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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Happiness the Movie 2007

Happiness is a Korean movie that makes you think seriously about the true meaning of happiness in life. It tells a story of two terminal patients who met at a remote nursing home and fell in love with each other. However, the guy leaves the girl for a careless, material life in the city. In the end, he comes back to the girl only to find her dying and regrets having left her. The movie tries to teach us that true happiness is about being close to someone you care about no matter how sick or poor he/she is.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Reign of Assassins 劍雨 2010

Reign of Assassins (劍雨) is a Chinese wuxia (武俠) film starring Michelle Yeoh. In my opinion, it's a pretty enjoyable movie. The following clip has both English and Vietnamese subtitles.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Quick 2011 with English/Spanish/Turkish/Arabic Subtitle

Quick is a Korean action movie that delivers thrilling action and speedy storyline.

With English subtitles

Quick.2011.part1 by wagamit1

Quick.2011.part2 by wagamit1

Quick.2011.part3 by wagamit1

Quick.2011.part4 by wagamit1

Quick.2011.part5 by wagamit1

Quick.2011.part6 by wagamit1

Quick.2011.part7 by wagamit1

With Arabic Subtitle

With Turkish Subtitle

Quick.2011.sa-rang-001.yeppudaa by onerepulic

Quick.2011.sa-rang-002.yeppudaa by onerepulic

With Spanish Subtitle

[Peliculas Coreanas] Quick 2011 (Divertidisima)

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Kung Fu Hustle (2004) 功夫

Kung Fu Hustle is a funny but memorable movie from Hong Kong star Stephen Chow. If you haven't seen it yet, here's your chance to watch the movie.

And the one below is the original Chinese version with English subtitles.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Hilariously Awesome Martial Arts Classic: The Story of Ricky (电影: 力王)

Do you like classic horror movies or a Chinese kung-fu movie? Then, you may like the Hong Kong movie, “Ricki Oh: the Story of Ricky.” It's got both: blood and gore, and awesome kung fu. The fight scenes are gross and brutal like Kill Bill, but otherwise have outrageously cool kung-fu moves. However, I warn that some viewer discretion is advised.

Here's the same movie in Mandarin Chinese.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Building MPlayer and Mencoder for Windows

MPlayer is one of my favorite media players. It is used with a frontend like smplayer, gnome-mplayer and MPlayerGUI to provide a good alternative to Windows Media Player. Although there are already several Win32 builds of MPlayer on the net, I like to build MPlayer on my own using MinGW compiler because I want to optimize my build for my CPU. So I installed MinGW and compiled MPlayer as follows.

Build ffmpeg statically or dynamically as shown in this post.

(Optional) Compile the lzo library:

./configure --prefix=/mingw && make && make install

(Optional) Fribidi is a rendering library for right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew. If you are a speaker of such right-to-left languages, compile fribidi statically as shown below:
```
./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared --disable-debug
make
make install
```
More information can be found here.

Download JPEG source from ijg.org and complie JPEG:

./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-static
make
make install

Compile libPNG:

./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared
make
make install

Compile libiconv, Freetype, expat and fontconfig statically in that order:
```
./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared
make install
```

Compile libdca:

./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

(Optional) Download DirectX headers from any of the following locations and unpack them in /mingw/include:
- http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz
- http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/win32/dx7headers.tgz
Download the latest mplayer source (mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2) and unpack it. (patch 1 and patch 2)
```
tar xjvf mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2
cd mplayer-export-2010-02-07/
```
Then, run ./configure:

CPPFLAGS='-DFRIBIDI_ENTRY="" ' ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-runtime-cpudetection --enable-static --enable-theora --enable-fribidi --disable-ffmpeg_a --disable-gl --disable-vidix --yasm=/mingw/bin/yasm --extra-libs='-lfribidi'

The CPPFLAGS value allows fribidi to be linked statically.
Build Mplayer:
```
make
```
After successful build, strip the executables:
```
strip m*.exe
```
Optionally, compress the executables with upx:
```
upx --best --strip-relocs=0 mplayer.exe
upx --best --strip-relocs=0 mencoder.exe
```
Download MPlayer codecs from here. The MPlayer codecs for Windows platform has a filename like windows-essential-20071007.zip. Extract the codecs package and you'll get a folder "windows-essential-20071007". Rename it as "codecs" and move the "codecs" folder inside where mplayer.exe file is located.
Make sure that HOME environment variable is set to your personal folder(for example, C:\Users\Jocelyn). Upon the first run of mplayer, a new folder named mplayer will be created in your HOME folder. Copy codecs.conf to the mplayer folder. The "config" file stores default options for playing movie files. Open the "config" file and make changes as follows:
```
# Write your default config options here!
cdrom-device=D:
dvd-device=D:
ao=dsound
vo=direct3d
font=C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\MALGUN.TTF
framedrop=yes
subcp=cp949
```

My win32 build of mplayer can be downloaded from here. It is recommended that the zip archive should be extracted in C:\Program Files.

