Sorry for being so late! On Sunday 19 November 2006 22:31, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > Sure, I use an almost silent pentium 233mmx running a ltsp terminal to a > > server that is an Athlon 800 with 512MB of memory. I run kmail, firefox > > and > > And I thought 1GB was small :) >
I only buy used processors and mainboards. I think buying a new one is throwing money in the litter. Exceptions are HD and DVD recorder. > > But how long does Xine need to play the file? > Yes, it plays correctly. After 17:45 minutes, I have an indication of 15:00 in xine. So, 33 minutes would spend about 40 minutes, which is correct. > "show a length" is not reliable for variable bitrate files! That's it! > > I think xine is dividing the file length by the the bitrate in > the MPEG-2 header and using that as the duration of the movie. But > that calculation assumes a 'constant bitrate' and does not work > with variable bitrate files. > > > I'm now converting the file to a DV type2 using kino. I'll encode that > > file > > I always use 'raw'. Less overhead (does not have a 2nd copy of the > audio data in the file) and, a little less disc space. Also with 'raw' > you can do emergency or quick edits using dd" (raw DV has a frame > size of 120000 bytes/frame for NTSC, 144000 for PAL) > > If the DV file is OK and if mpeg2enc has no bugs then I would not > worry about the estimated times that xine is printing out. > Well, I have done some tests: With kino, I exported raw DV to DV type 2 with "OpenDML AVI" so it could be read in avidemux. In avidemux, I converted the above file to mpeg using the option of ffmpeg, 2 pass and audio as AC3. Now this file (is it cbr?) shows 40 minutes in mplayer *but* the same 33 minutes in xine. But now I managed to make chapters in qdvdauthor as I see a duration of 40 minutes in it, so I managed to burn a DVD. Still, mpeg2dec shows fewer frames of this file than original type2 DV which had 73313 frames. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mpeg2dec -o null ntavidemux.mpeg mpeg2dec-0.4.0 - by Michel Lespinasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Aaron Holtzman 72605 frames in 274.29 sec (264.70 fps), 118 last 0.50 sec (236.00 fps) 72653 frames decoded in 274.45 seconds (264.72 fps) I didn't manage to read the exported DV type2 with lav2yuv or smil2yuv, so I couldn't test this file with mpeg2enc: ========================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ lav2yuv /video/natype1001.avi | mpeg2enc -b 9570 -f 8 -q 4 -4 1 -2 1 -r 32 -g 6 -G 18 -B 260 -K tmpgenc -o vid_natype1.m2v **ERROR: [lav2yuv] Error opening /video/natype1001.avi INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING SSE and MMX for TRANSFORM! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION! **ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ smil2yuv /video/natype1001.avi | mpeg2enc -b 9570 -f 8 -q 4 -4 1 -2 1 -r 32 -g 6 -G 18 -B 260 -K tmpgenc -o vid_natype1.m2v INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING SSE and MMX for TRANSFORM! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION! *** glibc detected *** smil2yuv: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08937cd8 *** **ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users