Re: [Mjpeg-users] Mpeg2enc quality?

2004-08-24 Thread Norayr Chilingaryan
> > Now, the result generated by mpeg2enc has a few quality issues when compared to the > result obtained with a commercial DVD authoring > packet, but I really would like to switch to mpeg2enc and dvdauthor instead of that > commercial program. > > The following two links demonstrate the issue

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 04:16, Selva Nair wrote: > Hi Anne, > Hi, Selva > At last I managed to reproduce your stuttering audio on another machine > with the latest xine (xine-lib-1-rc5, xine-ui-0.99.2). The older > version of xine plays it fine, thou

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 21:56, Selva Nair wrote: > > [*] The last time I used yuvscaler it did not support -O DVD, It seems to work OK now - I used it to change 768 to 720 > but I haven't touched it after y4mscaler appeared. Make sure I don't have y4m

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 21:31, Selva Nair wrote: > > Have you tried playing any dvd-rate mpeg2 file from disk? You > can copy, say, a short chapter from a dvd and try. If you have ogle, > mplayer or vlc, try those too. I tried that, and it played fine

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > I don't have y4mscaler. In fact I've seen mention of several tools that I > don't appear to have. Are they from cvs? The other tools you've seen mentioned are indeed from the cvs version of mjpegtools. y4mscaler is not, at this time

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 04:16, Selva Nair wrote: > > Hi Anne, > > > Hi, Selva > > > At last I managed to reproduce your stuttering audio on another machine > > with the latest xine (xine-lib-1-rc5, xin

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 16:52, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I don't have y4mscaler. In fact I've seen mention of several tools that > > I don't appear to have. Are they from cvs? > > The other tools you'

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 18:46, Selva Nair wrote: > > Even if the issue was with the mplex rate, that much fine tuning should > not be required. I never had any audio problem with mpeg2enc/mplex > although I haven't used used extreme values of bit rates.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Selva Nair wrote: > I do not understand why multiplex rate should affect playback, that's why > I left it for your experimentaion instead of spamming the list > with my half-baked conclusions ;) It doesn't - at least I've never had it. Lowering the bitrate

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, > > Tutorial time again, though ;-) First, what do these parameters mean (it's > not obvious from the man page)? > - -4 2 -2 1 I dont know much about mpeg2 encoding to comment on that; I can only say that -4 and -2 takes an argument in the range 1 to 4, smaller numbers lead to a more tho

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 19:18, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > although I haven't used used extreme values of bit rates. Possibly > > something is wrong with xine too: if you run xine with --verbose you may > > get some messages on audio drifts, if any.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 19:56, Selva Nair wrote: > > Then, the problems I've had appear to be caused by the way I have created > > the avi. This was done by grabbing a series of single frames, creating > > 25fps avis from them, creating transition avis

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > OK - I prepared a coda_q4.mpg and launched xine from a console. I saw exactly > what you have both been suggesting: > > xine: found demuxer plugin: MPEG program stream demux plugin > av_offset=0 pts > spu_offset=0 pts > fixing sound card drift by -1453

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 20:20, Selva Nair wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > OK - I prepared a coda_q4.mpg and launched xine from a console. I saw > > exactly what you have both been suggesting: > > > > xine: found demuxer plugin: MPE

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > It isn't that I de-interlaced. I wanted a series of 5-second-ish stills > pulled from the main video - a sort of summary to pull things together > instead of the abrupt ending. I started each of these from a single frame > pulled from the main recordi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > It isn't that I de-interlaced. I wanted a series of 5-second-ish stills > pulled from the main video - a sort of summary to pull things together If the main video was interlaced then the stills need to be treated as interlaced. > the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I did try it in totem, but that yielded no info at all. The result was at > least as bad as with xine, possibly worse. totem is just another front-end to xine that uses the same xine-library for playback, isn't it? Selva

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 21:27, Selva Nair wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I did try it in totem, but that yielded no info at all. The result was > > at least as bad as with xine, possibly worse. > > totem is just another front-end

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 21:13, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > It isn't that I de-interlaced. I wanted a series of 5-second-ish stills > > pulled from the main video - a sort of summary to pull things together > >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 21:23, Selva Nair wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > It isn't that I de-interlaced. I wanted a series of 5-second-ish stills > > pulled from the main video - a sort of summary to pull things together > > instea

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Did you create the audio track in little pieces (individual .mp2 files)... > > > No, it was taken from an avi in one piece - except that there was an edit of > 2-3 frames of the avi, IIRC, near the beginning to correct a wobble - which > explains the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 21:23, Selva Nair wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Out of curiosity, how did you end up with a 768x576 interlaced PAL avi? That's the square pixel PAL full frame size of course ;) 768/576 =

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, how did you end up with a 768x576 interlaced PAL avi? > > > That's the square pixel PAL full frame size of course ;) > > 768/576 = 4/3 I know, but I avoid capture cards that generate "square pixels" from non-squa

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Selva Nair wrote: > I know, but I avoid capture cards that generate "square pixels" from > non-square pixel sources. As you know PAL or for that matter NTSC frames It's not generating square from non-square. It's sampling the analog waveform at a frequency

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Selva Nair wrote: > > > I know, but I avoid capture cards that generate "square pixels" from > > non-square pixel sources. As you know PAL or for that matter NTSC frames > > It's not generating square from non-square.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Selva Nair wrote: > Agreed, if its sampling at 14.75Mhz no scaling is needed, only a 1 > pixel padding. Oops - slight misunderstanding there. For PAL if it was sampling at 13.5MHz there would be no need for scaling because the card would be giving 70

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Selva Nair wrote: > > > Agreed, if its sampling at 14.75Mhz no scaling is needed, only a 1 > > pixel padding. > > Oops - slight misunderstanding there. For PAL if it was sampling at > 13.5MHz there would be no n