Re: [Mjpeg-users] Quality from my old video camera and the -d setting

2003-02-04 Thread Derek Fountain
> > I have an oldish DV video camera, one of the first JVC ones to come out > > which used "DV Format (SD Mode)" (according to the 'spec). No firewire > > port or anything, so the video is going in via my DC10+. I want to > > capture and archive onto DVD+R the tapes I have - quite a few. In order >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard / more

2003-02-04 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Edouard Chalaron wrote: > Hi Vladimir > > Thanks for the mail. > My question was in fact : can I encode the same DV file into PAL or NTSC > knowing that the camera that has been used to record the DV files is a NZ > one, NZ being in PAL standard, eg is the DV format indepen

RE: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard / more (fwd)

2003-02-04 Thread Robert Kesterson
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Vladimir Shved wrote: > > In initial post you said, all you want to do is convert > some tapes to DVD? > I assuming that you were able to dump those tapes on to your > machine in to DV PAL format, so why not find software which could > take that format encode directly in to DVD?

RE: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard / more

2003-02-04 Thread Vladimir Shved
Title: RE: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard / more I believe there should be software solution for this, thats if you are  trying to convert DV PAL to DV NTSC or you'll need two machines. One machine playing DV PAL to ADVC100 and other receiving from ADVC. In initial post you said, all you want to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] using dv with the mjpegtools (specifically glav)

2003-02-04 Thread Aaron Newsome
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 19:20, Tyler Geddes wrote: > know!). However, I have hit a stumbling block- there seems to be no way > to convert from dv (type 2 avi or otherwise) to mjpeg! dv2jpg, a nice > script, is defunct. I was recommended by Kino people to use the > SMILUtils to convert, but the fai

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard / more

2003-02-04 Thread Robert Kesterson
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Edouard Chalaron wrote: > My question was in fact : can I encode the same DV file into PAL or NTSC > knowing that the camera that has been used to record the DV files is a NZ > one, NZ being in PAL standard, eg is the DV format independant from any NTSC > or PAL or SECAM ? DV i

RE: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard

2003-02-04 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 21:14, Vladimir Shved wrote: > I believe PAL and SECAM used in Europe mostly, maybe Asia also, NTSC > used in North America. Western europe is PAL, except for France which is SECAM. A large proportion of TV hardware will handle PAL60 so only simple convertors are needed, and

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard / more

2003-02-04 Thread Edouard Chalaron
Ouch. Ok I own a ADVC 100 Canopus, once the DV PAL files are on my machine, I understand (may be I am wrong) that I can export the DV to analogue ou digital NTSC, as long as I have the NTSC hardware to record with, plugged into the Canopus. Sorry for being a pain but this may be a way

[Mjpeg-users] Changing header to fix SVCD Playback problem?

2003-02-04 Thread Bruce
There was a thread "standard SVCD cannot be played" from late last year on problems with certain DVD players not being able to play SVCDs properly; I am unlucky enough to have one of these beasts (a cheap Panasonic 5-disc player). It plays VCDs (created in Kino on Linux) just fine in all their low-

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard / more

2003-02-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi Edouard, On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 22:14, Edouard Chalaron wrote: > My question was in fact : can I encode the same DV file into PAL or NTSC > knowing that the camera that has been used to record the DV files is a NZ > one, NZ being in PAL standard, eg is the DV format independant from any NTSC

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard / more

2003-02-04 Thread Edouard Chalaron
Hi Vladimir Thanks for the mail. My question was in fact : can I encode the same DV file into PAL or NTSC knowing that the camera that has been used to record the DV files is a NZ one, NZ being in PAL standard, eg is the DV format independant from any NTSC or PAL or SECAM ? As for the region,

RE: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard

2003-02-04 Thread Vladimir Shved
Title: RE: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard I believe PAL and SECAM used in Europe mostly, maybe Asia also, NTSC used in North America. Althought any of those standards should be okay, the thing you should worry about is what region you'll use. Do some reasearch about DVD regions. Most DVD players li

[Mjpeg-users] help needed with DV audio sync problem

2003-02-04 Thread michael
I'm having problems related to loss of audio video sync when I go from DV to (x)SVCD on long pieces of video. It would be a help if anyone who captures with DV could let me have a copy of the output of running: tcprobe -i anyoldDVfile.avi Preferrably on a file captured using dvgrab with DV2 f

[Mjpeg-users] DV standard

2003-02-04 Thread Edouard Chalaron
Hi there I have a couple of tapes from a Sony DV camera. A friend of mine is asking for a DVD from these tapes and he is in Canada. My question is : does the DV format follow any PAL or NTSC standard. If not, I should be able able to encode in any standard I want ? Am I right on this one ? :-)

RE: [Mjpeg-users] Inserted frames are corrupted

2003-02-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi Vladimir, On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 20:58, Vladimir Shved wrote: > but during writes I can see as lavrecs timer slightly pauses but goes > on without frame insertions or drops. > Does anyone else experience that? Video capture uses buffering, so nothing to worry about. Use "--file-flush=0" to get

RE: [Mjpeg-users] Inserted frames are corrupted

2003-02-04 Thread Vladimir Shved
Title: RE: [Mjpeg-users] Inserted frames are corrupted > > > How much load has your system when you record ? > > with -d1 -q80 , top shows 65%,  ranging -/+ 6% at -d2 -q50 > its around 30% > Thats much to high for anything faster that 500MHz. > > On a Athlon 500 It should not be higher tha

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec problems with v4l2.

