Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What about yuvmedianfilter? Is it a spatial lowpass filter? > > It's a nonlinear spatial filter that generally gives an overall > lowpass effect. Ideally it removes noise without attenuating high > signal frequencies (thus preserving edges), but

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

2004-01-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, George Kola wrote: > find that the generated MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 have perfect A/V sync (Thanks to > people here for helping me with it). I find that the MPEG-4 (two pass) has > A/V sync issue. The audio slowly drifts behind the video. In the beginning, The alternate

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

2004-01-22 Thread George Kola
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, George Kola wrote: > > 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 ?. > > Something doesn't scan right in that paragraph - seems as

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Nicolas Boos wrote: > > That's what yuvdenoise is for :) > > For "big" noise only... :-) As in "VHS" ;) > Yes, but a _clean_ source is rare... If source is noisy (even a DV (from miniDV or Digital8) is very clean. DVDs are clean, at least for

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread scholnik
> > But it would be nice to have a spatial lowpass filter in the > > toolbox also to reduce noise that way. > > What about yuvmedianfilter? Is it a spatial lowpass filter? It's a nonlinear spatial filter that generally gives an overall lowpass effect. Ideally it removes noise without attenuati

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Nicolas Boos
Le Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:06:13 -0800 (PST) "Steven M. Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : > > The sinc* kernels are very bad at removing noise. IMHO, the > > cubic* kernels are better for this job... > > That's what yuvdenoise is for :) For "big" noise only... :-) > For clean sour

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Richard Ellis
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:30:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But it would be nice to have a spatial lowpass filter in the > toolbox also to reduce noise that way. What about yuvmedianfilter? Is it a spatial lowpass filter? --- The

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread scholnik
> > The sinc* kernels are very bad at removing noise. IMHO, the > > cubic* kernels are better for this job... > > That's what yuvdenoise is for :) Well, sort of. It removes noise temporally. But it would be nice to have a spatial lowpass filter in the toolbox also to reduce noise that wa

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to concatenate mp2/m2v files for multiplexing ?

2004-01-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Richard Ellis wrote: > Is there any way to concatenate plural sets of mp2/m2v files for > multiplexing together into a single stream. Not in a 100% reliable way. If you simply cat the files together you'll find that some software players ignore the disconti

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Nicolas Boos wrote: > The sinc* kernels are very bad at removing noise. IMHO, the > cubic* kernels are better for this job... That's what yuvdenoise is for :) For clean sources the sinc kernels are better at preserving detail (it's an open question h

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Nicolas Boos
Le Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:21:41 -0800 (PST) "Steven M. Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : Hello Steven, [...] > "If I use -q 2 or -q 3, I get pulsating (every second or so) block > artifacts in the background, which I get not with -q 4." > > I wonder if those artifacts are also due to t

[Mjpeg-users] How to concatenate mp2/m2v files for multiplexing ?

2004-01-22 Thread Richard Ellis
Is there any way to concatenate plural sets of mp2/m2v files for multiplexing together into a single stream. The m2v files are created in mpeg format (-f 8) to mpeg2enc. I tried: cat f1.mp2 f2.mp2 f3.mp2 > all.mp2 cat f1.m2v f2.m2v f3.m2v > all.m2v mplex -f 8 -r 0 -V -b 230 -S 0 -o all.%0d.mpeg

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Thomas Börkel wrote: > > "If I use -q 2 or -q 3, I get pulsating (every second or so) block > > artifacts in the background, which I get not with -q 4." > I tried without scaling and still have the artifacts. Maybe it's the > source material. That mig

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! Steven M. Schultz wrote: I can see light vertical stripes in bright scenes in my encoded result. I seem to recall transcode's -Z scaling causing problems for someone else in the past. A (much) better way to perform scaling is to use 'y4mscaler'. You can find y4mscaler

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Thomas Börkel wrote: > Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > > > >>I can see light vertical stripes in bright scenes in my encoded result. > > > > How large is the stripe ? > > Do you scale (guessed from the -Z option) the picture ? > > If yes does it also happen when

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Lav2mpeg All Green

2004-01-22 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > > Can you encode you fils on the command line without using the lav2mpeg > > script. > > You command looks like that than: > > lav2wav capture.avi | mp2enc -b 224 -r 44100 -o capture.mp2 > > lav2yuv capture.avi | yuvscaler -o VCD | mpeg2enc -f 1 -4 1 -2 1 -o > > capture.m1v > > mplex -f 1

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! Bernhard Praschinger wrote: Hallo I can see light vertical stripes in bright scenes in my encoded result. I can't see them in the original AVI (Xvid). How large ist the stripe ? Do you scale (guessed from the -Z option) the picture ? If yest does it also happen when you don't scale it ? That

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I can see light vertical stripes in bright scenes in my encoded result. > I can't see them in the original AVI (Xvid). How large ist the stripe ? Do you scale (guessed from the -Z option) the picture ? If yest does it also happen when you don't scale it ? That it would be from scaling.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Lower quality with better -q setting?!

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! I have an example to download and would be glad to hear comments: http://www.boerkel.de/q.zip Forgot to mention: File size is 1.5 MB. Thomas --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Developmen

[Mjpeg-users] Vertical stripes

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! I can see light vertical stripes in bright scenes in my encoded result. I can't see them in the original AVI (Xvid). Using transcode 0.6.12, mjpegtools .93 (RC 4), xvidcore 1.0b3 like this: transcode -i "$1" -Z 720x352 -Y-64 -w 5000 --pulldown --export_fps 0,4 --export_asr 2 -V -M 4 -y mpeg2

[Mjpeg-users] Lower quality with better -q setting?!

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! I have made some tests encoding an NTSC AVI (Xvid) to MPEG2 with transcode/mpeg2enc. If I use -q 2 or -q 3, I get pulsating (every second or so) block artefacts in the background, which I get not with -q 4. I have an example to download and would be glad to hear comments: http://www.boerke

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Quality factor -q

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! Steven M. Schultz wrote: A lower -q (2 or 3) gets me higher file sizes, so shouldn't it also be potentially better quality? Yes, it will give better quality. That may or may not be visible :) I have a problem with -q 2 and 3. See seperate thread. Ah, it's letterboxed so you have