[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] encoder for adobe's flash ScreenVideo2 codec

Mike Melanson mike
Thu Jul 23 05:08:09 CEST 2009


?smail D?nmez wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mike Melanson<mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
>> Joshua Warner wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've developed an encoder for Adobe's Flash ScreenVideo2 format, which is
>>> stored in flv files.  My encoder currently only supports a large subset of
>>> the format.  The only player that supports this codec (so far) is Adobe
>>> Flash Player itself, but ScreenVideo2 makes dramatic improvement in file
>>> size over ScreenVideo (currently in ffmpeg as flashsv) - and should be
>>> very
>>> useful for uploading screencasts, etc.  Most options (block size, etc) now
>>> just fall back on defaults because I couldn't find a general algorithm
>>> that
>>> produced consistantly better results than these.  All the code is in place
>>> to be able to change these parameters dynamically, so future improvements
>>> there should be easy.  The patch is attached.
>>>
>>> The codec is listed as flashsv2 in ffmpeg.
>> How did you figure out the format? I only ask because I don't know anyone
>> who has been able to figure it out based on the official Adobe documentation
>> (that I helped write). :)
> 
> Is this a tricky question? ;) To make it harder to reverse engineer :-P

Not exactly. I worked hard during the last revision to clean up the 
existing SV2 description because we had a number of requests. Combined 
with the fact that it's very difficult to obtain test media (only 
generated by another bit of Adobe software), the format was 
impenetrable. I tried to create a naive encoder (that I wouldn't be able 
to release) to generate some contrived samples (that I would be able to 
release) but didn't get too far before I got busy with other things.

I'll try to review this patch and see if it exercises all of the codec's 
features. The codec does feature something I haven't seen elsewhere-- 
the 15/7-bit hybrid pixel encoding (top bit of a byte indicates whether 
it's the pixel is RGB555 or a 7-bit palette index).

-- 
     -Mike Melanson



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