I had an idea for another parameter to guacenc. gaucenc generates an M4V file.
Could it optionally, generate PNG Snapshot images instead. Every second. 1.file.png, 2.file.png .... This would be similar to using ffmpeg to generate PNG snapshots from M4V. Thanks, Adrian From: Adrian Owen Sent: 15 March 2020 22:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: guacenc new parameters Hi Sean, Yes this is something I'd be very interested on working on. My requirements are simple. Start at point x and run to the end. The stream will be active (locked), and each time I visit it and will have moved on. Or supply the 2 parameters, either way make it a contribution to guacamole project I had as look at video.c and see I have a really steep learning curve ahead to code it. Thanks Adrian ________________________________ From: Sean Reid <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: 15 March 2020 22:15 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: guacenc new parameters Hi Adrian, Is this something you'd be interested in working on? I've worked a bit on guacenc myself, so I can give you some information that I've found from working on it. I'm not confident that you need to think about keyframes much at all from the perspective of guacenc. From my understanding (and I welcome anyone who might differ from my understanding or explanation here to jump in), since the Guacamole Protocol attempts to only send changes, guacenc renders a new image in memory for each new instruction in the recording file, based on the previously rendered image. Each new image is just a mutation of the previous, but itself is a full image. These images are sent to libavcodec on a periodic that matches the target framerate. This is done because the guacamole protocol doesn't have a framerate, so to square the circle of converting to a video with a time base, guacenc holds the image in memory so that it can repeat sending unchanged frames to libavcodec if no guacamole protocol instructions mutated the in-memory image. This implicitly means that each image guacenc sends can be a keyframe, so you could potentially start the encoding at any frame you'd like. I'd recommend you look at the logic of video.c<https://github.com/apache/guacamole-server/blob/master/src/guacenc/video.c> in the guacenc source to get a better idea about how this process works. Sean On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 5:17 PM Adrian Owen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Sean, Thanks! I believe that Keyframes are written to video stream, done as work for the Player. So I guess it would be StartKeyFrame EndKeyFrame. It would have to start at StartKeyFrame and run 'n' keyframes and stop. So its a matter of scanning the video stream file for keyframes. That is challenging. I am a C programmer, but know not how to identify a keyframe while reading the stream. Adrian ________________________________ From: Sean Reid <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: 15 March 2020 20:02 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: guacenc new parameters Hi Adrian, I don't see a reason that this wouldn't be possible. I think it would be done by guacenc, though, not by ffmpeg. I'd think that guacenc just wouldn't start sending the frames to be encoded until, while reading the input file, guacenc has reached the start time and stop sending frames to be encoded at end time. Sean On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 1:55 PM Adrian Owen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, ffmpeg allows getting a section of a video file by specifying start seconds and end seconds, Now the Guacamole video steam may not know seconds but: Could Guacenc support extra parameters: StartPoint Endpoint? And then only generate MV4 between those points. This is a theoretical question, Many thanks, Adrian
