[Mjpeg-users] what "ZR36057/Natoma bug, max. buffer size is 128K" means ?

2003-09-23 Thread Thierry Salmon
I always get "ZR36057/Natoma bug, max. buffer size is 128K" message however capture work's now with bigphysarea patch (thanks Ronald) what does it mean ? -- Best regards Thierry SALMON e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could you confirm reception of the message by replying e-mail

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DC30+ can't capture size greater than 224x168

2003-09-23 Thread Thierry Salmon
Hi Ronald Ronald Bultje wrote: Hi Thierry, On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 11:36, Thierry Salmon wrote: Did you recompile the driver itself with bigphysarea support? The error messages from 'dmesg' indicate that the driver is compiled without bigphysarea support.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 26 frames 480x576@50i pure black compresses to 167kB - 1.6.1.90

2003-09-23 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Andras Kadinger wrote: > To simplify testing, I then generated a pure black [16,128,128] > YUV4MPEG2 frame with a tiny C program, and created a tiny shell script > to prepend a YUV4MPEG2 header and repeat the black frame to stdout to > create a YUV4MPEG2 stream containing

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 26 frames 480x576@50i pure black compresses to 167kB - 1.6.1.90

2003-09-23 Thread Andras Kadinger
Greetings Andrew, Thank you for taking up this thread. Andrew Stevens írta: The big question is whether 'pure black' really is 'pure black'. If it is digitised there will almost certainly be residual noise. The first time I noticed this issue was when I prepended some lead-in black/silence in

[Mjpeg-users] Back again: (was: lpcm audio?)

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew Stevens
Hi all, Back again... last track-weekend of the Season is over and its raining so its time for the Tippety-tap hobby again ;-) > Is lpcm in mplex working? I need it to make DVDs. No idea. Well let's put it this way.What I could test using software players seemed to work. Do you have so

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 26 frames 480x576@50i pure black compresses to 167kB - 1.6.1.90

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew Stevens
Hi Andras, Sounds very interesting... > The material was PAL, digitized at [EMAIL PROTECTED], uncompressed YUV 4:2:2 > > However I have noticed, that during pure black mpeg2enc 1.6.1.90 uses > up to 1.4 Mbit/s no matter whether -q is 1, 4, 8 or 12. This I find > strange. The command line used i

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: JVC switcher & Intel vs AMD

2003-09-23 Thread Matthew Caron
For _that_ I just burn the iso/udf image out to a DVD+RW ;) But then you have to re-rip it. Boooring. :-) Do I NEED seven computers? Heck no. But, I still have them. :-) Nor do I (well, a couple of 'em are PDP-11s so video encoding is, uh, just slightly out of the question :)). :-

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: JVC switcher & Intel vs AMD

2003-09-23 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Matthew Caron wrote: > there's other stuff that you might want to put on there just for > safekeeping (such as the iso's of the DVD's you're burning). Backups are > Alternatively a IEEE1394 disc that's only up a For _that_ I just burn the iso/udf image out to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: problem with dvgrab, lav2yuv

2003-09-23 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Maarten de Boer wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Thanks a lot, going through all the trouble of checking these things! You're welcome. The PAL vs NTSC format is a continuing problem is it not? > If I understand correctly what you are saying, configuring libdv wi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: problem with dvgrab, lav2yuv, smiltools.

2003-09-23 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Maarten de Boer wrote: > Okay, I thought I read somewhere that the combined audio and video bitrates > should not exceed 2600 kbps, but I now see that it is 2756 kbps. As Bernhard mentioned the total limit is ~2780 kbps (~2500 for video and 224 for audio). >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: problem with dvgrab, lav2yuv, smiltools.

2003-09-23 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > > That's perfectly correct. The maximum video bitrate for > > SVCD is 2500 kbits/sec (some players will accept much higher > > rates but for compatibility 2500 is the value to use) - and > > mpeg2enc sets that as the rate to use with -f 4. > Okay, I thought I read

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: JVC switcher & Intel vs AMD

2003-09-23 Thread Matthew Caron
Ah, ok - I thought that might be the case but wasn't sure (it doesn't make a lot of sense to do RAID-5 for video capture that I can see ;)). - speed (okay, simple striping can do that) - space (ditto for simple striping) - redundancy - Sure, you might not need it for video capture, but there's

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: JVC switcher & Intel vs AMD

2003-09-23 Thread Matthew Caron
on the new system. So, I'm willing to adapt my thinking if it's a waste of effort to do a RAID-0. Would a Raid-3, or Raid-1 setup be beneficial? Assuming real hardware control, a RAID-1 won't impose additional load, but (aside from the improved performance of a higher quality caching disk contr

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DC30+ can't capture size greater than 224x168

2003-09-23 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi Thierry, On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 11:36, Thierry Salmon wrote: > > Did you recompile the driver itself with bigphysarea support? The error > > messages from 'dmesg' indicate that the driver is compiled without > > bigphysarea support. > > > normally yes, else my subkernelversion (-4) doesn't ma

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DC30+ can't capture size greater than 224x168

2003-09-23 Thread Thierry Salmon
Ronald Bultje wrote: hi Thierry, On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 07:57, Thierry Salmon wrote: see attachement Did you recompile the driver itself with bigphysarea support? The error messages from 'dmesg' indicate that the driver is compiled without bigphysarea support. norm

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DC30+ can't capture size greater than 224x168

2003-09-23 Thread Ronald Bultje
hi Thierry, On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 07:57, Thierry Salmon wrote: > see attachement Did you recompile the driver itself with bigphysarea support? The error messages from 'dmesg' indicate that the driver is compiled without bigphysarea support. And yes, this should be documented, I fully agree. ;).

[Mjpeg-users] Re: [Kino-dev] problem with dvgrab, lav2yuv, smiltools.

2003-09-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnick
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:37:57PM +, Maarten De Boer wrote: > > dvgrab --format raw - | > > ffmpeg -f dv -i - -f mpeg output.mpeg > > This result in errors: > > Input #0, dv, from 'pipe:': > Duration: N/A, bitrate: 1536 kb/s > Stream #0.0: Video: dvvideo, 720x576, 25.00 fps > Stream #0

[Mjpeg-users] Re: problem with dvgrab, lav2yuv, smiltools.

2003-09-23 Thread Roman Shaposhnick
Please, try ffmpeg from the cvs, and if it continues to give you trouble -- please let me know, I will try to fix it. Thanks, Roman. On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:57:04PM +, Maarten De Boer wrote: > > > These are generally harmless and don't affect video quality. They should > > probably be

[Mjpeg-users] Re: problem with dvgrab, lav2yuv, smiltools.

2003-09-23 Thread Maarten de Boer
Steven M. Schultz wrote: > That's perfectly correct. The maximum video bitrate for > SVCD is 2500 kbits/sec (some players will accept much higher > rates but for compatibility 2500 is the value to use) - and > mpeg2enc sets that as the rate to use with -f 4. Okay, I thoug

[Mjpeg-users] DC30+ can't capture size greater than 224x168

2003-09-23 Thread Thierry Salmon
see attachement part 2 -- Best regards Thierry SALMON e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could you confirm reception of the message by replying e-mail ** This message and any attachments (the "message") a

[Mjpeg-users] Re: problem with dvgrab, lav2yuv

2003-09-23 Thread Maarten de Boer
Hi Steven, Thanks a lot, going through all the trouble of checking these things! If I understand correctly what you are saying, configuring libdv with --with-pal-yuv=YV12 is all I need to do to get dvgrab's dv2 output to work with lav2yuv? That is actually what I tried (see my mail that started t