Re: [Mjpeg-users] Sourceforge CVS caught up with mjpegtools today

2003-10-06 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 6 Oct 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > "this procedure forces blocks of a type that don't carry much > information but are expensive to encode to be simply skipped" > > If they are skipped at encoding, with what do they get replaced when > viewing? Oops - misunderstanding alert ;) It p

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Sourceforge CVS caught up with mjpegtools today

2003-10-06 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 17:09, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > The new -E option to mpeg2enc is worth trying out the CVS version... Quote: "this procedure forces blocks of a type that don't carry much information but are expensive to encode to be simply skipped" If they are skipped at encoding,

[Mjpeg-users] Sourceforge CVS caught up with mjpegtools today

2003-10-06 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi! For those who want to try all the neat new features (and get a few bug fixes too ;)) the Sourceforge anon CVS has finally caught up with the developers. The new -E option to mpeg2enc is worth trying out the CVS version... Cheers, Steven Schult

Re: [Mjpeg-users] SVCD subtitles

2003-10-06 Thread Andrew Stevens
> I didn't find any reference to this topic in the mjpegtools manpages, so I > ask the question here. Do the mjpegtools support multiplexing mpeg-2 > streams with subtitles to create SVCDs ? The SVCD standard support up to 4 > (if I'm not mistaken) subtitle streams. It would be nice to use them, as

[Mjpeg-users] SVCD subtitles

2003-10-06 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi everybody, I didn't find any reference to this topic in the mjpegtools manpages, so I ask the question here. Do the mjpegtools support multiplexing mpeg-2 streams with subtitles to create SVCDs ? The SVCD standard support up to 4 (if I'm not mistaken) subtitle streams. It would be nice to us

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Problem with DC30

2003-10-06 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I downloaded the latest drivers and mjpegtools. I also downloaded the Linux > Video Studio. My kernel is 2.4.22 downloaded from www.kernel.org. > > I have some problems when capturing. > > The first is that I have a rather large number of lost frames. When I use > lavrec directly then I

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Creating a test VCD/SVCD

2003-10-06 Thread Maarten De Boer
> Have you already tried the VCD/SVCD examples on www.vcdhelp.com ? no, but there seem to be only a very few samples, that follow the standard to the letter, and i wanted to create several samples increasing in bitrate and with different settings, so you can easily test what a specific standalone

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Creating a test VCD/SVCD

2003-10-06 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > Trying to get the optimal and compatible settings for creating VCD's and > SVCD's, got me thinking that it would be really nice to have a test VCD > and a test SVCD containing a reference recording (of let's say 20 > seconds) with mpg's created with various settings. VBR vs CBR, several >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCD 2500vbr better quality than SVCD

2003-10-06 Thread Alexei Dets
Hi! On Monday 06 October 2003 04:21, Maarten de Boer wrote: > television want show you the higher resolution anyway). Or do you think > that with the proper settings, my SVCD should look at least as good as > VCD, with the additional advantage of following the standard? Properly encoded SVCD looks

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCD 2500vbr better quality than SVCD

2003-10-06 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Maarten de Boer wrote: > suggestions to improve my SVCD recording. I am wondering though, whether > it would be better to stick with (non-standard bitrate) VCD, because > with the same amount of data the quality is better (since a normal > television want show you the higher r

Re: [Mjpeg-users] kernel panic: iomega buz, 2.4.22-smp, dual pIII

2003-10-06 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > Testing out the 0.9.5 (cvs) version of driver-zoran in slackware-9.1 (actually > slackware-current as of Oct 10, 2003, but the changes are mostly security > patches to ssl) Fine :) > kernel, motherboard, and capture card: > 2.4.22-smp, dual pIII, iomega buz > > driver-zoran is cvs, dated

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCD 2500vbr better quality than SVCD

2003-10-06 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > Thanks, Steffen, Bernhard and Steven, for your replies. I will try your > suggestions to improve my SVCD recording. I am wondering though, whether > it would be better to stick with (non-standard bitrate) VCD, because > with the same amount of data the quality is better (since a normal >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] problems with lavtrans generating bad jpegs

