Re: [Mjpeg-users] does glav/lavplay de-interlace? Can I prevent it?

2003-03-14 Thread v4l
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:56:54PM +0100, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > Hallo Hi Bernhard, > I'm nearly finished with adding that feature in LVS. Oh cool! Do let me know when you are finished. I would love to try it out. > But you can easily check if the boarders are set correct with with >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] does glav/lavplay de-interlace? Can I prevent it?

2003-03-14 Thread v4l
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:42:03PM +0100, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > > It does. You can. Just give -F to lavplay/glav for that genuine interlace > experience. Excellent! I looked at the source (briefly) but did not think to look for it associated with "flicker". As an editing tool, I would lov

[Mjpeg-users] does glav/lavplay de-interlace? Can I prevent it?

2003-03-14 Thread v4l
I am wondering if glav (or rather lavplay) applies some form of de-interlacing algorithm before output? Can I suppress this behaviour if it does? The reason being, I am using glav to edit broadcast television programming (i.e. edit out commercials) and while I am doing that I want to (manually, v

Re: [Mjpeg-users] decimation, frame sizes, aspect ratios and all that

2003-02-10 Thread v4l
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Re: [Mjpeg-users] decimation, frame sizes, aspect ratios and all that

2003-02-10 Thread v4l
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:51:06PM -0500, Matto Marjanovic wrote: > > Isn't this: > > >True enough. But the cropping tool is mencoder, which is quite > >generic. From what I have been told, A'rpi (mencoder > >author/maintainer) doesn't much care for interlace output, so > >everything is (de

Re: [Mjpeg-users] decimation, frame sizes, aspect ratios and all that

2003-02-10 Thread v4l
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:36:21PM -0500, Matto Marjanovic wrote: > > >If you plan HW playback it is not wise to crop the images to a unusal > >size. You should use there the yuvscaler -I > >ACTIVE_widthxheight+xoffset+yoffset for setting everything outside the > >area to real black. You can a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] decimation, frame sizes, aspect ratios and all that

2003-02-10 Thread v4l
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:42:04PM +0100, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > Hallo Hi > If you plan HW playback I don't. I am transcoding to MPEG4/AVI with mencoder. > it is not wise to crop the images to a unusal > size. I could understand that. > You should use there the yuvscaler -I > ACTIVE_w

Re: [Mjpeg-users] decimation, frame sizes, aspect ratios and all that

2003-02-10 Thread v4l
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:53:41AM -0500, Matto Marjanovic wrote: > > I would suggest starting here: > > http://www.mir.com/DMG/aspect.html > > and see what gets answered. (Not everything, but it is a start.) Cool. Maybe I should try this from another angle, given that I capture at 352x480,

[Mjpeg-users] decimation, frame sizes, aspect ratios and all that

2003-02-10 Thread v4l
I am trying to understand the relationship between frame sizes, aspect ratios and all that sort. For reference, I am in North America here so NTSC applies. I have a Matrox G400 Marvel. I capture using lavrec with -d21. My captured MJPEG winds up being 352x480. This is my first puzzle. Why is

Re: [Mjpeg-users] is it really necessary to kill -9 in glav?

2003-02-09 Thread v4l
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:44:28PM +0100, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi Ronald, > On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 14:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Should be. But it might lag while it waits for disk i/o or something. > > Could be... But this never happens in practice actually. Something happens

Re: [Mjpeg-users] is it really necessary to kill -9 in glav?

2003-02-07 Thread v4l
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:18:20AM +0100, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi Ronald. > it writes q\n, which quits lavplay nicely. Right. > After that, lavplay should be > long gone when do_real_exit() is called. Should be. But it might lag while it waits for disk i/o or something. > If not,

[Mjpeg-users] is it really necessary to kill -9 in glav?

