Re: [ANN] Audio Video Library

> Hi
>
> I would like to annonce my project to build a Library for processing
> audio and video material with squeak. I put a 1st version on the
> SqueakSource at kilana.unibe.ch. It's not much yet. But you can load
> and analyze avi container with mpeg 4 video and mp2 and mp3 audio
> content.
>
> I did this because I needed a tool to repair some broken avi files.
> Other tools I tried just failed badly.
>
>
> Try this:
>
> RIFFArchive openOn: 'test.avi'
>   "use explore it to get a nice tree view of the chunks in the avi"
>
> "open a transcript and execute the following to get some information
> about the contents"
> (RIFFArchive openOn: 'test.avi') analyzeVideoStream
>
> "To extract the streams inside the avi container do:"
> (RIFFArchive openOn: 'some.avi')
>  extractAllStreamsToFile: 'base_fileName'.
>
> "If you have raw streams you can create an avi this way:"
> | avi |
> avi :=
> AVIFile with: (M4VStream on: 'video.m4v')
>     with: (MPAStream on: 'audio.mp3').
> avi runtime: 100.
> avi frameRate: 24000 / 1001.
> avi createIndex. "not working yet"
> avi writeTo: (StandardFileStream newFileNamed: 'test.avi')
>
>
> Here is my tentative todo list.
> - write more documentation and tests
> - cleanup and speedup
> - add more container formats like mp4, matroska
> - add mpeg2 handling (-> dvd authoring???)
> - connect with the other multimedia bits in squeak (sound, video
> playing, ...)
>
> The project is of course open for everyone to join.
>