[theora-dev] DirectShow PushSource with theora encoder and Ogg muxer filters

[Cristian Adam]

Hi,

Have a look at the VideoTestSource filter here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikewasson/archive/2008/04/21/video-test-source-filter.aspx

I've tested PAL and NTSC with Theora Encoder and everything looked fine
with the
generated video.

I would suggest having a look at your media sample SetTime() parameters.

Cheers,
Cristian.

On 01.11.2012 10:28, Deniz Koçak wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to test DirectShow PushSource example from the SDK with
> Theora encoder and Ogg muxer (DirectShow filters of course) by using
> GraphEdit tool. My goal is capturing the screen as video by taking
> snaphot bitmaps continuosly (what PushSource eaxmple does) and giving
> them to the Theora encoder through the DS pipeline (next goal is
> transmitting this video **).
>
> My DirectShow graph is like this:
>
> PushSource Filter --> Theora Encoder --> Ogg Muxer
>
>
> First of all, Theora encoder filter did not accept connecting to the
> PushSource filter due to the restriction for the average time per
> frame rate in TheoraEncodeInputPin.cpp file [1]. Because by default
> CPushPinDesktop::GetMediaType(int iPosition, CMediaType *pmt) method
> in PushSourceDesktop.cpp does not assign a value for average time per
> frame, I added the line below;
>
> pvi->AvgTimePerFrame        = FPS_10;
>
>
> FPS_10 is the value I used in m_rtFrameLength(FPS_10) also in the
> constructor CPushPinDesktop(HRESULT *phr, CSource *pFilter).
>
>
> After all, my problem is I tried different values (FPS_10, FPS_20 and
> FPS_30) in the code I mentioned above, but the length and quality of
> the output videos are not sufficient or even correct. Especially
> durations differ between each frame rate (I think there is a linear
> relation between the duration of the final video and the FPS_XX
> value). When I increase the FPS_XX value, like FPS_30 duration of 10
> seconds record (actual time) produces almost 1.5 seconds of video. For
> FPS_20 it is 2-3 second and etc. You can find the videos for different
> FPS_XX values and oggz-info outputs of each video in the link at the
> end of this e-mail [2]. I watched CPU usage and it did not exceed %50
> during the execution of the draph. I am not sure why this is happening
> and how can I solve this problem. I am quite new to multimedia
> concepts and I wonder if you can suggest something. I can give further
> information on request, this is all I remember for now.
>
> Cheers,
> Deniz
>
>
> ** PS: I think Remote Desktop applications uses a different approach
> to capture and transport screen, but I would like to test and see the
> results of capturing the screen as video for now.
>
>
>
> [1] 		if (m_averageTimePerFrame == 0)
> 		{
> 			// Theora is constant framerate, reject a variable framerate connection.
> 			return E_FAIL;
> 		}
>
>
> [2]  https://ceng.metu.edu.tr/~e1244888/video/
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