<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Breaking Eggs And Making Omelettes</title>
	<atom:link href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs</link>
	<description>Topics On Multimedia Technology and Reverse Engineering</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:25:44 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Linux Media Player Survey Circa 2001</title>
		<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/linux-media-player-survey-circa-2001/</link>
		<comments>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/linux-media-player-survey-circa-2001/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Multimedia Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=2828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what the Linux media player landscape looked like back in 2001]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a document I scavenged from my archives. It was dated September 1, 2001 and I now publish it 9 years later. It serves as sort of a time capsule for the state of media player programs at the time. Looking back on this list, I can&#8217;t understand why I couldn&#8217;t find <a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/">MPlayer</a> while I was conducting this survey, especially since MPlayer is the project I eventually started to work for a few months after writing this piece.</p>
<p>For a little context, I had been studying multimedia concepts and tech for a year and was itching to get my hands dirty with practical multimedia coding. But I wanted to tackle what I perceived as unsolved problems&#8211; like playback of proprietary codecs. I didn&#8217;t want to have to build a new media playback framework just to start working on my problems. So I surveyed the players available to see which ones I could plug into and use as a testbed for implementing new decoders.</p>
<p>Regarding Real Player, I wrote: &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to move away from the proprietary, closed-source &#8220;solutions&#8221;. <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/">Heh.</a> Was I really an insufferable open source idealist back in the day?</p>
<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the text with some <em>Where are they now?</em> commentary [in brackets]:</p>
<hr />
<p>Towards an All-Inclusive Media Playing Solution for Linux</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t feel that the media playing solutions for Linux set their sights high enough, even though they do tend to be quite ambitious. <span id="more-2828"></span></p>
<p>I want to create a media player for Linux that can open a file, figure out what type of file it is (AVI, MOV, etc.), determine the compression algorithms used to encode the audio and video chunks inside (MPEG, Cinepak, Sorenson, etc.) and replay the file using the best audio, video, and CPU facilities available on the computer.</p>
<p>Video and audio playback is a solved problem on Linux; I don&#8217;t wish to solve that problem again. The problem that isn&#8217;t solved is reliance on proprietary multimedia solutions through some kind of WINE-like layer in order to decode compressed multimedia files.</p>
<p><strong>Survey of Linux solutions for decoding proprietary multimedia</strong><br />
updated 2001-09-01</p>
<p><strong>AVI Player for XMMS</strong><br />
This is based on Avifile. All the same advantages and limitations apply.<br />
<em>[Top Google hit is <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/avi-xmms/">a Freshmeat page</a> that doesn't indicate activity since 2001-2002.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Avifile</strong><br />
This player does a great job at taking apart AVI and ASF files and then feeding the compressed chunks of multimedia data through to the binary Win32 decoders.</p>
<p>The program is written in C++ and I&#8217;m not very good at interpreting that kind of code. But I&#8217;m learning all over again. Examining the object hierarchy, it appears that the designers had the foresight to include native support for decoders that are compiled into the program from source code. However, closer examination reveals that there is support for ONE source decoder and that&#8217;s the &#8220;decoder&#8221; for uncompressed data. Still, I tried to manipulate this routine to accept and decode data from other codecs but no dice. It&#8217;s really confounding. The program always crashes when I feed non-uncompressed data through the source decoder.<br />
<em>[Lives at <a href="http://avifile.sourceforge.net/">http://avifile.sourceforge.net/</a>; not updated since 2006.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Real Player</strong><br />
There&#8217;s not much to do with this since it is closed source and proprietary. Even though there is a plugin architecture, that&#8217;s not satisfactory. We&#8217;re trying to move away from the proprietary, closed-source &#8220;solutions&#8221;.<br />
<em>[Still kickin' with <a href="http://www.real.com/realplayer/linux">version 11</a>.]</em></p>
<p><strong>XAnim</strong><br />
This is a well-established Unix media player. To his credit, the author does as well as he can with the resources he has. In other words, he supports the non-proprietary video codecs well, and even has support for some proprietary video codecs through binary-only decoders.</p>
<p>The source code is extremely difficult to work with as the author chose to use the X coding format which I&#8217;ve never seen used anywhere else except for X header files. The infrastructure for extending the program and supporting other codecs and file formats is there, I suppose, but I would have to wrap my head around the coding style. Maybe I can learn to work past that. The other thing that bothers me about this program is the decoding approach: It seems that each video decoder includes routines to decompress the multimedia data into every conceivable RGB and YUV output format. This seems backwards to me; it seems better to have one decoder function that decodes the data into its native format it was compressed from (e.g., YV12 for MPEG data) and then pass that data to another layer of the program that&#8217;s in charge of presenting the data and possibly converting it if necessary. This layer would encompass highly-optimized software conversion routines including special CPU-specific instructions (e.g., MMX and SSE) and eliminate the need to place those routines in lots of other routines. But I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself.<br />
<em>[<a href="http://xanim.polter.net/">This one was pretty much dead</a> before I made this survey, the most recent update being in 1999. Still, we owe it much respect as the granddaddy of Unix multimedia playback programs.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Xine</strong><br />
This seems like a promising program. It was originally designed to play MPEGs from DVDs. It can also play MPEG files on a hard drive and utilizes the Xv extensions for hardware YUV playback. It&#8217;s also supposed to play AVI files using the same technique as Avifile but I have never, ever gotten it to work. If an AVI file has both video and sound, the binary video decoder can&#8217;t decode any frames. If the AVI file has video and no sound, the program gets confused and crashes, as far as I can tell.</p>
<p>Still, it&#8217;s promising, and I&#8217;ve been trying to work around these crashes. It doesn&#8217;t yet have the type of modularization I&#8217;d like to see. Right now, it tailored to suit MPEG playback and AVI playback is an afterthought. Still, it appears to have a generalized interface for dropping in new file demultiplexers.</p>
<p>I tried to extend the program for supporting source decoders by rewriting w32codec.c from scratch. I&#8217;m not having a smooth time of it so far. I&#8217;m able to perform some manipulations on the output window. However, I can&#8217;t get the program to deal with an RGB image format. It has trouble allocating an RGB surface with XvShmCreateImage(). This isn&#8217;t suprising, per my limited knowledge of X which is that Xv applies to YUV images, but it could also apply to RGB images as well. Anyway, the program should be able to fall back on regular RGB pixmaps if that Xv call fails.</p>
<p>Right now, this program is looking the most promising. It will take some work to extend the underlying infrastructure, but it seems doable since I know C quite well and can understand the flow of this program, as opposed to Avifile and its C++. The C code also compiles about 10 times faster.<br />
<em>[My home project for many years after a brief flirtation with MPlayer. <a href="http://www.xine-project.org/home">It is still alive</a>; its latest release was just a month ago.]</em></p>
<p><strong>XMovie</strong><br />
