On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, James Finnall wrote: > This is what mplayer reports the specs of the file are, with the bit rate at > 9375 kbps. And that is way over your estimated 8000 kbps. > > Playing VTS_01_1.VOB > Detected MPEG-PS file format! > VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.97 fps 9375.0 kbps (1171.9 kbyte/s) > Detected audio codec: [mp3] afm:1 (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) > Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 > AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, sfmt: 0x10 (2 bps), ratio: 28000->192000 (224.0 kbit)
AH ha! So it would seem that I was spot on for the cause of the problematic playback (both hardware and software). With 9375 it would not take a very large spike to drive the rate over the 10.08 maximum limit allowed by the DVD specs (just a few % over would be enough). That also explains why software playback is struggling on ~1GHz systems (I'll leave it to your imagination what playing a HD (1920x1080) resolution clip requires ;)). There were some rate control fixes checked in for the encoder a day or two ago - it could be that rebuilding mpeg2enc will solve the problem. Very strange though that if you defaulted the rate (did not specify -b) that the rate was up so high. I think that's was fixed by the recent changes. I think a cvs update and rebuild will do wonders in this case. Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users