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• Trouble with CoCCA Registry

  7 octobre 2012, par Multimedia Mike — General

  I’ve been rather despondent all week. People who see me daily could readily identify this fact. Unfortunately, the exact reason was difficult to adequately explain. The problems that nerds deal with…

  When A Domain Expires
  As a few people noticed, the multimedia.cx domain and all of it’s subdomains didn’t work this last week. The problem started on Monday, October 1. Whose fault ? Well, fundamentally, I neglected to renew the domain name in time. However, I prefer to place the blame on the .cx domain registrar, CoCCA Registry. You see, they have never developed the technology to email a domain holder with a notice that their domain is about to expire or has already expired.

  This domain is the only one I have ever held so I don’t have a lot of experience in this matter. I wondered if I was crazy for thinking it would be normal for a registrar to send an email or 2 with status updates about your domain. I get the impression from speaking with others that this is indeed normal. I have 3 different email addresses listed under my account at the registrar– 2 at multimedia.cx and a backup gmail account. I checked spam folders after this incident. Then I remembered that I have never received any email notifications from them (although password reset emails show up, so that part thankfully works). Also, their support emails are black holes.

  So, I guess the moral is : be wary of dealing with CoCCA Registry. However, they seem to be the only way to register domains under a wide variety of uncommon country codes.

  By Friday, the domain appeared to have been reinstated, even through the status was officially listed as “renewal-pending” according to the web-based management console. Eventually, as cached DNS results started to time out throughout the day, I started seeing subdomains come back. I excitedly used the ‘dig’ command to count down the seconds until gamemusic.multimedia.cx was accessible on the network I was on (the number after the domain name is the time-to-live or ‘TTL’ value) :

  $ dig +nocmd gamemusic.multimedia.cx +noall +answer
  gamemusic.multimedia.cx. 3      IN      A       174.143.152.251
  $ dig +nocmd gamemusic.multimedia.cx +noall +answer
  gamemusic.multimedia.cx. 2      IN      A       174.143.152.251
  $ dig +nocmd gamemusic.multimedia.cx +noall +answer
  gamemusic.multimedia.cx. 1      IN      A       174.143.152.251
  $ dig +nocmd gamemusic.multimedia.cx +noall +answer
  gamemusic.multimedia.cx. 12962  IN      A       207.45.186.114
  

  Finally, today (Saturday), I received a receipt confirming that the domain has been renewed.

  8 Years Old
  Incidentally, happy eighth birthday to multimedia.cx. It was September, 2004 when I decided to branch out from a simple ISP-based web presence.

  People often ask why I went with the .cx TLD. When I decided I wanted a proper domain name 8 years ago, I found that multimedia.X was already taken for just about every TLD value of X. .cx was a notable exception and was distinctive enough (speaking of .X, though, I see that multimedia.xxx is still up for grabs as of this writing ; I imagine that would come with a whole other set of problems).

  It’s funny that tech nerds often rail against outsourcing too much — email, storage, computing power, web hosting — all to some type of cloud provider under the premise that it could easily be taken away. But this episode teaches me that even having your own domain name is no guarantee of a solid online presence.

  Meanwhile, I have taken proactive steps to avert this same situation from arising again :

  
  
  

  Barring a lack of automated emails from the registrar, I hope a Google Calendar reminder set up a month ahead of expiration will do the trick.

• Piwik 1.12, New Features, API Improvements, Stability — The Last Piwik 1.X Release

  30 mai 2013, par Piwik team — Development

  We are very excited to announce the immediate availability of Piwik v1.12 !

  • Download Link
  • How to update Piwik ?
  • List of all tickets closed : Changelog

  Piwik v1.12 is a major new release with four big new features, seven smaller new features, several API improvements and all together 82 tickets fixed. This is also the last major 1.X release, which means after this release we will be working on releasing Piwik 2.0. This also means that you should upgrade to PHP 5.3 or higher if you haven’t already, since Piwik 2.0 will only support PHP 5.3 and above.

  Finally, this release contains two breaking changes to the API. If you use the Piwik API click here or scroll down to see if you’re affected.