Running MPlayer

Now, let's try mplayer. First, get a movie file ready. In the Command Prompt, type a command in the following form:

mplayer mymoviefile.avi

Alternatively,

mplayer -vo direct3d -ao win32 -font C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\Tahoma.ttf -framedrop mymoviefile.avi

A new window will pop up with the movie playing inside it.

The next step is to get and set up SMPlayer.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

To Compile ffmpeg with MinGW

ffmpeg is an important component of many open-source projects, such as MPlayer and VLC. I am compiling ffmpeg so that I can use it to transcode multimedia files. This guide shows how to use MinGW to compile ffmpeg either statically or dynamically. Installation of MinGW is explained in this post. The example commands below are meant to be entered into an MSYS window (not Command Prompt). I downloaded the FFmpeg source and unpacked it.

Preparing External Libraries for FFMpeg

FFMpeg can be linked with external libraries to add features to FFmpeg. I am adding most features to FFMpeg by compiling additional libraries. Most of these libraries are also covered in my posts on compiling MPlayer and Mencoder.

Compression Libraries: Zlib and bzLib

Get the zlib source (zlib127.zip), unzip and compile it:

unzip zlib127.zip
cd zlib-1.2.7/
make -f win32/Makefile.gcc
cp -iv zlib1.dll /mingw/bin
cp -iv zconf.h zlib.h /mingw/include
cp -iv libz.a /mingw/lib
cp -iv libz.dll.a /mingw/lib

Optionally, get bzip2 source from bzip.org and compile it like this:

tar xzvf bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz
cd bzip2-1.0.6
make
cp bzlib.h /mingw/include/
cp libbz2.a /mingw/lib

libgsm

Download gsm-1.0.13.tar.bz2, unpack and compile it as follows:
```
tar xzvf gsm-1.0.13.tar.bz2
cd gsm-1.0-pl13/
make
```
Just ignore the compile errors with fchmod and fchown when trying to build applications. Copy the header and static library to /mingw:
```
mkdir /mingw/include/gsm
cp inc/gsm.h /mingw/include/gsm
cp lib/libgsm.a /mingw/lib
```
LAME is an excellent MP3 encoder. LAME makes use of the nasm assembler if available. So download yasm and save it as /mingw/bin/nasm.exe. Then, download the LAME source from lame.sf.net and compile it like this.

./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-expopt=full

make

make install
OGG, Vorbis, Speex and Theora
The source code for these libraries can be obtained from xiph.org. Compile them each like this:
```
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
```
As for speex, use the version 1.2rc1 or later.
FAAC
FAAC is an MPEG-4 AAC audio encoder. Get the source (faac-1.28.tar.gz) and unpack the package. Then, edit Makefile.am:
```
SUBDIRS = include libfaac
```
Also, edit the line beginning with AC_OUTPUT in the file configure.in:
```
AC_OUTPUT(libfaac/Makefile include/Makefile Makefile)
```
Then, compile FAAC like this
```
sh bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
```
XviD is a popular video encoder used to create movie files distributed in p2p networks. Xvid can use yasm assembler to build optimized binaries if found (/mingw/bin/yasm.exe). Get the XviD source from xvid.org and compile as follows:
```
tar xzvf xvidcore-1.3.2.tar.gz
cd xvidcore/build/generic
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
```
If you encounter "unrecognized command-line option -mno-cygwin" errors, open the file platform.inc in a text editor and delete "-mno-cygwin". Then, run make and make install again.

Copy the import library for xvidcore.dll:
```
cp -iv \=build/xvidcore.dll.a /mingw/lib/libxvidcore.a
```
x264 is yet another good video encoder. x264 requires YASM to build an optimized executable. So get yasm and save it as /mingw/bin/yasm.exe. Then, compile x264 like this:

configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-win32thread --extra-cflags="-DX264_VERSION=20100422"

make

make install

cp -iv x264.h x264_config.h /mingw/include

cp -iv libx264.a /mingw/lib

cp -iv x264.pc /mingw/lib/pkgconfig
Compile librtmp as shown in this post.

Building FFMpeg Statically

You need pr.exe from MYS coreutils package (coreutils-5.97-3-msys-1.0.13-ext.tar.lzma). I configured ffmpeg with the following command:

CPPFLAGS='-DHAVE_INT32_T' ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-w32threads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-memalign-hack --enable-bzlib --enable-libfaac --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib --disable-debug

-DHAVE_INT32_T is used to allow static FAAC to be linked. Then, I began compilation and installation:

make
make install

Compiling FFmpeg Dynamically

Some Windows applications, such as Audacity, uses FFmpeg libraries when available. If you want to compile FFmpeg dynamically, append --enable-shared --disable-static to the ./configure command for FFmpeg.

