Re: mjpegtools to dvdauthor (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?)

2004-08-29 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > VIDEO_TS lists as: > VIDEO_TS.BUP VTS_01_0.BUP VTS_01_1.VOB > VIDEO_TS.IFO VTS_01_0.IFO VTS_01_2.VOB > > Is this what you would expect? The two files seem to be split purely because Yes. You have the three mpg files authored as a single title so

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Creating a large mp2

2004-08-28 Thread Selva Nair
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a series of files created by lavrec using the form cottingley%02d.avi. > Before I can encode these I have to split off the file, but I can't work out > how to get lav2wav to read the series as

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: skip first frame, y4mcut, debian

2004-08-28 Thread Selva Nair
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [In July I asked how to skip the first frame in a yuv stream, because mplayer > was putting a green frame at the beginning. I apologize to Steven Shultz and > Selva Nair for not having answered earlier to their helpful messages.] > >

Re: mjpegtools to dvdauthor (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?)

2004-08-28 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Check the authoring using xine (version 0.9.2x if possible :) > > > > $ xine dvd:/$PWD/my-dvd/ > > (the trailing / is important) > > > Despite the fact that xine could not play the .mpg properly it had no problems > at all with this. !! > > Burn my

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Interlacing question

2004-08-27 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, > I can see that this is interlaced, but how do I know whether it is top- or > bottom-field-first? video_inter = 1 means top-field-first, 2 for bottom-field-first. I think it is documented somewhere.. FWIW, here is a patch for lavinfo.c that replaces the interlacing and chroma numbers b

Re: mjpegtools to dvdauthor (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?)

2004-08-27 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, > > May be we should move this thread to dvdauthor.. > > > No - it worked perfectly. I burned the -q 8 version and it plays on my > stand-alone player. QED. Wonderful ! >Now I go for the new, improved version of my > production ;-) Thanks for all the

Re: mjpegtools to dvdauthor (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?)

2004-08-27 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 20:52, Selva Nair wrote: > > > > For basic dvd you only need to do > > > I'm either blind or just plain stupid. I built my-dvd.xml like thi

mjpegtools to dvdauthor (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?)

2004-08-26 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 19:10, Selva Nair wrote: > > The moment of truth is when it plays on your standalone dvd player. > > Then you will have something to tell everyone :) > > > But I need dvdauthor for that - right? I manag

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-26 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 16:49, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > > As mentionend mpeg2enc and mplex should do the job rather well. > > I did not have a single message like the one you get, in the 0.9.23 > > version I use. > > > Hmm - I shall have to think how

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-25 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > I took the problem to the xine mailing list, and after making the file > available for download I got this reply: > > The problem is caused by the video PTS values. > xine tries to predict what the correct PTS value is. > Then some video frames might hav

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Selva Nair wrote: > > > Agreed, if its sampling at 14.75Mhz no scaling is needed, only a 1 > > pixel padding. > > Oops - slight misunderstanding there. For PAL if it was sampling at >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Selva Nair wrote: > > > I know, but I avoid capture cards that generate "square pixels" from > > non-square pixel sources. As you know PAL or for that matter NTSC frames > > It&#x

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, how did you end up with a 768x576 interlaced PAL avi? > > > That's the square pixel PAL full frame size of course ;) > > 768/576 = 4/3 I know, but I avoid capture cards that generate "square pixels" from non-squa

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I did try it in totem, but that yielded no info at all. The result was at > least as bad as with xine, possibly worse. totem is just another front-end to xine that uses the same xine-library for playback, isn't it? Selva

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > It isn't that I de-interlaced. I wanted a series of 5-second-ish stills > pulled from the main video - a sort of summary to pull things together > instead of the abrupt ending. I started each of these from a single frame > pulled from the main recordi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > OK - I prepared a coda_q4.mpg and launched xine from a console. I saw exactly > what you have both been suggesting: > > xine: found demuxer plugin: MPEG program stream demux plugin > av_offset=0 pts > spu_offset=0 pts > fixing sound card drift by -1453