This library is a Quicktime movie player. I haven&#8217;t looked at it too extensively yet, but I do remember looking at it at one point and reading the documentation that said it doesn&#8217;t support key frames. Still, I should examine it again since they released a new version recently.<br />
<em>[<a href="http://heroinewarrior.com/">Heroine Virtual</a> still puts out some software but <a href="http://heroinewarrior.com/xmovie.php">XMovie</a> has not been updated since 2005.]</em></p>
<p><strong>XMPS</strong><br />
This program compiles for me, but doesn&#8217;t do much else. It can play an MP3 file. I have been able to get MPEG movies to play through it, but it refuses to show the full video frame, constricting it to a small window (obviously a bug).<br />
<em>[This project is <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmps/">hosted on SourceForge</a> and is listed with a registration date of 2003, well after this survey was made. So the project obviously lived elsewhere in 2001. Meanwhile, it doesn't look like any files ever made it to SF for hosting.]</em></p>
<p><strong>XTheater</strong><br />
I can&#8217;t even get this program to compile. It&#8217;s supposed to be an MPEG player based on SMPEG. As such, it probably doesn&#8217;t hold much promise for being easily extended into a general media player.<br />
<em>[<a href="http://xtheater.sourceforge.net/">Last updated in 2002</a>.]</em></p>
<p><strong>GMerlin</strong><br />
I can&#8217;t get this to compile yet. I have a bug report in to the dev group.<br />
<em>[Updated consistently in the last 9 years. <a href="http://gmerlin.sourceforge.net/">Last update was in February of this year.</a> I can't find any record of my bug report, though.]</em></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/linux-media-player-survey-circa-2001/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>2 GB Should Be Enough For Me</title>
		<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/2-gb-should-be-enough-for-me/</link>
		<comments>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/2-gb-should-be-enough-for-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Multimedia Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=2819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In which I wonder whether it's worthwhile for my normal computers to establish a swap drive]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/i-really-like-my-new-eeepc/">My new EeePC 1201PN netbook</a> has 2 GB of RAM. Call me shortsighted but I feel like &#8220;that ought to be enough for me&#8221;. I&#8217;m not trying to claim that it ought to be enough for everyone. I am, however, questioning the utility of swap space for those skilled in the art of computing.</p>
<p><center><br />
<img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ram-and-battery-charger.jpg" alt="" title="PC100 128MB RAM module vs. camera battery charger" width="350" height="246" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2825" /><br />
<em>Technology marches on: This ancient 128 MB RAM module is larger than my digital camera&#8217;s battery charger&#8230; and I just realized that comparison doesn&#8217;t make any sense</em><br />
</center></p>
<p>Does anyone else have this issue? It has gotten to the point where I deliberately disable swap partitions on Linux desktops I&#8217;m using (<code>'swapoff -a'</code>), and try not to allocate a swap partition during install time. I&#8217;m encountering Linux installers that seem to be making it tougher to do this, essentially pleading with you to create a swap partition&#8211; &#8220;Seriously, you might need 8 total gigabytes of virtual memory one day.&#8221; I&#8217;m of the opinion that if 2 GB of physical memory isn&#8217;t enough for my normal operation, I might need to re-examine my processes.</p>
<p>In the course of my normal computer usage (which is definitely not normal by the standard of a normal computer user), swap space is just another way for the software to screw things up behind the scenes. In this case, the mistake is performance-related as the software makes poor decisions about what needs to be kept in RAM.</p>
<p>And then there are the netbook-oriented Linux distributions that insisted upon setting aside as swap 1/2 gigabyte of the already constrained 4 gigabytes of my Eee PC 701&#8242;s on-board flash memory, never offering the choice to opt out of swap space during installation. Earmarking flash memory for swap space is generally regarded as exceptionally poor form. To be fair, I don&#8217;t know that SSD has been all that prevalent in netbooks since the very earliest units in the netbook epoch.</p>
<p><strong>Am I alone in this? Does anyone else prefer to keep all of their memory physical in this day and age?</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/2-gb-should-be-enough-for-me/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>I Really Like My New EeePC</title>
		<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/i-really-like-my-new-eeepc/</link>
		<comments>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/i-really-like-my-new-eeepc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Multimedia Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=2806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My gushing over the Asus EeePC 1201PN netbook]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Fair warning: I&#8217;m just going to use this post to blather disconnectedly about a new-ish toy.</em></p>
<p>I really like my new EeePC. I was rather enamored with the <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/eee-pc-multimedia/">original EeePC 701</a> from late 2007, a little box with a tiny 7&#8243; screen that is credited with kicking off the netbook revolution. Since then, Asus has created about a hundred new EeePC models.</p>
<p>Since I&#8217;m spending so much time on a train these days, I finally took the plunge to get a better netbook. I decided to stay loyal to Asus and their Eee lineage and got the highest end EeePC they presently offer (which was still under US$500)&#8211; the EeePC 1201PN. The &#8217;12&#8242; in the model number represents a 12&#8243; screen size and the rest of the specs are commensurately as large. Indeed, it sort of blurs the line between netbook and full-blown laptop.</p>
<p><center><br />
<img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/eeepc-1201pn-running-linux.jpg" alt="" title="EeePC 1201PN running Ubuntu Linux 10.04" width="300" height="332" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2807" /><br />
</center></p>
<p>Incidentally, after I placed the order for the 1201PN nearly 2 months ago, and I mean the very literal next moment, <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/30/asus-eee-pc-1215n-with-nvidia-ion-and-dual-core-atom-d525-is-a-n/">this Engadget headline came across announcing the EeePC 1215N</a>. My new high-end (such as it is) computer purchase was immediately obsoleted; I thought that only happened in parody. (As of this writing, the 1215N still doesn&#8217;t appear to be shipping, though.)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a sore point among Linux aficionados that Linux was used to help kickstart the netbook trend but that now it&#8217;s pretty much impossible to find Linux pre-installed on a netbook. <span id="more-2806"></span>So it is in this case. This 1201PN comes with Windows 7 Home Premium installed. This is a notable differentiator from most netbooks which only have Windows 7 Home Starter, a.k.a., the Windows 7 version so crippled that it <em>doesn&#8217;t even allow the user to change the background image</em>. </p>
<p>I wished to preserve the Windows 7 installation (you never know when it will come in handy) and dual boot Linux. I thought I would have to use the Windows partition tool to divide work some magic. Fortunately, the default installation already carved the 250 GB HD in half; I was able to reformat the second partition and install Linux. The details are a little blurry, but I&#8217;m pretty sure one of those <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/optical-drive-value-proposition/">external USB optical drives shown in my last post</a> actually performed successfully for this task. Lucky break.</p>
<p><center><br />
<img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/4-laptops.jpg" alt="" title="4 laptops side by side" width="350" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2808" /><br />
<em>The EeePC 1201PN, EeePC 701,<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/got-a-cheap-mips-subnotebook/"> Belco Alpha-400</a>, and even a comparatively gargantuan Sony Vaio full laptop&#8211; all of the portable computers in the household</em><br />
</center></p>