./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-w32threads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-memalign-hack --enable-bzlib --enable-libfaac --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-debug

If you get "int32_t" error when compiling libfaac.o, open /mingw/include/faac.h and insert the following line:

#include <stdint.h>

When I built mplayer with --enable-static and --disable-ffmpeg_a options to force linking with shared ffmpeg libraries, I had to rename ffmpeg libraries so their names end in *.a.

cd /mingw/lib
cp -iv libavcodec.dll.a libavcodec.a
cp -iv libavformat.dll.a libavformat.a
cp -iv libavutil.dll.a libavutil.a
cp -iv libpostproc.dll.a libpostproc.a
cp -iv libswscale.dll.a libswscale.a

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Using Mencoder To Merge AVI Files

Merging 2 AVI files can be easily accomplished with mencoder. But the two AVI files must be encoded with the same video and audio codec. Assuming that you have part1.avi and part2.avi, seamlessly consecutive, the mencoder command to concatenate them is:

mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o whole.avi part1.avi part2.avi

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Setting Up Codecs For Windows 7

Although Windows 7 provides wider support for multimedia files, including H.264, XviD, DIVX and AAC, Windows Media Player 12 has some bugs, such as jittery DVD sound. For satisfying multimedia experience in Windows 7, one needs to take some steps to set up additional codecs. Though ffdshow is a comprehensive codec package, I am going to use alternative codecs other than ffdshow.

Go to C:\Windows\System32 and rename msmpeg2adec.dll and msmpeg2vdec.dll. Alternatively, run Win7DSFilterTweaker and check both Disable Microsoft DTV-DVD Audio decoder and Disable Microsoft DTV-DVD Video decoder.
Install DirectShow FilterPack (DSFP.zip) which only contains DirectShow source filters and splitters, but no codecs. Unpack the package (DSFP-3.32.exe) into C:\Program Files. Start the Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as administrator and run the batch file DSFP_inst.bat.
```
cd "C:\Program Files\DirectShow FilterPack"
DSFP_inst.bat
```
Install XviD codec.
Install AC3filter which allows Media Player to play AC3 and DTS sound.
Install DirectShow filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC from xiph.org.
Obtain CLVsd.ax from the Web and run the following command in an elevated Command Prompt.
```
regsvr32 CLVsd.ax
```
CLVsd.ax can be obtained this way:
- Download PowerDVD from filehippo.
- Right-click the installer (CyberLink.1705(Trial)_DVD100510-04.exe) and open it with 7-zip.
- Right-click data1.cab and choose Open Inside.
- Extract the file _64A6CC87C2FD46EDBDBCC13164131D6A (1,086,832 bytes) to C:\Windows\System32 folder.
- Rename _64A6CC87C2FD46EDBDBCC13164131D6A as CLVsd.ax.
- Run "regsvr32 CLVsd.ax" as administrator.
Open the registry editor (regedit) and navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Decoder and find the entry PreferredMPEG2VideoDecoderCLSID. Double-click the entry and enter {516F1EFA-42F4-436E-801C-B752EB9343EB} (UUID for Cyberlink decoder). You can verify the CLSID with Radlight Filter Manager (DSFM.exe) that was installed by DirectShow FilterPack above.
Download the DirectVobSub filter, also known as VSfilter. Copy VSFilter.dll to C:\Windows\System32 and run the following command:
```
regsvr32 VSFilter.dll
```

Friday, April 9, 2010

MinGW: MPlayer와 Mencoder 동적 컴파일하기

MinGW의 GCC 컴파일러를 사용하여 Windows용 MPlayer와 Mencoder를 컴파일해 보자. MPlayer는 동영상을 보는 프로그램이고 Mencoder는 동영상이나 음악을 인코딩하는 프로그램이다. 예전에는 정적으로 컴파일하였지만 이번에는 동적으로 컴파일해 보자.

우선 MinGW를 설치한다. MPlayer는 FFmpeg 라이브러리에 의존하므로 먼저 FFmpeg 라이브러리를 동적으로 컴파일하도록 한다.

시작 메뉴를 열어 MinGW (rxvt)를 실행한다. 노란 창이 나타날 것이다. 그럼 다음과 같이 MPlayer와 의존 라이브러리를 컴파일하자.