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, > > Tutorial time again, though ;-) First, what do these parameters mean (it's > not obvious from the man page)? > - -4 2 -2 1 I dont know much about mpeg2 encoding to comment on that; I can only say that -4 and -2 takes an argument in the range 1 to 4, smaller numbers lead to a more tho

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 04:16, Selva Nair wrote: > > Hi Anne, > > > Hi, Selva > > > At last I managed to reproduce your stuttering audio on another machine >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 23 Aug 2004 21:13, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > > If you have a system monitoring tool available it would be interesting > > to start that and observe the system's behavio

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, > it plays. One problem, though. By now I don't have the original file, and > I'm pretty confused about which of the myriad commands I've tried is the one > to give me a clean, basic DVD write. Could you please remind me? Is it just > lav2yuv coda.eli | yuvscaler -O DVD | yuvdenoi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: >> Try mplexing the 44100 khz sound with the DVD size mpeg2 using -f 8. >> The resulting file wont be dvd complaint, but is a valid mpeg2, so >> mplayer (and possibly xine) should play it correctly. That way you can >> confirm whether the trouble is with 48

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 23 Aug 2004 16:17, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I forgot to say that the reason I would try an SVCD was because I had > > > tried playing the mpg b

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, > I forgot to say that the reason I would try an SVCD was because I had tried > playing the mpg back in both xine and totem with the same result. I suppose > I could burn a cd with the file, but for a 2-minute test I didn't want to be > bothered. Perhaps I should. Most dvd players

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, I cant see anything obviously wrong with your mplex output. On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > I just don't get it, Selva. I've rebuilt the soundtrack then mplexed it again, > and I still have stuttering sound. I'm posting the entire output of mplex, > in case it gives yo

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-22 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Hi, Selva. That went through without a hicough, thanks, but the soundtrack is > terrible in both xine and totem. It drops out all over. Any idea what might > have caused that? Could be that your sound track is sampled at 44100 but xine expects 4

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-22 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 15:18, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > > > > I guess you have used the -b option when you encoded the mpg movie. > > And you have to add that option +audio bitrate to mplex with the -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] skip first frame

2004-07-14 Thread Selva Nair
can I skip it in the encoding? Here is a utility that I use to trim yuv4mpeg streams. Link it with -lmjpegutils and try 'y4mcut -h' for usage. Selva /* * Copyright (C) 2001 Selva Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * *This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modif

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

2003-10-02 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, M G wrote: > It seems there is a problem with the jpeg headers, the original > video plays fine and I get the same results for any video I try. > Does anyone know what causing this? Is there any software out there > that can fix jpeg headers? I'm really tearing my hair out o

Re: [Mjpeg-users] max bitrate

2003-08-15 Thread Selva Nair
On 14 Aug 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > Quoting from the HOWTO, the "Creating DVD's" section: > > "The maximum bitrate is set to 7500kBps" (it talks about mpeg2enc) ?? > > Is that true? I ran mpeg2enc with -b 9800 and

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpeg-tools and DVDs

2003-07-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Bernhard Frühmesser wrote: > Hello, > > Does anybody know if the programs tocgen and ifogen come with the > program dvdauthor? > Hi, dvdauthor is all that you need. See README in the distribution. Selva --- This SF.N

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Matto Marjanovic wrote: > > > >Ah, but if you read Martin Sitter's DVD Studio Pro book (or take a look > >at books on Adobe Photoshop) it would seem that NTSC TVs use 9:10 > > I guess Martin Sitter read a lot of books on Photoshop, instead of reading > books on v

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Hi - > > > From: Selva Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The general advice is to avoid vertical scaling mainly because vertical > > scalers should be interlacing-aware -- also for interlaced frames the > &g

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-11 Thread Selva Nair
Hi there, On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > If you use 24000:1001 and pulldown instead of 3:1001, the encoder will > > keep switching between top_field_first = true/false to generate the > > pulldown sequence. > > Now it's my turn to ask why would I want to do a pulldo

