This page last changed on Nov 27, 2007 by dcline.

Overview

Important
  • AVED reports indexes movies by Framenumber. Need to convert this to timecode. What is the framerate of the AVED movies?

D.Cline. When AVED recognizes a time code track in a QuickTime container, it associate events to this timecode, otherwise it uses the frame number. It looks like the example here simply did not have a timecode track in it. 

The framerate of the movie will be encoded in the SourceMetadata->frameRate field.

XML Sample

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!--Created by: MBARI software mbarivision v0.1.3 (C) 2003-2004 MBARI built Sep  8 2006 at 13:58:18
-->
<EventDataSet
        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        CreationDate="Sun Sep 24 14:15:05 2006&#xA;"
        EndFrame="1776"
        StartFrame="0"
        StartTimecode="">
  <EventDetectionParameters
          VersionNumber="mbarivision v0.1.3 (C) 2003-2004 MBARI built Sep  8 2006 at 13:58:18&#xA;"
          maxCost="6885"
          maxDist="18"
          minFrameNum="5"
          minSize="100"/>
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="0" TimeCode=""/>
  <!-- FrameEventSets ommitted from sample for brevity -->
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="143" TimeCode=""/>
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="144" TimeCode="">
    <EventObject CurrSize="2043" CurrX="378" CurrY="430" ObjectID="1" Saliency="0.00257649" StartFrameNumber="140">
      <BoundingBox LowerLeftX="342" LowerLeftY="453" UpperRightX="421" UpperRightY="411"/>
    </EventObject>
  </FrameEventSet>
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="145" TimeCode="">
    <EventObject CurrSize="1925" CurrX="376" CurrY="431" ObjectID="1" Saliency="0.00213244" StartFrameNumber="140">
      <BoundingBox LowerLeftX="336" LowerLeftY="452" UpperRightX="428" UpperRightY="412"/>
    </EventObject>
  </FrameEventSet>
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="146" TimeCode="">
    <EventObject CurrSize="2126" CurrX="376" CurrY="431" ObjectID="1" Saliency="0.00213244" StartFrameNumber="140">
      <BoundingBox LowerLeftX="338" LowerLeftY="454" UpperRightX="424" UpperRightY="413"/>
    </EventObject>
  </FrameEventSet>
  <!-- FrameEventSets ommitted from sample for brevity -->
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="658" TimeCode=""/>
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="659" TimeCode="">
    <EventObject CurrSize="255" CurrX="261" CurrY="441" ObjectID="4" Saliency="0.00343171" StartFrameNumber="655">
      <BoundingBox LowerLeftX="245" LowerLeftY="448" UpperRightX="275" UpperRightY="436"/>
    </EventObject>
  </FrameEventSet>
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="660" TimeCode=""/>
  <!-- FrameEventSets ommitted from sample for brevity -->
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="1773" TimeCode=""/>
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="1774" TimeCode=""/>
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="1775" TimeCode=""/>
  <FrameEventSet FrameNumber="1776" TimeCode=""/>
</EventDataSet>

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