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  • Video-codec rater by image comparison algorithm?

    - by Andreas Hornig
    Hi, perhaps anyone knows if this is possible. comparing image quality is almost imposible to describe without subjective influences. When someone rates an image quality as good there is at least one person, that doesn't think so. human preferences are always different. So, I would like to know if there is away to "rate" the image quality by an algorithm that compares the original image to the produced one in following issues colour change(difference pixel by pixel blur rate artifacts and macroblocking the first one would be the easiest one because you could check just the diffeence in colours and can give 3 values in +- of each hex-value both last once I don't know if this is possible, but the blocking could be detected by edge-finding. and the king's quest would be to do that for more then just one image, because video is done with several frames. perhaps you expert programmers could tell me, if such an automated algo can be done to bring some objective measurement divice into rating image quality. this could perhaps calm down some h.264 is better than x264 and better than vp8 and blaaah people :) Andreas 1st posted here http://www.hdtvtotal.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=9705

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  • is it possible to display video information from an rtsp stream in an android app UI

    - by Joseph Cheung
    I have managed to get a working video player that can stream rtsp links, however im not sure how to display the videos current time position in the UI, i have used the getDuration and getCurrentPosition calls, stored this information in a string and tried to display it in the UI but it doesnt seem to work in main.xml: TextView android:id="@+id/player" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_margin="1px" android:text="@string/cpos" / in strings.xml: string name="cpos""" /string in Player.java private void playVideo(String url) { try { media.setEnabled(false); if (player == null) { player = new MediaPlayer(); player.setScreenOnWhilePlaying(true); } else { player.stop(); player.reset(); } player.setDataSource(url); player.getCurrentPosition(); player.setDisplay(holder); player.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC); player.setOnPreparedListener(this); player.prepareAsync(); player.setOnBufferingUpdateListener(this); player.setOnCompletionListener(this); } catch (Throwable t) { Log.e(TAG, "Exception in media prep", t); goBlooey(t); try { try { player.prepare(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } Log.v(TAG, "Duration: === " + player.getDuration()); } catch (IllegalStateException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } } private Runnable onEverySecond = new Runnable() { public void run() { if (lastActionTime 0 && SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - lastActionTime 3000) { clearPanels(false); } if (player != null) { timeline.setProgress(player.getCurrentPosition()); //stores getCurrentPosition as a string cpos = String.valueOf(player.getCurrentPosition()); System.out.print(cpos); } if (player != null) { timeline.setProgress(player.getDuration()); //stores getDuration as a string cdur = String.valueOf(player.getDuration()); System.out.print(cdur); } if (!isPaused) { surface.postDelayed(onEverySecond, 1000); } } };

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  • How to display video on html page in firefox

    - by Manish
    I did looked at this question, but the asker didn't got any reply. Still, I'm giving it a try. I want to embed a video file on a html page. The code works fine on IE but doesn't work on firefox. The code: <object id="WMPlay" width="640" height="480" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,70" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject"> <param name="URL" value="XYZ.wma" /> <param name="AutoStart" value="false" /> <embed name="WMplay" width="640" height="480" type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/" src="XYZ.wma" allowchangedisplaysize="True" showcontrols="1" autostart="false" showdisplay="1" showstatusbar="1"> </embed> </object> Can someone please tell what am I missing? Or a better solution..something which is browser independent... :)

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  • XML file does't load when HTML5 video plays

    - by DD77
    I should be able to loads the related XML file and displays the content of the XML file as the video plays back. What am I missing? DEMO JAVSCRIPT // properties var XML_PATH = "http://www.adjustyourset.tv/interview/cuepoints.xml"; var video_width; var video_height; var videos_array=new Array(); // init the application function init() { // call loadXML function loadXML(); } // XML loading function loadXML() { $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: XML_PATH, dataType: "xml", success: function onXMLloaded(xml) { // set cuepoints find("cuepoints"); find("cuepoints"); // loop for each cuepoint $(xml).find('cuepoint').each(function loopingItems(value) { // create an object var obj={timeStamp:$(this).find("timeStamp").text(), desc:$(this).find("desc").text(), thumbLink:$(this).find("thumbLink").text(), price:$(this).find("price").text()}; videos_array.push(obj); // append <ul> and timeStamp $("#mycustomscroll").append('<ul>'); $("#mycustomscroll").append('<a><li id="item">Time Stamp:'+obj.timeStamp+'</li></a>'); }); // close </ul> $("#mycustomscroll").append('</ul>'); // append li tags $("#leftcolumn").append('<li src="'+videos_array[0].desc+'"> <p src="'+videos_array[0].thumbLink+'" /></li>'); // append description $("#price").append(videos_array[0].price); // call addListeners function addListeners(); } }); }