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Hi - > > > From: Selva Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Forgot to mention that if this is meant to be 4:3 aspect, you should > > scale to 704x480 and then pad to 720x480. You can avoid vertical scaling >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Hi - > > > From: Selva Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > As the source is progressive ppm frames, better keep it that way. > > Use -F 24000:1001 and encode with pull down flag: > > Well, as it turns out it

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-10 Thread Selva Nair
> > Anyone used ppmtoy4m to create composited from PPM images > (for example from a scanner/camera) for a DVD? > > It's working - but what I'm ending up with is 720x480 progressive > and that's not, as far as I know, legal for use in making a DVD. > > What I'm doin

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-10 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Hi - > > Anyone used ppmtoy4m to create composited from PPM images > (for example from a scanner/camera) for a DVD? > > It's working - but what I'm ending up with is 720x480 progressive > and that's not, as far as I know, l

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpeg_play - autogen.sh: cannot find input file:config.h.in

2003-06-07 Thread Selva Nair
> autogen.sh hasn't been modified, that I can see, since > February 2 of this year. I haven't run into the problem (on > either my BSD systems or on SuSE 8.2) so I'm not sure why > autogen.sh isn't running autoheader for some folks. Perhaps That prompted me to look why

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec and "at"

2003-06-05 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Dirk wrote: > Well, it works. Thansk for all the tips. > > The problem is the batch option. For some reason -b doesn't work for me > but -B and --batch do. So, there is no need for "nice" or changing > priorities for at. The environment for at is also okay. (well, in my > cas

Re: Fwd: Re: [Mjpeg-users] Audio sync problems

2003-06-02 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Stuart Hodges wrote: > Hi, > > There are problems with this fix. Although with 3:1001 its watchable, > the audio is off from the start. A constant delay is easy to fix: specify a sync offset using the -O or --sync-offset option of mplex. I think the value specifie

Re: [Mjpeg-users] dvd with progressive_sequence set

2003-05-31 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 29 May 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I toggled the progressive sequence bit to zero on every system header > and the resulting stream now plays correctly with mplayer! Haven't yet > checked on the Poineer standalone. > > Has anyone seen this? I believe dv

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Multiplexing one video and multiple audio tracks

2003-05-31 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Tim Hewett wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to use mplex to create a DVD stream with one video > track and 3 audio tracks. This is to use as input to dvdauthor > which claims to support streams with multiple audio tracks > created by mplex. > > This is the mplex command I am

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Audio sync problems

2003-05-30 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Stuart Hodges wrote: > Hi, > > yuvfps reports: > cat stream.yuv | yuvfps -v2 > debout >INFO: [yuvfps] yuv2fps (version 0.1) is a general frame resampling utility > for yuv streams >INFO: [yuvfps] (C) 2002 Alfonso Garcia-Patino Barbolani > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] XSVCD audio out-of-sync

2003-05-29 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Matti Haveri wrote: > Some of my longish PAL XSVCD's audio tend to be out-of-sync. > > The ordinary ~2500 kb/s SVCDs and corresponding 37-45 minute 352x576 > XSVCDs have been OK. But the in the few ~60 minute XSVCDs I have made > the audio has been ad 1 second out-of-sync

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Audio sync problems

2003-05-27 Thread Selva Nair
> HI, > > Sorry for the confused options. Its the effect of a weekend tweeking. I > switched to the options I use for encoding my video camera to DVD. > > mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm long.mpg > cat audiodump.wav | mp2enc -r 48000 -o mpegsoundfile > cat stream.yuv | yuvdenoise -F -f | yu

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Audio sync problems

2003-05-27 Thread Selva Nair
> > I'm trying to convert a mpg file, from GATOS, its mpeg1 video, mp2 > > audio in an mpg file. > > > > I extracted the tracks and reencoded like this: > > > > mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm long.mpg > > cat stream.yuv | mpeg2enc -I 1 -f 1 -q 9 -V 230 -P -F 7 -a 1 -o > > svcd_stream.m2v

