Re: [Mjpeg-users] Quality factor -q

2004-01-21 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Thomas Börkel wrote: > In the mjpegtools HowTo, I read that a quality factor below 4 is not > recommended (= not necessary?). Is this still true? Yes, it's still true - but it is a guide/hint and not a firm rule or prohibition. The risk is, wi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting Large DV to MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and MPEG-4

2004-01-21 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, George Kola wrote: > Thanks Steven for the script. It was very useful (I found... You're welcome. Glad it was useful. > Command? create quicktime playable MP4). I find that MPEG-4 has A/V... > Command? towards the end (one stream is behind the other), but MPEG.

[Mjpeg-users] Converting Large DV to MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and MPEG-4

2004-01-21 Thread George Kola
Thanks Steven for the script. It was very useful (I found... Command? create quicktime playable MP4). I find that MPEG-4 has A/V... Command? towards the end (one stream is behind the other), but MPEG... Command? fine. Any suggestions ?. One more question -- for video capture under windo

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Quality factor -q

2004-01-21 Thread Richard Ellis
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:00:22PM +0100, Thomas B?rkel wrote: > A lower -q (2 or 3) gets me higher file sizes, so shouldn't it also be > potentially better quality? Provided you don't hit your maximum bit-rate limit (-b 4000) that you've chosen, yes. > I want to encode about 43 minutes of vide

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Lav2mpeg All Green

2004-01-21 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > Further to my last message it seems if I have -o output.mpg argument that > lav2mpeg will not encode but if I have no -o arg it encodes green. The log is > below. See it says multiplexing bailing. This is a lie. In fact the result > was a file in the pwd named capture009.mpg and the mpv an

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Hardcoding subtitles in the video stream

2004-01-21 Thread romildo
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:13:07AM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone know a good program capable of hard coding > a subtitle stream into the video stream when encoding > for SVCD? After some searching I have found subtitler-yuv http://www.home.zonnet.nl/panteltje/subtitles/ It

[Mjpeg-users] Quality factor -q

2004-01-21 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! In the mjpegtools HowTo, I read that a quality factor below 4 is not recommended (= not necessary?). Is this still true? A lower -q (2 or 3) gets me higher file sizes, so shouldn't it also be potentially better quality? I want to encode about 43 minutes of video with 720x480 final size (4:

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Some questions

2004-01-21 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! Andrew Stevens wrote: I was able to encode NTSC SVCD -> NTSC DVD with .92 and transcode (although with wrong timestamps). .93 crashes after about 16 MB result file size. How can I provide more info to fix this? Try doing the encode step by step with intermediate files. Did it. And I disovere

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Lav2mpeg All Green

2004-01-21 Thread raen7
Hi again, Further to my last message it seems if I have -o output.mpg argument that lav2mpeg will not encode but if I have no -o arg it encodes green. The log is below. See it says multiplexing bailing. This is a lie. In fact the result was a file in the pwd named capture009.mpg and the mpv and

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Lav2mpeg All Green

2004-01-21 Thread raen7
Hi, Log attached. Something is now even odder. lav2mpeg not encoding at all? The log is for a 32mb avi grabbed from dv using dvgrab. Thanks Raena On Wednesday 21 January 2004 03:10, you wrote: > Hallo > > > In mjpegtools-1.6.1.92 on SuSE 8.2 > > I am using lav2mpeg -mpeg1 to for digital video