Re: [Mjpeg-users] yuv toolchain order

2008-05-08 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Hi, Should anything be changed in this order -- set up more by what I feel is right than actual knowledge -- like moving yuvdeinterlace more up etc.? Yes, indeed. yuvdeinterlace should (must...) be used at first, then yuvdenoise (turn the values up to that point where you can see the first

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Zig-zag pattern on every frame...

2008-03-08 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Hi, Okay, you and Burkhard suspect radio interference. But you have not seen the full pictures I sent to Bernhard Praschinger. Yes, and now I am glad, I have seen one. This clearly is _no_ interference. It is something DCT-related. I currently can't tell you what has happend (to little time,

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Zig-zag pattern on every frame...

2008-03-08 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Here a very small highpass-filtered cutout... Eventually it helps our encoder-/decoder-specialists on the list? Stefan attachment: Pattern.jpg signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Zig-zag pattern on every frame...

2008-03-07 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Hello Burkhard, Microwave oven works at 2.45 GHz, S-Video bandwidth is below 10 MHz - No interference Erm,... ... Burkhard, have I offended you somehow ??¿¿?? Next time somone blames the earth radiation so why do you offend me? To make you one thing clear: I do not have won my degree

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Zig-zag pattern on every frame...

2008-03-07 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Am Freitag, den 07.03.2008, 15:11 +0100 schrieb Burkhard Plaum: I didn't mean to offend you. Someone does not necessarily mean you :) It was more a joke. OK. So, what about outlawing lightnings? SCNR TV != S-Video cable (see below) Yes, of course. Ok but even 50 MHz and it's harmonics

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Zig-zag pattern on every frame...

2008-03-06 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 05.03.2008, 23:14 +0100 schrieb Andrea Giuliano: For me it looks like it could be radio-interference... The cable are the same I've been using without any problem since I bought the DC30+ back in 2006. I use a 35 meters long composite video 35 meters? *WOW* Could you

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc is feeling better

2007-11-05 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Am Montag, den 05.11.2007, 22:45 -0800 schrieb Florin Andrei: Oh wait, there's editing. Hm, I've heard that Cinelerra can do that, and perhaps Kdenlive too. Erm, you won't believe it: blender can do this, too... (And I personally liked it much more than Cinelerra... it does not crash so

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc is feeling better

2007-11-03 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Am Freitag, den 02.11.2007, 13:30 +0100 schrieb Andrew Stevens: Anyone got a recommendation for an inexpensive analog capture card that works well with mjpegtools? I have an Canopus ADVC-110 here. There is nothing out there which can beat it. (Not even the -300). But it is *external*. Just

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc is feeling better

2007-11-03 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Am Freitag, den 02.11.2007, 10:22 -0700 schrieb Steven M. Schultz: For inexpensive nothing beats a Canopus ADVC-110 (the -300 is good ah, I did overlook this one... so my response was obsolete... :-) cu Stefan -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Standards converter?

2007-05-11 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Steven M. Schultz schrieb: Compressor does what is called optical flow analysis (advanced form of motion compensated frame interpolation if I decode the marketing lingo correctly ;)). *SLOW* but very good. :) Basicaly optical-flow in marketing-lingo just means it is not block-based but a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Standards converter?

2007-05-10 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Am Donnerstag, den 10.05.2007, 13:56 +0200 schrieb herve.flores: sorry for hijacking the thread but I don't manage to compile yuvmotionfps in MacIntel, hmm, I can not say anything to Mac's... Perhaps Steven can help with these? PSS: Why don't you incorporate directly yuvmotionfps in the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Standards converter?

2007-05-10 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Am Donnerstag, den 10.05.2007, 20:07 -0700 schrieb Steven M. Schultz: mjpegtools does not have a program called yuvmotionfps yuvmotionfps is an external program, yes. I can not reach the guy who wrote it (at least he doesn't react). But as I personaly do not have any experience with Macs,

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Standards converter?

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Am Mittwoch, den 09.05.2007, 16:08 +1000 schrieb Mark Heath: By the way, which frame rate converter is considered the *best* at the moment? Motion compensated is the only one which makes sense: These are the needed steps (and they allready can be done with the mjpeg-tools...) 1.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Reply to lavrec records blank

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Erm, just a tip. If you must use a BTTV-card for capturing (you really should look for some other solution if you do captures on a regular basis...) you must be aware of an intensional(!) bug inside the driver: YUV 4:2:0 is broken with BTTV-cards. YUV 4:2:0 doesn't retain correct interlacing on

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Greenish tint with yuvdenoise CVS

2006-04-11 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Hi, Nicolas schrieb: OK. I did my tests. I used various versions of the mjpegtools, and I confirm the green tint comes from yuvdenoise CVS. The other tools are not responsible. hmm, this is really strange, as I can not proof any chromatic shifts when using neutral-gray test-charts as well

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Greenish tint with yuvdenoise CVS

2006-04-11 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Stefan M. Fendt schrieb: This seems to vote for some rounding problem inside the denosier... oh, no... Yes, OH NO.. seems to be a real bug somewere inside filter_plane_median(); Using this one with high values (implemented a split-screen-hack to check for visable chroma-oddities

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Greenish tint with yuvdenoise CVS

2006-04-11 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
should be fixed, now... I hope... Nicolas, pls test... Stefan -- Gnomemeeting/Netmeeting: callto:ils.seconix.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 131490319 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Greenish tint with yuvdenoise CVS

2006-04-10 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Stefan M. Fendt schrieb: Some additional tests: This becomes weird... Now, I did use _exactly_ the same commandline as you for the sequence you sent me... but, no golfball, no green... ?!? Could you pls. mail me one example frame (TGA,with framenumber) out of 04.yuv processed

