On Friday 14 October 2005 16:53, Byron Poland wrote: > On 10/13/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 20:27, Byron Poland wrote: > > > I am recording something for a friend. I have an HD only back end. > > > Does anyone have a formula for going from a HD mpeg2 stream to a DVD > > > compatible mpeg2 stream? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > run through ProjectX, edit and convert in avidemux2. > > > > Steve > > Thanks for the tip. > > I recorded the nova einstein e=mc2 program from pbs, and ran it > through the demuxer on ProjectX, and got a ton of errors, and an > audio stream only. full program stream plays fine on my frontend. > > I'm currently running the mpeg through mplayer to rescale, and dump to > yuv and piping the yuv output to mpeg2enc to encode back to the dvd > complient stream. > > I'm a little baffled though as the original program stream seems to be > a mix of 24fps and 30fps. Mplayer is dumping the following messages > as it dumps to yuv: > > demux_mpg: 24fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate. > V:71858.3 20301/19944 36% 98% 0.0% 0 0 43% > demux_mpg: 30fps NTSC content detected, switching framerate. > Warning! FPS changed 23.976 -> 29.970 (-5.994000) [4] > V:71863.9 20468/20107 36% 98% 0.0% 0 0 36% > demux_mpg: 24fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate. > > The errors in ProjectX and then the multiple fps all seem strange to me.
are you performing any inverse telecine or deinterlacing? I use avidemux2, and am not too familiar with what mencoder has, but I'm sure it has a deint capable of handling mixed interlacing methods. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users