • Hulu Plus (subscription streaming)
  • Apple (rental and purchased media)

  I checked some results on Can I Stream.It ? (which I refer to often) and found a bunch more streaming fiefdoms such as Google (both Play and YouTube, which are separate services), Sony, Xbox 360, Crackle, Redbox Instant, Vudu, Target Ticket, Epix, Sony, SnagFilms, and XFINITY StreamPix. And surely, these are probably just services available in the United States ; I know other geographical regions have their own fiefdoms.

  What happened ?

  When I got into multimedia hacking, there were all these disparate, competing ecosystems. As a consumer, I didn’t care where the media came from, I just wanted to play it. That’s what inspired me to work on open source multimedia projects. Now I realize that I have the same problem 10-15 years later : there are multiple competing ecosystems. I might subscribe to fiefdoms X and Y, but am frustrated to learn that something I’d like to watch is only available through fiefdom Z. Very few of these fiefdoms can be penetrated using open source technology.

  I’m not really sure about the point about this whole post. Multimedia technology seems really standardized these days. But that’s probably just my perspective because I have spent way too long focusing on a few areas of multimedia technology such as audio and video coding. It’s interesting that all these services probably leverage the same limited number of codecs. Their differentiation comes from the catalog of content that each is able to license for streaming. There are different problems to solve in the multimedia arena now.

• FFMPEG - Extract sequence while recording

  26 février 2020, par Vincent Carretero

  I have a ffmpeg process to record a webcam, thats very classic...
  I would like to extract a sequence from the recording file before the end of the record.

  example :
   my recording start at 10:00 am and finish at 11:00 am
   at 10:15 am, an event append, and an operator need to watch it quickly,
   i would like to extract the sequence, and than he can watch at 10:20 am (but the video still recording and the Mp4.file not ended).

  is that possible ?

  thanks !!