On Monday 17 January 2005 16:52, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
> Hallo
> > I think it should start with a general overview of of starting with
> > various types of video sources and ways to encode those into various
> > formats, followed by seperate chapters for each tool, and what the
> > various command-line switches do and why one would use them in any
> > particular order?
>
> Hmm, in the current version of the howto EN:
> https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=3456&group_id=5776
> DE:
> http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=3455&group_id=5776
>
> or the mjpeg-howto*.pdf on http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/files/ for the
> PDF versions.
>
Just having a look now.

> We start in the introduction with a nice video encoding workflow picture
> (thanks to Derek)
> After that the howto is rather the way you would work
> 1. record a video, or get/create a video,
> 2. edit it
> 3. encode it
> 4. Some other toppics that might be interresting.
>
> The german version has a nice description of some common terms, and a
> short description of what the programms do, which would be nice in the
> english version too. But I haven't found time to translate that.
>
Sorry, but I don't read german, or I'd help translate.

> The goal of the howto ist to describe what is prossible with the
> mjpegtools. It should not be (at least in my sense) a description of
> what can be created with the mjpeg tools and other tools.
>
Well, I also think it should be restricted to the tools within the mjpegtools 
project, though there do seem to be a few tools that should be part of this 
toolkit.
> And I do not want to include some general video information like you
> find it on Mattos page. There are enough pages out there.
>
But some minimal info about video formats is needed, with references to these 
better pages.

> Describing the various switches of the programs is the work of the
> manpage. At least I don't want to change the howto when one devleoper
> changes one option. The goal of the howto was to give you a line of how
> the job is done. There are many options that change the quality and size
> of the final video. And no exact line where which option is better.
> Because all depends on the source you have and the output you want.
>
but it'd be nice to have some fairly complete list of switches in one document 
rather than chasing through many different man-pages. Maybe not 
comprehensive, but enough to cover what most people would want to use and 
why.

> > But this is just off the top of my head and could probably use a bit of
> > refining.
>
> Do it, really, try to take a close look at the 46 Din-A4 pages. And tell
> me what you are missing and things you want to change.
>
I'll have a look and see what I think. The last time I looked was the original 
HOW-TO, which was quite good, only slightly dis-organised (-;

> BTW: Also take a look at the german version. There some things are
> alreaddy done I also want to do in the english version.
>
Wish I could read german. I'd love to help with the translation!

Cheers,

        John Gay


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