Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnick
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:23:06PM -0700, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > How did I know you'd say that? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455/ :-) > > of my DV codec from FFMPEG that can use different bitrates. The default > > framesize for PAL is 144000 bytes, this can be cut down to ~13

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-05 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:23, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > Heya, Yo! > I guess what you're looking for, though, is a resyncable format. So a Ah, yes. Resyncable. Splendid word! > format where the header will tell me only "length of file: 10 minutes" > and then you want to seek to halfway the f

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-05 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Heya, On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 23:57, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > I think it's a pity lavtools doesn't support any easily streamable format. > That would make building timeshifters easier. Let me see, we have AVI and Quicktime, right? >From this perspective, theoretically, AVI shouldn't be doing th

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-05 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 04:07, Roman Shaposhnick wrote: > > Such a format would open possibilities to mix different streams in real > > time, making it possible to toy with overlay graphics and stuff. > > Personally, I use DV for that. And not just any DV, but a hacked-up Which, incidentally,

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-04 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Roman Shaposhnick wrote: > Personally, I use DV for that. I concur. (as an aside I have recently viewed the SVCD/VCDs I made using a Bt878 card vs the discs I made after switching to DV - oh my goodness the quality took a quantum leap upward!).

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnick
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:57:55AM +0200, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:02, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > Most TV shows are in increments of 30 minutes. At 25 fps that's 45000 > > frames. Store the data in 45000 frame files. When it comes time to > > age the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-04 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:02, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > What a word! But yes, that's better than streamable :-) Mmm, words. They are fun to play with. :) > Circular files. Not sure if they're well suited to video processing. I don

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-04 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > Ok, sequentialable format, then. :) What a word! But yes, that's better than streamable :-) > Streaming to me means a format you can tap into anywhere and begin playing at Oh, that's seekable or random accessible. I've s

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-04 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 00:51, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > I think it's a pity lavtools doesn't support any easily streamable > > format. That would make building timeshifters easier. > > I'm confused (or missing something ;)). How does 'streaming' make > 'timeshifting' easier? S

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-04 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > On Monday 04 October 2004 17:11, Richard Ellis wrote: > > would then work with the file. However, they are not totally happy > > with the "fix", they seem to read the whole entire file from disk > > first before doing anything at all with it. But a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-04 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Monday 04 October 2004 17:11, Richard Ellis wrote: > Manually fixing it was the only way I ever found to correct this > problem when it happened to me. If I remember right, if I copied the > first 2k from a good avi (that also had the same recording settings) > over top of the first 2k of the b

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-04 Thread Richard Ellis
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:23:32PM +0200, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > Once in a while, my video computer die from a kernel panic. If this > happens while I'm recording something (which it normally does), I'm > left with an avi file with no usable values in the header. > > Is there any good way to f