2003-02-06 Thread v4l
I noticed the following in glav_main.c: void do_real_exit(int ID, void *data) { int status; /* Kill all our children and exit */ printf("real exit here\n"); kill(0,9); waitpid(pid,&status,0); exit(0); } void Exit_cb(GtkWidget *ob, long data) { /* Try to exit gracefully, wai

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lav2wav from movtar file is "gurgly"

2003-01-06 Thread v4l
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:15:31AM +, Martin Collins wrote: > > Create an editlist with all your files in then > lav2yuv editlist.edl | mencoder - . lav2yuv only provides the video track though right? How does mencoder get the audio to mux in with the yuv data? > > Or cat all your avis

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lav2wav from movtar file is "gurgly"

2003-01-06 Thread v4l
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:30:55AM +0100, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Hey Brian, Hi Ron, > One word: MPEG... :-(. That's actually an acronym for 4 words. ~ducking~ :-) But you are indeed correct. Is there room in the MPEG specification to put MJPEG frames into it? I would think that movtar would

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lav2wav from movtar file is "gurgly"

2003-01-06 Thread v4l
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:06:12AM +0100, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi Ronald, > Sounds like... Your sampling rate is a bit weird? Does lavinfo report > the sampling rate correctly? $ lavinfo cnn.movtar video_frames=943 video_width=352 video_height=480 video_inter=1 video_norm=NTSC video_

[Mjpeg-users] lav2wav from movtar file is "gurgly"

2003-01-05 Thread v4l
When I use lavrec to create a movtar file, and then try to extract the audio from the movtar file with lav2wav, it comes out "gurgly". By gurgly, imagine the filter a special effects man would use to make you believe somebody was talking under water. If I use lavrec to create an avi file, lav2wav

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: PVR

2002-12-31 Thread v4l
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:34:08PM -0600, Jeremy Mann wrote: > > I still don't see what the big hype is about PVRs. Best thing since TV. :-) > First of all, you can't > get the MPEG recorded material OFF the PVR without first capturing from > its own outputs. You are right if you are talking a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2002-12-31 Thread v4l
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:20:44PM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At the difference in space usage, disk. I have a 5:27s clip here > > that I was testing with. It is 720x480, default lavrec jpeg quality > > (50% I think it is isn't it?). It is 917MB

Re: [Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2002-12-31 Thread v4l
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:16:18AM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: > > If you just want a PVR, then why not keep the recording in mjpeg form? Something else worth mentioning here. MJPEG seems to take a lot of CPU to decode. Using MPlayer, I constantly drop frames trying to play an MJPEG on the same

Re: [Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2002-12-30 Thread v4l
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:16:18AM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: > > If you just want a PVR, then why not keep the recording in mjpeg form? Several reasons... > Sure > it takes up more space then mpeg2, Way more! > but what costs more, a 100GB+ ide drive or > a hardware mpeg2 compression card? A

Re: [Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2002-12-30 Thread v4l
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:59:00PM +0100, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi Ronald, > Not that difficult, I guess... I'm not familiar with the ffmpeg internal > interface, mp1e is from the zapping/rte folks. I don't know if the lineage of that goes back to ffmpeg though. > but it shouldn't b

Re: [Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2002-12-30 Thread v4l
encoding time. mp1e fills this void very well (although only with MPEG1, not MPEG2) but does not (AFAIK) fit in a "lav2yuv" pipeline. I wonder how difficult it would be to make mp1e read yuv data from stdin rather than a v4l{1,2} device. The better solution though, would be a fast (an

Re: [Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2002-12-29 Thread v4l
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:34:18PM -0800, James Klicman wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi James. > I checked the numbers for 720x480 input which is DVD resolution. > > Athlon 700Mhz > DVD...: 6.34 fps > DVD Interlaced: 3.70 fps Yeah, I seemed to have gotten it up to about 4fps or thereabouts,

Re: [Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2002-12-29 Thread v4l
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:01:01AM -0800, James Klicman wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi James, > Is there another process in your pipeline that could be causing the > slowdown? $ lav2yuv test.avi | /usr/src/mjpeg_play/mpeg2enc/mpeg2enc -f 3 -4 4 -2 4 -q12 -b 4500 -V 300 -I 1 -o test.m2v ++ WARN: [lav2yuv

Re: [Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2002-12-29 Thread v4l
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:14:47PM +0100, Andrew Stevens wrote: > > What kind of CPU are you using. 800MHz Athlon ThunderBird. The mpeg2enc was build on this machine so (hopefully) it is tuned for the Athlon's processor features. I did see mention of MMX being used during the startup of mpeg2en

[Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2002-12-29 Thread v4l
I am trying to convert some MJPEG that I captured with my G400 Marvel to MPEG2. I have tried an mpeg2enc coomandline sever al times but it's too slow. The best I can get (with bad quality switches) is 2fps. But at that rate every hour I record will take 15 hours to convert. Is there a better MP