Re: [Mjpeg-users] old issue (stuttering) with mpeg2enc, still unsolved

2008-03-13 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: For a number of years, I had an annoying problem with my home-made videos: After less than a minute of playing, the image starts to stutter. This is a bit like the stutter due to panning, only continuous and much worse. It's like the player is skipping every other

Re: [Mjpeg-users] File size differs from two tools for MPEG2

2008-02-29 Thread Florin Andrei
makes DV more accessible to a larger variety of tools. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT

Re: [Mjpeg-users] File size differs from two tools for MPEG2

2008-02-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Stan Gammons wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 14:34 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: You also need to install (under Wine) AviSynth and the Panasonic DV Codec. And the SoundOut AviSynth plugin to generate AC3. Then you can process DV AVI Type 2 files and generate m2v and ac3 files out of them, which

Re: [Mjpeg-users] File size differs from two tools for MPEG2

2008-02-29 Thread Florin Andrei
close to perfection you have to really crank up the bitrate to produce any kind of visible changes. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R

Re: [Mjpeg-users] old issue (stuttering) with mpeg2enc, still unsolved

2008-02-22 Thread Florin Andrei
of the resulting mpeg files? I verified the bitrates with mplex on almost all DVDs. I verified some of them on the DVD player, which can optionally display live information about the video stream. Everything looks fine. I'm not sure what else I can do. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] old issue (stuttering) with mpeg2enc, still unsolved

2008-02-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: I'll make another DVD soon and then I'll know for sure. But the cause is definitely one of the toolchain components, at this moment it's likely mpeg2enc. Found the DV master files for an older DVD and re-converted it using HCenc. No stuttering. P.S.: Apologies

Re: [Mjpeg-users] workaround (PPC) for mpeg2enc's buggyness

2008-01-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Mark Heath wrote: On 23/01/2008, at 5:16 AM, Florin Andrei wrote: Mark Heath wrote: Anyway I've been using the mpeg2 encoder in ffmpeg and have been happy with the results. I asked recently on their mailing list if they solved the rate control issues and they said no. Kind of a big

Re: [Mjpeg-users] workaround (PPC) for mpeg2enc's buggyness

2008-01-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Mark Heath wrote: Anyway I've been using the mpeg2 encoder in ffmpeg and have been happy with the results. I asked recently on their mailing list if they solved the rate control issues and they said no. Kind of a big issue if the target media is DVD. -- Florin Andrei http

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 1.9.0-RC3 mpeg2enc - extensive rate control tests, possible issue?

2007-12-26 Thread Florin Andrei
for soure. Cool. I'll test the next release candidate when it becomes available. Meanwhile, I went back to 1.9.0-RC2 which appears to work fine for me with -q 5 -K tmpgenc -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 1.9.0-RC3 mpeg2enc - extensive rate control tests, possible issue?

2007-12-17 Thread Florin Andrei
mjpegtools and not ffmpeg to generate the MPEG2 tracks for quite a few years now is rate control. Well, last time I checked the image quality was better too, so I'd like to keep using mpeg2enc for all the MPEG2 encoding. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[Mjpeg-users] 1.9.0-RC3 mpeg2enc - extensive rate control tests, possible issue?

2007-12-16 Thread Florin Andrei
. I can provide a sample of one of the DV input files, but only by request and only to the developers - I won't post the URL to the mailing list because even a short sample can be pretty big. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-12 Thread Florin Andrei
, and it's otherwise around 8000, plus or minus a few hundred, on all other files. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-12 Thread Florin Andrei
, in essence, when upgrading from RC2 to RC3, one should just use higher values for -q, is that right? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-11 Thread Florin Andrei
, and the average is fairly low, perhaps half the peak, depending on the file. I will try again with a higher -q, but RC3 seems to behave very different from older versions, while RC2 is more similar to the old behavior. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-11 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Bernhard Praschinger wrote: I have made the mjpegtools 1.9.0 RC3 and put it online. The main fix is that the rate control is not broken any more. I am getting insane average and peak bitrates with RC3 when transcoding DV material to DVD-compatible MPEG2. I set the peak

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-11 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: I'm re-runing the whole thing with -q 7 Much better with -q 7 but it still exceeds the limit of 8000 on a few occasions. It doesn't seem like rate control is much better, or perhaps I'm mistaken. It does seem like it requires larger values for -q. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc is feeling better

