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On Friday 27 Aug 2004 17:06, Selva Nair wrote:
Now I go for the new, improved version of my
production ;-) Thanks for all the help.
Good luck.
Hi, Selva. Hopefully this is the last question -
My xml fille looks
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
VIDEO_TS lists as:
VIDEO_TS.BUP VTS_01_0.BUP VTS_01_1.VOB
VIDEO_TS.IFO VTS_01_0.IFO VTS_01_2.VOB
Is this what you would expect? The two files seem to be split purely because
Yes. You have the three mpg files authored as a single title so
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
Check the authoring using xine (version 0.9.2x if possible :)
$ xine dvd:/$PWD/my-dvd/
(the trailing / is important)
Despite the fact that xine could not play the .mpg properly it had no problems
at all with this.
!!
Burn my-dvd.raw to a
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On Saturday 28 Aug 2004 16:50, Selva Nair wrote:
Get an RW disk supported by your player. Get a decent brand, you wont
regret it.
I shall do that. In the first instance I was assured that most hardware
players support DVD-R. That may be so, but
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On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 20:20, Selva Nair wrote:
Although these messages suggest problem with the sound card driver or
unusual clock drifts, it could well be something wrong with this version
of xine. Tuning some of the xine configuration
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On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 20:52, Selva Nair wrote:
For basic dvd you only need to do
I'm either blind or just plain stupid. I built my-dvd.xml like this:
dvdauthor dest=/Data/Movies/
vmgm /
titleset titles
pgc
Hi!
On Friday 27 August 2004 11:22, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 20:52, Selva Nair wrote:
but when I attempted to use it I got
dvdauthor -x ../my-dvd.xml
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.8. Build options: gnugetopt magick
Send bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
../my-dvd.xml:6:
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 20:52, Selva Nair wrote:
For basic dvd you only need to do
I'm either blind or just plain stupid. I built my-dvd.xml like this:
dvdauthor dest=/Data/Movies/
Be sure that
Hi Anne,
May be we should move this thread to dvdauthor..
No - it worked perfectly. I burned the -q 8 version and it plays on my
stand-alone player. QED.
Wonderful !
Now I go for the new, improved version of my
production ;-) Thanks for all the help.
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On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 20:52, Selva Nair wrote:
For basic dvd you only need to do
snip
That will layout the dvd file structure in
the directory ./my-dvd/ Make sure that ./my-dvd
is either empty or does not exist: dvdauthor keeps
appending
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On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 16:49, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
Hallo
Maybe you also try VLC (videolan client). If that player isn't included
in you distribution, you can get it from http://www.videolan.org/
Well, what do you know? VLC plays
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On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 19:10, Selva Nair wrote:
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 16:49, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
As mentionend mpeg2enc and mplex should do the job rather well.
I did not have a single
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 19:10, Selva Nair wrote:
The moment of truth is when it plays on your standalone dvd player.
Then you will have something to tell everyone :)
But I need dvdauthor for that - right? I managed it once, with a small
stream,
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On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 22:51, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
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
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On Wednesday 25 Aug 2004 15:10, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
Maybe you also try VLC (videolan client). If that player isn't included
in you distribution, you can get it from http://www.videolan.org/
OK - I'll take a look at it, Bernie
Anne
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On Wednesday 25 Aug 2004 15:10, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
Maybe you also try VLC (videolan client). If that player isn't included
in you distribution, you can get it from http://www.videolan.org/
Well, what do you know? VLC plays it, even the
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:36:30PM -0400, Selva Nair wrote:
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
My capture card is a DC10+ under v4l - that's the resolution it
captures at full size. On my previous small project I used -d
2, but I think on this one I used -d 1 in lavrec.
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
I took the problem to the xine mailing list, and after making the file
available for download I got this reply:
quote
The problem is caused by the video PTS values.
xine tries to predict what the correct PTS value is.
Then some video frames might
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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, though.
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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
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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 in
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,
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
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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).
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
of
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
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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,
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 pts
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
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
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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 to
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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
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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
instead of
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 = 4/3
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-square pixel
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
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. It's
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 704
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 need for
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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 might
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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 defaulted the
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 you
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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
again, and I
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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?
I
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
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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
or
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
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 it
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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
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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
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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 program.
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 -b
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
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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
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On Monday 23 Aug 2004 19:48, Selva Nair wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
I forgot
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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
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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
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
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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
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 | yuvdenoise
Hi Anne,
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
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If you have a system monitoring tool available it would be interesting
to start that and observe the system's behaviour.
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I have a new problem, and don't know what's causing it or what to do about it:
mplex coda.m2v coda_sound.mp2 -o coda.mpg
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.6.2 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [mplex] File coda.m2v looks like an MPEG Video
Hallo
I have a new problem, and don't know what's causing it or what to do about it:
mplex coda.m2v coda_sound.mp2 -o coda.mpg
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.6.2 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [mplex] File coda.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [mplex] File
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On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 15:18, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
I guess you have used the -b option when you encoded the mpg movie.
And you have to add that option +audio bitrate to mplex with the -r
option.
I'm still working at a very simple level,
Hallo
I guess you have used the -b option when you encoded the mpg movie.
And you have to add that option +audio bitrate to mplex with the -r
option.
I'm still working at a very simple level, starting from settings you gave me
and adapting only a little at a time ;-) - so on checking back
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 15:18, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
I guess you have used the -b option when you encoded the mpg movie.
And you have to add that option +audio bitrate to mplex with the -r
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On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 17:12, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
I'm still getting similar errors. I think this bit of output is the bit
you need to see:
I see no errors. the output is fine for me.
But after a few lines it exits with 'too many frame
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On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 17:24, Selva Nair wrote:
Its much easier to use one of the presets unless you really really want
to fine-tune the bitrate (-r ) video buffer size etc.. In your case
mplex -f 8 coda.m2v coda_sound.mp2 -o coda.mpg
should. It
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
But after a few lines it exits with 'too many frame drops'.
mplex -V -r 4750 coda.m2v coda_sound.mp2 -o coda.mpg
INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 720
INFO: [mplex] Frame height: 576
INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio: 1:0.6735
Hallo
On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 17:12, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
I'm still getting similar errors. I think this bit of output is the bit
you need to see:
I see no errors. the output is fine for me.
But after a few lines it exits with 'too many frame drops'.
Than the bitrate you have
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On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 17:47, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
The m2v was made with
lav2yuv coda.eli | yuvscaler -O DVD | yuvdenoise | mpeg2enc -f 9 -b 4500
-q 7 - -4 1 -2 1 -o coda.m2v
Ah, ok - you
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On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 19:52, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
So, if I'd used -f 8 I didn't need a -b setting at all?
Close, but not quite.
If you specify '-b' to mpeg2enc then it is likely that
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote:
and is it at a 48000 sampling
rate (which is required for DVD)? I think mp2enc will automatically
downsample to 44100 unless told otherwise - and 44100 is not valid
for a DVD.
That looks like it -
INFO: [mplex] MPEG AUDIO
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 might
have caused that?
Could be that your sound track is sampled at 44100 but xine expects 48000
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