2003-02-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hey Chris, On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 20:19, Chris BW wrote: > I will have another go with some lower settings - I think this just gave > me a couple more minutes but I'm not sure that I tried the smaller > bufrfer size and a lower quality setting at the same time. Give it a go at upgoing qualities

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec problems with v4l2.

2003-02-04 Thread Chris BW
Ronald Thanks for that. I will have another go with some lower settings - I think this just gave me a couple more minutes but I'm not sure that I tried the smaller bufrfer size and a lower quality setting at the same time. My grabber board is a DC10Plus & my motherboard is an ASUS A7N266-E wit

[Mjpeg-users] stuttering picture when using --closed-GOPs

2003-02-04 Thread Markus Plail
Hi there! When I use the -c option I get a stuttering picture, It doesn't matter whether the file is played with xine, mplayer or my stand-alone DVD player. From what I see I'd say that the picture hangs for a short while every GOP. I can upload a sample, if it is needed. Source is a DVD (MIB II)

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec problems with v4l2.

2003-02-04 Thread Chris BW
Bernhard Thanks for your reply - I haven't had a chance to try this yet but my setup doesn't seem to allow me to save audio at anything other than 48Khz (Dolby Digital ?) If I try at a lower level eg. 44.1 Khz then lavrec falls over saying it was unable to set the audio to this rate. This doesn

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Inserted frames are corrupted

2003-02-04 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > > If you have a Marvel please tell us the hole command you use. > > The mjpeg > > tools version, and the Linux you use. > > I have Marvel and I tried these command lines with lavrec : > "lavrec -in -q80 -d1 -s test.avi" > "lavrec -in -b 128 -q80 -d1 -s test.avi" > "lavrec -in -q50 -d2 -

RE: [Mjpeg-users] Inserted frames are corrupted

2003-02-04 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Vladimir Shved wrote: > > > any way to fix that? And what would cause those > > curruptions? I'm using G400, > > > 512Mb ram, 1.4G CPU, HPT370 RAID0, SA6R. I ran several > > tests and was able to > > > record about 8 hours of video with these options "-in -q80 -d1 -s", > > >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 29.97fps vs 23.976fps

2003-02-04 Thread Roberto Salles
Hi all! > > My sources are usually from japanese animation, so I really > > don't care about many frames because very few (if there are > > any) will need 29.97fps. Just to make an example, not with > > unusual parameters(considering the defaults as base) I made fit > > on a 80min CD 1h21m49

RE: [Mjpeg-users] Inserted frames are corrupted

2003-02-04 Thread Vladimir Shved
Title: RE: [Mjpeg-users] Inserted frames are corrupted > > I noticed that when frames are inserted they are always > corrupted, is there > > any way to fix that? And what would cause those > curruptions? I'm using G400, > > 512Mb ram, 1.4G CPU, HPT370 RAID0, SA6R. I ran several > tests an

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Quality from my old video camera and the -d setting

2003-02-04 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I have an oldish DV video camera, one of the first JVC ones to come out which > used "DV Format (SD Mode)" (according to the 'spec). No firewire port or > anything, so the video is going in via my DC10+. I want to capture and > archive onto DVD+R the tapes I have - quite a few. In order to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Inserted frames are corrupted

2003-02-04 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I noticed that when frames are inserted they are always corrupted, is there > any way to fix that? And what would cause those curruptions? I'm using G400, > 512Mb ram, 1.4G CPU, HPT370 RAID0, SA6R. I ran several tests and was able to > record about 8 hours of video with these options "-in

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 29.97fps vs 23.976fps

2003-02-04 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I've encoded from many sources, some 29.97fps and some 23.976fps. > Of course, talking NTSC here. I (still) don't capture, so the > originals were from divx, mpeg etc. and what I noticed is that it > *seems* that when I have a 23.976fps source it will allow me to fit > more on the CD. Is

[Mjpeg-users] 29.97fps vs 23.976fps

2003-02-04 Thread Roberto Salles
Hello, mjpeg team and list! I've been using the tools for quite a while (in fact even need to upgrade the version - I'm using the 1.6.0) but there's a point I don't remember seen discussed here and in other places and I want just to be sure of it. I've encoded from many sources, some 29.97fps

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec and nvidia

2003-02-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi Jehan, On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 12:15, jehan procaccia wrote: > hello, I try to capture video with lavrec but I keep getting error messages: > $ lavrec -f a -i p outfile.avi > ** ERROR: [Lavrec] Error getting video parameters: invalid argument [..] > I use rivatv (http://rivatv.sourceforge.net/) d

[Mjpeg-users] Quality from my old video camera and the -d setting

2003-02-04 Thread Derek Fountain
I have an oldish DV video camera, one of the first JVC ones to come out which used "DV Format (SD Mode)" (according to the 'spec). No firewire port or anything, so the video is going in via my DC10+. I want to capture and archive onto DVD+R the tapes I have - quite a few. In order to fit one 60

[Mjpeg-users] lavrec and nvidia

2003-02-04 Thread jehan procaccia
hello, I try to capture video with lavrec but I keep getting error messages: $ lavrec -f a -i p outfile.avi ** ERROR: [Lavrec] Error getting video parameters: invalid argument $ lavrec -f a outfile.avi Error getting video input status: invalid argument I use rivatv (http://rivatv.sourceforge.n

Re: [Mjpeg-developer] RE: [Mjpeg-users] denoise -> green?

2003-02-04 Thread Ralf Oehler
On 04-Feb-2003 Matto Marjanovic wrote: | |Hmm... it seems like some people have noticed problems with |yuvdenoise, and other people haven't. Could you (anyone) create |a small YUV4MPEG2 stream (minimal frame count) which triggers |the problems in yuvdenoise, and then post it so