Monthly Archives: December 2009

any to WMV

While trying to vamp up XBox 360 support for rygel, I also need a transcoder suitable for the XBox. While H.264 would work it is CPU consuming and hard to get right for the XBox, because it is quite picky. So I decided to go for WMV1/WMA2. Prototype gst-launch commandline:

gst-launch filesrc location=input_file ! decodebin2 name=decoder \
               asfmux name=mux ! filesink location=foo.wmv \
               { decoder. ! queue ! ffenc_wmv1 bitrate=1200 ! mux. } \
               { decoder. ! queue ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! ffenc_wmav2 bitrate=64000 ! mux. }

I know that the curly braces are not needed anymore but I still think they improve readability a lot.
Update:The resulting file works great for offline playback on the XBox, but live streaming does not work unfortunatly. I had to rely on ffmux_asf to make live transcoding working.

pmp 0.1 released

I just uploaded pmp 0.1 – Poor man’s prism desktop web application creator to github: http://github.com/phako/pmp
A release tarball can be found here: pmp-0.1.tar.gz
What is pmp?
pmp shares some similarities to Mozilla’s Prism. It creates a “standalone” app from a web application. Pmp uses Webkit as its rendering backend.
How do I use it?
To create an edge (that is pmp’s terminus for a captured app), run
pmp-create --url=<url to website> --name=<descriptivename>
You can also create a desktop icon by passing it the --desktop parameter. If you want to use the site’s favicon, use --icon=:favicon
To run the edge, call pmp-run --name=<DescriptiveName>
Known limitations:
It does not work properly with Google’s apps. Google does some weird URL redirects. I’m working on that. Apps known to work are WordPress and TT RSS.