h263enc.Init returns UMC_FAILED_TO_INITIALIZE

[runew]

I've made an video encoder application based on the IPP sample "umc_video_enc_con", but when trying to use the h263 encoder I get an initialization failure in the following method:

H263VideoEncoder::Init(BaseCodecParams* init)

The following call:

int h263status = h263enc.Init(h263Params);

returns UMC_FAILED_TO_INITIALIZE

I'm not sure how to proceed from here. When do one get this error?I guess some of the parameters are invalid, but how can I determine which?

-Rune

[runew]

Hi and thanks for the reply!

Here's the members (hope I've got the most of them):

H263VideoEncoder::Init
Width = 768
Height = 576
NumOfFrames = 45
TimeResolution = 30000
TimeIncrement = 1001
quantIVOP, quantPVOP, quantBVOP = 0
IVOPdist, PVOPdist = 1
PVOPsearchWidth, PVOPsearchHeight = 15
MEalgorithm = 1
MEaccuracy = 2
advPred = 0
deblockFilt = 0
calcPSNR = 0
advIntra = 0
UMV = 0
*bsBuffer = 1
bsBuffSize = 1
RateControl = 1
BitRate = 4500
SceneChangeThreshold = 50

-Rune

[runew]

Ok, I'll set the size accordingly. I messed up a little when I dumped the data members the last time. Here's the correct list:

H263VideoEncoder::Init

Width = 768
Height = 576
NumOfFrames = 41
TimeResolution = 30000
TimeIncrement = 1001
quantIVOP = 7
quantPVOP = 7
quantBVOP = 0
IVOPdist = 10
PVOPdist = 1
PVOPsearchWidth = 15
PVOPsearchHeight = 15
MEalgorithm = 1
MEaccuracy = 2
advPred = 0
deblockFilt = 0
calcPSNR = 0
advIntra = 0
UMV = 0
bsBuffer = 1
bsBuffSize = 1
RateControl = 1
BitRate = 4500
SceneChangeThreshold = 50

-R

[runew]

Hi again Nikolay!

The change of size made the initialization go ok! My problem now is to create legal .avi files. You helped me before by providing me with a "simple muxer" that among other things set the FourCC right. Here's the link to your post:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=52907#39823

I've just used the same with the H.263 encoder and tried setting FourCC to "H263", "M263" & "I263", but neither seem to work. Is there a(nother) trick to make this work?

Sorry, I'm pretty new to this...

-Rune

[runew]

Sorry. Still no go. I've tried to play the resulting avi on my development PC (which normally plays almost anything). I'm not sure if the reason is a faulty 4CC or not. I've tried all the H263-related 4CCs I know (H263, M263 & I263). The complete code for the muxer is now as this:

int SimpleMuxer(char *filename, char *AVIfilename, int width, int height, int fps)
{
AVISTREAMINFO strhdr;
PAVIFILE pfile;
PAVISTREAM ppavi; int nFrames =0; 
HRESULT hr;
BITMAPINFOHEADER bmpInfoHdr;
memset(&bmpInfoHdr, 0, sizeof(bmpInfoHdr));
bmpInfoHdr.biSize = sizeof(bmpInfoHdr);
#ifdef USE_H263
bmpInfoHdr.biCompression = mmioFOURCC('H', '2', '6', '3');
#else
bmpInfoHdr.biCompression = mmioFOURCC('D', 'I', 'V', 'X');
#endif
bmpInfoHdr.biWidth = width;
bmpInfoHdr.biHeight = height;
bmpInfoHdr.biBitCount = 24;
bmpInfoHdr.biPlanes = 1;
AVIFileInit();if (hr = AVIFileOpen(&pfile, AVIfilename, OF_WRITE | OF_CREATE, NULL) != 0)return MUX_ERR_AVI_FOPEN;
memset(&strhdr, 0, sizeof(strhdr));
strhdr.fccType = streamtypeVIDEO;
#ifdef USE_H263
strhdr.fccHandler = mmioFOURCC('H', '2', '6', '3');
#else
strhdr.fccHandler = mmioFOURCC('D', 'I', 'V', 'X');
#endif
strhdr.dwScale = 1;
strhdr.dwRate = fps;
strhdr.dwSuggestedBufferSize = width * height;
SetRect(&strhdr.rcFrame, 0, 0, width, height);if (hr = AVIFileCreateStream(pfile, &ppavi, &strhdr) != 0)return MUX_ERR_AVI_CR_STRM;if (hr = AVIStreamSetFormat(ppavi, nFrames, &bmpInfoHdr, sizeof(bmpInfoHdr)) != 0)return MUX_ERR_AVI_SET_FRMT;
FILE *fp = fopen(filename, "rb");if (!fp)return MUX_ERR_MPG4_OPEN;int tmp1 = fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_END);long length = ftell(fp);int tmp2 = fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET);
BYTE *tmp_buf = new BYTE[length];int tmp3 = fread(tmp_buf, 1, length, fp);bool first = true;int i = 0, j = 0, frameCount = 0, frameLength;for (;;)
{for (; i < length; i ++)
{
#ifdef USE_H263// Find Picture start codeif (tmp_buf == 0x00 && tmp_buf[i+1] == 0x00 && (tmp_buf[i + 2] & 0xFC) == 0x80)
#else
// find VOP or GOV start code
if (tmp_buf == 0x00 && tmp_buf[i+1] == 0x00 && tmp_buf[i+2] == 0x01 && tmp_buf[i+3] == 0xB6 ||
tmp_buf == 0x00 && tmp_buf[i+1] == 0x00 && tmp_buf[i+2] == 0x01 && tmp_buf[i+3] == 0xB3)
#endif
{if (first)
first = false;elsebreak;
}
}
frameLength = i - j;if (hr = AVIStreamWrite(ppavi, frameCount, 1, (LPBYTE) (tmp_buf+j), frameLength, AVIIF_KEYFRAME, NULL, NULL) != 0)return MUX_ERR_AVI_STRM_WRITE;
frameCount ++;
j = i;
i += 4;if (i >= length)break;
}
fclose(fp);delete [] tmp_buf;
AVIStreamClose(ppavi);if (pfile != NULL)
AVIFileRelease(pfile);
AVIFileExit();return 0; // OK
}
---
The exported video file can be found here:
http://www.htfhome.com/2007/e4/video/H263_test.avi
-Rune

[runew]

I'm about to give up now....

What I'm desperately trying to do, is to export a video to a format that can natively be read by all newer Windows versions (XP and up).

I've been through the mpeg4 encoder and now the H.263 encoder, so I guess the time has come to ask the question: Are ANY of the IPP encoders capable of this? I thought it was obvious, but I have come to learn that nothing is obvious in this (video codec) world...

-Rune

[Vladimir_Dudnik]

Hi Rune,

If stadard installation of Windows do not support H.264 or MPEG4 or MPEG2 format, is it IPP encoders fault? If Microsoft implementation of H.263 do not follow ISO/IEC standard is it IPP issue? You may need to write requirements in your software that some particular decoder (for example DivX in case of MPEG4)should be installed on target system in order to work with your video data.

Regards,
Vladimir

[runew]

Hi Vladimir!

I'm deeply sorry if I have offended you guys, as that certainly wasn't intentional . You have been veryhelpful to mee (unlike for instance Microsoft).

If I'm frustrated with anything, it's Microsoft and the reduced native support of video formats/codecs in Vista. I'm just trying to figure out ANY way of exporting a reasonably well compressed video that can natively be read by XP and up. If this isn't possible with IPP, that's surely not IPP's fault! But it means that I'll have to start all over again... It's my and only my fault that I didn't write my goal with the application up front. If I had done that, I would probably have spared myself a couple of weeks work...

Thanks for all your help!

-Rune

[Vladimir_Dudnik]

Hi Rune,

that's ok. If you still have a power to fight with that issue you may try motion JPEG encoder, though we do not provide specific example in IPP, but it is quite easy: you need to compress every frame with JPEG encoder (IPP JPEG encoder with simple interface you can take from JPEGView sample, w_sample_jpeg package) and than to feed it to AVI muxer you have. FourCC code mjpg should work. As far as I know, motion jpeg is supported on any Windows system by default.

Regards,
Vladimir