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 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users