<p>So I got Ubuntu 10.04 Linux installed in short order. This feels like something of a homecoming for me. You see, I used Linux full-time at home from 1999-2006. In 2007, I switched to using Windows XP full-time, mostly because my home use-case switched to <a href="http://games.multimedia.cx/">playing a lot of old, bad computer games</a>. By the end of 2008, I had transitioned to using <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/64-bit-builds-are-a-go/">the Mac Mini that I had originally purchased earlier that year</a> for running <a href="http://fate.ffmpeg.org/">FATE</a> cycles. That Mac served as my main home computer until I purchased the 1201PN 2 months ago.</p>
<p>Mostly, I have this overriding desire for computers to <em>just work</em>, at least in their basic functions. And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so roundly impressed with the way Linux handles right out of the box. Nearly everything on the 1201PN works in Linux. The video, the audio, the wireless networking, the webcam, it all works out of the box. I had to do the extra installation step to get the binary nVidia drivers installed but even that&#8217;s relatively seamless, especially compared to &#8220;the way things used to be&#8221; (drop to a prompt, run some binary installer from the prompt as root, watch it fail in arcane ways because the thing is only certified to run on one version of one Linux distribution). The 1201PN, with its nVidia Ion2 graphics, is able to drive both its own 1366&#215;768 screen simultaneously with an external monitor running at up on 2560&#215;1600.</p>
<p>The only weird hiccup in the whole process was that I had a little trouble with the special volume keys on the keyboard (specifically, the volume up/down/mute keys didn&#8217;t do anything). But I quickly learned that I had to install some package related to ACPI and they magically started to do the right thing. Now I get to encounter the Linux Flash Player bug where modifying volume via those special keys forces fullscreen mode to exit. Adobe really should fix that.</p>
<p>Also, trackpad multitouch gestures don&#8217;t work right away. Based on my reading, it is possible to set those up in Linux. But it&#8217;s largely a preference thing&#8211; I don&#8217;t care much for multitouch. This creates a disparity when I use Windows 7 on the 1201PN which is configured per default to use multitouch.</p>
<p><center><br />
<img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/stack-of-laptops.jpg" alt="" title="4 laptops in a stack" width="400" height="231" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2809" /><br />
<em>The same 4 laptops stacked up</em><br />
</center></p>
<p>So, in short, I&#8217;m really happy with this little machine. Traditionally, I have had absolutely no affinity for laptops/notebooks/portable computers at all even if everyone around was always completely enamored with the devices. What changed for me? Well for starters, as a long-time Linux user, I was used to having to invest in very specific, carefully-researched hardware lest I not be able to use it under the Linux OS. This was always a major problem in the laptop field which typically reign supreme in custom, proprietary hardware components. These days, not so much, and these netbooks seem to contain well-supported hardware. Then there&#8217;s the fact that laptops always cost so much more than similarly capable desktop systems and that I had no real reason for taking a computer with me when I left home. So my use case changed, as did the price point for relatively low-power laptops/netbooks.</p>
<p>Data I/O geek note: The 1201PN is capable of wireless-N networking &#8212; as many netbooks seem to have &#8212; but only 100 Mbit ethernet. I wondered why it didn&#8217;t have gigabit ethernet. Then I remembered that 100 Mbit ethernet provides 11-11.5 Mbytes/sec of transfer speed which, in my empirical experience, is approximately the maximum write speed of a 5400 RPM hard drive&#8211; which is what the 1201PN possesses.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/i-really-like-my-new-eeepc/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Optical Drive Value Proposition</title>
		<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/optical-drive-value-proposition/</link>
		<comments>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/optical-drive-value-proposition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Multimedia Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=2797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where can I get a good optical drive?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have the absolute worst luck in the optical drive department. Even since I started building my own computers in 1995 &#8212; close to the beginning of the CD-ROM epoch &#8212; I have burned through a staggering number of optical drives. Seriously, especially in the time period between about 1995-1998, I was going through a new drive every 4-6 months or so. This was also during that CD-ROM speed race where the the drive packages kept advertising loftier &#8216;X&#8217; speed ratings. I didn&#8217;t play a lot of CD-ROM games during that timeframe, though I did listen to quite a few audio CDs through the computer.</p>
<p><center><br />
<img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/stack-of-optical-drives.jpg" alt="" title="Stack of optical drives" width="300" height="327" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2801" /><br />
</center></p>
<p>I use &#8220;optical drive&#8221; as a general term to describe CD-ROM drives, CD-R/RW drives, DVD-ROM drives, DVD-R/RW drives, and drives capable of doing any combination of reading and writing CDs and DVDs. In my observation, optical media seems to be falling out of favor somewhat, giving way to online digital distribution for things like games and software, as well as flash drives and external hard drives vs. recordable or rewritable media for backup and sneakernet duty. Somewhere along the line, I started to buy <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/eee-pc-multimedia/">computers that didn&#8217;t even have optical drives</a>. That&#8217;s why I have purchased at least 2 external USB drives (seen in the picture above). I don&#8217;t have much confidence that either works correctly. My main desktop until recently, a Mac Mini, has an internal optical drive that grew flaky and unreliable a few months after the unit was purchased.</p>
<p>I just have really rotten luck with optical drives. The most reliable drive in my house is the one on the headless machine that, until recently, was the main workhorse on <a href="http://fate.ffmpeg.org/">the FATE farm</a>. The eject switch didn&#8217;t work correctly so I have to log in remotely, <code>'sudo eject'</code>, walk to the other room, pop in the disc, walk back to the other room, and work with the disc.</p>
<p>Maybe optical media is on its way out, but <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AjHexWy1UYqidG81UVdCdEFlVGpLVTNCRVJFLWhJdmc&#038;hl=en&#038;output=html">I still have many hundreds of CD-ROMs</a>. Perhaps I should move forward on <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/archivists-burden/">this brainstorm to archive all of my optical discs on hard drives</a> (and then think of some data mining experiments, just for the academic appeal), before it&#8217;s too late; optical discs don&#8217;t last forever.</p>
<p>So if I needed a good optical drive, what should I consider? I&#8217;ve always been the type to go cheap, I admit. Many of my optical drives were on the lower end of the cost spectrum, which might have played some role in their rapid replacement. However, I&#8217;m not sold on the idea that I&#8217;m getting quality just because I&#8217;m paying a higher price. That LG unit at the top of the pile up there was relatively pricey and still didn&#8217;t fare well in the long (or even medium) term.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, I used to have a ridiculous stockpile of castoff (but somehow still functional) optical drives. So many, in fact, that in 2004 I had a full size PC tower that I filled with 4 working drives, just because I could. Okay, I admit that there was a period where I had some reliable drives.</p>
<p>That might be an idea, actually&#8211; throw together such a computer for heavy duty archival purposes. I visited <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/irix-cd-rom/">Weird Stuff Warehouse</a> today (needed some PC100 RAM for an old machine and they came through) and I think I could put together such a box rather cheaply.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a dirty job, but&#8230; well, you know the rest.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/optical-drive-value-proposition/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Revisiting the Belco Alpha-400</title>
		<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/revisiting-the-alpha-400/</link>
