How to mix sound files of different format using FFMPEG? - objective-c

I need to mix audio files of different types into a single output file through code in my iPad app.
For example, I need to merge a .m4a file with .mp3 or .wav or any other format file.
The resulting output file should be of .m4a type.
I have compiled FFMPEG for iOS with the link: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2009-October/076618.html
Now, I am not able to understand in which direction to proceed?

This is more of a suggestion than an answer. I don't have any experience with obj-c, though I have worked with audio formats in other languages. Unless you find some library that does this specific task, you may need to decode the files and convert their data to some common numerical representation.
The sample data of a .wav file is stored as signed integers between the range of -32768 to 32767, while mp3 sample data is stored as floating points between the range of -1 to +1. Either representation could be converted to the other through some simple calculation.
mp3ToWavSample = mp3Sample * 32767
Once the data is converted "merging" becomes very easy. You can simply add the sample values together.
mergedSample = convertedSample1 + convertedSample2
You would need to apply this to every sample in the mp3. Depending on the size of your files, this could be a significant processing task.
As for adding reverb to your track, I'd suggest that you ask for help on that in a another question.

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How to write results in to NSArray and save it as csv file using objective-c

I'm trying to store my results in NSArray and save it as CSV File using Objective-C but i don't seem to find any solution which is relevant. Please find the below sample code:
int a=5,b=10;
int c=b-a;
double d=4.5,e=3.0;
double h=d-e;
NSLog(#"host_port:%f", c);
NSLog(#"host_size:%d", h;
I would like to store my values c and h in array and write that to CSV File. Any advise on this would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
When you ask a question on SO you need to show effort - code you've tried, details of what you've read - if you don't you'll get down and close votes (you have one of each as I write this). The code you have included has nothing to do with CSV or arrays, and is not even pasted in valid code (the formats are wrong).
That said, let's see if you can give you something to get you going.
A CSV file is just plain text, you don't need to use any packages to write one, just standard I/O routines will do the job. You also do not need to store all the values in an array and then output the array, or build up a string version of the whole CSV file and output that, you can output items as they are generated if you wish and it may be more efficient to do so. In your code fragment you only have two values, maybe you intend this to be the core of a loop, and given those we assume you wish the CSV file:
host_port,host_size
5,1.5
your values have basic types, int and double, they are not Objective-C object types. Given this you can use the standard C I/O operations to produce your file.
First you may need to obtain the destination file name from the user, assuming this is a GUI app look up NSOpenPanel for this. That will give you an NSURL from which you can obtain the file path as an NSString, and you can convert that into a C string using NSString methods.
Now you can enter the C I/O world, to find the documentation on the following functions open the Terminal and use the man command, e.g. man fopen etc.
To create and open for writing the file for writing use fopen() passing it the C string pathname you obtained above.
To write the headers and each row of data use fprintf(). This takes a format string just like NSLog(), but you must remember to explicitly include the line breaks by using \n in the format.
When you've finished close the file with fclose().
Now go read the documentation and write your CSV file!
HTH

Optimize checking gzcompressed file for changes

I have function which stores data in gzcompressed files, like
function savedata($fileName,&$data){
file_put_contents($filename,gzcompress($data));
}
I want to optimize and don't save if the data is same as in already stored gzcompressed file.
I can open the whole file, uncompress it and compare with the $data, but I think there should be some other way.Probably gz-d data has some crc or something like that, so I can just compress the data, fetch the crc from it and compare it to the crc in already existing file or something like that.
So I just want to omtimize checking the file and $data for changes to make it quicker.
gzcompress() in PHP compresses to the zlib format, not the gzip format.
Each zlib stream ends with a four-byte check value, though not a CRC. You can compare those to see if two streams are different. However if the two check values are the same, you cannot conclude that the streams are the same.

SAS : read in PDF file

I am looking for ways to read in a PDF file with SAS. Apparently this is not basic functionality and there is very little to be found on the internet. (Let alone that google is not easy with PDF in you search giving you also links to PDF documents that go about other things.)
The only things that can be found, are people looking for ways to import data into datasets from a PDF. For me, that is not even necesarry. I would like to be able to read the contents of the PDF file in one big character variable. If possible, it would even be better to be able to read in the file's binary data.
Is this possible with SAS and how? (I got it to work in Access VBA, but can't find any similar ways in SAS.)
(In the end, the purpose is to convert this to base64 and put that base64-string into an XML document.)
You probably will not be able to read the entire file into one character variable since the maximum size of a character variable is around 33 KB. A simple way to read in one line at a time, though, is something like the following:
%let pdfFileName = Test.pdf;
%let lineSize = 2000;
data base;
format text_line $&lineSize..;
infile "&pdfFileName" lrecl=&lineSize;
input text_line $;
run;
This requires that you have a general idea of the maximum record length ahead of time, but you could write additional code to determine the maximum record size prior to reading in the file. In this example each line of text is read into one character variable named "text_line." From there, you could use a RETAIN statement or double trailers (##) in the INPUT line to process multiple lines at a time. The SAS web-site has plenty of documentation on how to read and process text from various types of input files.

How can I add and remove bytes on from the start of a file?

I'm trying to open an existent file save a bytes in the start of it to later read them.
How can I do that? Because the "&" operand isn't working fo this type of data.
I'm using Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("text") to convert info to bytes and then add them.
Help Please.
You cannot add to or remove from the beginning of a file. It just doesn’t work. Instead, you need to read the whole file, and then write a new file with the modified data. (You can, however, replace individual bytes or chunks of bytes in a file without needing to touch the whole file.)
Secondly,
I'm using Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("text") to convert info to bytes and then add them.
You’re doing something wrong. Apparently you’ve read text data from the file and are now trying to convert it to bytes. This is the wrong way of doing it. Do not read text from the file, read the bytes directly (e.g. via My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllBytes). Raw byte data and text (i.e. String) are two fundamentally different concepts, do not confuse them. Do not convert needlessly to and fro.

Output filenames when extracting a range of pages from pdf into jpeg using Imagemagick

I am trying to extract a range of pages from a multipage pdf file into individual jpegs using convert (Imagemagick). The extraction works fine. What I am stuck on is that if I want to extract page range 10-20, I still get out jpeg files with names page-0.jpeg to page-9.jpeg while I want them to be named page-10.jpeg to page-20.jpeg. Is there a way of specifying that on the command line?
I require this since I want to extract pages in chucks of 10 to avoid eating up too much memory for huge pdf files and don't want to keep renaming the files.
I remember having this working in an earlier project but can't figure out what I am missing now.
Finally managed to do this. Leaving a answer in case somebody else is looking for the same. The solution works with Imagemagick 6.5.1.
So we want to extract page numbered i to j from a.pdf into individual jpegs with files named from a-10.jpeg to a-20.jpeg.
convert a.pdf[i-j] -set filename:page "%[fx:t+i]" a-%[filename:page].jpeg
This uses fx operators. fx:t gives the screen number of current image in sequence and we can add our offset to it.
You can specify the first "page" number used by %d in the output filename by adding the -scene n parameter, e.g.:
convert a.pdf[0-9] -scene 10 a-%d.jpeg
will output a-10.jpeg, a-11.jpeg, etc.