Can we send Image file or Video file using Opendds? - image

I am new to implementation of DDS. I have installed OPENDDS-3.9 as it was open source.
my requirement is to transfer some image files and video files between publisher and subscriber. I couldn't find any sample project regarding this in internet, can any one help to get a sample code for image transfer.
And can I be suggested any other open source DDS which could be useful for my implementation.
Thank you
Rama

To answer your first question: yes, you can transfer images and videos. This, however, is not that trivial. You have to serialize your images into bytes, transmit the bytes and then on the subscriber side transform the bytes back into an image. The same goes for videos.
You may want to take a look at Vortex OpenSlice DDS. This is a free Community Edition of DDS I personally preferred over OpenDDS. For a comparison of DDS implementations, you may want to take a look at this question.

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Real time microphone audio manipulation windows

I would like to make an app (Target pc windows) that let you modify the micro input in real time, like introducing sound effects or even modulating your voice.
I searched over the internet and only found people telling that it would not be possible without using a virtual audio cable.
However I know some apps with similar behavior (voicemod, resonance) not using a virtual audio cable so I would like some help about how can be done (just the name of a library capable would be enough) or where to start.
Firstly, you can use professional ready-made software for that - Digital audio workstation (DAW) in combination with a huge number of plugins for that.
See 5 steps to real-time process your instrument in the DAW.
And What is (audio) direct monitoring?
If you are sure you have to write your own, you can use libraries for real-time audio processing (as far as I know, C++ is better for this than C#).
These libraries really works. They are specially designed for realtime.
https://github.com/thestk/rtaudio
http://www.portaudio.com/
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csound
If you don't have a professional sound interface yet, but want to minimize a latency, read about Asio4All
The linked tutorial worked for me. In it, a sound is recorded and saved to a .wav.
The key to having this stream to a speaker would be opening a SourceDataLine and outputting to that instead of writing to a wav file. So, instead of outputting on line 59 to AudioSystem.write, output to a SourceDataLine write method.
IDK if there will be a feedback issue. Probably good to output to headphones and not your speakers!
To add an effect, the AudioInputLine has to be accessed and processed in segments. In each segment the following needs to happen:
obtain the byte array from the AudioInputLine
convert the audio bytes to PCM
apply your audio effect to the PCM (if the effect is a volume change over time, this could be done by progressively altering a volume factor between 0 to 1, multiplying the factor against the PCM)
convert back to audio bytes
write to the SourceDataLine
All these steps have been covered in StackOverflow posts.
The link tutorial does some simplification in how file locations, threads, and the stopping and starting are handled. But most importantly, it shows a working, live audio line from the microphone.

Resize MFT Issues: Video Composition in Windows Media Foundation

I'm trying to do composition with two separate video sources in Media Foundation. I am attempting to encode a video with a video overlay. To do so I am attempting to use the Video Resizer on the smaller input.
I've seen several threads on this, but I thought I'd ask around in any case.
Basically the idea is to create two source readers and a sink writer. The source files are h264, so I use the reader to decode into YUY2. While processing samples, I send the appropriate sample to the Resize MFT, then down the line (I haven't made it this far) I combine the two images to create the overlay effect with MFCopyImage.
My question is: I am getting an E_INVALIDARG when I call ProcessInput on the Resize MFT.
To initialize the mft, I am giving it the appropriate type from the reader via SetInput Type. After that I am setting all the appropriate properties via the PropertyStore, and then updating the framesize for the output type of the MFT. I have read the documentation and modeled my implementation according to the MFT Processing Model.
None of these steps raise any red flags until I actually attempt to use ProcessInput.
Although I have limited experience in Windows Media Foundation, I have been able to use the Framerate DSP with success. I would appreciate any advice.
Thank you!
For anyone else stuck in a similar situation, I ended up not using the Resizer MFT but the Video Processor MFT which worked with much less effort.