		<comments>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/revisiting-the-alpha-400/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Multimedia Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=2784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Relieved of the primary FATE maintenance duties, I decided to dust off my MIPS-based Belco Alpha-400 and try to get it doing FATE cycles. And just as I was about to get FATE running, I saw that Mans already got his MIPS-based Popcorn Hour device to run FATE. But here are my notes anyway. Getting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/usurper-of-fate/">Relieved of the primary FATE</a> maintenance duties, I decided to dust off my <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/got-a-cheap-mips-subnotebook/">MIPS-based Belco Alpha-400</a> and try to get it doing FATE cycles. And just as I was about to get FATE running, I saw that Mans already got his <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/ansi-fate/">MIPS-based Popcorn Hour device to run FATE</a>. But here are my notes anyway.</p>
<p><center><br />
<img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/belco-alpha-400.jpg" alt="" title="Belco Alpha-400 netbook" width="350" height="387" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2788" /><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Getting A Prompt</strong><br />
For my own benefit, I made a PDF to remind me precisely how to get a root prompt on the Alpha-400. The &#8216;jailbreak&#8217; expression seems a little juvenile to me, but it seems to be in vogue right now.</p>
<p><strong><a href='http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/alpha-400-jailbreak.pdf'>alpha-400-jailbreak.pdf</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Toolchain</strong><br />
When I last tinkered with the Alpha-400, I was trying to build a toolchain that could build binaries to run on the unit&#8217;s MIPS chip, to no avail. Sometime last year, MichaelK put together x86_32-hosted toolchains that are able to build mipsel 32-bit binaries for Linux 2.4 and 2.6. The Alpha-400 uses a 2.4 kernel and the corresponding toolchain works famously for building current FFmpeg (<code>--disable-devices</code> is necessary for building).</p>
<p><strong>FATE Samples</strong><br />
Next problem: Making the FATE suite available to the Alpha-400. I copied all of the FATE suite samples onto a VFAT-formatted SD card. The filename case is not preserved for all files which confounds me since it is preserved in other cases. I tried formatting the card for ext3 but the Alpha-400 would not mount it, even though /proc/filesystems lists ext3 (supporting an older version of ext3?).</p>
<p>Alternative: Copy all of the FATE samples to the device&#8217;s rootfs. Space will be a little tight, though. Then again, there is over 600 MB of space free; I misread earlier and thought there were only 300 MB free.</p>
<p><strong>Remote Execution</strong><br />
To perform FATE cycles on a remote device, it helps to be able to SSH into that remote device. I don&#8217;t even want to know how complicated it would be to build OpenSSH for the device. However, the <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/lightweight-fate-testing/">last time I brought up this topic</a>, I learned about a lighter weight SSH replacement called <a href="http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html">Dropbear</a>. It turns out that Dropbear runs great on this MIPS computer.</p>
<p><strong>Running FATE Remotely</strong><br />
I thought all the pieces would be in place to run FATE at this point. However, there is one more issue: Running FATE on a remote system requires that the host and the target are sharing a filesystem somehow. My personal favorite remote filesystem method is sshfs which is supposed to work wherever there is an SSH server. That&#8217;s not entirely true, though&#8211; sshfs also requires sftp-server to be installed on the server side, a program that Dropbear does not currently provide.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not even going to think about getting Samba or NFS server software installed on the Alpha-400. According to the unit&#8217;s /proc/filesystems file, nfs is a supported filesystem. I hate setting up NFS but may see if I can get that working anyway.</p>
<p><strong>Residual Weirdness</strong><br />
The unit comes with <a href="http://www.busybox.net/">the venerable Busybox program</a> (<code>BusyBox v1.4.1 (2007-06-01 20:37:18 CST) multi-call binary</code>) for most of its standard command line utilities. I noticed a quirk where BusyBox&#8217;s md5sum gives weird hex characters. This might be <a href="http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox-cvs/2007-June/025214.html">a known/fixed issue</a>.</p>
<p>Another item is that the Alpha-400&#8242;s /dev/null file only has rwxr-xr-x per default. This caused trouble when I first tried to scp using Dropbear using a newly-created, unprivileged user.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/revisiting-the-alpha-400/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>ANSI FATE</title>
		<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/ansi-fate/</link>
		<comments>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/ansi-fate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Multimedia Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FATE Server]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=2770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FATE has 700 tests including one for the new ANSI terminal art subsystem; also tests OS/2 and a new MIPS CPU]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://fate.ffmpeg.org/">new FATE server</a> is shaping up well. I think most of the <a href="http://fate.multimedia.cx/">old configurations</a> have been migrated to the new server. I see one new compiler for x86_64&#8211; <a href="http://www.pathscale.com/">PathScale</a>. It&#8217;s <a href="http://fate.ffmpeg.org/x86_64-linux-path64">not faring particularly well</a> at this point.</p>
<p><strong>New Tests</strong><br />
As I write this, I noticed that there are now an even 700 tests, twice as many as the <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/350-tests/">last time I trumpeted such a milestone</a>. (It should be noted that the new FATE system finally breaks down the master regression suite into individual tests.) Thankfully, it&#8217;s no longer necessary to wait for me to create or edit tests (anyone with FFmpeg privileges can do this), nor is it necessary to keep up with this blog to know exactly what tests are new. Now, you can simply inspect the file history on tests/fate.mak and tests/fate2.mak (I think these 2 files are going to merge in the near future).</p>
<p>Vitor, as of r24865: &#8220;Add FATE test for ANSI/ASCII animation and TTY demuxer.&#8221; Eh? What&#8217;s this about? I admit I was completely removed from FFmpeg development for much of June and July so I could have missed a lot. Fortunately, I can check the file history to see which lines were added to make this test happen. And if FATE is exercising the test, you know exactly <a href="http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/fate-suite/">where the samples will live</a>. Here&#8217;s this new decoder in action on <a href="http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/fate-suite/ansi/">the relevant sample</a>:</p>
<p><center><br />
<img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ffplay-ansi-animation.jpg" alt="" title="FFplay playing an ANSI art animation" width="400" height="269" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2771" /><br />
</center></p>
<p>The file history fingers <a href="http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=User:Suxen_drol">Suxen drol/Peter Ross</a> for this handiwork. I might have guessed&#8211; the only person who is arguably more enamored with old, weird formats than even I. Now we wait for the day that YouTube has support for this format. I&#8217;m sure there are huge archives of these animations out there (and I wager that <a href="http://trixter.wordpress.com/">Trixter</a> and <a href="http://ascii.textfiles.com/">Jason Scott</a> know where).</p>
<p><center><br />
<img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ffplay-ansi-animation-part-2.jpg" alt="" title="FFplay ANSI animation 2 -- ANSI breasts" width="400" height="272" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2782" /><br />
<em>It&#8217;s an animation &#8212; it just keeps going</em><br />
</center></p>