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi, On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 12:43, M G wrote: > Hi I have been trying to use mjpeg tools to extract frames > from mjpeg movies taken using my digital camera (Fuji Finepix > s602z). Cams often don't include huffman tables. You should include the default ones, which requires recompression: lav2yuv f

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Grabbing RGB frames from DC 10+ Card

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi, On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:20, Anoop G Prabhu wrote: > With the bigphysarea > patch I can grab with V4L(VIDIOCMCAPTURE ...), but I get BGR instead of > RGB with both RGB24 and RGB32 palettes. > > Is there any way of getting RGB24 directly, without having to convert > from BGR to RGB? Yes, with

[Mjpeg-users] Creating a test VCD/SVCD

2003-10-06 Thread Maarten de Boer
Hello, Trying to get the optimal and compatible settings for creating VCD's and SVCD's, got me thinking that it would be really nice to have a test VCD and a test SVCD containing a reference recording (of let's say 20 seconds) with mpg's created with various settings. VBR vs CBR, several bitrates,

Re: [Mjpeg-users] kernel panic: iomega buz, 2.4.22-smp, dual pIII

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi Karl, On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:11, Karl and Tanya Pizzolatto wrote: > 2.4.22-smp, dual pIII, iomega buz Eek, dual. I'll build myself a SMP kernel (I don't have any SMP at home here) to see if I can reproduce it. > >>EIP; c01197a7<= Hm, might be i2c-call related... Slackware is fairl

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCD 2500vbr better quality than SVCD

2003-10-06 Thread Maarten de Boer
Hello, Thanks, Steffen, Bernhard and Steven, for your replies. I will try your suggestions to improve my SVCD recording. I am wondering though, whether it would be better to stick with (non-standard bitrate) VCD, because with the same amount of data the quality is better (since a normal televisio

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Problem with DC30

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi Gerhard, On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 19:36, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > The first is that I have a rather large number of lost frames. When I use > lavrec directly then I can see that this is the first time at 2:09 seconds, > always. What could this be? Any ideas? That's +/- 64 frames, so when the c

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Unable to detect DC10+

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi, On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 16:54, Anoop G wrote: > Try using a script to load the modules in the proper order: first saa7110 > and then zr36067. Ow, the zr36067 module says "Card not supported" and > doesn't register any device with the card. Though I haven't worked on a > Suse box, I had simila

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Linux Video Studio: Effects do not work with interlaced material

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi Michael, On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 08:21, Michael Hanke wrote: > I spent much time to understand the inner working. Moreover, I am not very > sure if I am using LVS the way the authors thought. Well, LVS has a really tight way of using it. It's (unfortunately) rather easy to crash, too. :-(. Cod

[Mjpeg-users] More ASUS A7N8X/nforce2 info

2003-10-06 Thread John Ribera
I was able to get this to work reasonable well trying different params in the update script. I think setting v4l_nbufs=128 did the trick. only 19 frames in a 1.5 hour move dropped. The movie I recorded looked excellent, except panning requiring the majority of the frame to change was not smoot

[Mjpeg-users] Problem with DC30

2003-10-06 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I downloaded the latest drivers and mjpegtools. I also downloaded the Linux Video Studio. My kernel is 2.4.22 downloaded from www.kernel.org. I have some problems when capturing. The first is that I have a rather large number of lost frames. When I use lavrec directly then I can see that this is

[Mjpeg-users] kernel panic: iomega buz, 2.4.22-smp, dual pIII

2003-10-06 Thread Karl and Tanya Pizzolatto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Testing out the 0.9.5 (cvs) version of driver-zoran in slackware-9.1 (actually slackware-current as of Oct 10, 2003, but the changes are mostly security patches to ssl) kernel, motherboard, and capture card: 2.4.22-smp, dual pIII, iomega buz dow

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Unable to detect DC10+

2003-10-06 Thread Anoop G
Try using a script to load the modules in the proper order: first saa7110 and then zr36067. Ow, the zr36067 module says "Card not supported" and doesn't register any device with the card. Though I haven't worked on a Suse box, I had similar problems on RH. The usage count of saa7110 in the lsm