On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > Hi there > > [ Please CC me since I don't subscribe to this list ] I usually do NOT do that - I consider it impolite to not join the group but still ask people for advice/answers/help.
Want some help? Join the community - it is a low volume and usually informative mailing list. > The resulting disk played fine in a Pioneer DV-344 DVD player except for one > rather noticeable problem. Whenever there was moderate motion of the > subject, considerable artifacts were observed. If the subject waved their > arm around a blocky trail would appear, disappearing around half a second > later on average. Could be the same problem that Apple's MPEG-2 decoder has: lack of DPME (Dual Prime Motion Estimation) decoding support. What happens if you play the DVD using Ogle? It also does not implement DP decoding. > When the .m2v was played back on MPlayer 1.0.0pre1 these artifacts were not > visible. > I'm reluctant to blame the hardware DVD player for much of this since it's a > Pioneer DV-344 which has a reputation for playing anything you throw at it. Hmmm, the pioneers I've had references to were the opposite - sometimes picky about what they'd play - now a Philips player will play anythin short of a piece of paper :) > The result of all this is that it seems mjpeptools is putting something into > the P frames which the hardware DVD players don't like. Software players > (Mplayer, ffplay) seem quite happy with them though, which is curious. No, it's the lack of B frames. > Can anyone shed any light on these observations - either in terms of ways to > "fix" the P frames or to make the "I frame only" stream happy with fast The answer will be to the mailing list :) Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users