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Old 8th January 2007, 11:46   #1  |  Link
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Muxing VC-1 in ASF

I'm trying to write an ASF muxer for VC-1, and have some questions. What should be put into extradata space of BITMAPINFOHEADER structure for VC-1 (stream properties)? It seems to me that WM asf writer puts sequence header followed by entry point header there, but i can't find some useful info on that. Also, does WMP support annex b wrapper or is it mandatory to send stream info via extradata. Any other info or experiences, and information source would be greatly appreciated.

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Looking into this now. I will contact you by PM.
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Looking into this now. I will contact you by PM.
Hi zambelli,

I have a couple of question too

First of all where can I get sample of VC1 with B frames contained within WMV file, provided by WindowsMediaEncoder.

I'm interested in how MS puts -frames to WMV by themselves?
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Old 11th January 2007, 04:34   #4  |  Link
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First of all where can I get sample of VC1 with B frames contained within WMV file, provided by WindowsMediaEncoder.
I can provide you samples of this, though if I'm understanding your request correctly, you're not asking for anything unusual - just regular Advanced Profile encoded video with B-frames, right?
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Sharing the answer to Doksa's question publicly too:

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You need to stick in

1 byte ASFBinding
Sequence header
Entry header

After the mediaType.

For ASFBinding, you can stick in a 1 if you don’t know anything about the stream.

// ASF Binding enum
#define ASFBINDING_SIZE 1 // size of ASFBINDING is 1 byte
#define ASFBINDING_RESERVED 1 // bit 0 – reserved <-- “should be 1 always”
#define ASFBINDING_NO_BFRAME 2 // bit 1 - when 0, b frame might be present
#define ASFBINDING_NO_SLICECODE 4 // bit 2 - when 0, slice might be present
#define ASFBINDING_NO_MULTIPLEENTRY 8 // bit 3 - when 0, mult. entry headers might be present
#define ASFBINDING_NO_MULTIPLESEQ 16 // bit 4 - when 0, mult. sequence headers might be present
#define ASFBINDING_NO_INTERLACESOURCE 32 // bit 5 - when 0, interlace seq might be present
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"Entry header" is the first Entry Point header. Both Sequence header and Entry point header should contain the start codes as well.

Note on the Sequence header: if you have stream whith multiple sequence headers indicating different video sizes for example:

seq1(720x480),seq2(1280x720),seq3(640x480)

The Sequence header after BITMAPINFOHEADER should be the one indication the max video size (in this case 1280x720).

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I can provide you samples of this, though if I'm understanding your request correctly, you're not asking for anything unusual - just regular Advanced Profile encoded video with B-frames, right?
Did you provide sample stream (ASF with VC-1 B-Frame) to Dmitry Vergheles ?

I'm also interesting about it. Can you share to me?

Actually, Now I'm writing an ASF demuxer from scratch.
ASF has to mux video samples with growing time stamps, but Video with B frames can't be that way.

Is there someone who can explain "how MS can put B-Frames in to ASF container" to me ?

Thanks in advance.

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Did you provide sample stream (ASF with VC-1 B-Frame) to Dmitry Vergheles ? I'm also interesting about it. Can you share to me?
Sure. Here are two videos, one Main Profile, one Advanced Profile, both with B-frames:

http://www.citizeninsomniac.com/video/MP_B_Frames.wmv
http://www.citizeninsomniac.com/video/AP_B_Frames.wmv

B-frame distance of 1 was used for both.
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Sure. Here are two videos, one Main Profile, one Advanced Profile, both with B-frames:

http://www.citizeninsomniac.com/video/MP_B_Frames.wmv
http://www.citizeninsomniac.com/video/AP_B_Frames.wmv

B-frame distance of 1 was used for both.
Thank you zambelli.
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Is there someone who can explain "how MS can put B-Frames in to ASF container" to me ?

