Re: [Mjpeg-users] searching for black frames in an mjpeg stream (adv editing)

2004-05-25 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 17:58 +0200, Ronald Bultje wrote: > > The issue here is that mjpegtools doesn't provide any way of doing this. > You'll have to dive into libjpeg internals yourself to get this done. It's > not that hard, but it's icky, if you know what I mean. Yeah, and way over my head. I

Re: [Mjpeg-users] searching for black frames in an mjpeg stream (adv editing)

2004-05-25 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi, On Tue, 25 May 2004, Matto Marjanovic wrote: > The first coefficient of each macroblock in JPEG is the DC value for > the macroblock, right? Maybe you don't have to completely decode any > scanlines at all. You'd have to decompress/unpack enough to recover > the coefficients for blocks to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] searching for black frames in an mjpeg stream (adv editing)

2004-05-25 Thread Matto Marjanovic
>> You you have to take a look at the center, oft the first field or >> something like that.=20 > >Yeah, funny enough, the black frame search I did in mplayer looked at >the centre of the frame and worked it's way towards the top and bottom >of the frame for just that reason, however, that d

Re: [Mjpeg-users] searching for black frames in an mjpeg stream (adv editing)

2004-05-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:09 +0200, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > Have you also taken a look at the lav2yuv secenlist feature ? Not beyond having seen is presence in the usage: statement for lav2yuv when I was digging through the code to see just how difficult it would be. > There lav2yuv splits t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] searching for black frames in an mjpeg stream (adv editing)

2004-05-24 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I once wrote a filter for mplayer that searched for black frames. The > idea was to find the 1 or more frames that most frequently sit between > "content" and the commercials. Have you also taken a look at the lav2yuv secenlist feature ? There lav2yuv splits the inputfile into several sce

[Mjpeg-users] searching for black frames in an mjpeg stream (adv editing)

2004-05-23 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I once wrote a filter for mplayer that searched for black frames. The idea was to find the 1 or more frames that most frequently sit between "content" and the commercials. It was quite effective at finding the black frames, but because it had to decode and analyse each frame (in actuality it was