Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-27 Thread James Finnall
Hello Steven, YHaaa! I have an music audio slide show working on BOTH of my dvd players now! The script I used for the video sequence is below. I think the key elements was the -E-20 and -G12. I know I do not understand why though. The -G12 forces 12 frames per group of pictures. But

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-17 Thread James Finnall
On Friday 16 January 2004 23:41, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, James Finnall wrote: Thanks. What I think you want to do instead of creating multiple .m2v files and appending them together is create a _single_ y4m stream that goes into the encoder and produce a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-17 Thread James Finnall
Hello Trent, I know at this moment I would be interested in trying your program. Segmentation of the video streams appears to be causing me some problems. And trying to produce a constant stream of different jpeg images without the format info appears to be a real trial. I do not know if

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-17 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, James Finnall wrote: Yes, at the start of the second sequence, mpeg2enc complains about a bad header and terminates. A simple shell function (all of what, 5 or 6 lines) takes care of that problem easily enough. I really think the lower level y4m

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-17 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, James Finnall wrote: option so I used -n 162000 @ 30 fps and feed the stream to mpeg2enc. It produced a seamless video stream, then mplex'ed the output. Mplayer would play it great. Mastered the DVD and again mplayer would play the VOB just fine. Ogle played it OK

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-16 Thread James Finnall
Hello, I updated from the CVS last night and was able to produce something that at least ogle could run without any error messages, even with the output set for full rate. But I could only mplex to about 350 MByte then it would abort with buffer overflow message. I have not been able to get

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-16 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, James Finnall wrote: I updated from the CVS last night and was able to produce something that at least ogle could run without any error messages, even with the output set for Great! full rate. But I could only mplex to about 350 MByte then it would abort with

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-16 Thread James Finnall
On Friday 16 January 2004 12:23, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, James Finnall wrote: ARGH - that's the rate control bug that was supposedly fixed a few days ago :( As a workaround could you try a larger '-b' option with mplex? That's the video buffer size.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-16 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, James Finnall wrote: Well, -b 300 didn't work and neither did -b 500. The man page is interesting though on this setting. It appears that the default value is 46KB. After seeing how you are producing the video stream I'm beginning to have doubts that

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-16 Thread Steven M. Schultz
I left out one key line in the script. After reading the YUV4MPEG2 header the skip1 function needs to use 'cat' to pass the rest of the data thru: -- #!/bin/sh JPEG2YUV=jpeg2yuv -v 0 -n 30 -I p -f 29.97 -l 60 skip1() { read junk

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-15 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, James Finnall wrote: Thanks to Steven I was able to compile the CVS version of the mjpeg tools and create my first DVD type movie. (If you want to call it that.) The video Hurrah! images look great and play according to the creation. But my DVD player is

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-15 Thread James Finnall
Trying a second time to get the correct return address! On Thursday 15 January 2004 01:50, Steven M. Schultz wrote: You should give mplayer a try. www.mplayerhq.hu Players just about anything. When played back by mplayer, it plays without any sound drop outs. However, when

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-15 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, James Finnall wrote: When played back by mplayer, it plays without any sound drop outs. However, Ah, ok - that would indicate the .mpg file is good. message that your computer is to slow to play this file. It displays the screen size is reduced until hits

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-15 Thread James Finnall
On Thursday 15 January 2004 13:25, Steven M. Schultz wrote: If you mentioned the encoding parameters I've lost the mail item - I'm curious how the .m2v file was created. Well bit rate would make some sense here because the windows system that it played well was a P4-2.4 GHz. Now

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-15 Thread James Finnall
This is what mplayer reports the specs of the file are, with the bit rate at 9375 kbps. And that is way over your estimated 8000 kbps. Playing VTS_01_1.VOB Detected MPEG-PS file format! VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.97 fps 9375.0 kbps (1171.9 kbyte/s) Detected audio codec: [mp3] afm:1

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-15 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, James Finnall wrote: This is what mplayer reports the specs of the file are, with the bit rate at 9375 kbps. And that is way over your estimated 8000 kbps. Playing VTS_01_1.VOB Detected MPEG-PS file format! VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.97 fps 9375.0 kbps

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-15 Thread Ray Cole
ffmpeg has AC3 encoding capability. At one time though (I have not tried it recently) it did not produce DVD compatible files (the channelassignment/rematrixing-coefficients were not correct). You There were some changes made to ffmpeg about 6 months ago, maybe a little

[Mjpeg-users] Dropped sound sequences

2004-01-14 Thread James Finnall
Hello List, Thanks to Steven I was able to compile the CVS version of the mjpeg tools and create my first DVD type movie. (If you want to call it that.) The video images look great and play according to the creation. But my DVD player is experiencing sound drop outs when played. The drop outs