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  • Sync video play over network

    - by Nemesis
    Hi, I have made a media player that plays basically anything that's scheduled to it via a text file. The player can also play the exact same clip on multiple machines(PC's). The problem is the syncing. The same video starts playing on each of the machines, but they are out by about 400ms, which looks crap and if there's sound it's even worse. What I do at the moment is: One machine is set up as the master and all other machines are set up as slaves. The master decides what item will be played. It waits for a message from each of the slaves, once all slaves are connected (or after the timeout), it broadcasts the item id of the file that needs to be played. All machines then start playing that file. What I also tried: I thought that the file loading time might be the major driving factor in the sync mismatch, so I chankged the code to do the following. The master still decides what file to play. It waits for the connect message from each slave (or timeout) and transmits the item id of the file to play. All machines start playing that file but pauses it immediately. The master then again waits for a ready message from each of the slaves. As soon as all slaves responded the master sends a play message to all slaves. All machines then continue the file. This unfortunately did not improve the problem. I am now pretty sure the sync mismatch is due to network delay. How can I compensate for this? Or maybe determine the delay to each slave? All network comms are done with winsock. Any thoughts or ideas is much appreciated.

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  • BluRay audio/video stuttering with PowerDVD 11, WinDVD 11 Pro, etc? Xonar/Auzen HD audio option?

    - by jrista
    I recently upgraded my Windows 7 MediaCenter HTPC due to a motherboard failure (really old motherboard and cpu, it was on its last legs.) I chose to upgrade to an i5 system with everything built into the motherboard. I did my due diligence, researched, and found some hardware that was within my budget. I ended up with: Core i5 2500K (3.3Ghz) Corsair XMS3 2x2Gb DDR3 (4Gb) ASUS P8H 61-M LE/CSM MicroCenter 64Gb SSD (Previous BluRay player, forget the brand) The system is pretty awesome, and plays everything I have perfectly. I almost went with an Atom solution, however there have been numerous notes that they do not play NetFlix Instant Watch well...and I am a heavy Netflix IW user. High definition BluRay rips work well, although they usually contain lower audio quality than the BluRay's they were ripped from. The real problem I am encountering is playing back BluRay video from discs. For some reason, I am encountering rather terrible stuttering problems with both the audio and video. The stuttering is synchronous in both, and occurs at seemingly random intervals. I've used PowerDVD 9, PowerDVD 11 trial, and WinDVD 11 Pro trial. All three have stuttering problems, although PowerDVD 11 seems to have the least. Watching system resource usage, CPU load is never above 20%, and memory usage tends to be a constant 1/3rd the total available system memory. When playback is fine, its superb...the video is crystal clear. The audio quality is ok, certainly not what I would expect from a BluRay disc. I did some research, and it seems that playing BluRay from a PC causes a downsampling of the audio? I am curious if the audio is my primary problem here, the cause of the stuttering I am encountering? When stuttering occurs, the audio gets REALLY bad, while the video just pauses momentarily every second until for whatever reason everything picks up and runs fine (usually after a few seconds to a couple minutes.) The audio chipset is a Realtek HD ALC887 8-channel, supposedly designed to support BluRay playback. Has anyone encountered any issues like this playing back bluray discs on a PC (namely with PowerDVD...WinDVD was FAR worse, and seemed to have real trouble even reading the discs, and I have no interest in fiddling with it further.) Is there any reason to suspect the video decoding as the problem?(Given how bad the audio gets during a stutter, and how clean the video remains, I am inclined to think the issue boils down to audio.) Is it even remotely possible that the motherboard, cpu, or ram are causing the stuttering (all three are pretty blazing fast...faster than the hardware that I replaced, which seemed to play BluRay fine with PowerDVD 9.) I've read a bit about the Asus Xonar HDAV 1.3 and the Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater HD home theater hi-fi audio cards. Seems they are the only way to get true full-quality, uncompressed BluRay audio bitstreaming over HDMI on a PC. None of the usual suspects seem to have these cards in stock, however. Are these cards worth getting? Are they even still available, or have they been discontinued (if so, that would indeed be sad...they sound simply fantastic.)

