[Mjpeg-users] losing the plot

2005-03-17 Thread E.Chalaron
Hi all, I got rid of my last issues with the telecine acquisition here. Got pnm frames, scaled down etc.. filtered, all good. Dv files created, look nice. And once encoded ... it's terrible. I am using a straight forward command : yuvdenoise -F -f | mpeg2enc -f 8 -4 2 -2 1 -r 16 -H -g 6 -G

Re: [Mjpeg-users] losing the plot

2005-03-17 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, E.Chalaron wrote: > I got rid of my last issues with the telecine acquisition here. Got pnm > frames, scaled down etc.. filtered, all good. DV files created, look nice. You're going from 4:4:4 to 4:1:1 (DV) and then to 4:2:0? Hmm, oh - that's right - fo

Re: [Mjpeg-users] losing the plot

2005-03-17 Thread E.Chalaron
Hello Steven, thanks for the mail > y4mscaler will of course convert to "420paldv" but I'm not sure that > the rest of the tool chain knows about '420paldv'. Feeding 420paldv > into mpeg2enc is probably not the right thing to do - I think mpeg2enc > wants 420mpeg2. Well I

Re: [Mjpeg-users] losing the plot

2005-03-17 Thread E.Chalaron
> > Ok. I wonder - is ppm2raw creating 4:1:1 or 420paldv? Should be PAL, as a -n option is required for NTSC > That's why there's a choice of scaling kernels - pick the right one > for the task. Thanks to Matt, the further it goes the more I appreciate the work put into this

Re: [Mjpeg-users] losing the plot

2005-03-17 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, E.Chalaron wrote: > Hello Steven, thanks for the mail You're welcome. > Well I tend to do the following to get the reels under Kino : > > (find . -name \*.pnm | xargs cat) | pnmtoy4m -F 25:1 | y4mdenoise -I 0 | \ > y4mscaler -v 0 -I active=YYYxYYY+AA+BB -S option

Re: [Mjpeg-users] losing the plot

2005-03-17 Thread Steven Boswell II
Hello E.Chalaron, I've just finished several improvements to the "near-perfection" scripts I posted a few months back, but haven't had time to write up my big explanation. I hope to get to that soon.* >I tend to do the following to get the reels under >Kino : > >(find . -name \*.pnm | xargs cat

Re: [Mjpeg-users] losing the plot

2005-03-17 Thread Steven Boswell II
>>Clearly, kino needs to deal with other file >>formats, such as lossless-compressed Quicktime >>files. > >Ok so need to export in quicktime to feed into >kino really. Oh...does kino already support Quicktime? Do we have a tool that'll export raw YUV video as lossless-compressed Quicktime files?

Re: [Mjpeg-users] losing the plot

2005-03-18 Thread Dik Takken
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Steven Boswell II wrote: As soon as I get mjpegtools' video quality up to my standards (and I'm getting REALLY close), I plan for my next obsession to be bringing open-source video editing up to snuff. I know of kino, lvs, cinelerra, and hvirtual, but haven't looked too de

Open-source video editing (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] losing the plot)

2005-03-18 Thread Steven Boswell II
>I'm also developing an obsession for open source >video processing. I develop scripts (and >graphical wizards to control/run them, for >inexprienced/lazy users) that push the limits of >the current state of Linux video processing >tools. Ah, cool! That wasn't the direction I was planning to tak