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Saturday, December 18, 2010

ffmpeg with WTV support

Ah, the joys of open-source software development. A patch that adds WTV (Windows Television, the recording format of Windows 7 Media Center) demux support to ffmpeg is now in a mature state, thanks to developer Peter Ross. Gone are the days of circuitous, roundabout conversions from WTV to DVR-MS to MPEG!

I’ve taken the liberty to compile a 32-bit Windows build of ffmpeg with the WTV patchset rolled in. Also included is a simple fix for the “non-monotone timestamps” issue that often comes up. x264/XviD/LAME MP3 libraries were NOT used for this build, as it’s intended for WTV conversion purposes only.

WTV files can be re-muxed into plain MPEG files as follows:

ffmpeg.exe –y –i inputFile.wtv –vcodec copy –acodec copy –f dvd outputFile.mpg

Windows Media Center users, enjoy!

Download link

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Black Friday 2010: The Aftermath

Black Friday – that special day in November when deals on everything and anything abound. My Black Friday adventure this year, of course, was computers/electronics-oriented. Here’s a list of my shopping spoils.

Best Buy (believe it or not, this big box store actually does have some good deals from time to time)

  • Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM hard drive, retail package (most likely a WD1001FALS in the box) – $59.99

Fry’s Electronics

  • Antec EarthWatts 750W – $65 – $30 rebate = $35
  • Samsung 2494LW 23.6” monitor – $149.99
  • Asus 24X DVD burner, $29.99 – $25 rebate = $4.99
  • Zalman Z7 Plus ATX computer case, $48.00 – $40 rebate = $8 (!)

The WD Caviar Black deal was quite good, especially considering the fact that it’s at Best Buy and a boxed retail version. Fry’s had some unbelievably good deals this year – where else are you going to get a 750W name brand PSU for that amount? Or a DVD burner for $4.99? And a name brand mid-tower computer case for $8 whopping dollars? Simply amazing.

Of course, those rebates are a pain to fill out, but as long as nothing goes wrong I’ll get my money back in due time.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

John The Ripper 1.7.6 jumbo for Windows x86

Here’s a jumbo build of John the Ripper 1.7.6 compiled using MinGW/GCC 4.5.0. Revision 7 of the jumbo patch and OpenSSL 1.0.0 were used.

http://www.box.net/shared/stct8h2ier

Benchmark results on a 4GHz Phenom II X2:

Benchmarking: Traditional DES [128/128 BS SSE2]... DONE
Many salts:    2860K c/s
Only one salt:    2378K c/s

Benchmarking: BSDI DES (x725) [128/128 BS SSE2]... DONE
Many salts:    95093 c/s
Only one salt:    93132 c/s

Benchmarking: FreeBSD MD5 [32/32]... DONE
Raw:    11635 c/s

Benchmarking: OpenBSD Blowfish (x32) [32/32]... DONE
Raw:    701 c/s

Benchmarking: Kerberos AFS DES [48/64 4K MMX]... DONE
Short:    319531 c/s
Long:    1046K c/s

Benchmarking: LM DES [128/128 BS SSE2]... DONE
Raw:    14351K c/s

Benchmarking: NT MD4 [128/128 SSE2 + 32/32]... DONE
Raw:    19418K c/s

Benchmarking: Mac OS X 10.4+ salted SHA-1 [32/32]... DONE
Many salts:    4934K c/s
Only one salt:    4454K c/s

Benchmarking: M$ Cache Hash [Generic 1x]... DONE
Many salts:    22610K c/s
Only one salt:    8376K c/s

Benchmarking: Apache MD5 [32/32]... DONE
Raw:    11752 c/s

Benchmarking: HMAC MD5 SSE2 [hmac-md5 SSE2]... DONE
Raw:    3862K c/s

Benchmarking: Post.Office MD5 [STD]... DONE
Many salts:    4152K c/s
Only one salt:    4165K c/s

Benchmarking: Raw MD5 SSE2 [raw-md5 SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Raw:    11658K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(0): md5($p)  (raw-md5)  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Raw:    12219K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(1): md5($p.$s)  (joomla)  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    6990K c/s
Only one salt:    5343K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(2): md5(md5($p))  (e107)  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Raw:    4969K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(3): md5(md5(md5($p)))  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Raw:    3194K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(4): md5($s.$p)  (OSC)  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    8015K c/s
Only one salt:    7861K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(5): md5($s.$p.$s)  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    8363K c/s
Only one salt:    7139K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(6): md5(md5($p).$s)  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    12473K c/s
Only one salt:    4282K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(7): md5(md5($p).$s)  (vBulletin)  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    13035K c/s
Only one salt:    4321K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(8): md5(md5($s).$p)  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    4505K c/s
Only one salt:    4112K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(9): md5($s.md5($p))  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    6990K c/s
Only one salt:    4181K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(10): md5($s.md5($s.$p))  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    3971K c/s
Only one salt:    3572K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(11): md5($s.md5($p.$s))  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    4332K c/s
Only one salt:    3986K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(14): md5($s.md5($p).$s)  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    6354K c/s
Only one salt:    3971K c/s

Benchmarking:  md5_gen(17): phpass ($P$ or $H$)  SSE2 [md5-gen SSE2 16x4]... DONE
Many salts:    8322 c/s
Only one salt:    8144 c/s