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  • Adobe-Flash-plugin freezes when skipping ahead

    - by piedro
    I am using Firefox 7 and the new official Adobe Flash 64-bit plugin from the Ubuntu Partner repository. It's the adobe-flash package. It works nicely on the first look but when I try to skip ahead in any YouTube video (by clicking on the video progress bar) sound will go on but the video simply freezes at the position it was just before skipping. This is really annoying because I really don't want to watch every video full length. Now maybe there's cleanup work to do? I removed every Flash-related package from the package manager. Maybe it's Firefox? I couldn't find any hint. Maybe it's the video manager (display manager)? I am using KDE on an Ubuntu Natty install. I also enabled hardware acceleration with libdvpau1: sudo bash -c "echo 'EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1' >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg" (this seems to have no effect at all ...) Ubuntu Natty 64-bit, Firefox 7, Flash 11.01 )

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  • Lost the config of my monitor once I connected it to a KVM switch.

    - by jfmessier
    I used to have a monitor (Acer 20", AL2017) connected to the external video port of my laptop. Everything was great and I could get a rather high resolution available when setting it under Ubuntu (all versions). But since I connected it to a KVM, the monitor is no more recognized, and I cannot go beyond 1024x768. My video adapter is an Intel chipset 9xx from an older Pentium Core 2 Duo laptop. The same monitor, using another video chipset (Intel 82G33/G31 rev 02) is properly detected through the switch box. Looks to me like the video chipset is not the best, and I can live with this. I see that I have no xorg.conf, and I understand that I would need to generate one so I can then use it to force the available modes on the X system. How can I generate the xorg.conf file for my Intel video chip, so I can use it then ? Merci :-)

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  • Overlay bitmap on live video

    - by sijith
    Hi i want to Overlay bitmap on live video. Iam trying to do this with the directshow sample. I edited PlayCapMonker sample and added some functions to enable this. i did this with the procedure explained in below link http://www.ureader.com/msg/1471251.aspx Now i am gettting errors Error 2 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 3 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 5 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 6 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 8 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 9 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 21 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 22 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 26 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 27 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Error 36 error C2228: left of '.m_alpha' must have class/struct/union Error 38 error C2227: left of '-SetAlphaBitmap' must point to class/struct/union/generic type Error 7 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'Pool' Error 4 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'Format' c:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\include\Vmr9.h 368 PlayCapMoniker Error 1 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '' Error 20 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '' Error 25 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '*' Error 30 error C2065: 'g_pMixerBitmap' : undeclared identifier Error 33 error C2065: 'g_pMixerBitmap' : undeclared identifier Error 37 error C2065: 'g_pMixerBitmap' : undeclared identifier Error 31 error C2065: 'g_hbm' : undeclared identifier Error 32 error C2065: 'g_hbm' : undeclared identifier Error 35 error C2065: 'config' : undeclared identifier Error 10 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 11 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 12 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 13 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 16 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 19 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 23 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 24 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 28 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 29 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DSurface9' Error 14 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 15 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 17 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 18 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IDirect3DDevice9' Error 34 error C2039: 'pDDS' : is not a member of '_VMR9AlphaBitmap' SDK\Samples\Multimedia\DirectShow\Capture\PlayCapMoniker\PlayCapMoniker.cpp 263 PlayCapMoniker

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  • Splitting/Merging 3gp files using a java library

    - by user141146
    Hi, I'm wondering if there's a java library out there that can manipulate 3gp files. Mostly I'm interested in splitting or merging existing video files. I've looked at JMF (java media framework), but it doesn't support 3gp…and FFmpeg looks promising, but it's not clear that the library allows splitting/merging of existing files. Does such a library exist?

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  • Advice on embedding video content via CMS - what format?

    - by ted776
    Hi, if I set up the facility for people to embed video content on their site via their CMS (using TinyMCE editor), is there any reliable cross platform video format that should be used? From what I can find online, the only reliable way to embed and stream video is using FLV. Other formats seem to have caveats, e.g codecs required or quicktime updates required. Ideally I'd like to avoid this type of situation. If it is the case that FLV is the preferred option, then that involves asking people to encode their video content to FLV before uploading, so there is an extra step required here (unless I can set up the encoding in the back end, but this might take a while to process depending on the size of the video). Does anyone have any additional advice on this? The types of video i'd imagine people will be working with is raw camera footage, so i need to figure out the easiest and most reliable way of getting the footage on to a web page.

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  • Why do only the controls show up when using HTML5 video on Chrome?

    - by Rob
    I'm using the following HTML5 to display video, but only the controls show up in Chrome. Works fine in Safari and Firefox: <video width="720" height="480" controls="controls" preload="preload"> <source src="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/wp-content/uploads/Reel.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs=theora,vorbis" > <source src="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/wp-content/uploads/Reel.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Your browser doesn't support video. </video> Any ideas?