LZO 압축 라이브러리 컴파일 (옵션)

tar xzvf lzo-2.03.tar.gz
cd lzo-2.03/
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

Fribidi 라이브러리 컴파일 (옵션)

Fribidi는 아랍어와 히브리어의 표시에 필요하다. 솔직히 이 기능은 빠뜨려도 된다.
```
tar xzvf fribidi-0.19.2.tar.gz
cd fribidi-0.19.2/
./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-debug
make
make install
```
자세한 내용은 Fribidi에 관한 글을 참조.

giflib 라이브러리 컴파일 (옵션)

tar xjvf giflib-4.1.6.tar.bz2 
cd giflib-4.1.6/
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

Live555 라이브러리 컴파일 (권장)

Live 라이브러리는 인터넷 동영상을 보는 데 쓰인다. live555.com에서 최신 버전을 받아 다음과 같이 컴파일한다:
```
export CC=/mingw/bin/gcc.exe
cd /mingw/lib/
tar xzvf live.2010.04.01.tar.gz 
cd live/
./genMakefiles mingw
make
```

JPEG 라이브러리 컴파일 (권장)

tar xzvf jpegsrc.v8a.tar.gz
cd jpeg-8a/
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

PNG 라이브러리 컴파일 (권장)

tar xzvf libpng-1.4.1.tar.gz 
cd libpng-1.4.1
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

FreeType 라이브러리 컴파일 (필수)

자막 표시에 필요하다.

그리고 Freetype를 컴파일한다.
```
tar xzvf freetype-2.3.12.tar.gz 
cd freetype-2.3.12/
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make install
```
만일 iconv 라이브러리가 설치되어 있지 않다면 컴파일한다. libXML2 그리고 fontconfig 에 필요하다.

libXML2 컴파일

만약에 fontconfig 라이브러리를 컴파일하려면 필요하다. 먼저 testThreads.c를 고친다.

--- testThreads.c.orig  2009-09-11 18:09:00.268640135 +0200
+++ testThreads.c       2009-09-11 18:12:43.412653512 +0200
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
 
        for (i = 0; i < num_threads; i++) {
            results[i] = NULL;
-           tid[i] = (pthread_t) -1;
+           memset(&tid[i], 0, sizeof(pthread_t));
        }
 
        for (i = 0; i < num_threads; i++) {

그리고 컴파일한다:

./configure --prefix=/mingw
make install

Fontconfig 라이브러리 컴파일 (권장)

SSA 자막 표시에 필요하다.

tar xzvf fontconfig-2.8.0.tar.gz 
cd fontconfig-2.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make install

Libcdio 컴파일 (옵션)

tar xzvf libcdio-0.83.tar.gz 
cd libcdio-0.83/
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

Libdca 컴파일 (권장)

tar xjvf libdca-0.0.5.tar.bz2 
cd libdca-0.0.5/
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make install

DirectX 7 라이브러리 추출 (권장)

cd /mingw/include/
tar xzvf dx7headers.gz

MPlayer, Mencoder 컴파일

ffmpeg 소스를 받아서 mplayer 소스 디렉토리에 넣는다.

tar xjvf mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2

cd mplayer-export-2011-11-25/

tar xjvf ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2

CPPFLAGS='-DWIN32 -DHAVE_INT32_T' ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-runtime-cpudetection --enable-theora --enable-fribidi --disable-ffmpeg_a --yasm=/mingw/bin/yasm

MPlayer를 컴파일하기 전에 config.mak를 텍스트 에디터(notepad.exe)로 수정한다.
```
EXTRALIBS_MPLAYER  = -lgdi32 -lopengl32 -lwinmm -lfaac -lx264 -lmp3lame -lfribidi
EXTRALIBS_MENCODER = -lfaac -lx264 -lfribidi -lmp3lame
```
MPlayer 컴파일 시작한다.
```
make
```

MPlayer.exe와 Mencoder.exe를 복사한다.

strip mencoder.exe mplayer.exe
cp -iv m*.exe /mingw/bin

Monday, February 15, 2010

Using Mencoder to Rip DVD into AVI/MKV/MP4 movies

Since I compiled MPlayer and Mencoder, I can use the programs for ripping DVD's as well as watching movies. Usually, I use SMPlayer frontend to play movies. Here I summarize how to make AVI, Matroska (.MKV) or MP4 files containing H.264 video and AAC audio.

First, download my Mplayer/Mencoder builds for Windows. MKVtoolnix is also needed.

Finding the Main DVD Title

In most cases, the first DVD title is the movie you want. Often, you can watch the feature title with the following command (Assuming D: is the DVD drive):

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device D:\ -ao dsound -vo directx:accel

For Windows Vista and Windows 7, direct3d is recommended as video output:

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device D:\ -ao dsound -vo direct3d

However, some DVD's have a feature title on a track other than the first. For such DVD's, trying each track can be tedious. The following command will help identify the main title on the DVD and also find information on available chapters and subtitles.

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device D:\ -identify -vf cropdetect > log.txt

Stop the movie after a moment (pressing q) and you'll get the log file log.txt. In the log.txt file, you'll find the main title to be the longest:

ID_DVD_TITLE_15_LENGTH=12.000
ID_DVD_TITLE_16_LENGTH=5513.533
ID_DVD_TITLE_17_LENGTH=0.500

Here, you find that the 16th title is the feature film.

