[Mjpeg-users] Producing a speeded up video

2003-02-13 Thread Derek Fountain
I have captured to MJPEG an 8 minute video clip featuring a short drive (taken from a camera in the car). Can I "speed up" this video, down to say, 30 seconds by encoding every n'th frame? Basically I'm after a final version which looks like 'glav' playing at x30. -- Eagles may soar, but wease

Re: [Mjpeg-users] make fails "too many arguments...dv_decoder_new"

2003-02-13 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Steven, On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 23:45, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Something is needed though to handle the references to quicktime_open(), > quicktime_set_video() and so on, correct? :) Well, that's libquicktime, no? > Would this also be a good time frame to get rid of the an

[Mjpeg-users] Re: smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread scholnik
>> Hmmm, I wonder if y4mscaler can be used simply to do the 411 -> 420 >> conversion even in the situation where no scaling is being requested. >You bet --- it is all just scaling after all: > The chroma planes are being scaled by (2/1, 1/2) and the luma plane is > get

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Steven M. Schultz
hi - > From: Matto Marjanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I won't get around to packaging a version of y4mscaler which handles all > this properly for another week or so. However, the preliminary testing > I did last night showed a plainly visible improvement in NTSC DV material. > I am pleased w

[Mjpeg-users] Metallic sound

2003-02-13 Thread Edouard Chalaron
Hi I am trying various options for the sound. Toolame is supposed to be efficient, but I end up with a strange mettalic sound after encoding. I know I do not have a very good sound system on my machine but the wav is playing fine. Any advice ? Thanks Edouard --

Re: [Mjpeg-users] make fails "too many arguments...dv_decoder_new"

2003-02-13 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi Ronald! > From: Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 17:31, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > A longer term solution would be to use the libquicktime project: > > I think we'll do this from 1.7.x on. We don't need quicktime4linux anyway , the patch is only to get rid of its

[Mjpeg-users] Where to ask question about compiling mjpegtools-1.6.1?

2003-02-13 Thread Craig Iffelberg
I know this is very hard software, but I have a learning disability so please know this so I can try very hard because I want to learn how to make it work. I try to compile mjpegtools-1.6.1 on AMD Athlon XP 2000+ gcc version says: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/s

Re: [Mjpeg-users] make fails "too many arguments...dv_decoder_new"

2003-02-13 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Steven, On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 17:31, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > A longer term solution would be to use the libquicktime project: > libquicktime.sourceforge.net - it has a modern 'DV' plugin and > libquicktime is quicktime4linux compatible - should be fairly > straight

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Mplex fails (too many dropped frames), Sizzle/ffmpegX

2003-02-13 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should I just try dropping this bitrate down? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I > thought 9800 kbps was the best quality you could do for DVD and since I only had > 30 mins of footage, thought there would be no problem in using this? > > As far as the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Charles Yates
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 17:34, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Drop us a line when you've checked in the changes so we know to > "cvs update" the smilutils ;) OK :-) - feel free to update any time now... Matto - thanks for catching the PTHREAD_LIB issue and man page typo. I've applied the -i

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Announce: some effect tools

2003-02-13 Thread Agent Smith
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Torsten Mohr wrote: > Hi, > > i just wrote some tools that use "liblav" to do some effects > on AVI video streams that are captured with "lavrec". > > They are available at: > > http://www.s.netic.de/tmohr/lavfilter.tar.bz2 > > The name is kind of misleading. The tools ca

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Mplex fails (too many dropped frames), Sizzle/ffmpegX

2003-02-13 Thread mjpeg
Bernhard, Thanks very much for the reply. I'm pretty new to all this so trying to learn fast. The video bitrate that I encoded at is 9800 kbps, the arguments I used are: mpeg2enc -v 0 -f 8 -F 3 -n p -a 1 -b 9800 -I 1 -r 16 -q 3 -Q 2 ppmtoy4m -v 0 -S 420_mpeg2 -L -I t -F 600:24 -A 4:5 These a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] PAL and NTSC image sizes [was: MJPEG encodingperformances]

2003-02-13 Thread Martin Collins
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:48:18 +0100 Bernhard Praschinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought of adding the description to the "Optimizing the stream" > Where I describe the problem. And the describe who yuvscaer can > help. And how y4mshift (aviable in the CVS) will help to center the > image.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc messages - what they means?