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex question

2003-04-05 Thread Selva Nair
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Matti Haveri wrote: > > The default for vcd/svcd presets is equivalent to -S 700 -B 230 > > Thanks for the info. I've been wondering what the -4/5 default for > mpeg2enc -B is. Some old post on the list indicated that it was 224 > but it is 230 for mplex overhead, right? >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex question

2003-04-04 Thread Selva Nair
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Selva Nair wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Matti Haveri wrote: > > > > mpeg2enc always introduces breaks for SVCD, you can only change the size > > > to a very large value. > > > > So does mpeg2enc -S 650 insert break points to _

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex question

2003-04-04 Thread Selva Nair
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Matti Haveri wrote: > > mpeg2enc always introduces breaks for SVCD, you can only change the size > > to a very large value. > > So does mpeg2enc -S 650 insert break points to _both_ 650 and 730 MB points? No it doesn't. The default for vcd/svcd presets is equivalent to -S

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex question

2003-04-04 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, richard koppenaal wrote: > i have some 650 mb cds so thats why i would like to learn how to split files > at 630mb thats my reason . As Bernhard wrote 650 MB CDs (ie 74 mins CDs) can take upto about 730 MB of data when burned as a vcd/svcd (MODE2_FORM2 sectors). > > thank

Re: [Mjpeg-users] yuvfps and sound

2003-03-25 Thread Selva Nair
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Edouard Chalaron wrote: > Hi > Got a fabulous NTSC video from USA and would like to make it a PAL DV file. > Acquisition is Ok, no worries, thanks to Canopus. Although I am not sure if I > have to use AVI1 or 2 to use it with lav2yuv. lav2yuv needs type 2 AVI. I prefer to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] attempting to get LVS to work...

2003-03-15 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Martin Collins wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:16:45 -0500 (EST) > Selva Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You can select and cut all the ads and then save the rest > > by "save all" to a single editlist. That's what I do. Or

Re: [Mjpeg-users] attempting to get LVS to work...

2003-03-12 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Martin Collins wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:17:00 +0100 > Bernhard Praschinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You can use more files running it that way: > > glav -p S *.avi > > glav -p S file1.avi file2.avi ... filex.avi > > > > But you cannot load a file edit it a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] is there a way to do inverse telecine in additionto -p?

2003-03-01 Thread Selva Nair
On 1 Mar 2003, Davros wrote: > Hi Selva, > > You've got me worried now! Just when I thought I had a handle on this > process... > > No, my source material is not exactly 24, it's from an ntsc DVD and it's > 23.9 something - i thought that the target rate to shoot for was 29.9 > something as wel

Re: [Mjpeg-users] is there a way to do inverse telecine in additionto -p?

2003-02-27 Thread Selva Nair
On 27 Feb 2003, Davros wrote: > Yes, that helps in a sense, though it doesn't solve my problem... > > if mpeg2dec spits out 24fps, then, according to the yuvkineco man page, > this effectively means I cannot use yuvkeneco unless I convert to > another, intermediate format or something, since it i

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Mplex fails (too many dropped frames), Sizzle/ffmpegX

2003-02-13 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should I just try dropping this bitrate down? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I > thought 9800 kbps was the best quality you could do for DVD and since I only had > 30 mins of footage, thought there would be no problem in using this? > > As far as the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to extract 1 frame from MPEG file to JPEG file

2003-02-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Robert Kesterson wrote: > > Or you could do: > >mplayer -vo png -frames 1 movie.mpg > > to save the first frame as a png, or > >mplayer -vo png -ss 60 -frames 10 movie.png > > to seek 60 seconds into the movie, then dump 10 frames as png images. Does that really

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to extract 1 frame from MPEG file to JPEG file

