Category Archives: work

more progressive downloading

Posted on 2010/02/24 Wed by rob

Since my last post I have worked on applying a similar approach of making HTTP range requests to obtain indexes necessary for seeking in the Flash Video format version 1 (‘old’ FLV, if you will) and AVI (both legacy and … Continue reading →

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working hard

Posted on 2010/01/17 Sun by rob

Progressive download with seek support for mov/mp4/3gp files in GStreamer. Continue reading →

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A wedding, OpenKvarken, ffmpeg-mt, Collabora

Posted on 2009/10/13 Tue by rob

Well, I’ve been quite busy over the past months, despite my lack of blog posts.
My brother got married.
FFmpeg finally has channel layout support for AAC and Vorbis. I’ve published my work-in-progress HE AAC v1 (Spectral Band Replication) code in FFmpeg’s … Continue reading →

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Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD 500 PCI in Linux and MythTV

Posted on 2009/05/02 Sat by rob

I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD 500 PCI to use in a Linux machine. I was planning to use Debian testing/unstable AMD64, and may still do so, but at the moment I’ve settled on Ubuntu Jaunty.
I don’t think I … Continue reading →

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Main and SBR

Posted on 2008/11/24 Mon by rob

Alex Converse has provided a patch to add frequency domain prediction to the FFmpeg AAC decoder which completes the tools required for Main profile support. This is included in FFmpeg trunk as of r15919.
SBR is coming along quite nicely and … Continue reading →

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