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Re^2: 2d animation

by wanna_code_perl (Friar)
on Aug 15, 2011 at 22:40 UTC ( [id://920363]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: 2d animation
in thread 2d animation

I meant streaming to the encoder (e.g., ffmpeg) in the Unix pipelining sense, not streaming to the end user. Offline encoding is indeed what I want, "exported as any reasonable movie format". Sorry if that wasn't clear.

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Re^3: 2d animation
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 15, 2011 at 23:11 UTC

    Hm. OKay, but still at somepoint, someone is going to watch these movies right?

    Drawing, compressing, shipping and displaying 60 frames a second of video in order to display 60 individual numeric values per second is a laborious, time & space consuming way of allowing them to see it. Especially if there are going to be many such videos.

    It would be far more cost effective to construct a simple application that reads the raw timestamp/value pairs from a file and draws the scrolling line trace on the users screen on demand. Then you give the user(s) the application once and send them the raw data files -- which will compress readily -- as they become available.

    My estimate is that 10 minutes of raw data -- say 2 x 64-bit float values per reading -- 16 * 60 * 60 * 10 = 1/2 Mb uncompressed and reasonably, less than half that zipped.

    The same information captured as 640x480 video will run to ~60MB. Even if you radically compress it with a lossy codec, you'll be very lucky to get much below 30-35MB. And the results would be hideously blurry, blocky and inaccurate. Effectively useless for anything other than "Ooh. Look at that!".

    I also seriously doubt that you'll be able to render the movies in real-time, which means you'll first have to record the data, and then play it back -- via some application that renders the scroll line trace -- so you can record that as the movie.

    So, you'll need a line tracer anyway to create the movies. Once you have that, why not just give a copy to the user(s) and let them see the actual trace rather than wait for you to produce and ship some huge, blotchy movie of it?


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      The moving graph is composited on top of raw multi-camera footage, along with some other control information. This is in fact why I wanted to export the graph in a video format.

      Hard to believe, yes, but sometimes the OP actually knows what they want. :-)

        The moving graph is composited on top of raw multi-camera footage, along with some other control information.

        That compositing could also be done at the client for a considerable saving.

        But it is your own and your clients cpu, bandwidth and time, therefore money, that you are spending. Not mine. Good luck.


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        "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
        In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
Re^3: 2d animation
by salva (Canon) on Aug 16, 2011 at 08:02 UTC
    There is a FFmpeg module on CPAN that wraps the C libraries. Have you investigated it?
      There is a FFmpeg module on CPAN that wraps the C libraries. Have you investigated it?

      Thanks! It looks like it might actually offer some efficiency and simplicity benefits (depending on the underlying implementation, which I haven't looked into). I'm planning on benchmarking and comparing the output of both. (I.e., FFmpeg module and CLI, and probably Mencoder as well.)

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