2003-02-13 Thread Andrew Stevens
On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 7:31 am, you wrote: > Hi everybody, > each time I do something with mjpegtools, I think about > meaning of INFO: messages from mpeg2enc. > for ex.: > INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 12 > INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame start 262 I 2 264 > INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame end 262

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Matto Marjanovic
> Hmmm, I wonder if y4mscaler can be used simply to do the 411 -> 420 > conversion even in the situation where no scaling is being requested. You bet --- it is all just scaling after all: The chroma planes are being scaled by (2/1, 1/2) and the luma plane is getting (1/1, 1/1) (w

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Matto Marjanovic
>> With the patch, if you specify "-i 2" to smil2yuv, then the output >> stream will be in the 4:1:1 subsampling mode native to NTSC DV --- >> which can then be converted properly to 4:2:0 by y4mscaler. (The > > Uh, does this mean what I think it means? That all this time > sm

Re: [Mjpeg-users] PAL and NTSC image sizes [was: MJPEG encodingperformances]

2003-02-13 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > > Hmm... I have to cut 20 or so from the left and at least 4 from the > > right, depending on the channel, day and what I had for breakfast > Well, there's your problem right there. I always have the same thing > for breakfast. Somebody should put that in the howto. About what did you thin

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi - > From: Charles Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Or is it the case that y4mscaler's 4:1:1 -> 4:2:0 conversion is > > more accurate (better) than what is currently being done? > > I'm sure Matto will give you more info, but it's more related to libdv's > mangling of the 411 data in the N

Re: [Mjpeg-users] make fails "too many arguments...dv_decoder_new"

2003-02-13 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi! > From: Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:48, Karl and Tanya Pizzolatto wrote: > > Make fails with a complaint "lav_common.c:425:too many arguments to function > > '3v_decoder_free'": > [..] > > libdv-0.98 > > divx4linux-20029418 > > avifile-0.7.29-20030204 > > jpeg

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Mplex fails (too many dropped frames), Sizzle/ffmpegX

2003-02-13 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
HAllo > I'm trying to mplex a 1.73GB mpv file and a 47.7MB mp2 file using sizzle 0.02r > or ffmpegX v0.06f. However it fails with the output below (from sizzle). Both > audio and video files are created via Mediapipe from a 30 mins, 5.52GB, > Quicktime Movie file that was exported from imovie2.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -I 2 worse than -I 1?

2003-02-13 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I'm converting NTSC DV material (720x480 interlaced 29.9fps, a lot of > movement, shot from a handheld while walking) to standard-compliant > SVCD. > While playing with mpeg2enc parameters, i tried to compare various -I > options. Apparently, -I 2 looks worse than -I 1, which is not what i

Re: [Mjpeg-users] make fails "too many arguments...dv_decoder_new"

2003-02-13 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey, On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:48, Karl and Tanya Pizzolatto wrote: > Make fails with a complaint "lav_common.c:425:too many arguments to function > '3v_decoder_free'": [..] > libdv-0.98 > divx4linux-20029418 > avifile-0.7.29-20030204 > jpeg-mmx-0.1.4 > libmovtar-0.1.3 > quicktime4linux-1.4-patche

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Questions (catching up after 1 1/2 weeks)

2003-02-13 Thread Charles Yates
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 04:29, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > 25Mb/s DV data takes a rather enormous amount of cpu power to play > back - pretty much takes up a while ~2GHz P4 (friend of mine has a > 1.7GHz and it can't quite keep up). Hmm... kino was (at one point anyway), playing bac

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Charles Yates
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 05:09, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Uh, does this mean what I think it means? That all this time > smil2yuv has been producing the wrong output for NTSC folks which I/we > have been making SVCD/DVDs with? > > The assumption has, obviously, been that t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils and mencoder doubt - Raw DV to Divx

2003-02-13 Thread Charles Yates
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 08:08, Javier Hernandez wrote: > Is there any way to passthrough the output of smil2yuv to mencoder so > that mencoder could extract the Audio to the "frameno.avi" file ? I would suggest you check out the latest ffmpeg cvs and drop mencoder for this. Just make sure you config

[Mjpeg-users] make fails "too many arguments...dv_decoder_new"

2003-02-13 Thread Karl and Tanya Pizzolatto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Make fails with a complaint "lav_common.c:425:too many arguments to function '3v_decoder_free'": I have tried MJpegTools 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 and gotten the same error. After make, I did make again and captured just the error output. Has anybody seen t

[Mjpeg-users] -I 2 worse than -I 1?

2003-02-13 Thread Florin Andrei
I'm converting NTSC DV material (720x480 interlaced 29.9fps, a lot of movement, shot from a handheld while walking) to standard-compliant SVCD. While playing with mpeg2enc parameters, i tried to compare various -I options. Apparently, -I 2 looks worse than -I 1, which is not what i expected after r