<p>Meanwhile, the FATE suite now encompasses a bunch of perceptual audio formats, thanks to <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/not-an-exact-science/">the 1-off testing method</a> and a few other techniques. These formats include Bink audio, WMA Pro, WMA voice, Vorbis, ATRAC1, ATRAC3, MS-GSM, AC3, E-AC3, NellyMoser, TrueSpeech, Intel Music Coder, QDM2, RealAudio Cooker, QCELP (just going down the source control log here), and others, no doubt.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s this curious tidbit: &#8220;Add FATE test for WMV8 DRM&#8221;. The test spec is <code>"fate-wmv8-drm: CMD = framecrc -cryptokey 137381538c84c068111902a59c5cf6c340247c39 -i $(SAMPLES)/wmv8/wmv_drm.wmv -an"</code>. I would still like to investigate FFmpeg&#8217;s cryptographic capabilities, which I suspect are moving in a direction to function as a complete SSL stack one day.</p>
<p><strong>New Platforms</strong><br />
As for new platforms, the new FATE system finally allows testing on OS/2 (remember that classic? It was <a href="http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/40">&#8220;the totally cool way to run your computer&#8221;</a>). Thanks to Dave Yeo for taking this on.</p>
<p>Further, a new MIPS-based platform recently appeared on the FATE list. This one reports itself as running on 74kf CPU. Googling for this processor quickly brings up <a href="http://hardwarebug.org/2010/05/03/hacking-the-popcorn-hour-c-200/">Mans&#8217; post about the Popcorn Hour device</a>. So, congratulations to him for getting the mundane box to serve a higher purpose. Perhaps one day, I&#8217;ll be able to do the same for that <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/got-a-cheap-mips-subnotebook/">Belco Alpha-400 netbook</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/ansi-fate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>FFmpeg and Code Coverage Tools</title>
		<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/ffmpeg-and-code-coverage-tools/</link>
		<comments>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/ffmpeg-and-code-coverage-tools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Multimedia Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FATE Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=2761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Learning how to apply the GNU gcov tool against FFmpeg]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Code coverage tools likely occupy the same niche as profiling tools: Tools that you're <em>supposed</em> to use somewhere during the software engineering process but probably never quite get around to it, usually because you're too busy adding features or fixing bugs. But there may come a day when you wish to learn how much of your code is actually being exercised in normal production use. For example, the team charged with continuously testing the <a href="http://ffmpeg.org/">FFmpeg</a> project, would be curious to know how much code is being exercised, especially since many of the FATE test specs explicitly claim to be "exercising XYZ subsystem".</p>
<p>The primary GNU code coverage tool is called gcov and is probably already on your GNU-based development system. I set out to determine how much FFmpeg source code is exercised while running the full FATE suite. I ran into some problems when trying to use gcov on a project-wide scale. I spackled around those holes with some very ad-hoc solutions. I'm sure I was just overlooking some more obvious solutions about which you all will be happy to enlighten me.</p>
<p><strong>Results</strong><br />
I've learned to cut to the chase earlier in blog posts (results first, methods second). With that, here are the results I produced from this experiment. <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AjHexWy1UYqidDhwXzctSDA2NjZCNFVaTXFfTldUV2c&#038;hl=en&#038;output=html">This Google spreadsheet</a> contains 3 sheets: The <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AjHexWy1UYqidDhwXzctSDA2NjZCNFVaTXFfTldUV2c&#038;hl=en&#038;gid=0">first contains code coverage stats</a> for a bunch of FFmpeg C files sorted first by percent coverage (ascending), then by number of lines (descending), thus highlighting which files have the most uncovered code (ffserver.c currently tops that chart). The <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AjHexWy1UYqidDhwXzctSDA2NjZCNFVaTXFfTldUV2c&#038;hl=en&#038;gid=1">second sheet has files</a> for which no stats were generated. The <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AjHexWy1UYqidDhwXzctSDA2NjZCNFVaTXFfTldUV2c&#038;hl=en&#038;gid=2">third sheet has "problems"</a>. These files were rejected by my ad-hoc script.</p>
<p><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AjHexWy1UYqidDhwXzctSDA2NjZCNFVaTXFfTldUV2c&#038;hl=en&#038;gid=0&#038;output=csv">Here's a link to the data in CSV</a> if you want to play with it yourself.</p>
<p><strong>Using gcov with FFmpeg</strong> <span id="more-2761"></span><br />
To instrument a program for gcov analysis, compile and link the target program with the -fprofile-arcs and -ftest-coverage options. These need to be applied at both the compile and link stages, so in the case of FFmpeg, configure with:</p>
<pre>
  ./configure \
    --extra-cflags="-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage" \
    --extra-ldflags="-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage"
</pre>
<p>The building process results in a bunch of .gcno files which pertain to code coverage. After running the program as normal, a bunch of .gcda files are generated. To get coverage statistics from these files, run <code>'gcov sourcefile.c'</code>. This will print some basic statistics as well as generate a corresponding .gcov file with more detailed information about exactly which lines have been executed, and how many times.</p>
<p>Be advised that the source file must either live in the same directory from which gcov is invoked, or else the path to the source must be given to gcov via the <code>'-o, --object-directory'</code> option.</p>
<p><strong>Resetting Statistics</strong><br />
Statistics in the .gcda are cumulative. Should you wish to reset the statistics, doing this in the build directory should suffice:</p>
<pre>
  find . -name "*.gcda" | xargs rm -f
</pre>
<p><strong>Getting Project-Wide Data</strong><br />
As mentioned, I had to get a little creative here to get a big picture of FFmpeg code coverage. After building FFmpeg with the code coverage options and running FATE,</p>
<pre>
for file in `find . -name "*.c"` \
do \
  echo "*****" $file \
  gcov -o `dirname $file` `basename $file` \
done > ffmpeg-code-coverage.txt 2>&#038;1
</pre>
<p>After that, I ran the ffmpeg-code-coverage.txt file through a custom Python script to print out the 3 CSV files that I later dumped into the Google Spreadsheet.</p>
<p><strong>Further Work</strong><br />
I'm sure there are better ways to do this, and I'm sure you all will let me know what they are. But I have to get the ball rolling somehow.</p>
<p>There's also <a href="http://testcocoon.org/">TestCocoon</a>. I'd like to try that program and see if it addresses some of gcov's shortcomings (assuming they are indeed shortcomings rather than oversights).</p>
<p><strong>Source for script: process-gcov-slop.py</strong></p>
<div class="igBar"><span id="lpython-1"><a href="#" onclick="javascript:showPlainTxt('python-1'); return false;">PLAIN TEXT</a></span></div>
<div class="syntax_hilite"><span class="langName">PYTHON:</span>
<div id="python-1">
<div class="python">
<ol>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #808080; font-style: italic;">#!/usr/bin/python</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">import</span> <span style="color: #dc143c;">re</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">lines = <span style="color: #008000;">open</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #483d8b;">"ffmpeg-code-coverage.txt"</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span>.<span style="color: black;">read</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span>.<span style="color: black;">splitlines</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">no_coverage = <span style="color: #483d8b;">""</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">coverage = <span style="color: #483d8b;">"filename, % covered, total lines<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">\n</span>"</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">problems = <span style="color: #483d8b;">""</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">stats_exp = <span style="color: #dc143c;">re</span>.<span style="color: #008000;">compile</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #483d8b;">'Lines executed:(<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">\d</span>+<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">\.