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
no interest. Hopefully (I work from home nowadays) I'll have a bit more time this winter and push mpeg2enc forward again! I get it. Not enough people contributing to the project. sigh It's a very nice application thou'. :-( -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
? Is 2-pass already documented somewhere? (for users, not for programmers) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
to avoid spikes, but I assume 2-pass will be much better and presumably the max bitrate could be set pretty close to the maximum allowed by the DVD standard. Right? This will be a very good feature when it gets released. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [lavplay] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/florin/work/mjpeg_play-cvs-20071106/lavtools' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/florin/work/mjpeg_play-cvs-20071106' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- Florin

Re: [Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
on Ubuntu 7.10, I'll see what I can do about that. Thanks, -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events

Re: [Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
* Moved it out of the way and today's CVS compiles just fine. Sorry for the false alarm. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find

Re: [Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
camera. It's pretty hard to distinguish between the custom matrix and tmpgenc. They pretty much look the same to me. Both are clearly better than the default and the hi-res matrices, which have massive (by comparison) artifacts and blockiness. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: I can probably test it also on Ubuntu 7.10, I'll see what I can do about that. CVS compiles fine on 7.10 if I use the same -lX11 patch. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net email

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc is feeling better

2007-11-05 Thread Florin Andrei
. So, do a 'cvs update', rebuild and commence testing. I said this before - you guys should make releases way more often. Very few people are going to track the CVS. BTW, if I'm using 1.8.0 (default on Ubuntu), what do I get if I upgrade to 1.9.0 RC1? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc is feeling better

2007-11-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Florin Andrei wrote: I said this before - you guys should make releases way more often. Very Of what? Broken software? No sense doing a release for the last year or whatever since it was broken. And now it _may_ be fixed

[Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-05 Thread Florin Andrei
-A|--ratecontroller What's the difference between 0 and 1? Ever played with larger values for -r when the source is a fairly good (new) DV camcorder? Worth bumping it up? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-05 Thread Florin Andrei
25,26,28,29,31,34,38,42 # TMPEGEnc NON-INTRA table 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24 18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25 19,20,21,22,23,24,26,27 20,21,22,23,25,26,27,28 21,22,23,24,26,27,28,30 22,23,24,26,27,28,30,31 23,24,25,27,28,30,31,33 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[Mjpeg-users] state of the HD Linux union ?

2007-08-10 Thread Florin Andrei
are usable as an HD source for Linux? Not just with dvgrab, but in general. What are the HD formats that can be used on Linux? What are the options for editing? (Cinelerra? Jahshaka?) Authoring? Burning HD disks? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[Mjpeg-users] is a 64 bit OS better for mpeg2enc?

2007-04-30 Thread Florin Andrei
difference, in terms of encoding speed, if I use the 64 bit OS instead of 32 bit. Otherwise I don't care much for 64 bit, and actually a lot of multimedia stuff (Flash, playing proprietary codecs, etc.) is much easier on 32 bit. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[Mjpeg-users] force mplex

2006-08-26 Thread Florin Andrei
more back and forth and catch again the frames chain? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated

[Mjpeg-users] Digital Video to DVD conversion tools

2006-04-06 Thread Florin Andrei
Based on mpeg2enc: http://florin.myip.org/soft/conv-dvd/ Feel free to use them. Comments are welcome. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Digital Video to DVD conversion tools

2006-04-06 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:38 -0700, Roman Shaposhnick wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:59:31PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: http://florin.myip.org/soft/conv-dvd/ It seems that you use transcode for decoding DV. Also I think that transcode still uses libdv. Which means that you're

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Yuvtools

2006-03-07 Thread Florin Andrei
be great to include that in mjpegtools. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast

[Mjpeg-users] article: Video compression artifacts and MPEG noise reduction

2006-02-27 Thread Florin Andrei
http://www.videsignline.com/howto/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180207350 Nice introduction to the concept of compression artifacts. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking

[Mjpeg-users] generate static video stream

2006-01-27 Thread Florin Andrei
I want to generate a static MPEG2 video stream that's compatible with the DVD specifications (either NTSC or PAL). I can deal with the MPEG2 and DVD part, I just don't know how to generate a YUV that has the same image repeated over and over. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] The best quality OSS mpeg2 encoder?

2005-09-09 Thread Florin Andrei
, it's still pretty usable. Only the conv-dvd file needs some small updates, see the attached file to this message. I just sent an email to the person who maintains that page and asked for permission to make updates to the HOWTO. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ conv-dvd Description

Re: [Mjpeg-users] The best quality OSS mpeg2 encoder?

2005-09-09 Thread Florin Andrei
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 15:12 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: achieve its means. At least that was the intent of the original author, Thomas Ostreich, and it's lieutenant (and successor to maintainership) Tilmann Bitterberg. his not it's sorry :-( -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Release Time?

