Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-21 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 11:23, Steven Boswell wrote: > > I was just surprised that an ancient, low-tech program like dd is all it > takes to do a modern, high-tech action like burning a DVD. Given how dd is not low-tech, is low-level. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-20 Thread Steven Boswell
I apologize for asking this AGAIN, but apparently I'm still missing some important detail... >>mplex generated one big file, and a warning that said "Sequence end >>marker found in video stream but single-segment splitting specified!" >>for every chapter mark. I burned it to DVD, and there were n

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-20 Thread Steven Boswell
My reply to Andrew Stevens: >In general: you really really want the latest mplex from CVS either >stable or developer branches for DVD. They fix an important timing >bug and a couple of other things too. I've upgraded to mjpegtools 1.6.1 now. >Those "hiccups" you're seeing are the run-out/run-i

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-20 Thread Robert Kesterson
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: > > Depending on how bright your screen is, you may not be able to get rid of > > all the block noise in dark areas. > > This should actually disappear fairly shortly. I'm working on some tweeks to > tbe bit-allocation that will reduce quantisation on mac

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-20 Thread Andrew Stevens
HI Robert, > > Now that I can actually see my video, I have a new problem -- although > > most of it looks wonderful, parts of it don't look all that good! > > There's quite a bit of fuzziness at the boundaries between black areas > > and light areas (i.e. I've seen it with white and pink). > > De

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-20 Thread Andrew Stevens
> OK, cool. mplex generated one big file, and a warning that said > "Sequence end marker found in video stream but single-segment splitting > specified!" for every chapter mark. I burned it to DVD, and there were > no chapters. I then hacked mplex so that -M wasn't automatically turned > on by

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-20 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > >>Here's the command line that I used to generate the video: > > > >Drop the -b option, raise the -q to 7-8, and use the denoiser. > > What can I say, Berni, you da man! :-) After messing around with > lots of combinations today, I finally found that my so-called high > quality LaserDisc

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Steven Boswell
>>Here's the command line that I used to generate the video: > >Drop the -b option, raise the -q to 7-8, and use the denoiser. What can I say, Berni, you da man! :-) After messing around with lots of combinations today, I finally found that my so-called high quality LaserDisc looked a lot better

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Steven M. Schultz
> From: Steven Boswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >You should use the -S -B option of mpeg2enc for spliting videos. > > I don't understand. The -S option of mpeg2enc doesn't actually seem to > produce separate files, just sequence-end marks; from my experience, > only mplex actually splits videos into

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Steven Boswell
>>It uses dd to write to a DVD?? WHOA :-) But it >>just worked; I have my first chaptered DVD-video. Thanks a >>bazillion!!! > >If you tried to tell a joke, I didn't get it. I was just surprised that an ancient, low-tech program like dd is all it takes to do a modern, high-tech action like

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:53:40PM +0100, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > When you encode the video you should use the -S -B option. Then mplex > will split the file when multiplexing into pices with a correct start > and end. As there is no -B option in the released mplex, I assume you are talking

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Robert Kesterson
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Steven Boswell wrote: > > OK, cool. mplex generated one big file, and a warning that said > "Sequence end marker found in video stream but single-segment splitting > specified!" for every chapter mark. Just a gues: Make sure you're using a command line that has a template for

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > > As I wrote in the mail shortly before you should not use the -M switch > > (or any other spliting by mplex). If you multiplex a DVD the -M switch > > was deactivated because it generated several files. The -M option does > > not generate valid MPEG streams. > > > > You should use the -S

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:36:08AM +0100, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: Hello ;-) > As I wrote in the mail shortly before you should not use the -M switch > (or any other spliting by mplex). If you multiplex a DVD the -M switch > was deactivated because it generated several files. The -M option doe

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-18 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > >Am I correct if I say that the HP dvd200i is a DVD+R/RW writer ? If > >yes read the mjpeg-howto (on SF): Section Creating DVD's. > I've done so. It uses dd to write to a DVD?? WHOA :-) But it just > worked; I have my first chaptered DVD-video. Thanks a bazillion!!! If you tried t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-18 Thread Steven Boswell
Bernhard Praschinger wrote: >Am I correct if I say that the HP dvd200i is a DVD+R/RW writer ? If >yes read the mjpeg-howto (on SF): Section Creating DVD's. I've done so. It uses dd to write to a DVD?? WHOA :-) But it just worked; I have my first chaptered DVD-video. Thanks a bazillion!!!

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-18 Thread Robert Kesterson
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Steven Boswell wrote: > > I tried first to do all of the mastering under Linux. As far as I can > tell, dvdauthor runs fine on my multiplexed audio/video files, and > mkisofs builds a UDF image fine (though the instructions call for a > -dvd-video switch, and that isn't recogn

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-17 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > First of all, my setup. The computer is an Athlon XP 1800+ with an MSI > K7T266 Pro2 motherboard (i.e. a VIA KT266A chipset) and a gig of 266 MHz > DDRAM. My DVD writer is an HP dvd200i. I'm running Red Hat 7.3 and > mjpegtools 1.6.0. Am I correct if I say that the HP dvd200i is a DVD+R

[Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-17 Thread Steven Boswell
Hello! I've successfully produced many VideoCDs, but am having a heck of a time with DVDs. It seems that, no matter what path I try, something happens to screw it up. Finally, I'm resorting to the kindness of strangers to get some answers. I thank you in advance for any help you may provide, kno