Installation Guide

Installation of the experiment code is quick and straightforward. The experiment code requires all the libraries mentioned in the requirements.txt file and two specific applications: ffmpeg and imagemagick. This project is ARM64 (M1) compatible.

Prequisites:

Python 3

Python Libraries

pip install -r ./requirements/requirements.txt

Linux

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg imagemagick

MacOs (Homebrew)

brew install ffmpeg imagemagick

Windows

Download ffmpeg
Download imagemagick

Add both applications to your PATH.

Instructions

Copy any mp4 video in the folder mp4 for example download a video from youtube using services like http://en.savefrom.net/1-how-to-download-youtube-video/ video used for the experiments available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv9NwKAjmt0
Execute the tests running ./run.sh controller setpoint_ssim setpoint_size

example: ./run.sh mpc 0.9 50000 where 0.9 is the setpoint for the quality (ssim) and 50000 is the setpoint for the frame size

example: ./run.sh random 0.4 10000 where 0.4 is the ssim setpoint and 10000 is the size setpoint
The tests results will be available in the directory results under a folder with the video name and a subfolder with the method name and the two given setpoints. Both the csv and a png figure representing the data will be available.