Thanks in advance.
Lovehis, demuxer should use timestamps to properly order the frames. Muxer's job is to put increasing timestamps, even if pts's that encoder sends are sometimes decreasing (b-frames, something like 0 3 1 2 6 4 5). It's also good practice to put some meaningful values for timestamps for sake of indexing.

I have another question, maybe someone will know - I have written ASF muxer for VC-1, and even though I have index object that looks ok, seeking doesn't work (at all - not that it works badly).

Thanks, Ivan.
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Lovehis, demuxer should use timestamps to properly order the frames. Muxer's job is to put increasing timestamps, even if pts's that encoder sends are sometimes decreasing
You mean, VC-1 decoder shall re-ordering timesamps when it deocde B-frame. Am I correct?


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I have another question, maybe someone will know - I have written ASF muxer for VC-1, and even though I have index object that looks ok, seeking doesn't work (at all - not that it works badly).
If you share your ASF files... I will check it out.
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You mean, VC-1 decoder shall re-ordering timesamps when it deocde B-frame. Am I correct?
Decoder doesn't care for ASF timestamps at all. It only needs frames in proper order, so timestamps need to be increasing but that's the only condition.
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Decoder doesn't care for ASF timestamps at all. It only needs frames in proper order, so timestamps need to be increasing but that's the only condition.
How about different between "decoding time" and "presentation time" in a stream with B Freams?
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Looking at AP_B_Frames.wmv, we have:

Frame 0, pts 0:000, Keyframe, 10732 bytes
Frame 1, pts 0:040, Delta frame, 6324 bytes
Frame 2, pts 0:080, Delta frame, 1766 bytes
Frame 3, pts 0:120, Delta frame, 5199 bytes
Frame 4, pts 0:160, Delta frame, 1419 bytes
Frame 5, pts 0:200, Delta frame, 5312 bytes
Frame 6, pts 0:240, Delta frame, 1793 bytes

We can assume that frames 2,4,6,... are B-frames. But their presentation times are not correct if one takes the needed reordering into account. Concluding from this, it seems ASF is not any better in terms of B-frame support then AVI (since decoder hacks are needed get get right association of timestamps).
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We can assume that frames 2,4,6,... are B-frames.
Is there a simple way to know which frame is B-Frame (or I, P Frame) Before decoding? How do we know that? Please, let me know.

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it seems ASF is not any better in terms of B-frame support then AVI
I'm totally agree with you mediator.
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Is there a simple way to know which frame is B-Frame (or I, P Frame) Before decoding?
The ASF-cotnainer just tells you about key- (I-) frames. But you will not be able to tell B-frames from P-frames without actually parsing them. Partially, you can try to rely on the ASFBinding byte, but if ASFBINDING_NO_BFRAME is 0, you have to parse in any case...
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Reg Header size

Guys does header size remain constant all the time or keeps changing?? can anyone expalin
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Lovehis, demuxer should use timestamps to properly order the frames. Muxer's job is to put increasing timestamps, even if pts's that encoder sends are sometimes decreasing (b-frames, something like 0 3 1 2 6 4 5). It's also good practice to put some meaningful values for timestamps for sake of indexing.

I have another question, maybe someone will know - I have written ASF muxer for VC-1, and even though I have index object that looks ok, seeking doesn't work (at all - not that it works badly).

Thanks, Ivan.
Hello Ivan, would you share your ASF muxer? I haven't been able to get VC1 into .wmv successfuly. The only thing that kind'a worked was "Solveig ASF Muxer" with "Haali Media Splitter 11012009" installed and must be in .m2ts

Even then it does not makes a good .wmv
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Please share the tool

I would appreciate it if you can post the application for testing.
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Hello Ivan, would you share your ASF muxer? I haven't been able to get VC1 into .wmv successfuly. The only thing that kind'a worked was "Solveig ASF Muxer" with "Haali Media Splitter 11012009" installed and must be in .m2ts

Even then it does not makes a good .wmv
Use MKVmerge for wrapping VC-1 in MKV, then transfer it to an ASF file with Graphedit.
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