  Table of Contents :

  1. New Big Feature – Beta Release Channel
  2. New Big Feature – Segment Editor
  3. New Big Feature – Page Speed Reports
  4. New Big Feature – Device Detection Reports
  5. Other Improvements
  6. API Changes and Improvements
  7. What we’re working on
  8. Participate in Piwik
  9. Summary

  New Big Feature – Beta Release Channel

  

  For those of you who want to help test Piwik 2.0-beta releases as soon as they come up, we’ve made it easier to use our beta releases. Navigate to the Settings > General Settings page and click the The latest beta release radio button. You will then be able to upgrade to beta releases.

  This isn’t truly a major feature, but we think it’s just as important because it will allow us to create more beta releases and thus catch more bugs before we make a final release. This means more releases and more stability for you.

  New Big Feature – Segment Editor

  

  The Segment Editor is a long-awaited new feature that allows you to view, save and edit your segments.

  Piwik has supported segmentation (filtering visits and reports by arbitrary criteria, like browser family) for quite some time now, but it has never been possible to visually create and modify them. Nor could they be saved for later recall.

  Thanks to the eighty individuals and company who funded this feature, it is now possible to :

  • visually segment your visitors, instead of creating URLs.
  • save segments and easily switch between them, instead of remembering URLs.
  • get suggestions for segments that might be helpful to view.
  • learn more in the Segmentating Analytics reports user documentation..

  New Big Feature – Page Speed Reports

  You can now see how long it took your webserver to generate and send pages over HTTP through the new Avg. Generation Time metric.

  This metric can be viewed on both the Pages and Page Titles reports :

  

  And the average page generation time for all the pages in your website/webapp is displayed on the visitors overview :

  

  You can use this new information to benchmark your webapp and web server.

  New Big Feature – Device Detection Reports

  Piwik 1.12 also includes a new plugin that provides reports on the device types (tablet, desktop, smartphone, etc.), device brands (Apple, Google, Samsung, etc.) and device models (iPad, Nexus 7, etc.) your visitors use to access your website :

  

  The new plugin also enhances Operating system detections (detecting sub versions of Linux, Windows, and more).

  Note : This plugin is not enabled by default, but will be in Piwik 2.0. If you want to view these reports now, you can activate the plugin in the Installed Plugins admin page. Navigate to Visitors > Devices to see the new reports. You may also use the new (beta) ‘Device type’.

  The new plugin was developed with the support of Clearcode.cc our technology partner

  

  Other improvements

  Majestic SEO Metrics

  

  We’ve added two new SEO metrics to the SEO widget, both of which are calculated by MajesticSEO.com. These metrics will tell you the number of external backlinks (the number of links to your site from other sites) and the number of referrer domains (the number of domains that link to your site).

  We thank the team at Majestic for their support and hard work in bringing you these metrics to your Piwik dashboards !

  Real-time Visitor Count Dashboard Widget

  

  There is now a simple new widget you can use to see the number of visitors, visits and actions that occurred in the last couple minutes. We call it the Real Time Visitor Counter !

  New segment parameter : siteSearchKeyword.

  There is now a new segment parameter you can use to segment your visits : siteSearchKeyword. This parameter will let you select visits that had site searches with a specific keyword.

  Ignore URL letter case when importing log files.

  We’ve added a new option to the log import script, –force-lowercase-path. When used, the importer will change URL paths to lowercase before tracking them. This way http://domain.com/MY/BLOG will be treated the same as http://domain.com/my/blog.

  Updated ISP Names

  

  We’ve also modified the Providers report so prettier and more up-to-date names of ISPs are displayed.

  Customize the background/text/axis color of graphs.

  

  It is now possible to change the background color, text color and/or axis color of the graph images generated by the ImageGraph plugin. To access this functionality, use the following URL query parameters when generating an image :

  • backgroundColor
  • textColor
  • axisColor

  For example :

  http://demo.piwik.org/index.php?module=API&method=ImageGraph.get&idSite=7&apiModule=UserSettings&apiAction=getBrowser&token_auth=anonymous&period=day&date=2013-03-21,2013-04-19&language=en&width=779&height=150&fontSize=9&showMetricTitle=0&aliasedGraph=1&legendAppendMetric=0&backgroundColor=efefef&gridColor=dcdcdc&colors=cb2026

  Send your users to a custom URL after they logout.

  If you manage a Piwik installation with many users and you want to send them to a custom page or website after they log out of Piwik, you can now specify the URL to redirect users after they log out.

