The Made for Mobile Database
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The Made for Mobile Database This document describes the content and user information for the Made for Mobile database. The database is supplied by the University of Vienna, through the project Content Aware Coding for Mobile TV. For a more detailed description, please read “Made for Mobile: A Video Database Designed for Mobile Television”, which will be available on the database homepage. Contents The Made for Mobile Database consists of a total of 22 professionally produced clips: • 12 mobile episodes (3 episodes, 2 variants, in 2 languages) • 4 news show clips (1 episode, 2 variants in 2 languages) • 4 sports clips (2 episodes, 2 languages) All clips are available with English and German audio tracks. Formats The database is available in a number of formats. Mobile Episodes: Size Frame Video Codec Audio Codec Container rate Format 1080p 25 Avid DNxHD PCM stereo MOV 1080p 25 UYVY 4:2:2 uncompressed PCM stereo AVI 720p 25 UYVY 4:2:2 uncompressed PCM stereo AVI 720p 25 YUV 4:2:0 uncompressed PCM stereo AVI All other clips: Size Frame Video Codec Audio Codec Container rate Format 720p 50 Avid DNxHD PCM stereo MOV 720p 50 YUV 4:2:0 uncompressed PCM stereo AVI The Avid DNxHD format can be read and converted with the “libavcodec” libraries, commonly found in tools like FFmpeg or libav. We recommend converting the material with “ffmbc”, or using the uncompressed material in case of conversion errors. License and Usage The contents of the Made for Mobile Database are available free of charge, but only on personal request. Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, and distribute this database (the video and audio material, the results and all the source files) and its documentation for any purpose, provided that the copyright notice in its entirety appear in all copies of this database, and the original source of this database, Entertainment Computing Research Group, University of Vienna is acknowledged in any publication that reports research using this database. The database and our papers are to be cited in the bibliography as: • S. Buchinger, J. Wippersberg, K. Lojka, K. Macher, W. Robitza, M. Nezveda, P. Hummelbrunner and H. Hlavacs: Mobile TV Content Design Rules, in: TV Content Analysis. CRC Press, Taylor Francis LLC, 2012. • W. Robitza, Y. Pitrey, M. Nezveda, S. Buchinger and H. Hlavacs: Made for Mobile: A Video Database Designed for Mobile Television. In VPQM - Sixth International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics, 2012 The database provided hereunder is on an "as is" basis, and the University of Vienna has no obligation to provide maintenance, support, updates, enhancements, or modifications. We would ask you to leave your personal data (name, e-mail address) and affiliation with us. How to Download the Database Please write a mail to Werner Robitza — [email protected], who will contact you personally and supply you with login details to our FTP server. .