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  • Ubuntu 12.10 broken, shutdown while updating

    - by UnknownDude
    I got the following problem: My PC shutdown while upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10. Everything seems to work but I can't install the missing updates. It always tells me to run apt-get install -f, but when I do so it just says: (It's in German, hope it doesn't matter) Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut Statusinformationen werden eingelesen... Fertig Abhängigkeiten werden korrigiert... Fertig Die folgenden Pakete wurden automatisch installiert und werden nicht mehr benötigt: espeak gcc-4.6-base:i386 gir1.2-notify-0.7 libcamel-1.2-29 libebook-1.2-12 libedataserver-1.2-15 libgconf2-4 libgnome-bluetooth8 libgnome-menu2 libgnomekbd7 libgomp1:i386 libgweather-3-0 libimobiledevice2 libindicate5 libkpathsea5 libpoppler19 libusbmuxd1 python-gmenu Verwenden Sie »apt-get autoremove«, um sie zu entfernen. Die folgenden zusätzlichen Pakete werden installiert: nvidia-current-updates xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware Vorgeschlagene Pakete: xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi gpointing-device-settings touchfreeze firmware-linux Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT: nvidia-current Die folgenden Pakete werden aktualisiert (Upgrade): nvidia-current-updates xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware 20 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 1 zu entfernen und 133 nicht aktualisiert. 8 nicht vollständig installiert oder entfernt. Es müssen noch 0 B von 70,6 MB an Archiven heruntergeladen werden. Nach dieser Operation werden 184 MB Plattenplatz freigegeben. Möchten Sie fortfahren [J/n]? j (Lese Datenbank ... 242727 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.) Entfernen von nvidia-current ... Removing all DKMS Modules Error! There are no instances of module: nvidia-current 295.40 located in the DKMS tree. Done. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/quirks-handler", line 26, in <module> import Quirks.quirkapplier File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Quirks/quirkapplier.py", line 26, in <module> import XKit.xutils ImportError: No module named XKit.xutils dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von nvidia-current (--remove): Unterprozess installiertes pre-removal-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück Trigger für bamfdaemon werden verarbeitet ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Trigger für libc-bin werden verarbeitet ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: nvidia-current E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) When I try to remove nvidia-current it tells me to run apt-get install -f. Do you guys have any idea? I don't want to reinstall my whole system, takes a lot of time to encrypt everything again and so on.

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  • Parsing flat files using SSIS : SSIS Nugget

    - by jamiet
    Often when using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) you will find there is more than one way of accomplishing a task and that the most obvious method of doing so might not be the optimal one. In the video below I demonstrate this by way of an experiment using SSIS’s Flat File Source component; I show different ways that you can pull data from a flat file into the SSIS dataflow and also how the nature of the data itself can influence your choice as to how this task should be accomplished. If you are having trouble viewing the video in your blog reader then head to http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson/archive/2010/03/25/parsing-flat-files-using-ssis-ssis-nugget.aspx to see it as it is hosted on my blog!  The main point I want to get across from this video is that a little bit of creative thinking when building your dataflows can sometimes be very beneficial for performance; quite often building a solution that isn’t the most obvious might actually turn out to be the best one. You’ll notice, if you have watched the video, that my editing skills weren’t quite up to snuff and I cut off the final few words however all I was saying was that if you have any feedback on this video then I would love to hear it either via email or preferably the comments section below. I hope this turns out to be useful to some of you. @Jamiet P.S. Incidentally the parsing that we do using SSIS expressions in the video would be much easier if we had a TOKENISE function in SSIS’s expression language and I have asked for the introduction of such a function on Connect at [SSIS] TOKEN(string, tokeniser_string, occurence) function. Feel free to go and vote that up if you think this feature would be useful! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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  • Keeping Xv Overlay configuration throughout an X session.

    - by kriss
    After upgrading my Linux system from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 10.10, I suceeded correcting most problems (all related to Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics Adapter support and compiz is still not working but that's another matter) but for one I only have a partial solution. Whenever I play a video the colors are much too saturated. This is really a problem for tones of skins that appears reddish (everyone seems to be coming back from a ski vacation with deep sun burns). As this effect only occurs with videos, not with pictures, I finally figured out it was related to Video Overlays configuration and I can correct it typing: xvattr -a XV_SATURATION -v 120 This change the default saturation value, which is 500 and much too high in my case, at eye sight the correct value seems to be between 100 and 150. Now my problem is that I have to type the above command each time I run a video. If I type it before running the video it has no effect, if I close the video and open a new one, I have to type it again, etc. I tried to put it in Xsession and (logically) it has no effect either. How could I do to get the correct setting whenever I run a video without typing the above command every time ?