</span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">\d</span>+)% of (<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">\d</span>+)'</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">for</span> i <span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">in</span> <span style="color: #008000;">xrange</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #008000;">len</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span>lines<span style="color: black;">&#41;</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span>:</div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; line = lines<span style="color: black;">&#91;</span>i<span style="color: black;">&#93;</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">if</span> line.<span style="color: black;">startswith</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #483d8b;">"***** "</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span>:</div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; filename = line<span style="color: black;">&#91;</span>line.<span style="color: black;">find</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #483d8b;">'./'</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span>+<span style="color: #ff4500;color:#800000;">2</span>:<span style="color: black;">&#93;</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; i += <span style="color: #ff4500;color:#800000;">1</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">if</span> lines<span style="color: black;">&#91;</span>i<span style="color: black;">&#93;</span>.<span style="color: black;">find</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #483d8b;">":cannot open graph file"</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span> != -<span style="color: #ff4500;color:#800000;">1</span>:</div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; no_coverage += filename + <span style="color: #483d8b;">'<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">\n</span>'</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">else</span>:</div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">while</span> lines<span style="color: black;">&#91;</span>i<span style="color: black;">&#93;</span>.<span style="color: black;">find</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span>filename<span style="color: black;">&#41;</span> == -<span style="color: #ff4500;color:#800000;">1</span> <span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">and</span> <span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">not</span> lines<span style="color: black;">&#91;</span>i<span style="color: black;">&#93;</span>.<span style="color: black;">startswith</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #483d8b;">"***** "</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span>:</div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; i += <span style="color: #ff4500;color:#800000;">1</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">try</span>:</div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="color: black;">&#40;</span>percent, total_lines<span style="color: black;">&#41;</span> = stats_exp.<span style="color: black;">findall</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span>lines<span style="color: black;">&#91;</span>i+<span style="color: #ff4500;color:#800000;">1</span><span style="color: black;">&#93;</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span><span style="color: black;">&#91;</span><span style="color: #ff4500;color:#800000;">0</span><span style="color: black;">&#93;</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; coverage += filename + <span style="color: #483d8b;">', '</span> + percent + <span style="color: #483d8b;">', '</span> + total_lines + <span style="color: #483d8b;">'<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">\n</span>'</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="color: #ff7700;font-weight:bold;">except</span> <span style="color: #008000;">IndexError</span>:</div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; problems += filename + <span style="color: #483d8b;">'<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">\n</span>'</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #008000;">open</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #483d8b;">"no_coverage.csv"</span>, <span style="color: #483d8b;">'w'</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span>.<span style="color: black;">write</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span>no_coverage<span style="color: black;">&#41;</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;color:#26536A;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #008000;">open</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #483d8b;">"coverage.csv"</span>, <span style="color: #483d8b;">'w'</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span>.<span style="color: black;">write</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span>coverage<span style="color: black;">&#41;</span></div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;color:#3A6A8B;">
<div style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #008000;">open</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #483d8b;">"problems.csv"</span>, <span style="color: #483d8b;">'w'</span><span style="color: black;">&#41;</span>.<span style="color: black;">write</span><span style="color: black;">&#40;</span>problems<span style="color: black;">&#41;</span> </div>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/ffmpeg-and-code-coverage-tools/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Museum of Multimedia Software, Part 4</title>
		<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/museum-of-multimedia-software-part-4/</link>
		<comments>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/museum-of-multimedia-software-part-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Multimedia Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Museum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=2748</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 4 in the forgotten multimedia software series; the final part (until I find more of this stuff)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the last part of the series, at least until some more multimedia software shows up at my favorite thrift shop or the other boneyards I scavenge.</p>
<p><strong>Miscellaneous Multimedia Programs</strong><br />
This set includes the titles Matinee FMV Screensaver, MetaCreations Painter Classic, and Multimedia JumpStart. The second one is likely a creation program. I have no idea what the third one is, while the first title gives me chills just thinking about the implications.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/misc-1.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/misc-1-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Miscellaneous multimedia programs" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2749" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Miscellaneous Creativity Software</strong> <span id="more-2748"></span><br />
Magic Theatre and Microsoft Home: Creative Writer. I think I loaded up the former once to find a very basic animation program. The latter isn't necessarily multimedia-related but certainly classifies as creative software. It also reminds me of the ad I once spied in Entertainment Weekly magazine during the mid-1990s for a Microsoft music history CD-ROM. MS branched out into all kinds of niches.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/misc-creativity.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/misc-creativity-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Miscellaneous creativity software" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2750" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>More Multimedia Creativity Software</strong><br />
VideoCraft and U-Create Games &#038; Animation. I wager these would be fun to play around with if I had the time.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/misc-video-apps.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/misc-video-apps-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="VideoCraft and U-Create" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2751" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Showcase CD-ROMs</strong><br />
"What Can You Make? Showcase 7" from Macromedia and Microsoft Multimedia Pack 10.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/showcase-cdroms.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/showcase-cdroms-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Showcase CD-ROMs from Macromedia and Microsoft" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2752" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Basic Multimedia Software Discs</strong><br />
As a multimedia nerd, these Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Video for Windows discs make me sentimental.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/vfw-quicktime.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/vfw-quicktime-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="QuickTime and Video for Windows discs" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2753" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Real Software Collection</strong><br />