Benchmarking: PHPass MD5 SSE2 [phpass-MD5 SSE2]... Using phpass mode, by linking to md5_gen(17) functions DONE
Many salts:    8263 c/s
Only one salt:    7815 c/s

Benchmarking: IPB2 MD5 [Invision Power Board 2.x salted MD5]... DONE
Many salts:    3923K c/s
Only one salt:    2349K c/s

Benchmarking: Raw SHA-1 SSE2 [raw-sha1 SSE2]... DONE
Raw:    7825K c/s

Benchmarking: Kerberos v4 TGT [krb4 DES]... DONE
Raw:    3557K c/s

Benchmarking: Kerberos v5 TGT [krb5 3DES (des3-cbc-sha1)]... DONE
Raw:    58670 c/s

Benchmarking: Netscape LDAP SHA SSE2 [SHA-1]... DONE
Raw:    10894K c/s

Benchmarking: Netscape LDAP SSHA SSE2 [salted SHA-1]... DONE
Many salts:    13740K c/s
Only one salt:    9742K c/s

Benchmarking: OpenLDAP SSHA [salted SHA-1]... DONE
Many salts:    4946K c/s
Only one salt:    4601K c/s

Benchmarking: Eggdrop [blowfish]... DONE
Raw:    29308 c/s

Benchmarking: Oracle [oracle]... DONE
Raw:    1322K c/s

Benchmarking: Oracle 11g [oracle11]... DONE
Many salts:    4969K c/s
Only one salt:    4483K c/s

Benchmarking: MYSQL [mysql]... DONE
Raw:    1806K c/s

Benchmarking: MySQL 4.1 double-SHA-1 SSE2 [mysql-sha1 SSE2]... DONE
Raw:    6021K c/s

Benchmarking: Lotus5 [Lotus v5 Proprietary]... DONE
Raw:    125067 c/s

Benchmarking: More Secure Internet Password [RSA MD defined by BSAFE 1.x - Lotus v6]... DONE
Many salts:    131995 c/s
Only one salt:    78204 c/s

Benchmarking: LM C/R DES [netlm]... DONE
Many salts:    775573 c/s
Only one salt:    757093 c/s

Benchmarking: NTLMv1 C/R MD4 DES [netntlm]... DONE
Many salts:    1080K c/s
Only one salt:    1045K c/s

Benchmarking: LMv2 C/R MD4 HMAC-MD5 [netlmv2]... DONE
Many salts:    754913 c/s
Only one salt:    744198 c/s

Benchmarking: NTLMv2 C/R MD4 HMAC-MD5 [netntlmv2]... DONE
Many salts:    667882 c/s
Only one salt:    687139 c/s

Benchmarking: HalfLM C/R DES [nethalflm]... DONE
Many salts:    1857K c/s
Only one salt:    1768K c/s

Benchmarking: MSCHAPv2 C/R MD4 DES [mschapv2]... DONE
Many salts:    1094K c/s
Only one salt:    1060K c/s

Benchmarking: MS-SQL SSE2 [ms-sql SSE2]... DONE
Many salts:    14364K c/s
Only one salt:    10292K c/s

Benchmarking: MS-SQL05 SSE2 [ms-sql05 SSE2]... DONE
Many salts:    14376K c/s
Only one salt:    10106K c/s

Benchmarking: EPiServer SID Hashes [SHA-1]... DONE
Many salts:    4750K c/s
Only one salt:    4601K c/s

Benchmarking: PHPS MD5 SSE2 [MD5(MD5($pass).$salt) SSE2]... Using phps mode, by linking to md5_gen(6) functions DONE
Many salts:    13899K c/s
Only one salt:    4431K c/s

Benchmarking: MYSQL_fast [mysql-fast]... DONE
Raw:    27191K c/s

Benchmarking: PIX MD5 SSE2 [pix-md5 SSE2]... DONE
Raw:    11650K c/s

Benchmarking: SAP CODVN G (PASSCODE) [sapg]... DONE
Many salts:    1605K c/s
Only one salt:    1399K c/s

Benchmarking: SAP BCODE [sapb]... DONE
Many salts:    1965K c/s
Only one salt:    1640K c/s

Benchmarking: Netscreen MD5 [NS MD5]... DONE
Raw:    5645K c/s

Benchmarking: HTTP Digest access authentication [HDAA-MD5]... DONE
Many salts:    1869K c/s
Only one salt:    1783K c/s

transcode tools for Windows (version 1.1.5)

I’ve prepared a Windows/Cygwin build of the following tools from transcode 1.1.5:

  • avifix
  • aviindex
  • avimerge
  • avisplit
  • avisync
  • tcmodinfo
  • tcmp3cut
  • tcyait

Only avimerge has been tested extensively. I take no credit except for performing the compilation.

http://www.box.net/shared/4z32ebp5ac

Saturday, November 13, 2010

FLAC.exe for Windows x64

I was messing around with the mingw-w64 cross-compilers for Fedora, and got a bit carried away. The result? a 64-bit build of FLAC for Windows.

http://www.box.net/shared/aabhhqin0j

This 64-bit build seems to be about 20% faster than vanilla FLAC.

Of course, I take no credit other than for compilation.