2005-09-08 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 23:24 -0700, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Florin Andrei wrote: But some older mjpegtools versions never had this issue, even at 8500, No, they had the problem. I recall various postings with 8500 and the advice was the same then as now ;) Well, look

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Release Time?

2005-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
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Re: [Mjpeg-users] Release Time?

2005-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:20 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: FWIW, I was thinking to try out rc3 with: - Fedora 4 - gcc-4.0.1 - transcode-1.0 - reasonable settings for DV-to-DVD conversion Actually, I'm concerned with an issue that I've seen before with MPEG2 streams generated with mpeg2enc

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Release Time?

2005-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 19:39 -0700, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Florin Andrei wrote: FWIW, I was thinking to try out rc3 with: Where have you been for the last several months? ;) Dividing my time between a million things I _must_ do. Playing with mjpegtools is something

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: Release Time?

2005-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
. Plain old digital camcorder, captured via dvgrab. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Release Time?

2005-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
for the developers. Everybody loses. Too bad, since it's the best open source MPEG2 encoder I'm aware of. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools on irix

2005-08-20 Thread Florin Andrei
collection of software building tools here... http://freeware.sgi.com/ ...including gcc and gmake. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San

[Mjpeg-users] unicap

2005-08-18 Thread Florin Andrei
, and video-to-firewire converters, and provides GTK widgets for live video display and access to device properties. (I'm not afiliated, just saw it on Freshmeat today) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: BUG - audio/video alignment issue

2005-03-25 Thread Florin Andrei
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 08:53 -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Florin Andrei wrote: It seems like mplex can only handle differences up to a certain value (around 200ms or so), after which it will not create a correct file. Yet... I think the Real Problem is that you're

Re: [Mjpeg-users] generating HDTV

2005-01-02 Thread Florin Andrei
at the expense of the 1080i native ones (CRT), one would expect the stations to start broadcasting more using 720p. Anyway, i'm wandering off topic... -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat

Re: [Mjpeg-users] problems with 1.6.2

2004-10-12 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 14:39, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Florin Andrei wrote: It's not easy to test other players. Depends where you live I guess. It's been trivial to take a couple test DVDs to the local Circuit City (or Best Buy or whatever) and ask to play a disk

Re: [Mjpeg-users] problems with 1.6.2

2004-10-11 Thread Florin Andrei
what you wrote here: # MP2 sound # -y mpeg2enc,mp2enc -b 224 -m $out \ The sampling rate of 44.1kHz is not liked by my player. It certainly is 48kHz, that's what my camcorder generates. In any case, i'm using AC3, not MP2. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] problems with 1.6.2

2004-10-11 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 09:18, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Florin Andrei wrote: Neither. I upgraded to 1.6.2 when it was released, and the player is a bit over one year old already. Ah, so you haven't created very many (any) DVDs since going to 1.6.2? Not too many. That's

Re: [Mjpeg-users] maximum rate issue

2004-05-02 Thread Florin Andrei
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[Mjpeg-users] maximum rate issue

2004-04-29 Thread Florin Andrei
control got worse in 1.6.2 The source is always an amateur-grade DV camcorder. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g

[Mjpeg-users] Re: [Dvdauthor-users] obtaining maximum player compatibility

2004-03-18 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 01:14, Maarten de Boer wrote: Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/docs/DV-to-DVD-HOWTO.txt It describes a method slightly different than yours, but it has some comments on what are the do's and don'ts of DVD player

[Mjpeg-users] RE: [Dvdauthor-users] obtaining maximum player compatibility

2004-03-18 Thread Florin Andrei
. Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/docs/DV-to-DVD-HOWTO.txt -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented

Re: [Mjpeg-users] fixing AC3 stream?

2004-03-18 Thread Florin Andrei
with silence or clicksnoise) ? a52dec decodes it w/o problems, so the error in the file seems to be minor. I got this problem once. The AC3 stream seemed otherwise valid (it was extracted from a DVD), but mplex didn't accept it. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[Mjpeg-users] Re: [Dvdauthor-users] obtaining maximum player compatibility

2004-03-17 Thread Florin Andrei
yours, but it has some comments on what are the do's and don'ts of DVD player compatibility. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins

[Mjpeg-users] DV-to-DVD, AC3 and A/V sync - bugfix

2004-01-19 Thread Florin Andrei
). As for a software player, i tested with xine and there's no pause. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools 1.6.2-RC4 available!