Grit your teeth and gaze upon CD-ROM distributions of Real's software. There is a RealAudio disc back from when Real still called themselves Progressive Networks. "Everything you need to hear the web roar!"</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/real-software.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/real-software-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Real software" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2754" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Clips</strong><br />
And a few multimedia clip CD-ROMs, along with a disc that promises to test and tune your MPC setup.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/misc-clips.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/misc-clips-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Clip CD-ROMs" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2755" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Wrap-Up</strong><br />
I would be remiss if I neglected to mention a few more pieces of multimedia creation software in my collection. First, there's the <a href="http://games.multimedia.cx/barbie-storymaker/">Barbie Storymaker</a>. I actually gave that one a go, as you can tragically see from that link. Further, the Taco Bell fast food restaurant chain ran, as one of their many kids meal promotions, a series of 4 simple Comics Constructor CD-ROMs. <a href="http://games.multimedia.cx/another-taco-bell-promo/">I played briefly with it here</a> and again during <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/xml-monkey/">an exploration of XML data formats</a> and the parsing thereof (which the software uses).</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/museum-of-multimedia-software-part-4/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Museum of Multimedia Software, Part 3</title>
		<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/museum-of-multimedia-software-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/museum-of-multimedia-software-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Multimedia Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Museum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=2722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 3 in the forgotten multimedia software series]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Discreet Cleaner 5</strong><br />
Capture, author, encode, and publish multimedia in Real, QuickTime, Windows Media, MP3, DV, and MPEG formats. This package has a copyright date of 2001 (thus predating Flash video by a few years). This software seems to have since been purchased by <a href="http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&#038;id=5562025">Autodesk and is up to version 6.5</a> (which does support Flash video).</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-cleaner-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-cleaner-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Discreet Cleaner 5 - front" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2727" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-cleaner-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-cleaner-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Discreet Cleaner 5 - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2728" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-cleaner-3-side.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-cleaner-3-side-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Discreet Cleaner 5 - side" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2729" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Discreet Plasma</strong> <span id="more-2722"></span><br />
"Web 3D Design." Package is copyright 2002. Like the last package, this package also makes reference to Discreet being a division of Autodesk. Sure enough, Autodesk purchased them in 1999 and would later rename them <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk_Media_and_Entertainment">Autodesk Media and Entertainment</a>.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-plasma-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-plasma-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Discreet Plasma - front" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2730" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-plasma-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-plasma-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Discreet Plasma - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2731" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-plasma-3-side.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/discreet-plasma-3-side-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Discreet Plasma - side" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2732" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Debabelizer</strong><br />
"The Graphics Processing Toolbox." Looking down its list of features on the box copy, I honestly wonder if it can accomplish anything that <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/">ImageMagick</a> can't.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/debabelizer-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/debabelizer-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Debabelizer - front" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2723" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/debabelizer-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/debabelizer-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Debabelizer - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2724" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>MatchWare Mediator 7</strong><br />
"Create Flash, HTML &#038; CD-Rom Presentations." Wow, version 7, and with a latest copyright date of 2002 on the box. There's still a top-Google-hit web page for <a href="http://www.matchware.com/en/products/mediator/">MatchWare Mediator 9</a>, this one instead emphasizing interactive CDs, HTML, and <em>then</em> Flash.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/matchware-mediator-7-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/matchware-mediator-7-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="MatchWare Mediator 7 - front" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2733" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/matchware-mediator-7-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/matchware-mediator-7-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="MatchWare Mediator 7 - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2734" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/matchware-mediator-7-3-side.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/matchware-mediator-7-3-side-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="MatchWare Mediator 7 - side" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2735" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Final Cut Pro v1.2.5</strong><br />
Promotional copy Apple's video editing software. No copyright date, but it requires a PowerPC G3 or G4 and Mac OS 9.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/final-cut-pro-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/final-cut-pro-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Final Cut Pro - 1" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2736" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/final-cut-pro-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/final-cut-pro-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Final Cut Pro - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2737" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/final-cut-pro-3-side.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/final-cut-pro-3-side-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Final Cut Pro - side" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2738" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Apple Keynote</strong><br />
More Apple software that I think can technically be classified as multimedia-related. I'm not sure which version this is.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/apple-keynote-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/apple-keynote-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Apple Keynote - front" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2739" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/apple-keynote-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/apple-keynote-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Apple Keynote - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2740" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/apple-keynote-3-inside.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/apple-keynote-3-inside-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Apple Keynote - inside" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2741" /></a><br />
