Re: [CinCVS] Converting .mov file to mpeg2 file with VBR video ?

2006-03-21 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi Piotr > > 1) the material is not going through a lossy intermediate format. DV is > > good but it's still lossy. Avoiding it results in a better overall > > result - less artifacting, lower bitrate for the same quality. > > Hm, that doesn't sound good. So I can't save my DV clips w

Re: [CinCVS] Converting .mov file to mpeg2 file with VBR video ?

2006-03-18 Thread Piotr Legiecki
1) the material is not going through a lossy intermediate format. DV is good but it's still lossy. Avoiding it results in a better overall result - less artifacting, lower bitrate for the same quality. Hm, that doesn't sound good. So I can't save my DV clips without reencoding? So, l

Re: [CinCVS] Converting .mov file to mpeg2 file with VBR video ?

2006-03-16 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi > > I no longer use an intermediate .mov file to do this - since Cinelerra 2.0 > > (and CVS somewhat earlier), Cinelerra has been able to output data to a pipe > > in the format expected my mpeg2enc. So now I just pipe directly into > > mpeg2enc (which gives better quality and ends up being fa

Re: [CinCVS] Converting .mov file to mpeg2 file with VBR video ?

2006-03-15 Thread Nicolas
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:35:02PM +1030, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > Hi Nicolas > > > I use mpeg2enc to convert an YUV4MPEG stream to a mpeg2 file. That's to > > build a DVD. It works, but for CBR only. > > What happened when you tried to do VBR? What did you try? > > > I would like to know if an

Re: [CinCVS] Converting .mov file to mpeg2 file with VBR video ?

2006-03-15 Thread Piotr Legiecki
Hi, I no longer use an intermediate .mov file to do this - since Cinelerra 2.0 (and CVS somewhat earlier), Cinelerra has been able to output data to a pipe in the format expected my mpeg2enc. So now I just pipe directly into mpeg2enc (which gives better quality and ends up being faster in my

Re: [CinCVS] Converting .mov file to mpeg2 file with VBR video ?

2006-03-14 Thread Joe Friedrichsen
Nicolas wrote: I would like to know if anyone on this list got a (working) script converting an output file generated by cinelerra to a VBR mpeg2 file (with AC3 if possible). I even use (old - 1.2.2) Cinelerra, and it can pipe to YUV4MPEG perfectly to mpeg2enc and do variable bitrate. I use th

Re: [CinCVS] Converting .mov file to mpeg2 file with VBR video ?

2006-03-14 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi Nicolas > I use mpeg2enc to convert an YUV4MPEG stream to a mpeg2 file. That's to > build a DVD. It works, but for CBR only. What happened when you tried to do VBR? What did you try? > I would like to know if anyone on this list got a (working) script > converting an output file generated by

[CinCVS] Converting .mov file to mpeg2 file with VBR video ?

2006-03-14 Thread Nicolas
Hello, I use mpeg2enc to convert an YUV4MPEG stream to a mpeg2 file. That's to build a DVD. It works, but for CBR only. I would like to know if anyone on this list got a (working) script converting an output file generated by cinelerra to a VBR mpeg2 file (with AC3 if possible). I tried mencoder