Site suggesion - ideas fault, usable by definition

[Bass7]

Killer ideas.
(=Great(ish) ideas, or not feasable.)

If there were programmers looking for ideas, where would they look on this forum in particular?

There are plenty of ideas roaming about this forum, because they should be posted where they're posted, but they may contain ideas that is needed to be realized. But you may judge on what I have (/like) to say. (I do program, design, but not greatly, not in this field, and not at the moment.)

I don't know if it will be succesful, but that's the first thought.

One excellent idea is for Google, and questioned many times (by many people). Asked to Google Youtube, because one can not always divert (walk away) to the other. This question was and is why uploaded (and user optimized) videos gets re-encoded, and why there is no Youtube ready tool made available. There server is doing a lot for no reason one could say, if the work on local machines is adjusted somewhat (to meet the specifications). There is always a bit more detail loss, where this detail shouldn't exist.

In this way, questions may be answered, and don't have to be reasked in some other form. It's for the big picture.

The second is: Lossless MP4 editing possible..
Is there a utility that can lossless edit an MP4 video/audio file, with the audio file being an MP3. I was not able to find it.
- MP3 (audio) is lossless editable*, and assuming the MP3 file can be partly overwritten, be it a large MP3 file, or many, locating the first second for a fade in for example, and,
- assuming a muxed MP4 is (among other properties), a weaved MP3** and video file, again audio segments should be locatable, for example the first few seconds stream, to be edited in memory, and put back in the file. Sounds great.

I hope with this a start is been made, and the road is clear. (If applicable.) I realize (by experience) that theoretically it relatively wouldn't be much work, but I hope that in this case there shouldn't be much (many sideroads) in the way. How it turnes out..

I plan to post a second post if you'd allow me to do so, with a reallife example.

* Kudo's go to Martin Pesch's MP3directCut, at http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html
**An MP4 file does not always contain MP3 audio.

Yours,
Bass

"I'm afraid I haven't contributed much to this great sight. Sigh. Site."

[Bass7]

(Cool link, you've automatically substituted a present tool! I'm glad I've spelled MP3directCut right.)

"Video" {definition} is now to considered to be both audio and video. (ie. Audible video. Able to be heart.)

I have stayed with YouTube, because it aint all that bad (it's quite good as it turned out), but I did considered to switch to www.vimeo.com, which looks excellent, and doesn't have a 10min time limit (YouTube property, YouTube's choice*). But it turned out nice, better that I expected.

(* Limits did have a good side effect; as a result the Amiga is very nostalgic! So who am I to judge.)

This links may change (I may (?) loose the address when swapping the video), but FrGrolsWelfare will stay, if all goes well.
I like how the 10min. time limit has turned out, because of the feasable chunks in the form of chapters and attention span. The second video however should the audio part be faded in. Because (1) I don't want to clip video off at the start, (2) I may loose the keyframe/I can keep the keyframe, and (3) I like it where it left of and start over. For the sake of the second part, I give the link to part 1 and part 2.
Teteringen2010 - SKIT - part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EXq4wx3pIo
Teteringen2010 - SKIT - part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og7QdiA2aL0

(Further plans are to turn over this account to frgrols.org, I have already provided them with the embed instructions, which YouTube gives with each video.)

In the second part, the audio starts not in neutral, which results in a shockwave through the speakers. This should be faded in, to solve the problem.

It's not that bad, I leave it there for a moment, but, at the moment, I'm guessing and realize that remuxing (my main point), reuploading, and notifying relatives that the YouTube shortlinks "might will be changed", is a reality now. I'm not complaining though.

Thanks everybody for wonderful utilities, and providing practical help in such a massive scale, sideroads left behind (this may be dutch). This goes for everybody. Or is it? You know it. Sorry for any though language.

It's how we built things. Cheers.

[Bass7]

Software used (I've checked their /tools/ names) for YouTube:
Aegisub, SubtitleCreator, Avidemux, VideoCacheView, MediaInfo 0.7.17, definitively more, Notepad++, Google Chrome 5.0.375.125, so it appears.

(In YouTube I might add additional translation captions.)

I've attached a MediaInfo report for all four files FYI. The first two were streamed from YouTube, these (first two files) were created by YouTube on the basis of the uploaded second two files. Have fun!



The second attachment (FastStone Capture 5.1) shows the quality in the first moments before YouTube starts to optimize where possible. The blue original captions are now readable, albeit in Dutch. I decided not to optimize this screenshot to gif or png, because it gained too little filesize savings.

[Bass7]

I also used AutoGK* to create a reasonable total of 60MB worth of video, from the originally distributed DVD. Somehow I couldn't mux (copy in) the mp3DirectCut'd mp3 back (in) with AviDemux (without waving the volume and going slightly faster), so I tried

VirtualDub 1.9.9 Warning
[!] AVI: A non-zero wBitsPerSample value was detected in the MP3* audio format
structure. This has been corrected in-memory to zero for better
compatibility with commonly installed MP3 audio codecs.

[!] AVI: Variable bitrate (VBR) audio detected. VBR audio in AVI is
non-standard and you may encounter sync errors up to 3191ms when
attempting to extract WAV files or playing in some players. If this is a
problem, use Full Processing mode is recommended to decompress or
recompress the audio. (This warning can be disabled in Options,
Preferences, AVI. bitrate: 110.4 ± 17.2 kbps)
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Chose (0) Import MP3 autodetect..

..and bloody excellent! Wellmeant kudo's to both AviDemux and VirtualDub. Kudo's to AutoGK.

The new links are (still under FrGrolsWelfare, I was a bit too sloppy with the first ending) in YouTube:
(1) direct copy of video and audio, no fadeout required, with AviDemux from AutoGK (more control at Gordian_Knot itself)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjzz1h_jNk
(2) AviDemux audio copied from frame 11775, edited with mp3DirectCut put back in (direct stream copy as well, both audio and video) with VirtualDub, mentally prepared to do heavy pcm(DVD)2wav
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smb8RRbLQec (nice link)

The srt (subtitle) files are presumably (still) better off uploaded separately, due to the clearyness. All done. Now for some financial support! (Including AutoGK/Gordian_Knot, AviDemux, VirtualDub..) Well done.

If the audioswap feature on YouTube accounts could remux.. nice feature, I can select scores, but I can't choose/upload an MP3/OGG/flac/e.a. file.
If the edit option had fade-in (in YouTube accounts).. would be good too. The originally uploaded file would probably be modified. But then again my home file would not.
If there was a crop function to modify the video length.. (come to think of it, I noticed the first 12min. upload is still there!)
Nice good annotation (timeline) feature though. Very nice. On YouTube. That's it from me.
I can't swap url links though (Link swapped at [time/place], from user "contents unchanged")..
Time for a 'YouTube' certified upload loot?

Thanks YouTube for this opportunity. You have done well, you should not be deleted I like the Insight csv reports and the geographical visitor map.
Hang on, 24:56 minutes (see screenshot)? That explaines the "15 minute" and the 10 minute time limit before that. The xvid file is about 12:31. Go figure. As I said, the two part video turned out just fine.

Should I upload the whole 12+ minute film instead?