Dirac codec vlc

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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Solved vlc and streaming. Thread starter talsamon Start date May 6, Youtube works. Please, see PR Thanks for the patch, but I still can't play the soundcloud stream. Now without any error message. It something to configure to be able streaming with vlc? Click to expand It failed for soundcloud, vimeo and dailymotion maybe more.

The urls work with mpv-player but also did not work with s mplayer. I think the patch was okay. Design by Made By Argon. Toggle navigation.

VideoLAN, a project and a non-profit organization. VLC 1. Support for projectM visualisation on Windows KDE and PulseAudio integration improvements Subtitles fixes and improvements Improvements in visualisations and interfaces Codecs updates Many miscellaneous fixes.

Extensions and scripts updates Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces Updated translations. Extensions and scripts updates Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces Updated translations Various crashes and errors fixed. Thanks F. It's the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam.

It's the major European broadcasting technology conference. There's also a conference, and we're giving a talk there tomorrow to introduce Dirac to the broadcasting world. It is open to the public, and you can register as a private individual. However it's pretty expensive, so company funding is realistically needed.

It's basically an industry shindig. New builds: Dirac CVS I installed Qt 4. I never used Qt libs so i dont know what does it mean Does that help? If not we'll look into it. Ok from my attempt I get: 'basename' undeclared in filesbox. Press done and nothing happens. Paths are already set: CD: did you get the open source version of Qt?

Yeah, then I got drunk. It still didn't help. I think that ffmpeg is still probably the best way for encoding dirac. Numerous different input formats, plus. The CVS now contains the encoder improvements I promised, which speed it up by a factor of about 2. This mainly comes from doing the motion estimation better. The original MMX optimisations for motion estimation no longer apply, and this improvement is in source code only. We'll get a further speed-up from assembler.

To get the best speed, encode with -nolocal and compile using icc on Intel platforms. I hope we can fix problems with installing the encoder GUI soon. Dirac CVS Sharktooth, this new build doesn't work, the encoder needs DiracEncoder.

I would very appreciate if you could add it and DiracDecoder. Thomas, i couldn't test the new build yet, so all i could do is to read the changelogs. I'm sure these features were too expensive computationally, but i'm curious, do these changes cause any noticable quality degradation?

I couldn't check it yet, but what is your opinion, if i want to get the maximum possible quality, does it worth to use the original settings, or the quality gain was minimal with them anyway? I forgot to statically link the dll : New build coming soon. EDIT: It shoul be fixed. Please re-download it.

If you find big costs on some pictures let me know. I would keep both search modes like in DivX insane mode and x Exhaustive Search and make them selectable as an option.

I agree with Sharktooth. In some contents, mainly HDTV and low fps videos I think, an higher motion estimation can help a lot. In an low resolution content it would help isn't? I'm seeming that Dirac is not only self-restringing his future potential, but also worsen its own quality bit a bit even now. Use profiles if your team want to restrict things, but let an "almost unrestricted profile" for who want the full power of Dirac.

And how wide is your test videos library? There is an uncountable variety of video types: from an interview to an car chase, from an rain day to an tornado, from an Hollywood to an Dadaistic film, etc.

And in what resolutions and framerates are you testing? You is also testing with artificial things like cartoons, animes, CG, Screen captures, harsubs in a common video, etc? What I've reduced is search ranges for the later refinement stages. So Dirac can still capture the same range of motion as it could before. The search range and number of stages of hierarchical search increase with the size of the video so there's no problem with HDTV.

The encoding speed is indeed much faster than before, it's starting to reach the usable state. I did not measure it precisely, but it appears to be slightly slower than x with RDO enabled. The quality seems to be similar than before, except that the video is littered with annoying flashing blocks.

They don't last long, so i believe this problem occurs only in the b-frames or whatever they are called in dirac. It looks like skipped blocks went berserk, especially badly at fast motions, but it's happening everywhere. Ok, I'm looking into this. It slows things down a little, but I think it fixes your problem. Check it out. Indeed, the patch has fixed it. I'll check it out on some other material, and probably commit next wk.

Thomas, How big a challenge is multi-threading the code? How much slower has this bug fix made the code? Thanks I guess you mean the encoder specifically? That depends on the level of threading. At the simplest level, most frames have two reference frames and you can do most of the ME for each frame in different threads.