2004-01-16 Thread Florin Andrei
section - there's a -D|--intra_dc_prec8..11 in the summary that has no correspondent in the detailed section man mplex: - says in the BUGS section that The multiplexer should handle AC3 and MPEG(5.1) audio too but i was able to multiplex AC3 with it correctly, so why it's a bug? -- Florin Andrei

[Mjpeg-users] Re: [Mjpeg-developer] Re: [Dvdauthor-users] mpeg2desc -m is outputing 3 second delay

2004-01-05 Thread Florin Andrei
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Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools 1.6.2 release candidate 3 online

2004-01-04 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 18:03, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On 29 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: In file included from export_yuv4mpeg.c:42: /usr/include/mjpegtools/yuv4mpeg.h:29:25: mjpeg_types.h: No such file or directory /usr/include/mjpegtools/yuv4mpeg.h:33:27: mjpeg_logging.h

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex not recognizing mpeg1 from mencoder

2004-01-04 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 17:23, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On 4 Jan 2004, Florin Andrei wrote: MPEG2 without B frames makes some DVD players choke. The default What player is so braindamaged and standards non-compliant as to choke on an *optional* part of the MPEG-2 specs? (B frames

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Florin Andrei
is, well, almost non existent - ~2x spikes that'd drive a hardware player nuts). Any chance repeating that on an Intel or AMD processor? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread Florin Andrei
the movie with the camcorder. I use that thing as some sort of sui-generis video unit, because when i author my DVDs quite often i put each scene into its own chapter on the DVD. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -g 1 and hardware DVD players

2003-12-08 Thread Florin Andrei
suffice. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -g 1 and hardware DVD players

2003-12-07 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 11:30, an unknown sender wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 07:36, Florin Andrei wrote: Using -g 1 might trigger hiccups on certain hardware DVD players Just to note that there is actually no real purpose to setting -g 1 for DVD or other reasonably rate limited streams

[Mjpeg-users] -g 1 and hardware DVD players

2003-12-06 Thread Florin Andrei
to be fine. I didn't try to add just -g 1 but it looks kinda pointless. Results seem to stay the same with different matrices, with adding -N and/or -E, etc. Of course, i didn't test quite _every_ combination. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[Mjpeg-users] average higher than max

2003-12-01 Thread Florin Andrei
of it, the high-motion scenes are quite a while after the start. Is it likely that i'll run into trouble with a average higher than max DVD played on set-top boxes? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Update on: mpeg2enc current cvs segfault ?

2003-11-30 Thread Florin Andrei
? be to adjust the return value of posix_memalign(). The long term fix is to upgrade glibc of course ;) Well, mine is glibc-2.3.2 which is pretty new, and mplex -O still fails. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -H and -E

2003-11-28 Thread Florin Andrei
realised i might still want to cram 2 hours on a single DVD. With -g 1 -G 1 that might not be possible anymore. (well, i'll try) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -H and -E

2003-11-27 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:04, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: Is there any conflict if i use -H and -E simultaneously? No conflict at all. -E processing is done after the quantization tables have been used. Ah, ok. So, since we're at look at the preview

[Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
to these questions (if any) to the mpeg2enc man page. Thank you. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
help. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 01:52, Florin Andrei wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:28, Ronald Bultje wrote: As of today, release candidate 2 of mjpegtools-1.6.2 (official version: 1.6.1.91) is available on your local sourceforge mirror. For URLs, see mplex -h does not work according to manual

[Mjpeg-users] -H and -E

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
I'm not sure i understand how -E works, so... Is there any conflict if i use -H and -E simultaneously? If not, does it make sense from a logical p.o.v. to use them both? Does -H override -K, or the other way 'round? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 23:35, Florin Andrei wrote: Whenever that makes sense (such as what are default values, etc.), please add the answers to these questions (if any) to the mpeg2enc man page. Thank you. Actually, it would be great if the man page would specify all default values (wherever

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 08:11, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: mplex -h does not work according to manual. Instead of activating the --keep-hf, it prints the usage help. :-) mplex has no --keep-hf option. mpeg2enc has a -H option which is the same as --keep-hf

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-25 Thread Florin Andrei
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Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex -O

2003-11-24 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 23:30, Andrew Stevens wrote: On Monday 24 November 2003 06:06, Florin Andrei wrote: mplex -f 8 -S 150 -O 500 ${proj}.m2v ${proj}.ac3 -o 1.vob mplex -f 8 -S 150 -O -500 ${proj}.m2v ${proj}.ac3 -o 2.vob Then i compare the sync info on the two VOBs like

[Mjpeg-users] mplex -O

2003-11-23 Thread Florin Andrei
small it cannot be detected) than what mplex was supposed to do (half a second difference, which is very big and easily detectable). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Still splitting file

2003-11-19 Thread Florin Andrei
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Re: [Mjpeg-users] Erradic time counter

2003-11-18 Thread Florin Andrei
or both :-) Anyone else seen this? I created many DVDs with mpeg2enc, mplex and dvdauthor, and i've seen no such problem. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex -O

2003-11-16 Thread Florin Andrei
fixed. Basically, the -O offset itself has an offset due to a bug in the handling of the temporal reference of the first frame... Ah, that explains it. Probably the software players get confused by that. So, the CVS should fix the issue, right? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] I frame only encoding?