</center></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/museum-of-multimedia-software-part-3/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Museum of Multimedia Software, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/museum-of-multimedia-software-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/museum-of-multimedia-software-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Multimedia Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Museum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=2692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This installment includes a bunch of old, discontinued Adobe software as well as some Flash-related mutlimedia software. Screen Time for Flash Screen Saver Factory "Create High Impact Screen Savers Using Macromedia Flash." Requirements include Windows 3.1, 95 or NT 3.5.1. A 486 computer is required to play the resulting screensavers which are Flash projectors using [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This installment includes a bunch of old, discontinued Adobe software as well as some Flash-related mutlimedia software.</p>
<p><strong>Screen Time for Flash Screen Saver Factory</strong><br />
"Create High Impact Screen Savers Using Macromedia Flash."</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screen-time-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screen-time-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Screen Time Screen Saver Factory - front" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2693" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screen-time-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screen-time-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Screen Time Screen Saver Factory - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2694" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p>Requirements include Windows 3.1, 95 or NT 3.5.1. A 486 computer is required to play the resulting screensavers which are Flash projectors using Macromedia Flash 3.0.</p>
<p><strong>Monster Interactive Instant GUI 2</strong><span id="more-2692"></span><br />
Create eye-popping GUIs more easily for use in Flash. Usability experts would argue that this is not a good thing.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/instant-gui-2.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/instant-gui-2-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Monster Interactive Instant GUI 2" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2695" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Adobe Dimensions 3.0</strong><br />
"The Easy Yet Powerful 3D Rendering Tool." <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/dimensions/">This software was end-of-life'd</a> in late 2004-early 2005 (depending on region).</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-dimensions-3.0-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-dimensions-3.0-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe Dimensions 3.0 - front" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2696" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-dimensions-3.0-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-dimensions-3.0-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe Dimensions 3.0 - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2697" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-dimensions-3.0-3-side.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-dimensions-3.0-3-side-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe Dimensions 3.0 - side" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2698" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Adobe ImageStyler</strong><br />
"Instantly add style to your Web site." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_LiveMotion">Wikipedia claims</a> that this product was sold from 1998 to 2000 when it was superseded by Adobe LiveMotion (see below).</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-imagestyler-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-imagestyler-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe ImageStyler - front" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2699" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-imagestyler-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-imagestyler-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe ImageStyler - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2700" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-imagestyler-3-side.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-imagestyler-3-side-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe ImageStyler - side" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2701" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p>Google is able to excavate a link to the <a href="http://www.adobe.com/la/products/imagestyler/">Latin American site for Adobe ImageStyler</a>, a page that doesn't seem to be replicated in any other language.</p>
<p><strong>Adobe LiveMotion</strong><br />
"Professional Web graphics and animation." This is version 1, where the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_LiveMotion">last version was #2, released in 2002</a>. </p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-livemotion-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-livemotion-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe LiveMotion - " width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2702" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-livemotion-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-livemotion-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe LiveMotion - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2703" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-livemotion-3-side.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-livemotion-3-side-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe LiveMotion - side" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2704" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Adobe Streamline 4.0</strong><br />
"The most powerful way to convert images into line art." This was <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/streamline/index.html">discontinued in mid-2005</a>.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-streamline-4-1.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-streamline-4-1-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe Streamline 4.0 - front" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2705" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-streamline-4-2.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-streamline-4-2-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe Streamline 4.0 - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2706" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-streamline-4-3.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-streamline-4-3-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe Streamline 4.0 - side" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2707" /></a><br />
</center></p>
<p><strong>Adobe SuperATM</strong><br />
"The magic that maintains the look of your documents." This is the oldest item in my collection. A close examination of the back of the box reveals an old Adobe logo. The latest copyright date on the box is 1992.</p>
<p><center><br />
<a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-superatm-1-front.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-superatm-1-front-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe SuperATM - front" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2708" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-superatm-2-back.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-superatm-2-back-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe SuperATM - back" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2709" /></a> <a href="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-superatm-3-inside.jpg"><img src="http://multimedia.cx/eggs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/adobe-superatm-3-inside-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Adobe SuperATM - inside" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2710" /></a><br />
</center></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://multimedia.cx/eggs/museum-of-multimedia-software-part-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Dynamic page generated in 0.331 seconds. -->
<!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2010-09-02 17:39:44 -->