Re: [Mjpeg-users] I tried 9600 kbps for video and 224 kbps for audio

2006-04-09 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Hi Nicolas, Here it is: http://www.europephoto.com/info/montage_video/04.yuv.tgz So, I just played a little with your video-data. This is what I got at last: http://www.sfendt.de/video/test.m2v I hope this is the quality you expected to get from HI8 *bg*... And this is the commandline I

Re: [Mjpeg-users] I tried 9600 kbps for video and 224 kbps for audio

2006-04-09 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Hi Nicolas, Here are the things I see: - you use the CVS yuvdenoise, which I'll compile to see the difference it should be better (and perhaps making yuvmedianfilter obsolete...) - why do you deinterlace and reinterlace? Can't yuvdenoise and y4mspatialfilter work on interlaced material?

Re: [Mjpeg-users] I tried 9600 kbps for video and 224 kbps for audio

2006-04-08 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Nicolas MAUFRAIS schrieb: Stefan, I thank you for all the information, but... how could I use an horizontal lowpass-filter? I read all the things you wrote, and even if that's probably right, I don't know how to test it. OK, so here comes what I would try with this material: Since the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] I tried 9600 kbps for video and 224 kbps for audio

2006-04-07 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas schrieb: I don't apply any filter. I spent 2 evenings trying to find good settings to denoise the video without any success. Each time the result was blur. There was far less details on the pictures... hmm,... you could (do you use the CVS version of the denoiser?)

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 2 frames extracted from my noisy video

2006-04-07 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Hi, Nicolas schrieb: Here are 2 frames of my noisy video: http://www.europephoto.com/info/montage_video/frame.jpg http://www.europephoto.com/info/montage_video/frame2.jpg I have taken frame.jpg scaled it (cubic) to 356x576 and afterwards up again to 720x576. There was no loss in horizontal

Re: [Mjpeg-users] I tried 9600 kbps for video and 224 kbps for audio

2006-04-07 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Just in case someone might ask/wonder... I did not try to explain, why we have (601) 720x576 or 720x480 pixels per frame (which mainly is related to 2,25 MHz and some factor of six...) .. I just wanted to derive the resolution a HI8-camcorder can have. cu Stefan -- Gnomemeeting/Netmeeting:

Re: [Mjpeg-users] black bands with yuvdeinterlace?

2006-03-17 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Alec Robertson schrieb: Hi, I'm using cinelerra, rendering dv video to a yuv4mpeg stream and piping through yuvdeinterlace. After this, there are black bands at the top and bottom of my movie. Is there any way to avoid this? Ahh, so you are using the CVS-version... :-) ... no, there isn't.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Pinnacle MovieBox DV

2006-01-01 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Steven M. Schultz schrieb: Not that specific one but Pinnacle products were reported as having some issues in the past with A/V sync (they left me with the impression of a 'cheap'er unit). Probably fixed by now but while I was working with the DV format I stayed with the Canopus products. I

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Latest yuvdenoise

2005-12-22 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Ray Cole schrieb: Works :-) Not sure if you wanted feedback on results or not, but if so things look pretty good to me. That's fine... I've been in the habit of having all the filters off except for the temporal filter with yuvdenoise because adding the other filters generally caused

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Latest yuvdenoise

2005-12-21 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Ray Cole schrieb: I grabbed the latest yuvdenoise from the repository and noticed it core dumps. Should be fixed... Stefan -- Gnomemeeting/Netmeeting: callto:ils.seconix.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 131490319 --- This SF.net email is

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Latest yuvdenoise

2005-12-20 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Ray Cole schrieb: I grabbed the latest yuvdenoise from the repository and noticed it core dumps. japp, need to fix the memory handling (and some other things...). I hope I can do so tomorow... Stefan -- Gnomemeeting/Netmeeting: callto:ils.seconix.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 131490319

[Mjpeg-users] B ... [WAS: y4mscaler: Upsampling to widescreen]

2005-12-07 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Michael Hanke schrieb: Ok. Now that you have said A I would ask that you should also say B: Would it be possible to get a copy of your filter for experimenting, ideally with adescription of the theory behind it since you said it's non-standard. OK, here we go... This is a much simplified and

Re: [Mjpeg-users] y4mscaler: Upsampling to widescreen

2005-12-05 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Steven M. Schultz schrieb: I do NOT think it's a good idea. Upscaling ~20-30% (depending if you're in a NTSC or PAL area) degrades the quality so much I couldn't watch it (yes - I've done it and didn't like the results ;)). Well, I think this heavily depends on the used scaler (and on the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] y4mscaler: Upsampling to widescreen

2005-12-05 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
dread... I missed that one... Steven M. Schultz schrieb: The data is already 'broadcast legal' (well, it _should_ be if the I *never* have seen a TV-Station (at least here in PAL-Land...) transmitting a fully broadcast legal signal. Nearly everything I know is at least transmitted

[Mjpeg-users] DV avi in NTSC

2005-10-17 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Hi, does anyone have a NTSC-DV (interlaced) snipplet (something arround 200-400 frames) for me to test the new deinterlacer against it? cu Stefan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content,

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DV avi in NTSC

2005-10-17 Thread Stefan M. Fendt
Joe Friedrichsen schrieb: I've got some captured on my NTSC DV camera. If you want it, I'll send it to you. Tell me what information you'd like to know. Any NTSC-DV-file with moving objects in it will be fine. It's just to test the deinterlacers response to NTSC-chrominance (411) data. I don't