Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-21 Thread Tom Metro
stuart wrote: > However, I couldn't get the sound and video on the MVPMC to sync up. It > appeared to be somewhere between a second and a faction of a second off. > After jumping around it looked better, but never right on. I played > back the same recording with mythfrontend and the recording

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-21 Thread stuart
As we are being subjective, this thread gets long quick. I'm going to try and trim it keeping the interesting bits. This go around is comparing a good (video/audio in sync) OTA NTSC file w/a OTA ATSC HDTV w/2.1 AC3 file that has been transcoded using Roger's script. The transcoded file appea

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-21 Thread Roger Heflin
stuart wrote: > > > Roger Heflin wrote: > >> The script does attempt to determine the bitrate, and stream types >> of the original file and only adjust as much as necessary,If the >> bitrate is above 10 it cuts it down, if the resolution is above 640x480 >> it cuts that down, and it adjusts

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-21 Thread stuart
Roger Heflin wrote: > The script does attempt to determine the bitrate, and stream types > of the original file and only adjust as much as necessary,If the > bitrate is above 10 it cuts it down, if the resolution is above 640x480 > it cuts that down, and it adjusts the bitrate (up or down) b

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Metro
stuart wrote: >> And on the wiki: >> http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/transcoding > > Whoops, sorry about that ... > > I'll remove my recent wiki addtion ... maybe put a link in it's place to: > http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/transcoding No problem. I think you were actually first, and my upload of the s

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-20 Thread stuart
Tom Metro wrote: > Hugo van der Kooij wrote: >> Tom Metro wrote: >>> Thanks for sharing your script. We should get it uploaded to the wiki. >> Please do. Because it seems Tom is responding to a message yet I can not >> find any trace of the message on the mailinglist: > > http://www.nabble.com/m

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Metro
Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> Thanks for sharing your script. We should get it uploaded to the wiki. > > Please do. Because it seems Tom is responding to a message yet I can not > find any trace of the message on the mailinglist: http://www.nabble.com/mvpmc-compatible-digital-tu

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-20 Thread stuart
Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tom Metro wrote: >> Roger, >> >>> ...here is the current version... >> Thanks for sharing your script. We should get it uploaded to the wiki. > > Please do. Because it seems Tom is responding to a message yet I can

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-20 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Metro wrote: > Roger, > >> ...here is the current version... > > Thanks for sharing your script. We should get it uploaded to the wiki. Please do. Because it seems Tom is responding to a message yet I can not find any trace of the message on the

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-19 Thread Tom Metro
MVallevand wrote: > You seem to want to ignore the digital output... Nope, just forgot about it, as I don't use it. > No there is a mpeg audio device that does hardware decoding. Ah. Then I'd say that's the key difference between MP3 and AC3 audio handling. (That, and the extra (documented) ca

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-18 Thread MVallevand
On 10/18/07, Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, so the mvpmc code uses a software codec to decode the audio and then specifically mvpmc uses liba52 http://liba52.sourceforge.net/ for analog. You seem to want to ignore the digital output which is where true 5:1 is available. > it writes

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
MVallevand wrote: > No, the problem is the demux. There is no hardware decoder... OK, so the mvpmc code uses a software codec to decode the audio and then it writes it to some buffer to be processed by the MVP hardware. > The main difference from mpeg audio is there is no documented hardware >

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-18 Thread MVallevand
On 10/18/07, Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know anything about the sync problems with AC3 audio on mvpmc, > but from what I've picked up from reading the dev list I got the > impression that it wasn't just a problem with how the audio was > multiplexed with the video, but instead a

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
Roger Heflin wrote: >> Using this technique I've gotten playable video from an RTJpeg file, >> but so far with horrible audio sync problems and video that seems to >> degraded into slow motion. Perhaps the bitrate is too high, or something. > > My calculations of derating video bitrates may need

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
stuart wrote: > [on the fly transcoding] would skirt the skip > forward / backwards benefits that people have been adding to the > MVPMC/mythtv code (well, I assume as much - am I right?). Not necessarily. But it adds complications. Take the skip forward use case. I haven't looked at the protoc

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-18 Thread Roger Heflin
stuart wrote: > > > Roger Heflin wrote: >> Tom Metro wrote: >>> Roger, > ... I have not noticed any sync issues. >>> I converted an Xvid using it, and it produced a nice looking picture, >>> but garbled audio when played back via the mvpmc filesystem browser. >> >> I don't believe I have tr

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-18 Thread stuart
Roger Heflin wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> Roger, ... >>> I have not noticed any sync issues. >> I converted an Xvid using it, and it produced a nice looking picture, >> but garbled audio when played back via the mvpmc filesystem browser. > > I don't believe I have tried any xvid stuff yet. > >

Re: [Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Tom Metro wrote: > Roger, > >> ...here is the current version... > > Thanks for sharing your script. We should get it uploaded to the wiki. > > >> I have not noticed any sync issues. > > I converted an Xvid using it, and it produced a nice looking picture, > but garbled audio when played back

[Mvpmc-users] universal transcoding script

2007-10-17 Thread Tom Metro
Roger, > ...here is the current version... Thanks for sharing your script. We should get it uploaded to the wiki. > I have not noticed any sync issues. I converted an Xvid using it, and it produced a nice looking picture, but garbled audio when played back via the mvpmc filesystem browser. m