2003-02-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, CAULIER Gilles wrote: > I want make a preview frame for some MPEG files in a KDE application. > There is some issue to extract to a JPEG file just one frame from MPEG file ? > try mpeg -> yuv -> ppm using mpeg2dec and y4mtoppm. To give you an idea mpeg2dec -s -o YUV movie

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MJPEG encoding performances

2003-02-09 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Martin Collins wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:08:17 +0100 (CET) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > I've been asked today by my boss to see if I can find a way to get > > > software MJPEG encoding for PAL-size (768x576) RGB images

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex error: INTERNAL ERROR: additional datarequired

2003-02-07 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, davros wrote: > >> I'm trying to mplex together a video and an audio file, both produced by > >> transcode. I used dvd::rip to generate the transcode commands, but pasted > >>them onto the command line. Transcoding seems to have worked; I can view the > >> video and it looks

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Quality from my old video camera and the -d setting

2003-02-05 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Robert Kesterson wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Selva Nair wrote: > > > > I too have often wondered about moving all my dvd tapes into DVD-R in > > dv format. For archiving, which medium is more reliable? DVD or > > tape? > > You're kidding

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Quality from my old video camera and the -d setting

2003-02-05 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Derek Fountain wrote: > > > I want to > > > capture and archive onto DVD+R the tapes I have - quite a few. In order > > > to fit one 60 minute tape onto one DVD, I need to get the recording to > > > about 1MB/sec > > > > Why do you don't want to create a video DVD ? > > You can

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DV standard / more

2003-02-04 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Edouard Chalaron wrote: > Hi Vladimir > > Thanks for the mail. > My question was in fact : can I encode the same DV file into PAL or NTSC > knowing that the camera that has been used to record the DV files is a NZ > one, NZ being in PAL standard, eg is the DV format indepen

RE: [Mjpeg-users] Inserted frames are corrupted

2003-02-04 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Vladimir Shved wrote: > > > any way to fix that? And what would cause those > > curruptions? I'm using G400, > > > 512Mb ram, 1.4G CPU, HPT370 RAID0, SA6R. I ran several > > tests and was able to > > > record about 8 hours of video with these options "-in -q80 -d1 -s", > > >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Mpeg field order diagnosis

2003-01-30 Thread Selva Nair
> This trial and error is costing me a fortune in CDs. > Please help. Use CD-RW ;) --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com __

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Transcoding/scaling from 720x480 to (S)VCD

2003-01-07 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: > Dear Selva, > > > > cat video.m1v | mpeg2dec -o YUVh | yuvscaler -n n -O VCD | mpeg2enc -f 1 > > > -o video_vcd.m1v > > > > > > (I've also tried -F 1 -F 4 and -I 1) > > > > -I 1 is needed as VCD frames (only 240 vertical lines) are not > > interlaced. E

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to make mpeg files for DVD creation?

2003-01-07 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Wolfgang Goeller wrote: > Hello Gregoire > > > i reccord data with VDR: > > http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/download.htm > > > > And then, I demux the recording with ds.jar: > > http://home.arcor.de/matt2/dvb.matt/ > > > The second is great but time-consuming: transcod

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to make mpeg files for DVD creation?

2003-01-07 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Gregoire Favre wrote: > > After that, using mplex, I mux the files together, if I split it using > the -S option, dvdauthor: http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ finds errors > in the second file (and without the -S as there is a 2Gb limit, I also > get errors...on following file

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Question about SVCD aspect

2003-01-06 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Cameron Kerr wrote: > Hi all. I'm creating my first SVCD (30 minutes). After mpeg2enc (I'm > following the steps in the HOWTO), I preview it with mplayer, and it > shows up as a strange aspect, taller than it ought to be, and and with > thick black side borders. Also, the image

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Transcoding/scaling from 720x480 to (S)VCD

2003-01-06 Thread Selva Nair
Typo.. On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Selva Nair wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, beatrice wrote: > -I 1 is needed as VCD frames (only 240 vertical lines) are not Sorry, I meant _not_ needed.. Selva --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:Thi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Transcoding/scaling from 720x480 to (S)VCD

2003-01-06 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, beatrice wrote: > Hi all. > > I have a mpg file and I'd like to make a VCD (a SVCD will be ok just the > same) out of it but I didn't succeed so far. > > The file is a MPEG1 video 720x480 NTSC 29.97 fps 3750kbps (that's what > mplayer tells) > > I demuxed it with bbdmux, and

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to use the "-S" option of mplex?