Doing more than two threads and e. We do intend to look at the whole threading side, since getting real-time SD encoding on a 4 processor machine would be really useful.

Thanks, Firas. Hey, I've been working on a Windows machine recently - and wish to watch the output of the Dirac p files on my x Apple Mac screen. I'm using OS You could try mplayer patched with dirac support to play the drc.

Must note - I'm compiling on Mac OS As soon as Apple releases So any prebuilt binaries of Mplayer on MS Windows will not work. You will need to download Mplayer source, apply the patch, build dirac, and build MPlayer.

Not very convenient for all users I know. But since we release only the source for Dirac and not binaries, this is the way it is done.

However, the pre-built binaries for MS Windows won't support it since Dirac is only supported as an external library. So you will have to go thru the process of building Dirac and then building VLC with Dirac options enabled. I created a dirac avi via ffmpeg and played it via mplayer some time ago. Links to the patched ffmpeg and mplayer I think can be found earlier in this thread, they would be out of date by now though. I cannot get VLC 0. There isn't an error message - I'll contact the developers in their forums.

I am sorry if I caused some confusion with the statement that VLC has built-in support for Dirac from 0. It is supported as an external library though i. Dirac support has to be enabled using the --enable-dirac option of the configure command. So pre-built VLC binaries for all platforms will not have Dirac support. To enable it one needs to build and install Dirac from source, build VLC from source with the Dirac support enabled.

I can try an mplayer build, if you like. Is the MPlayer patch available at sourceforge MPlayer Compiling dirac 0. I will try the mentioned patch next, if detecting of dirac will fail with pkg-config. But I do not understand the concept of pkg-config well. The instructions given on the page mentioned above do not copy anything into that directory, so the directory is not existing at all on my system.

Thanks, Yong. How to use pkg-config At the moment the Wiki consits only of the front page and some general Wiki help pages. If there is more, i need someone to point out the subsites, and the way to the next optician.

Must specify package names on the command line Must specify package names on the command line no I have tryed it with and without the pkg-config. How to use pkg-config the dirac. Must specify package names on the command line wired Package dirac was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Finally pkg-config starts working. I had to move pkg-config. Now pkg-config --help prints a help message. Why placing the file into msys bin directory renders pkg-config.

Enought offtopic in this thread. Hellfred Checking for Dirac support version 5. Could somebody place link to. Are there some kind of GUI for Dirac encoder? For encoding, there is a gui directory in the cvs, but i don't know if it actually works. If you want to test dirac, ffmpeg is relatively easy to use, but don't expect too much, the motion estimation is very instable, it simply cannot cope with fast motion believe me, it's really bad.

As doom9 said in his pre-test, dirac still needs a lot of work to become a serious contender in the video-encoding scene. There is only. Umm, directshow filters usually have. I've read about it needs some DLL.

I could do other dirac enabled mplayer builds or just one with cpu runtime detection. Can't think of any reason why it shouldn't register though. If you can't get it work, and you don't have athlon 64, just use ffplay for playback, or you can check the quality of your dirac video by transcoding it into a lossless format, like this: ffmpeg -i input. How can I play files I've downloaded few videos from Dirac website? AlexeyS: Are you sure you're following the instructions for registering the splitter?

The splitter depends on the decoder which also has to be present. Here are the instructions I followed well, almost, I copied DiracDecoder. It won't work if DiracDecoder. Copy DiracSplitter. Download and unpack the Dirac distribution and build the Release target. Register the Dirac directshow filter. You will need Admin privileges to do this. If step 4 is successful, double-clicking on a file with an extension.

I also have a dirac enabled mplayer. Shouldn't be for my compile at least since it was linked against the static lib. Then I guess they did a non static release. Makes some sense I guess since you can just update the dll. Anyway, I did a static release and I assume that is what they are using since it was the link given. Works fine here. Can someone just give. Who said that? Dirac is still on early development and it isn't even little better than AVC. The filter is for playback only anyway.

If you want to see how it compresses, then you need an encoder. They obviously never encoded what I did for the codec comparison.. I looked at the results alright, and since I don't trample codecs when they're down, I didn't put up any screenshots. But I wouldn't write a codec isn't ready if I didn't truly believe that.