Dumping the Feature Film from DVD

You can use MPlayer to save a DVD title on hard drive:

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device D: -v -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.vob

Now you can put aside your DVD. From now on, you can work with the VOB file saved on your hard drive. Alternatively, you can use VLC to dump a DVD title.

Finding Crop Values

If your DVD is widescreen (not fullscreen), look for the crop values from the log.txt file obtained above:

[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719  Y: 60..417  (-vf crop=720:352:0:64).

In this example, the crop value will be 720:352:0:64. Note that the first two values (here 720 and 352) have to be divisible by 16.

Encoding DVD to an AVI file containing H.264 video and AAC audio

The following command actually creates an AVI file encoded in H.264:

mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device E:\ -o movie.avi -oac faac -faacopts object=2:br=128 -vf pp=lb,filmdint,crop=704:464:6:10,scale=720:480,harddup -sws 8 -ofps 24000/1001 -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=20:8x8dct:frameref=4:bframes=3:b_pyramid=normal:weight_b

The -vf scale= filter is used to resize the video stream. The output refresh rate will be 24000/1001=23.976 frames per second. If you're concerned with encoding speed, set bframes=2.

Encoding DVD to an AVI file containing DIVX video and MP3 audio

The following example shows how to create an AVI file encoded in MPEG-4. In the example below, the encoding bitrate is moderately 768 kilobits per second. The crop filter is only for widescreen titles.:

set VENCOPTS=vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=896:vmax_b_frames=2:mbd=2:v4mv:last_pred=3:trell:cbp
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device E:\ -o NUL -nosound -vf yadif=0,crop=704:464:6:10,scale=720:480,harddup -ovc lavc -lavcopts %VENCOPTS%:autoaspect:vpass=1
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device E:\ -o movie.avi -aid 128 -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=128,aq=2,vol=8 -vf yadif=0,crop=704:464:6:10,scale=720:480 -ovc lavc -lavcopts %VENCOPTS%:autoaspect:vpass=2

Encoding Additional Sound Tracks

The following example command encodes the English sound track (aid 128) to +8dB-amplified 96kbps MP3:

mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device D:\ -o audio-en.mp3 -of rawaudio -ovc frameno -aid 128 -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=96,aq=2,vol=8

The following example encodes an AAC file:

mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device E: -o audio-en.aac -of rawaudio -ovc frameno -aid 128 -oac faac -faacopts object=2:br=128

Another way to encode DVD audio is to save the sound as .WAV file and encode it with LAME MP3 encoder. First, extract the audio as .WAV file. Then, encode the .WAV file to MP3.

mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device D:\ -vo null -vc null -aid 128 -ao pcm:fast:file=audio-en.wav
lame --preset tape -h audio-en.wav audio-en.mp3

Later, you can mux AVI:

mencoder.exe -ffourcc DIVX -oac copy -ovc copy -o final_movie.avi -audiofile audio-en.mp3 movie.avi

Editing Chapters.txt

In the log.txt file, you'll find a section that looks like:

CHAPTERS: 00:00:00,00:03:37,00:05:42,00:09:12,00:11:24,00:16:18,00:20:21,00:22:56,00:26:14,00:29:31,00:32:26,00:35:13,00:38:13,00:42:14,00:43:47,00:48:25,00:51:45,00:53:52,00:57:32,01:00:04,01:05:44,01:08:29,01:10:45,01:13:53,01:18:21,01:21:10,01:24:45,01:28:53,01:31:32,01:33:36,01:35:36,01:38:57,01:41:44,

With a text editor, create a text file chapters.txt and put something like:

CHAPTER01=00:00:00.00
CHAPTER01NAME=My name is John Connor.
CHAPTER02=00:03:37.01
CHAPTER02NAME=Weight of the future.
CHAPTER03=00:05:42.16
CHAPTER03NAME=T-X arrives.

Extracting Subtitles from DVD

If you look at the log.txt file gotten above, you'll find information on subtitles.

subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=en
subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: fr
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1
ID_SID_1_LANG=fr
subtitle ( sid ): 2 language: es
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=2
ID_SID_2_LANG=es

To extract DVD subtitles, I ran the following command in the Command Prompt:

mencoder movie.vob -nosound -ovc frameno -o nul -sid 0 -vobsubout subtitle-en -vobsuboutindex 0 -vobsuboutid en

mencoder movie.vob -nosound -ovc frameno -o nul -sid 1 -vobsubout subtitle-fr -vobsuboutindex 1 -vobsuboutid fr

mencoder movie.vob -nosound -ovc frameno -o nul -sid 2 -vobsubout subtitle-es -vobsuboutindex 2 -vobsuboutid es

The sid and vobsuboutindex number can be obtained from the log.txt file above. Do this for each subtitle but remember to name each output file uniquely.

