Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-06 Thread Burkhard Plaum
Hi, Andrew Stevens schrieb: > Hi Andrei, > [...] >> Is 2-pass already documented somewhere? (for users, not for programmers) > There's not much to document it actually be easier to use. Simply tell it > how > big you want the end-result to be and the maximum data-rate that can be > handled an

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
Andrew Stevens wrote: > > There's not much to document it actually be easier to use. Simply tell it > how > big you want the end-result to be and the maximum data-rate that can be > handled and the encoder will worry about the rest itself. That's excellent. Currently I set the max bitrate to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Stevens
Hi Andrei, > So how usable is 2-pass encoding with 1.9.0-rc? Not at all useable - there's still some bits not yet programmed. The -A 0 stuff is all there and up and running already. > Is 2-pass already documented somewhere? (for users, not for programmers) There's not much to document it actual

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
Andrew Stevens wrote: > > The major changes / bugs in the 1.9 revision of mpeg2enc relate to major > internal changes needed to support this internal encoding and re-encoding of > images (and provided hooks for improving multi-core scalability). So how usable is 2-pass encoding with 1.9.0-rc?

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Stevens
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 07:59:35 Florin Andrei wrote: > -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? None (at present). -A 0 currently selects a limited local

[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/ - This SF

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > It's necessary to leave room for peaks or spikes in the bitrate - > > exceeding the legal limit even briefly will cause playback problems > > Right, but as far as m2v and mpeg2enc, _isolated_ (disregarding DVD > limits, other tracks, etc.), are con

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Richard Ellis wrote: > I've seen that same 10.08Mbps maximum upper limit for DVD's as well. I haven't seen any that come even close to the upper limit. Perhaps one of the "Superbits" titles would be worth a look, they leave out all the extras (additi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Richard Ellis
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:21:37AM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > > I actually thought the total max mandated by the DVD standard is > 10.08 Mbps or something like that (and it's the sum of the actively > played tracks, not of all the stuff in the VOB). So that would > leave, above a 9800 kbps ceil

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 08:43, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > But most of the professional DVDs i've seen are at or around 9800 kb/s > > Not really. Or rather how are you determining that? By taking > the .m2v streamsize in bytes and dividing by t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > High motion videos might benefit from '-g' being decreased - in fact > > you could set that to 1 (if you're using the cvs version of mpeg2enc > > Issues with set-top-boxes in that case? None. Smaller GOP sizes just increase the filesize but all

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2003 09:36 schrieb Florin Andrei: > On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 00:15, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > -b 9800 -E -15 -q 6 -R 0 -s -c -I 1 -g 6 -G 18 -4 2 -2 1 -K > > > tmpgenc -N 1 > > > > 9800 is too high. Some standalone players can not handle the > > maximum. For portabili

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] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 00:15, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 25 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > Is it a good choice to use -g 6 -G 18? > > Any possible side-effects of doing that? > > In general, when would you recommend to tweak -g -G? > > High motion videos might benefit from '-g' being decreas

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 25 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > Conditions: > My source is a cheap CCD, not too bad, pretty good detail, excellent > chroma, some mild noise when in the dark but otherwise it's clean. > > Goals: > I want to put my movies on DVDs with the highest quality that's > achievable with the mpeg2e

[Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Conditions: My source is a cheap CCD, not too bad, pretty good detail, excellent chroma, some mild noise when in the dark but otherwise it's clean. The camera is amateurishly handled: quiet scenes interrupted by bursts of brutal motion. It stores the image in NTSC 480i DV format. I capture it with