  API Changes and Improvements

  BREAKING CHANGE – renamed segment parameters.

  The following segment parameters have been renamed :

  • continent renamed to : continentCode
  • browserName renamed to : browserCode
  • operatingSystem renamed to : operatingSystemCode
  • lat renamed to : latitude
  • long renamed to : longitude
  • region renamed to : regionCode
  • country renamed to : countryCode
  • continent renamed to : continentCode

  If you use one of the old segment parameter names, Piwik will throw an exception, so you should notice when you’re using an old name.

  BREAKING CHANGE – changes to the input & output of the Live.getLastVisitsDetails method.

  The following changes were made to the Live.getLastVisitsDetails API method :

  • The method no longer uses the maxIdVisit query parameter. It has been replaced by the filter_offset parameter.
  • Site search keywords are now displayed in a <siteSearchKeyword> element. They were formerly in <pageTitle> elements.
  • Custom variables with page scope now have ‘Page’ in their element names when displayed. For example, <customVariablePageName1>, <customVariablePageName2>, etc.

  Filter results of MultiSites.getAll by website name.

  It is now possible to filter the results of MultiSites.getAll by website name. To do this, set the pattern query parameter to the desired regex pattern.

  Get suggested values to use for a segment parameter.

  The new API method API.getSuggestedValuesForSegment can now be used to get suggested values for a segment parameter. This method will return a list of the most seen values (in the last 60 days) for a certain segment parameter. So for browserCode, this would return the codes for the browsers most visitors used in the last 60 days.

  Use extra tracking query parameters with the JS tracker (such as ‘lat’ & ‘long’).

  We’ve added a new method to the JavaScript tracker named appendToTrackingUrl. You can use this method to add extra query parameters to a tracking request, like so :

  _paq.push(['appendToTrackingUrl', 'lat=X&long=Y']);

  What we’re working on

  As we said above, Piwik v1.12 is the last in the 1.X series of releases. This means we are now officially working on Piwik 2.0.

  Piwik 2.0 will be a big release, to be sure, but it’s going to bring you more than just a couple new features and a bag of bug fixes. For Piwik 2.0 we will be revisiting the user needs and the ideals that originally prompted us to create Piwik in order to build our vision of the future of web analytics.

  Piwik 2.0 won’t just be a bigger, better web app, but a new platform for observing and analyzing the things that matter to you.

  Participate in Piwik

  Are you a talented developer or an experienced User Interface designer ? Or maybe you like to write documentation or are a marketing guru ?

  If you have some free time and if you want to contribute to one of the most awesome open source projects around, please get in touch with the Piwik team, or read this page to learn more…

  Summary

  For the full list of changes in Piwik 1.12 check out the Changelog.

  Thank you to the core developers, all the beta testers and users, our official supporters, the translators & everyone who reported bugs or feature requests. Also thank you to softwares we use, and the libraries we use.

  If you are a company and would like to help an important project like Piwik grow, please get in touch, it means a lot to us. You can also participate in the project —

  –> if you like what you read, please tell your friends and colleagues or write on your website, blog, forums, stackoverflow, etc. <–
  

  Peace. Enjoy !

• Call to avformat_find_stream_info prevents decoding of simple PNG image ?

  10 avril 2014, par kloffy

  I am running into a problem decoding a simple PNG image with libav. The decode_ok flag after the call to avcodec_decode_video2 is set to 0, even though the packet contains the entire image. Through some experimentation, I have managed to pinpoint the issue and it seems related to calling avformat_find_stream_info. If the call is removed, the example runs successfully. However, I would like to use the same code for other media, and calling avformat_find_stream_info is recommended in the documentation.

