GPAC goes 10 bit

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We have introduced support for 10 bit HEVC profile last week in GPAC, using the great openHEVC decoder. Doing so, we also introduced support for 10 bit display. The support requires a graphics card capable of driving a 10 bit display; this support is usually enabled via the control application of your GPU. Do not worry, 10-bit video will still show in 8 bit if your graphics card doesn’t handle 10 bit output !

The setup currently requires manual configuration of the player. Edit the GPAC configuration file and set the following keys:

[Compositor]
OpenGLMode=always

[Video]
GLNbBitsPerComponent=10

[Systems]
Output8bit=no

You can also enable it from the command line:

MP4Client -opt Compositor:OpenGLMode=always -opt Video:GLNbBitsPerComponent=10 -opt Systems:Output8bit=no

This has only been successfully tested on windows, using the “DirectX Video Output” module of GPAC. It has been tested on a ATI FirePro W5000 GPU but should work the same on other ATI models or NVidia ones.
Support for 10 bit is also enabled on X11 (same config) but doesn’t seem to work with the FirePro W5000.

We welcome any feedback you may give on the compatibility of GPAC’s 10bit support on any GPUs !

Jean.

5000th commit, 10 years of open-source software

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Dear followers,

We are happy to celebrate the 5000th commit on the GPAC codebase.

GPAC is an adventure started by Jean Le Feuvre in 2000. It has been made open-source in 2003. Since then GPAC has grown regularly to provide you with new features around multimedia and streaming : )

It can now package MP4 and MPEG2-TS using MP4Box and MP42TS, stream with the DASH, HLS, RTP, … protocols , and play back with Osmo4 on many platforms (desktop, mobile, embedded). We even have a live transcoder named DashCast!

2013 has also been an important year for our professional users. They are now able to get professional licensing and services using GPAC Licensing. Don’t worry, GPAC will remain open-source software : )

According to the analytics site ohloh.net, GPAC has over 650k lines of code and has needed 177 years of effort!

20140122_gpac_stats

If you are interested in statistics, you can read this.

The GPAC team

MP4 demuxer examples

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Dear followers,

At the request of some people, we have added to GPAC some sample applications demonstrating how to use GPAC to demux MP4 files. They are not full applications, just examples taking some MP4 files as input and displaying some information about the media samples contained in the file.

So far, we have added 3 sample applications:

  • a basic demuxer called ‘bmp4demux’ capable of reading and dispatching media access units from fragmented or non-fragmented MP4 files, progressively (i.e. while the file is being written);
  • a segment based demux called ‘segmp4demuxer‘ capable of dispatching media units from media segments, where the input data is framed.  This is what is used for the DASH support;
  • and a more advanced demuxer, called ‘fmp4demux’ capable of dispatching media units in streaming mode (i.e. reclaiming resources once media units have been dispatched), where the input data comes from fragmented mp4 but is not framed, i.e. the data in the buffer passed to the demuxer does not start or end at segment or fragment boundaries.

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