2003-01-06 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Gregoire Favre wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:49:12PM +0100, Andrew Stevens wrote: > > > Sounds like your using an older version. There was a bug where the size for > > -f 8 was effectively hard-wired to 2GB. > > > > This is certainly fixed in the development version

Re: [Mjpeg-users] can't mplex large files

2002-12-17 Thread Selva Nair
On 16 Dec 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: > > mpeg2enc -S 790 -B 250 -f 4 -o video.m2v > > BTW, what's the maximum value for -S when writing a SVCD on a 700MB CD? > Is it 795? > The maximum I biurned on to a 80 minutes CD is 805 MB but that was hairy -- involved a 1 minute overburn.. I wont d

Re: [Mjpeg-users] can't mplex large files

2002-12-16 Thread Selva Nair
On 16 Dec 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 23:54, Markus Plail wrote: > > * Florin Andrei writes: > > > [mplex trying to split a file] > > >If that's useful, here's the mpeg2enc command line i used to generate > > >the video stream: > > >mpeg2enc -v 0 -f 4 -F 4 -n n -o "cass1".

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: too many frame drops

2002-12-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Matti Haveri wrote: > Selva Nair: > > > Well, if you are targetting a particular player it makes sense to use > > the maximum supported bit rate. My Pioneer HTD510 is quite linient when > > it comes to VCD/SVCD playback (it even plays 720x480 or 7

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: too many frame drops

2002-12-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Hi! > > > From: Matti Haveri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > My Pioneer 444 PAL DVD player plays (X)SVCDs at 480x576, 352x576, > > 720x576 and even a VCD-like 352x288 MPEG2 with both 44.1 and 48 kHz > > audio from about 1455-2500 kb/s. > > > > But

[Mjpeg-users] AC3 muxing

2002-12-11 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, I tried out some variations of dvd quality mpeg streams burned on a CD-R data track using a philips 623 player. As I wrote last time, with mpeg audio both video and audio plays well (audio channel has to be manually selected as C0). With AC3 I have less success: (i) muxed using mplex on

Re: [Mjpeg-users] too many frame drops

2002-12-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > Hallo .. > > > > Sometimes I find it useful to denoise the video by piping the > > > output of lav2yuv to yuvdenoise -l 1. > > Yes, good idea, i'll try that. > If you denoise, I hope you also use --interlace-mode|-I 0 because else > mpeg2enc wi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] too many frame drops

2002-12-11 Thread Selva Nair
On 10 Dec 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 08:00, Selva Nair wrote: > > > > On 8 Dec 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > > > > [export_mpeg2enc.so] cmd=mpeg2enc -v 0 -q 3 -f 5 -4 2 -2 3 -b 2900 -F 4 > > > -n n -V 230 -o "casa&q

Re: [Mjpeg-users] from transcode-ml: fooling dvd player to playsvcd's (fwd)

2002-12-10 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Andrew Stevens wrote: > On Monday 25 Nov 2002 6:49 pm, Aaron Newsome wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 09:06, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > If it's still within its "return period" I'd get a Philips 724 that > > > does handle SVCDs (as well as all the rewriteable formats).

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Expectations, Doubts, Basic Concepts

2002-12-10 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Javier Hernandez wrote: > Hi All, > > > I got some DV raw material [Analog Camera --> Canopus Box --> Firewire] > with kino (I know it can be done also with dvgrab). > > I did run that DV raw material with MPlayer in my computer: > - Audio is great aceptable. > - Video qua