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  • VMWare Converter - Remote Linux Install P2V

    - by Zed Said
    I am trying to get what I thought was an easy process working. Here is my situation. I have a remote linux server (running Debian) that I would like to turn into a VM so that I can do testing on it rather than the production server. I downloaded VMWare Converter. I went to the "convert machine" wizard, chose Powered-on machine, entered my remote machine details. Clicking next shows that it correctly connects to my remote linux box. Now, on the next screen, for Destination type, it enters "WMWare Infrastructure virtual machine", and I can't change this. This is where I am stuck. Why do I need another sever to convert with? Is this where my VM gets sent to? And why can't I just convert the VM and save it on the computer that I am running the converter program on? If I do have to use a vmware infrastructure destination, I am confused at what ESX is, why and how I use it. Any help with this process would be more than appreciated!

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  • How to split movie and play parts to look as a whole?

    - by luksow
    I'm writing software which is demonstraiting video on demand service. One of the feature is something similiar to IIS Smooth Streaming - I want to adjust quality to the bandwith of the client. My idea is, to split single movie into many, let's say - 2 seconds parts, in different qualities and then send it to the client and play them. The point is that for example first part can be in very high quality, and second in really poor (if the bandwith seems to be poor). The question is - do you know any software that allows me to cut movies precisly? For example ffmpeg splits movies in a way that join is visible and really annoying (seconds are the measure of precision). I use qt + phonon as a player if it matters. Or maybe you know any better way to provide such feature, without splitting movie into parts?

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  • Convert Video and Remove Commercials in Windows 7 Media Center with MCEBuddy 1.1

    - by DigitalGeekery
    Today look at MCEBuddy for Windows 7 Media Center. This handy app automatically takes your recorded TV files and converts them to MP4, AVI, WMV, or MPEG format. It even has the option to cut out those annoying commercials during the conversion process. Installation and Configuration Download and extract MCE Buddy. (Download link below) Run the setup.exe file and take all the default settings.   Open MCEBuddy Configuration by going to Start > All Programs > MCEBuddy > MCEBuddy Configuration.   Video Paths The MCEBuddy application is comprised of a single window. The first step you’ll want to take is to define your Source and Destination paths. The “Source” will most likely be your Recorded TV directory. The Destination should NOT be the same as the Source folder. Note: The Recorded TV directory in Windows 7 Media Center will only display and play WTV & DVR-MS files. To watch the converted MP4, AVI, WMV, or MPEG files in Windows Media Center you’ll need to add them to your Video Library or Movie Library. Video Conversion Next, choose your preferred format for conversion from the “Convert to” drop down list. The default is MP4 with the H.264 codec. You’ll find a wide variety of formats. The first set of conversion options in the drop down list will resize the video to 720 pixels wide. The next two sections maintain the original size, and the final section is for a variety of portable devices.   Next, you’ll see a group of check boxes below the “Convert to” drop down list. The Commercial Skipping option will cut the commercials while converting the file. Sort By Series will create a sub-folder in your Destination folder for each TV show. Delete Original will delete the WTV file after conversion is complete. (This option is not recommended unless you are sure your files are converting properly and you no longer need the WTV file.) Start Minimized is ideal if you want to run MCEBuddy on Windows startup. Note: MCEBuddy installs and uses Comskip for commercial cutting by default. However, if you have ShowAnalyzer installed, it will use that application instead. Advanced Options To choose a specific time of day to perform the conversions, click the checkbox under the “Advanced Options,” and select the starting and ending times for conversion. For example, convert between 2 hours and 5 hours would be between 2 am and 5am. If you want MCEBuddy to constantly look for and immediately convert new recordings, leave the box unchecked.   The “Video age” option lets you choose a specific number of days to wait before performing the conversion. This can be useful if you want to watch the recordings first and delete those you don’t wish to convert. You can also choose the “Sub Directories” if you’d like MCEBuddy to convert files that are in a sub-folder in your “Source” directory. Second Conversion As you might expect, this option allows MCEBuddy to perform a second conversion of your file. This can be useful if you want to use your first conversion to create a higher quality MP4 or AVI file for playback on a larger screen, and a second one for a portable device such as Zune or iPhone. The same options from the first conversion are also available for the second. You’ll want to choose a separate Destination folder for the second conversion.   Start and Monitor Progress To start converting your video files, simply press the “Start” button at the bottom. You’ll be able to follow the progress in the “Current Activity” section. When all the video files have finished converting, or there are no current files to convert, MCEBuddy will display a “Started – Idle” status. Click “Stop” if you don’t want MCEBuddy to continue scanning for new files.   Conclusion MCEBuddy 1.1 will convert all WTV files in it’s source folder. 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