On Tuesday 05 June 2007 15:27:26 Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > Hallo > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Whilst troubleshooting my problems with a certain .mpg, I tried another > > tack. I combined two .elis into one, so that I wouldn't need to > > daisy-chain files when creating the .mpg. I then fed the new .eli > > through lavtrans to get an .avi. The result was most odd. > > How did you combine the editlist files ? With a text editor ? > Yes. I put in the path and the following selection lines.
> When you don't want to use: > lav2yuv 1.eli 2.eli ... | > > than I would use: > lavtrans 1.eli 2.eli ... n.eli -o combinded.eli > Good - I'll note that for later, thanks. > That way you should also get a single file, you can encode. > What commands did you use ? > > > It ran through the scenes from the first .eli, then, instead of > > continuing to the second part, it re-ran the scenes from part one - but > > in reverse order! > > I think there was something wrong, the way how you combined the files. > > For the other, mail, how did you create the mpeg ? > And what was your input material. I'm clueless with your description. I'm answering both at once here, and also telling you how I worked around it. Hopefully that will give you some idea of what was happening. I finally have a working layout - completely working, but not without jiggery-pokery. Originally the scene had been constructed like this: lav2yuv 04_lijiang1.eli 04_lijiang2.eli fade4.avi | yuvscaler -O DVD | yuvdenoise | mpeg2enc -f 8 -I 1 -q 7 -o scene4.m2v lav2wav 04_lijiang1.eli 04_lijiang2.eli fade4.avi | mp2enc -v 2 -o scene4.mp2 mplex -f 8 scene4a.m2v scene4a.mp2 -o scene4.mpg and fade4 had been created with ypipe -v 2 "lav2yuv -v 2 -o -25 04_lijiang2.eli" "lav2yuv -v 2 -f 25 white_screen_large_sound.avi" | transist.flt -o 0 -O 255 -d 25 | yuv2lav -v 0 -f a -q 80 -o Fade4.avi lav2wav -R Fade4.avi > fade4.wav lavaddwav Fade4.avi fade4.wav fade4.avi All this is exactly how all the other, well-behaved, scenes had been constructed. In the first place I reconstructed the fade4.avi, then the whole mpg. Nothing had changed. By trial and error I discovered that if I left out the fade4.avi the resulting mpg would play throug then return to menu correctly. Adding back the fade4.avi resulted in a stop at the end of the scene. As a workaround I then rebuilt the scene4.mpg without the fade4.avi, built fade4.avi into another mpg, and put them both together as one <pgc> group. Technically, of course, it's wrong, but practically, no-one will be aware of a one-second chapter, and it now behaves perfectly. The practical problem is solved, but the mystery remains. Anne ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users