Lossless JPEG - can't find any example images, DICOM files

I'm currently working on the lossless JPEG files(not JPEG-LS). It's really hard to find any files to test my application on.
Particulary I need files that contain reset interval markers, multiple DC huffman tables, multiple scenes or comment markers.
Do you know where I could find any lossless JPEG files? Do you yourself have any that you could share?
Thanks in advance, Witek.
EDIT: i could also use DICOM files using this compression standard (tag (0002,0010) Transfer syntax UID = 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.70)
On the following site you can find a few DICOM lossless JPEG files, in particular with the transfer syntaxes 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.57 and .70. Consult the Transfer Syntax section for easy identification of which data sets that provide the requested transfer syntax.
There are also a number of lossless JPEG images of different flavors on the NEMA DICOM FTP site. For more detailed information on the various data sets, please consult the README file.
Here's a large collection of dicom sample images: There are some JPEG lossless images among them. Some subfolders have images that are not valid DICOM, but that is usually documented. By the same maintainer there is also this list of links.
Lossless JPEG is most widely used in XA (cathlab) cine images. These are always grayscale, and exist as 8 or 10 bit images.
You could also setup a free PACS like DCM4CHEE or conquest, send it uncompressed images and have them forward the images jpeg-lossless compressed. The advantage of this is that you can create images of different color spaces, bit depths, planar/bypixel, etcetera. Color spaces are interesting: people sometimes make mistakes to transform the color space like for Jpeg lossy, which you should not do.
Most likely none of these images require advanced stuff like restart markers. If you want to check if this works, create bitstreams with the IJG implementation and package them in DICOM.
EDIT: be warned that there are buggy images out there. I am using an implementation based on the IJG code.

Encode WebCam frames with H.264 on .NET

What i want to do is the following procedure:
Get a frame from the Webcam.
Encode it with an H264 encoder.
Create a packet with that frame with my own "protocol" to send it via UDP.
Receive it and decode it...
It would be a live streaming.
Well i just need help with the Second step.
Im retrieving camera images with AForge Framework.
I dont want to write frames to files and then decode them, that would be very slow i guess.
I would like to handle encoded frames in memory and then create the packets to be sent.
I need to use an open source encoder. Already tryed with x264 following this example
How does one encode a series of images into H264 using the x264 C API?
but seems it only works on Linux, or at least thats what i thought after i saw like 50 errors when trying to compile the example with visual c++ 2010.
I have to make clear that i already did a lot of research (1 week reading) before writing this but couldnt find a (simple) way to do it.
I know there is the RTMP protocol, but the video stream will always be seen by one peroson at a(/the?) time and RTMP is more oriented to stream to many people. Also i already streamed with an adobe flash application i made but was too laggy ¬¬.
Also would like you to give me an advice about if its ok to send frames one by one or if it would be better to send more of them within each packet.
I hope that at least someone could point me on(/at?) the right direction.
My english is not good maybe blah blah apologies. :P
PS: doesnt has to be in .NET, it can be in any language as long as it works on Windows.
Many many many many thanks in advance.
You could try your approach using Microsoft's DirectShow technology. There is an opensource x264 wrapper available for download at Monogram.
If you download the filter, you need to register it with the OS using regsvr32. I would suggest doing some quick testing to find out if this approach is feasible, use the GraphEdit tool to connect your webcam to the encoder and have a look at the configuration options.
Also would like you to give me an advice about if its ok to send frames one by one or if it would be better to send more of them within each packet.
This really depends on the required latency: the more frames you package, the less header overhead, but the more latency since you have to wait for multiple frames to be encoded before you can send them. For live streaming the latency should be kept to a minimum and the typical protocols used are RTP/UDP. This implies that your maximum packet size is limited to the MTU of the network often requiring IDR frames to be fragmented and sent in multiple packets.
My advice would be to not worry about sending more frames in one packet until/unless you have a reason to. This is more often necessary with audio streaming since the header size (e.g. IP + UDP + RTP) is considered big in relation to the audio payload.

How to access data in AudioQueue buffers?

I am struggling to work out how to pass the data from buffer to an array to allow me to display what is in the buffer. Is there an example of code somewhere that is a simple record audio and read buffer? Simpler the better.
I am trying to do something in real time and not read in data from a saved file. I could paste some code that I have tried with no success.
The classic example of writing and reading to audio buffers using AudioQueue is Apple's SpeakHere sample project.
You can find tons of stuff on this and on the web. Just search on "speakhere". One standout page is Matt Gallagher's articles on Streaming and playing an MP3 stream.
Check out my personal answers also. I have some quite in depth posts on audio buffers, e.g.
iOS Stream Audio from one iOS Device to Another

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