Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 22:24, Selva Nair wrote: > On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Hi, Selva. That went through without a hicough, thanks, but the > > soundtrack is terrible in both xine and totem. It drops out all over. > > Any idea what

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 20:38, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > It's not mpeg2enc (or mplex) that is encoding the audio. > > I believe you used 'mp2enc' to encode the audio - you may have > either specified "mp2enc -V ..." or simply default

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, I cant see anything obviously wrong with your mplex output. On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > I just don't get it, Selva. I've rebuilt the soundtrack then mplexed it again, > and I still have stuttering sound. I'm posting the entire output of mplex, > in case it gives yo

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 15:29, Selva Nair wrote: > Hi Anne, > > I cant see anything obviously wrong with your mplex output. > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I just don't get it, Selva. I've rebuilt the soundtrack then mplexed it > > agai

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 15:29, Selva Nair wrote: > The video and and audio matches well, the minor difference > in length may be due to padding of audio packets. All other > parameters also look right. > > Probably something wrong with your mpeg2 player?

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, > I forgot to say that the reason I would try an SVCD was because I had tried > playing the mpg back in both xine and totem with the same result. I suppose > I could burn a cd with the file, but for a 2-minute test I didn't want to be > bothered. Perhaps I should. Most dvd players

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 16:10, Selva Nair wrote: > > If you want to make a nonstd svcd with video bitrate of 4500 kbps, > pass -f 5 to mplex. You can leave out -r option and let mplex > compute the required bitrate, but if that fails try with -r 4900 > o

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > I forgot to say that the reason I would try an SVCD was because I had tried > playing the mpg back in both xine and totem with the same result. I suppose I'm wondering if it's a soundcard/driver issue ... > Meanwhile, I have tried the SVCD t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > Hi, Steven. I tried rebuilding the soundtrack, then a new mplex, but I still > have stuttering sound. I've posted the entire output in reply to Selva. > Perhaps you could have a look at it and see if it gives you any clues? As Selva said "

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 16:17, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I forgot to say that the reason I would try an SVCD was because I had > > tried playing the mpg back in both xine and totem with the same result. > > I

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 17:53, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Hang on - I may have found it in the command that created the m2v. I'll > get back to you when I've re-done everything. > Unfortunately I hadn't found it. I had originally encoded with lav2yuv cod

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 17:26, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Can you play the .mp2 file with something like 'mpg123' or 'mpg321'? > If that works, but xine/mplayer/whatever do not then I'd suspect > the audio decoding in the playing progra

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi - > lav2yuv coda_sound.avi | yuvscaler -O DVD | yuvdenoise | mpeg2enc -f 9 -b 4500 > - -q 7 -4 1 -2 1 -o coda.m2v > > which I changed to > > lav2yuv coda_sound.avi | yuvscaler -O DVD | yuvdenoise | mpeg2enc -f 8 -q 7 -o > coda.m2v > > but the result is still a stuttering file. Do I need a -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 23 Aug 2004 16:17, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I forgot to say that the reason I would try an SVCD was because I had > > > tried playing the mpg b

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 19:48, Selva Nair wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Monday 23 Aug 2004 16:17, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 19:33, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > I'm running out of ideas to try. If the cpu isn't fast enough to > do both the video and audio decoding that might be the problem. Just > playing a .mp2 file with an audio pl

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 19:48, Selva Nair wrote: > > The clip you sent me plays fine on my machine (except for some noise, > that I guess is from the original..) May be your sound card/driver has > problem playing 48KHz sound. I vaguley recall having tr

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > Could it be disk access that's too slow? I keep meaning to try hdparm on it, Yes indeed it could. If it's not using UDMA then the programmed I/O overhead will use so much system/kernel time that program performance or audio tim

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: >> Try mplexing the 44100 khz sound with the DVD size mpeg2 using -f 8. >> The resulting file wont be dvd complaint, but is a valid mpeg2, so >> mplayer (and possibly xine) should play it correctly. That way you can >> confirm whether the trouble is with 48

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 21:13, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > If you have a system monitoring tool available it would be interesting > to start that and observe the system's behaviour. 'xosview' is a good > tool with color coded status

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, > it plays. One problem, though. By now I don't have the original file, and > I'm pretty confused about which of the myriad commands I've tried is the one > to give me a clean, basic DVD write. Could you please remind me? Is it just > lav2yuv coda.eli | yuvscaler -O DVD | yuvdenoi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 21:31, Selva Nair wrote: > > What is the o/p of > > # hdparm -iv /dev/hda > (replace /dev/hda with the appropriate device) > /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 23 Aug 2004 21:13, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > > If you have a system monitoring tool available it would be interesting > > to start that and observe the system's behavio