2003-11-16 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:47, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On 15 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: An MPEG2 stream with I-frames only... wouldn't that be something slightly similar to MJPEG? Similar is concept yes. Both are lossy compression methods. Nice thing about a GOP size of 1

Re: [Mjpeg-users] I frame only encoding?

2003-11-15 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:46, Steven M. Schultz wrote: To get 'I' frame only encoding I thought the method was to specify the min and max GOP size to be 1. An MPEG2 stream with I-frames only... wouldn't that be something slightly similar to MJPEG? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[Mjpeg-users] multiplexing subtitles

2003-11-15 Thread Florin Andrei
/dev/dvd 2/dev/null | \ grep dvd_reader.c | \ cut -d \) -f 2 | \ cut -c 2- -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MPEG2 encoding performance

2003-11-11 Thread Florin Andrei
estimation :( Other players (including settop boxes) have no problem though. So, essentially you're saying that MPEG2 without B-frames is perfectly legal from the DVD standards p.o.v., right? I'm asking this because standalone players are quite anal w.r.t. the standards. -- Florin Andrei http

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MPEG2 encoding performance

2003-11-11 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:14, Andrew Stevens wrote: -f 8 -E -10 -q 6 -R 0 -I 0 -K tmpgenc Hmmm... I'm using 1.6.1.90 and i cannot find some options (-E, -10, -R) in the man page nor in the --help output. Are you using a recent CVS or something? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MPEG2 encoding performance

2003-11-11 Thread Florin Andrei
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 13:53, Alexei Dets wrote: Can we expect a stable _release_ version anytime soon? Or at least a 1.6.1.91 type of thing... ;-) When CVS seems healthy enough for a partial release. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MPEG2 encoding performance

2003-11-11 Thread Florin Andrei
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 13:07, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On 11 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: So, essentially you're saying that MPEG2 without B-frames is perfectly legal from the DVD standards p.o.v., right? They are, and always have been, optional. Nothing says that B frames

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DVD plus or minus?

2003-10-31 Thread Florin Andrei
. However, the vast majority of the newer DVD players will happily play both formats, even when they only advertise one of them. Strange, isn't? On the side of the old-ish players, DVD-R has slightly bigger chances to play without problems. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DVDAuthor and mpeg2's generated with -f 9

2003-10-23 Thread Florin Andrei
to make a dvd image. However, dvdauthor complains: You're probably misled by that broken man page. The option to use with dvdauthor is -f 8. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex split issue (not what you think!)

2003-10-22 Thread Florin Andrei
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:54, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On 20 Oct 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: mplex -f 8 -S 4400 ${proj}.m2v ${proj}.ac3 -o ${proj}.vob The way I do it doesn't need a mplex run at the end. mplayer -dumpstream dvd://1 Right. Or: tccat -d 0 -i /dev/dvd -t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex split issue (not what you think!)

2003-10-22 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 14:35, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On 21 Oct 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: The problem is, what happens if it's still too big? (larger than the space available on the destination DVD) Sometimes you need to shrink the m2v part. Is there a way to shrink it without actually

[Mjpeg-users] mplex split issue (not what you think!)

2003-10-20 Thread Florin Andrei
. But the error shouldn't happen anyway. In any case, the problem occurs with only one DVD. Other disks that i tried are fine. The weird thing is, that DVD is otherwise Ok, it can be played anywhere. Clue, anyone? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Sourceforge CVS caught up with mjpegtools today

2003-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:54, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On 6 Oct 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: this procedure forces blocks of a type that don't carry much information but are expensive to encode to be simply skipped If they are skipped at encoding, with what do they get replaced when

Re: [Mjpeg-users] cut AC3 file

2003-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 11:34, Florin Andrei wrote: Any idea how to cut the first 10 frames of an AC3 file and save them into another file, without modifying any of the audio stream parameters? (bitrate, # of channels...) Nevermind, i found two solutions: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive

[Mjpeg-users] cut AC3 file

2003-10-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Any idea how to cut the first 10 frames of an AC3 file and save them into another file, without modifying any of the audio stream parameters? (bitrate, # of channels...) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This sf.net email

Re: [Mjpeg-users] the -S option

2003-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
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Re: [Mjpeg-users] the -S option

2003-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
is the perfect value. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL

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