Re: [Mjpeg-users] DV analyzer tool / optimizing video rendering?

2006-11-23 Thread Jonathan Woithe
> Unfortunately, Cinelerra doesn't allow for CLI driven rendering other > than the rather inflexible batch render functions, and I though I found > that rendering an edited project first to DV, then rendering the DV file > to MPEG, gives a noticeable quality degradation. The very noticeable degrad

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DV analyzer tool / optimizing video rendering?

2006-11-23 Thread Joe Friedrichsen
On 11/23/06, Richard Rasker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be nice if there was a tool to calculate which values for bit > rate and quantization would still result in a valid DVD MPEG file, based > on a given DV file, without actually having to go through the lengthy > rendering process itse

[Mjpeg-users] DV analyzer tool / optimizing video rendering?

2006-11-23 Thread Richard Rasker
Hi all, I've been working with Linux & video for some time now, mostly with Kino, Cinelerra and occasionally CLI tools (mplex, mencoder). The question I have deals with one of the elusive Holy Grails of video processing: how to render a given DV file into the highest possible quality DVD. So far,