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

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.

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

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.