  The following minimal example illustrates the behavior (unfortunately still a bit lengthy) :

  #include <iostream>
  
  
  
  extern "C"
  
  {
  
  #include <libavformat></libavformat>avformat.h>
  
  #include <libavcodec></libavcodec>avcodec.h>
  
  }
  
  
  
  // Nothing to see here, it&#39;s just a helper function
  
  AVCodecContext* open(AVMediaType mediaType, AVFormatContext* formatContext)
  
  {
  
      auto ret = 0;
  
      if ((ret = av_find_best_stream(formatContext, mediaType, -1, -1, nullptr, 0)) &lt; 0)
  
      {
  
          std::cerr &lt;&lt; "Failed to find video stream." &lt;&lt; std::endl;
  
          return nullptr;
  
      }
  
  
  
      auto codecContext = formatContext->streams[ret]->codec;
  
      auto codec = avcodec_find_decoder(codecContext->codec_id);
  
      if (!codec)
  
      {
  
          std::cerr &lt;&lt; "Failed to find codec." &lt;&lt; std::endl;
  
          return nullptr;
  
      }
  
  
  
      if ((ret = avcodec_open2(codecContext, codec, nullptr)) != 0)
  
      {
  
          std::cerr &lt;&lt; "Failed to open codec context." &lt;&lt; std::endl;
  
          return nullptr;
  
      }
  
  
  
      return codecContext;
  
  }
  
  
  
  // All the interesting bits are here
  
  int main(int argc, char* argv[])
  
  {
  
      auto path = "/path/to/test.png"; // Replace with valid path to PNG
  
      auto ret = 0;
  
  
  
      av_log_set_level(AV_LOG_DEBUG);
  
  
  
      av_register_all();
  
      avcodec_register_all();
  
  
  
      auto formatContext = avformat_alloc_context();
  
      if ((ret = avformat_open_input(&amp;formatContext, path, NULL, NULL)) != 0)
  
      {
  
          std::cerr &lt;&lt; "Failed to open input." &lt;&lt; std::endl;
  
          return -1;
  
      }
  
      av_dump_format(formatContext, 0, path, 0);
  
  
  
  //*/ Info is successfully found, but interferes with decoding
  
      if((ret = avformat_find_stream_info(formatContext, nullptr)) &lt; 0)
  
      {
  
          std::cerr &lt;&lt; "Failed to find stream info." &lt;&lt; std::endl;
  
          return -1;
  
      }
  
      av_dump_format(formatContext, 0, path, 0);
  
  //*/
  
  
  
      auto codecContext = open(AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO, formatContext);
  
  
  
      AVPacket packet;
  
      av_init_packet(&amp;packet);
  
  
  
      if ((ret = av_read_frame(formatContext, &amp;packet)) &lt; 0)
  
      {
  
          std::cerr &lt;&lt; "Failed to read frame." &lt;&lt; std::endl;
  
          return -1;
  
      }
  
  
  
      auto frame = av_frame_alloc();
  
      auto decode_ok = 0;
  
      if ((ret = avcodec_decode_video2(codecContext, frame, &amp;decode_ok, &amp;packet)) &lt; 0 || !decode_ok)
  
      {
  
          std::cerr &lt;&lt; "Failed to decode frame." &lt;&lt; std::endl;
  
          return -1;
  
      }
  
  
  
      av_frame_free(&amp;frame);
  
      av_free_packet(&amp;packet);
  
  
  
      avcodec_close(codecContext);
  
  
  
      avformat_close_input(&amp;formatContext);
  
      av_free(formatContext);
  
  
  
      return 0;
  
  }
  
  </iostream>

  The format dump before avformat_find_stream_info prints :

  Input #0, image2, from '/path/to/test.png' :
    Duration : N/A, bitrate : N/A
      Stream #0:0, 0, 1/25 : Video : png, 25 tbn

  The format dump after avformat_find_stream_info prints :

  Input #0, image2, from '/path/to/test.png' :
    Duration : 00:00:00.04, start : 0.000000, bitrate : N/A
      Stream #0:0, 1, 1/25 : Video : png, rgba, 512x512 [SAR 3780:3780 DAR 1:1], 1/25, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc

  So it looks like the search yields potentially useful information. Can anybody shed some light on this problem ? Other image formats seem to work fine. I assume that this is a simple user error rather than a bug.

  Edit : Debug logging was already enabled, but the PNG decoder does not produce a lot of output. I have also tried setting a custom logging callback.

  Here is what I get without the call to avformat_find_stream_info, when decoding succeeds :

  Statistics : 52125 bytes read, 0 seeks

  And here is what I get with the call to avformat_find_stream_info, when decoding fails :

  Statistics : 52125 bytes read, 0 seeks
  detected 8 logical cores
  

  The image is 52125 bytes, so the whole file is read. I am not sure what the logical cores are referring to.