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• Started Programming Young

  6 septembre 2011, par Multimedia Mike — Programming

  I have some of the strangest memories of my struggles to jump into computer programming.

  Back To BASIC
  I remember doing some Logo programming on Apple II computers at school in 5th grade (1987 timeframe). But that was mostly driving turtle graphics. Then I remember doing some TRS-80 BASIC in 7th grade, circa 1989. Emboldened by what very little I had learned in perhaps the week or 2 we took in a science class to do this, I tried a little GW-BASIC on my family’s “IBM-PC compatible” computer (they were still called that back then). I still remember what my first program consisted of. Even back then I was interested in manipulating graphics and color on a computer screen. Thus :

  10 color 1
  20 print "This is color 1"
  30 color 2
  40 print "This is color 2"
  ...
  

  And so on through 15 colors. Hey, it did the job– it demonstrated the 15 different colors you could set in text mode.

  What’s FOR For ?
  That 7th grade computer unit in science class wasn’t very thick on computer science details. I recall working with a lab partner to transcribe code listings into a computer (and also saving my work to a storage cassette). We also developed form processing programs that would print instructions to input text followed by an “INPUT I$” statement to obtain the user’s output.

  I remember there was some situation where we needed a brief delay between input and printing. The teacher told us to use a construct of the form :

  10 FOR I = 1 TO 20000
  20 NEXT I
  

  We had to calibrate the number based on our empirical assessment of how long it lasted but I recall that the number couldn’t be much higher than about 32000, for reasons that would become clearer much later.

  Imagine my confusion when I would read and try to comprehend BASIC program code I would find in magazines. I would of course see that FOR..NEXT construct all over the place but obviously not in the context of introducing deliberate execution delays. Indeed, my understanding of one of the fundamental building blocks of computer programming — iteration — was completely skewed because of this early lesson.

  Refactoring
  Somewhere along the line, I figured out that the FOR..NEXT could be used to do the same thing a bunch of times, possibly with different values. A few years after I had written that color program, I found it again and realized that I could write it as :

  10 for I = 1 to 15
  20 color I
  30 print I
  40 next I
  

  It still took me a few more years to sort out the meaning of WHILE..WEND, though.

• Revision 7e515c4637 : fix AVX & AVX2 detection fixes issue #790 which resulted in a SIGILL on OpenBSD

  15 janvier 2015, par James Zern

  Changed Paths :
   Modify /vpx_ports/x86.h

  
  
  fix AVX & AVX2 detection

  fixes issue #790 which resulted in a SIGILL on OpenBSD

  code is mostly from libwebp, based on the following :

  https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-detect-new-instruction-support-
  in-the-4th-generation-intel-core-processor-family

  Change-Id : Ida7c1a18261e98c05ed9c662068140be407ec107

• flv reencode to mp4 for iphone/ipod via ffmpeg and x264 (quality issue)

  3 octobre 2011, par zeroasterisk

  There are a lot of questions on this topic, and I've read most of them and most of the google search results I could come up with.

  When I use FFMPEG to convert a FLV to a iphone3 compatble MP4 file, it just doesn't preserver enough of the quality. Yes, I've worked the hell out of -sameq and -b and -bt settings, text just isn't readable.

  Next I tried to split the video out and process it directly, using these instructions :
  https://sites.google.com/site/linuxencoding/x264-encoding-guide

  The problem is myplayer (via ffmpeg) was not able to determine the duration of the FLV (even though the metadata was set).

  (I assume) Because of that unknown duration, when I create the MP4 file, the resulting x264 file plays through super-fast while the audio plays at the normal rate.

  user@server:/tmp# mplayer -nosound -benchmark -sws 9 -vf dsize=640:480:0,scale=0:0,expand=640:480 -vo yuv4mpeg:file=>(x264 --demuxer y4m --crf 0 --preset slow --threads auto --output output.264 - 2>x264.log) 'input.flv'
  
  MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
  
  mplayer: could not connect to socket
  
  mplayer: No such file or directory
  
  Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
  
  
  
  Playing input.flv.
  
  libavformat file format detected.
  
  [flv @ 0x1202460]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
  
  [lavf] stream 0: video (vp6f), -vid 0
  
  [lavf] stream 1: audio (nellymoser), -aid 0
  
  VIDEO:  [VP6F]  1680x992  0bpp  1000.000 fps   33.4 kbps ( 4.1 kbyte/s)
  
  Clip info:
  
   audiocodecid: 6
  
   audiodatarate: 86
  
   audiosamplerate: 44100
  
   audiosamplesize: 16
  
   audiosize: 6097005
  
   canSeekToEnd: true
  
   datasize: 8609138
  
   duration: 567
  
   framerate: 2
  
   hasAudio: true
  
   hasCuePoints: false
  
   hasKeyframes: true
  
   hasMetadata: true
  
   hasVideo: true
  
   height: 992
  
   lasttimestamp: 567
  
   metadatacreator: flvtool++ (Facebook, Motion project, dweatherford)
  
   stereo: false
  
   totalframes: 1043
  
   videocodecid: 4
  
   videodatarate: 33
  
   videosize: 2316256
  
   width: 1680
  
  Using (default) progressive frame mode.Opening video filter: [expand w=640 h=480]
  
  Expand: 640 x 480, -1 ; -1, osd: 0, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
  
  Opening video filter: [scale w=0 h=0]
  
  Opening video filter: [dsize=640:480:0]
  
  ==========================================================================
  
  Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
  
  Selected video codec: [ffvp6f] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg VP6 Flash)
  
  ==========================================================================
  
  Audio: no sound
  
  Starting playback...
  
  Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
  
  [swscaler @ 0x7f0c738b9620]Lanczos scaler, from yuv420p to yuv420p using MMX2
  
  VO: [yuv4mpeg] 640x480 => 641x480 Planar YV12

  I have also tried specifying FPS, but no change in results

  user@server:/tmp# mplayer -nosound -fps 25-benchmark -sws 9 -vf dsize=640:480:0,scale=0:0,expand=640:480 -vo yuv4mpeg:file=>(x264 --demuxer y4m --fps 25 --crf 0 --preset slow --threads auto --output output.264 - 2>x264.log) 'input.flv'

  Can someone tell me how to either :

  1. fix my split A/V processing/timing/duration issues ?
  2. improve the
     quality of the FFMPEG conversion of FLV to iphone3 compatible
     format ?