Hi all Using mjpegtoos 1.6.2 and dvdauthor 0.6.9 I have observed another odd effect when playing the resulting DVD on a hardware player. The DVD was made from a number of mpegs each encoded with identical parameters with mjpegtools. They were made into a DVD following the dvdauthor examples given in the package (one after the other, no fancy titles/menus).
Every so often during playback, our Pioneer DV-344 hardware player will freeze at the transition between two source mpegs. It happens at about 10% of the joins. Sometimes the playback freezes at the join and sometimes up to 3 seconds after the join. The freezing does not occur at the same join on subsequent playback sessions - any join is fair game it seems. One other thing which might be relevant - when viewing the bitrate display on this player, every join is associated with a very brief, high bitrate peak. This seems strange to me because all the joins I have occur with the video faded to black (and sound faded out) - in other words, all the individual mpegs start and end with no sound and black video. Perhaps it's the sharp transisition between two noise fields doing this, but since the black was produced by the computer in cinelerra this seems unlikely. I wonder whether there's something associated with the joins which causes some players to behave strangely - either due to mjpegtools or the way dvdauthor joins mpegs? Any thoughts anyone? Regards jonathan -- * Jonathan Woithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/~jwoithe * ***-----------------------------------------------------------------------*** ** "Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so" ** * "...you wouldn't recognize a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and * * danced naked on a harpsichord singing 'subtle plans are here again'" * ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