Creating a Matroska file with Mkvmerge

Let's put together the video, audio and subtitles into a Matroska package. For this task, a command-line tool mkvmerge from MkvToolNix project is used.

mkvmerge
 --title "Holiday Trip" --chapters CHAPTERS.TXT -o my_movie.mkv
 --aspect-ratio 0:4/3
 --track-name 1:"English AAC audio" --default-track 1 --language 1:en movie.avi
 --track-name 0:"French AAC audio" --language 0:fr audio-fr-51.aac
 --language 0:en en.idx --language 0:fr fr.idx --language 0:es es.idx

If there's a problem with audio/video synchronization, use the --sync option with mkvmerge. For example, the following command makes the audio track start at 13 seconds after the video starts:

mkvmerge -o movie.mkv video.264 --sync 0:13000 audio.mp3

Creating .MP4 files

Use MP4Box to create a .MP4 movie.

MP4Box -add video.h264 -add audio-en.mp3:lang=eng -add audio-fr.mp3:lang=fre -add en.idx -add fr.idx -add es.idx -fps 23.976 -chap CHAPTERS.TXT movie.mp4

Monday, June 8, 2009

Compiling Mencoder for Windows

Mencoder is a command-line tool for creating multimedia files. It allows you to convert video from one format to another. When used together with OGMRip, mencoder helps you to rip DVD into a video file that's convenient to watch on computers. Note that the instruction herein explains how to compile Mencoder for the Windows platform, not Linux.

MinGW must be installed first (Look here for how). Once you have MinGW, launch MSYS (rxvt) from the Start menu and type the following commands.

PNG and JPEG

PNG depends on zlib compression library. Download the zlib source from zlib.net and compile as follows:

tar xzvf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.3
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

Now get the PNG library here and compile it as follows:

tar xzvf libpng-1.2.34.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.2.34/
./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared
make
make install

Download the source for JPEG library, compile and install JPEG as follows:

tar xzvf jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz
cd jpeg-7
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

libdca Library

Download the libdca source from videolan.org and compile it like this:

tar xjvf libdca-0.0.5.tar.bz2
cd libdca-0.0.5
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

OGG, Vorbis and Theora

The source for these libraries can be obtained from xiph.org. Compile them like this:
```
./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared
make
make install
```

Libcdio Library

Download the libcdio source from here. Compile and install libcdio as follows:

tar xzvf libcdio-0.81.tar.gz
cd libcdio-0.81
./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared
make
make install

Live555 library

The Live555 library is used to decode streaming media. Get the live555 source from here and compile it as follows:
```
cd /mingw/lib
tar xzvf live.2009.07.28.tar.gz
cd live
./genMakefiles mingw
make
```
LAME

LAME is an MP3 encoder. This library allows Mencoder to encode DVD sound into MP3 audio. Download LAME from lame.sf.net and compile it as follows.

./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-expopt=full

make

make install
TwoLame

TwoLAME is an MP2 audio encoder. Get the source from twolame.org and compile it:
```
./configure --prefix=/mingw CPPFLAGS='-DLIBTWOLAME_STATIC'
make
make install
```
XviD

In case you didn't know, XviD is the most popular video encoder used in creating movie files found on the P2P networks. With this library, mencoder can rip a DVD into XviD video. Get the XviD source from xvid.org and compile as follows:

tar xzvf xvidcore-1.2.2.tar.gz

cd xvidcore/build/generic

./configure --prefix=/mingw

make

make install

In addition, change to the /mingw/bin directory and copy xvidcore.a to libxvidcore.a.

cd /mingw/lib

cp xvidcore.a libxvidcore.a
FAAC

FAAC is an MPEG-4 AAC audio encoder. Get the source (faac-1.28.tar.gz) and unpack the package. Then, edit Makefile.am:
```
SUBDIRS = include libfaac
```
Also, edit the line beginning with AC_OUTPUT in the file configure.in:
```
AC_OUTPUT(libfaac/Makefile include/Makefile Makefile)
```
Then, compile FAAC like this
```
sh bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-static --disable-shared
make
make install
```
x264

x264 is yet another good video encoder. x264 requires YASM to build an optimized executable. So get yasm and save it as /mingw/bin/yasm.exe. Then, compile x264 like this:

sh configure --prefix=/mingw --extra-cflags="-DX264_VERSION=20090608"

make

make install
Compiling Mencoder

Now you're ready to compile mencoder. Download the MPlayer source snapshot from mplayerhq.hu and unpack it. Then, type the following commands into the MSYS window to produce the executable mencoder.exe.

