Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-15 Thread Matto Marjanovic
> So if a "preset" is not being used and the output is going to be > MPEG-2 encoded then it is necessary to specify the '-O chromass' > option. Correct? Yep. -matt m. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welco

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-15 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi - > From: Matto Marjanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >When should, if ever, the "-O chromass=420_MPEG2" be used? > > When the output is going to be MPEG-2 encoded. The "DVD" and "SVCD" presets > automatically set this. (420_JPEG is correct for MPEG-1 and MJPEG.) Ah, ok.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-15 Thread Matto Marjanovic
> Now a y4mscaler question... > > When should, if ever, the "-O chromass=420_MPEG2" be used? When the output is going to be MPEG-2 encoded. The "DVD" and "SVCD" presets automatically set this. (420_JPEG is correct for MPEG-1 and MJPEG.) As you may expect, the output mode will

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Steven M. Schultz
hi - > From: Matto Marjanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I won't get around to packaging a version of y4mscaler which handles all > this properly for another week or so. However, the preliminary testing > I did last night showed a plainly visible improvement in NTSC DV material. > I am pleased w

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Charles Yates
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 17:34, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Drop us a line when you've checked in the changes so we know to > "cvs update" the smilutils ;) OK :-) - feel free to update any time now... Matto - thanks for catching the PTHREAD_LIB issue and man page typo. I've applied the -i

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Matto Marjanovic
> Hmmm, I wonder if y4mscaler can be used simply to do the 411 -> 420 > conversion even in the situation where no scaling is being requested. You bet --- it is all just scaling after all: The chroma planes are being scaled by (2/1, 1/2) and the luma plane is getting (1/1, 1/1) (w

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Matto Marjanovic
>> With the patch, if you specify "-i 2" to smil2yuv, then the output >> stream will be in the 4:1:1 subsampling mode native to NTSC DV --- >> which can then be converted properly to 4:2:0 by y4mscaler. (The > > Uh, does this mean what I think it means? That all this time > sm

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi - > From: Charles Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Or is it the case that y4mscaler's 4:1:1 -> 4:2:0 conversion is > > more accurate (better) than what is currently being done? > > I'm sure Matto will give you more info, but it's more related to libdv's > mangling of the 411 data in the N

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-13 Thread Charles Yates
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 05:09, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Uh, does this mean what I think it means? That all this time > smil2yuv has been producing the wrong output for NTSC folks which I/we > have been making SVCD/DVDs with? > > The assumption has, obviously, been that t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-12 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi - > From: Matto Marjanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > With the patch, if you specify "-i 2" to smil2yuv, then the output > stream will be in the 4:1:1 subsampling mode native to NTSC DV --- > which can then be converted properly to 4:2:0 by y4mscaler. (The Uh, does this mean what I th

Re: [Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-12 Thread Matto Marjanovic
>In case you're interested, I've *finally* posted smilutils to kino CVS. Still cool. >Please feel free to report issues or patches (or new tools?) via the >kino-dev mailing list. And here is another patch, to add the 4:1:1 mode I mentioned a few weeks ago. With the patch, if you specify "-

[Mjpeg-users] smilutils in kino CVS

2003-02-11 Thread Charles Yates
Hi all, In case you're interested, I've *finally* posted smilutils to kino CVS. The current code is destined to form release 0.2.0 and has a few changes from the previous 0.1.3 pre-release stuff (there won't be an official 0.1.3 release). Dependencies are reduced (gnome is gno more? almost true