Re: [Mjpeg-users] glav error: Error mapping audio buffer

2003-12-19 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > glav won't seem to load for me. If I try, for example: > > glav recorded-clip.avi > > I get this: > > ++: **ERROR: [lavplay] Error initializing Audio: Audio task died. > Reason: Error mapping audio buffer - Input/output error > ++: lavtools version 1.6.1 > > When I record, I must sele

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Tool for joining MP2 files ?

2003-12-19 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I am making a SVCD where the MP2 audio is encoded from > two different sources (one AC3 file and one OGG file). > How can I join the MP2 segments into a unique file for > multiplexing with the MPEG2 video stream? I do not know if there ist a tool. Each file has a header and a end. So you w

[Mjpeg-users] glav error: Error mapping audio buffer

2003-12-19 Thread Sascha Hlawacz
glav won't seem to load for me. If I try, for example: glav recorded-clip.avi I get this: ++: **ERROR: [lavplay] Error initializing Audio: Audio task died. Reason: Error mapping audio buffer - Input/output error ++: lavtools version 1.6.1 When I record, I must select the 'read', rather than th

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Matto Marjanovic wrote: > > > [You can specify "-S mode=mono" to y4mscaler, and it will treat the source > as a mono stream. Then, in addition to zeroing the output chroma channels, > it will skip scaling them altogether.] Cool! I just killed the enc

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread Matto Marjanovic
[a footnote:] ... > This particular movie is black and white so the chroma is killed with > 'y4mshift -M' (sets U and V to 128). ... >mpeg2dec -s -o pgmpipe foo.vob | \ > pgmtoy4m -i t -a 10:11 -r 3:1001 | \ > y4mshift -M | \ > y4mscaler -v 0 -S option=sinc:8 -O

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok. I noticed that for some chapters on the DVD, the average bitrate > reported by mplex was almost 50% of the max bitrate! What does this mean? Ah, I see my posting made it out - I never saw it come around. > > After discarding 80 to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread mjpeg
>From "Steven M. Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 18 Dec 2003: > You set the maximum bitrate and then adjust -q so that the Average > is ~10% lower than the Peak rate. Ok. I noticed that for some chapters on the DVD, the average bitrate reported by mplex was almost 50% of the max bit

[Mjpeg-users] Dropouts every 3-8 seconds

2003-12-19 Thread Al Bogner
I have a Grundig GDV-130 (a TYT / Scan 2000 clone) with DVD-Loader version A700AC08 (Raymedia RL-A700 with FW AC08). Till now I only found brands (Sony DVD-R, Verbatim DVD+R from MMC) which can be read by the Raymedia-drive. Unfortunately there are every 3-8 seconds "dropouts" with the Sony-DV

[Mjpeg-users] Tool for joining MP2 files ?

2003-12-19 Thread romildo
Hello. I am making a SVCD where the MP2 audio is encoded from two different sources (one AC3 file and one OGG file). How can I join the MP2 segments into a unique file for multiplexing with the MPEG2 video stream? Regards. Romildo --- This SF

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 19 Dec 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > You mean that for whole movies (> 1 hour) or for smaller scenes? For the movie as a whole. Shorter scenes will, as you have seen, run up against the limit and there's nothing "wrong" about that. The guidline often is given as 20%

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 20:23, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > You can set the bitrate to 9000 kbits/sec but with a high '-q' the > encoder will only use a fraction of the maximum bitrate. Lower -q > and watch the encoder come closer to the maximum rate. > You set the maximum bitrate and then adjust -q

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Florin Andrei
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 01:49, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > At any rate I checked out ffmpeg's mpeg2 encoding vs mpeg2enc on > my G4 Powerbook. Yes, ffmpeg has a big speed advantage (~2x) but > the resulting output is 'grainy' (same bitrate, no B frames) (and the > rate contro

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Richard Ellis
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:34:38AM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: > > The next bottlenecks would be the run-length coding and the use > > of variance instead of SAD in motion compensation mode and DCT > > mode selection. Sadly > > Is SAD really any faster

Re: [Mjpeg-users] time-calculation with mplex-log?

2003-12-19 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > mplex produces a lot of info, when both streams are muxed. Is it > possible to calculate the time of the video with the data of this log? I'm not soure what you mean, but if you mean that line: INFO: [mplex] Picture rate: 25.000 frames/sec and INFO: [mplex] No. Pictures: 5191

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Trent Piepho
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Trent Piepho wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: > > > > Is SAD really any faster to calculate than variance? SAD uses an absolute > > value-add operation while variance is multiply-add. Multiply-add is usu

[Mjpeg-users] time-calculation with mplex-log?

2003-12-19 Thread Al Bogner
mplex produces a lot of info, when both streams are muxed. Is it possible to calculate the time of the video with the data of this log? Al --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen yo

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: > > Is SAD really any faster to calculate than variance? SAD uses an absolute > value-add operation while variance is multiply-add. Multiply-add is usually > the most heavily optimized operation a cpu can per

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Trent Piepho
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: > The next bottlenecks would be the run-length coding and the use of variance > instead of SAD in motion compensation mode and DCT mode selection. Sadly Is SAD really any faster to calculate than variance? SAD uses an absolute value-add operation whil

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Andrew Stevens
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 23:35, Richard Ellis wrote: Hi Richard, > In that case it will kill the majority of the performance benifit > provided by the caches, because there's very little locality of > reference for the cache to compensate for. It moves through at least > 512k for pass one, the