CPPFLAGS='-DHAVE_INT32_T -DLIBTWOLAME_STATIC'./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-runtime-cpudetection --enable-static --enable-theora --yasm=/mingw/bin/yasm

make mencoder

strip *.exe

mv -iv mencoder.exe /c/Windows

This produces a static executable mencoder.exe and copies it into the C:\WINDOWS folder.

If you'd like to try my mencoder build, download it from here. Its filename is MPlayer-svn-r30521-snapshot-3.4.5.zip.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Building FAAC, XviD, GPAC and OGMRip

MPlayer Series

After building MPlayer and Mencoder for Linux, the last fun part is to build OGMRip so that we can rip movies into AVI or MP4 files as found on the P2P networks. OGMRip is a graphical movie convertor that uses MPlayer and Mencoder to convert a movie into another format.

Building FAAC

First, let's compile FAAC as it is needed to encode AAC audio. You need a g++ compiler, autoconf, automake and tcl-dev to compile FAAC, following a typical procedure:

./bootstrap
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --with-mp4v2
make
make install

The bootstrap command produces the configure script and Makefile necessary for the build procedure. The following set of files are generated upon compilation of FAAC:

/usr/bin/faac
/usr/include/faac.h
/usr/include/faaccfg.h
/usr/lib/libfaac.a
/usr/lib/libfaac.la
/usr/lib/libfaac.so
/usr/lib/libfaac.so.0
/usr/lib/libfaac.so.0.0.0
/usr/man/man1/faac.1.gz

Building XviD library

Now, let's build the XviD library. XviD is a popular video codec. A typical build procedure for XviD looks like this:

tar xzf xvidcore-1.2.2.tar.gz
cd xvidcore/build/generic
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Upon successful compilation, the following set of files are installed on system.

/usr/lib/libxvidcore.a
/usr/include/xvid.h
/usr/lib/libxvidcore.so
/usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4
/usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4.1

Building GPAC

Next, let's compile GPAC which is an open-source MPEG-4 encoder. Before compiling GPAC, install the following developer libraries, most of which are optional:

liba52-0.7.4-dev
libasound2-dev
libavformat-dev
libfaad-dev
libmad0-dev
libmozjs-dev
libogg-dev
libopenjpeg-dev
libssl-dev
libtheora-dev
libvorbis-dev
libwxgtk2.8-0
libxvidcore4

Then, compile GPAC as follows:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --cpu=i586 --enable-pic --strip --use-ffmpeg=local --use-js=local

make

make install

When GPAC is compiled and installed successfully, the following set of files are generated on the system:

/usr/bin/MP4Box
/usr/bin/MP4Client
/usr/bin/Osmo4
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_aac_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ac3_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_alsa.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_bifs_dec.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ctx_load.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_dummy_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ffmpeg_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ft_font.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_gpac_js.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_img_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ismacryp.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_isom_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_laser_dec.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_mp3_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_mpegts_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_odf_dec.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ogg_xiph.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_oss_audio.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_raw_out.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_rtp_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_saf_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_soft_raster.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_svg_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_timedtext.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_x11_out.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_xvid_dec.so
/usr/lib/libgpac-0.4.5.so
/usr/lib/libgpac.so
/usr/man/man1/gpac.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/mp4box.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/mp4client.1.gz
/usr/share/gpac/gpac.mp4

If you encounter the following error during compilation:

scenegraph/vrml_smjs.c:41:20: error: jsapi.h: No such file or directory

make symlinks to jsapi.h and compile again as follows:

cd include/

ln -s ../extra_lib/include/js/* .

cd ..

./configure --prefix=/usr --cpu=i586 --enable-pic --strip --use-ffmpeg=local --use-js=local --extra-cflags=-DXP_UNIX

make

make install

Some programs require the gpac static library libgpac_static.a. This file is not installed by default. However, you can copy it manually:

cp bin/gcc/libgpac_static.a usr/lib

Building OGMRip

Finally, let's build OGMRip. First, make sure you have the following developer libraries:

libdbus-glib-1-dev
libdvdread-dev
libenca-dev
libenchant-dev
libgconf2-dev
libglade2-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
libhal-dev
libnotify-dev
libstdc++6-4.4-dev
libtheora-dev

Optionally, install intltool, gtk-doc and xsltproc for internationalization and documentation. Then, build OGMRip as follows:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-gtk-doc --with-ocr=auto

make

make install

After OGMRip is compiled and installed successfully, the following set of files are generated on system:

/etc/gconf/schemas/ogmrip.schemas
/usr/bin/avibox
/usr/bin/dvdcpy
/usr/bin/ogmrip
/usr/bin/subp2pgm
/usr/bin/subp2png
/usr/bin/subp2tiff
/usr/bin/subptools
/usr/bin/theoraenc
/usr/include/ogmdvd/
/usr/include/ogmjob/
/usr/include/ogmrip/
/usr/lib/libogmdvd-gtk.a
/usr/lib/libogmdvd-gtk.la
/usr/lib/libogmdvd-gtk.so
/usr/lib/libogmdvd-gtk.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmdvd-gtk.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmdvd.a
/usr/lib/libogmdvd.la
/usr/lib/libogmdvd.so
/usr/lib/libogmdvd.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmdvd.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmjob.a
/usr/lib/libogmjob.la
/usr/lib/libogmjob.so
/usr/lib/libogmjob.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmjob.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-gtk.a
/usr/lib/libogmrip-gtk.la
/usr/lib/libogmrip-gtk.so
/usr/lib/libogmrip-gtk.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-gtk.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-lavc.a
/usr/lib/libogmrip-lavc.la
/usr/lib/libogmrip-lavc.so
/usr/lib/libogmrip-lavc.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-lavc.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-mplayer.a
/usr/lib/libogmrip-mplayer.la
/usr/lib/libogmrip-mplayer.so
/usr/lib/libogmrip-mplayer.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-mplayer.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip.a
/usr/lib/libogmrip.la
/usr/lib/libogmrip.so
/usr/lib/libogmrip.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/ogmrip/
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ogmdvd-gtk.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ogmdvd.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ogmjob.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ogmrip-gtk.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ogmrip.pc
/usr/share/applications/ogmrip.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ogmrip/
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ogmdvd-gtk
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ogmdvd/
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ogmjob/
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ogmrip-gtk/
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ogmrip/
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ogmrip.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ogmrip.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ogmrip.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ogmrip.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ogmrip.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/avibox.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dvdcpy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/subp2pgm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/subptools.1.gz
/usr/share/ogmrip/
/usr/share/pixmaps/ogmrip.png

Now that you've compiled OGMRip, go ahead and test it. Be sure that mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, vorbis-tools, gpac, faac, lame, mkvtoolnix and gocr (or ocrad) are installed, also.

Friday, December 26, 2008

SMPlayer, the Ultimate Movie Player

MPlayer Series

There are a good number of programs that allow you to play DVD's and movie files. For me, SMPlayer is a powerful movie player. SMPlayer is in fact just a GUI frontend for MPlayer. I prefer compiling MPlayer by myself and use it with SMPlayer. However, compiling MPlayer may be a daunting task for most people, so I recommend a SMPlayer installer containing precompiled MPlayer binary. I'll write about how to compile MPlayer some day.

*UPDATE* I finally wrote tutorials on compiling MPlayer for Windows. If you're not afraid of compiling programs from sources, read the following posts:

Setting up SMPlayer

Assuming that you've compiled MPlayer by youself, download the SMPlayer package without MPlayer. The filename is something like smplayer-0.6.6_without_mplayer.7z. Unpack it using 7zip, Tugzip or Peazip, for example, at "C:\Program Files\smplayer-0.6.6". Create a shortcut to smplayer.exe on your desktop and double-click it. When SMPlayer shows up, select Preferences from the Options menu. In the Paths area of the General section, specify the location of your MPlayer executable. Quit and restart SMPlayer. Open Preferences again and choose the Video tab. Select directx (fast) as the video driver. Click the Audio tab and select dsound as the output driver. Click OK. Test SMPlayer by playing a movie.

Box Office Results of Movies 2008

The numbers are final for the 2008 Yearly Box Office Results. Here are the final rankings:

The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Hancock
WALL-E
Kung Fu Panda
Twilight
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Quantum of Solace
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
Sex and the City
Mamma Mia!
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Incredible Hulk
Wanted
Get Smart
Four Chrismases
Marley and Me
Tropic Thunder
Bolt
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Eagle Eye
Step Brothers
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
10,000 B.C.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Bedtime Stories
Pineapple Express
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Yes Man
21
What Happens in Vegas
Jumper
Cloverfield
27 Dresses
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Vantage Point
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Fool's Gold
Role Models
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour
Valkyrie
The Happening
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Seven Pounds
Baby Mama
Burn After Reading
Step Up 2 the Streets
Saw V
The Strangers
The Forbidden Kingdom
The House Bunny
Nim's Island
Australia
Made of Honor
College Road Trip
The Tale of Despereaux
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Speed Racer
Prom Night (2008)
Rambo
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
Nights in Rodanthe
Max Payne
Righteous Kill
Body of Lies
Lakeview Terrace
Meet the Spartans
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
First Sunday
The Secret Life of Bees
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
Death Race
Changeling
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Semi-Pro
Fireproof
Drillbit Taylor
Definitely, Maybe
The Love Guru
Transporter 3
Quarantine
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
The Eye
Leatherheads
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Mirrors
Slumdog Millionaire
Space Chimps
The Bank Job
Untraceable
The Women (2008)
One Missed Call
The Other Boleyn Girl
Street Kings
Shutter

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