[Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Conditions: My source is a cheap CCD, not too bad, pretty good detail, excellent chroma, some mild noise when in the dark but otherwise it's clean. The camera is amateurishly handled: quiet scenes interrupted by bursts of brutal motion. It stores the image in NTSC 480i DV format. I capture it with

Re: Malloc failed, Was: Re: [Mjpeg-users] MPEG2 encoding performance

2003-11-26 Thread Michael Hanke
Hi, On Monday 24 November 2003 18.16, you wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Michael Hanke wrote: > > Thanks a lot for all of your help. I had to upgrade libtool and autoconf. > > Then the build went smoothly. But when I tried yuvdenoise, I got an > > memory > In utils/cpu_accel.c you should see

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 25 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > Conditions: > My source is a cheap CCD, not too bad, pretty good detail, excellent > chroma, some mild noise when in the dark but otherwise it's clean. > > Goals: > I want to put my movies on DVDs with the highest quality that's > achievable with the mpeg2e

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 00:15, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 25 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > Is it a good choice to use -g 6 -G 18? > > Any possible side-effects of doing that? > > In general, when would you recommend to tweak -g -G? > > High motion videos might benefit from '-g' being decreas

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi, On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 05:22, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Rather than have version numbers go backwards which would be > confusing (is version 1.6.x newer or older than 2.2.2?) I > changed it so that the version is 2.2.3 in both places and the > date changed to be the G

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:28, Ronald Bultje wrote: > > As of today, release candidate 2 of mjpegtools-1.6.2 (official version: > 1.6.1.91) is available on your local sourceforge mirror. For URLs, see mplex -h does not work according to manual. Instead of activating the --keep-hf, it prints the usa

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 01:52, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:28, Ronald Bultje wrote: > > > > As of today, release candidate 2 of mjpegtools-1.6.2 (official version: > > 1.6.1.91) is available on your local sourceforge mirror. For URLs, see > > mplex -h does not work according to

[Mjpeg-users] -H and -E

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
I'm not sure i understand how -E works, so... Is there any conflict if i use -H and -E simultaneously? If not, does it make sense from a logical p.o.v. to use them both? Does -H override -K, or the other way 'round? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ---

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Better MPEG decoder for WMP

2003-11-26 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Bernhard - thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, the application this is for is embedded within a Macromedia Director movie, and VLC doesn't support ActiveX (at least as far as I could tell), although this might be a good open-source contribution for my company to make. Thanks! Jon On Wed, 26 Nov

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 23:35, Florin Andrei wrote: > Whenever that makes sense (such as what are default values, etc.), > please add the answers to these questions (if any) to the mpeg2enc man > page. Thank you. Actually, it would be great if the man page would specify all default values (wherever

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Making mpeg stills

2003-11-26 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
It seems to be down right now, but when it's up you should check out http://www.vcdimager.org/stillencode/ It will encode stills for you AND give you the commands it used to do so. Basically, you combine Xtopnm, pnmscale, ppmntsc, ppmtoy4m, and mpeg2enc into a pipe. Do it for both the large and

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2003 09:36 schrieb Florin Andrei: > On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 00:15, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > -b 9800 -E -15 -q 6 -R 0 -s -c -I 1 -g 6 -G 18 -4 2 -2 1 -K > > > tmpgenc -N 1 > > > > 9800 is too high. Some standalone players can not handle the > > maximum. For portabili

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:28, Ronald Bultje wrote: > > > > As of today, release candidate 2 of mjpegtools-1.6.2 (official version: > > 1.6.1.91) is available on your local sourceforge mirror. For URLs, see > > mplex -h does not work according to manual. Ins

Re: Malloc failed, Was: Re: [Mjpeg-users] MPEG2 encoding performance

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Michael Hanke wrote: Hi! > > In utils/cpu_accel.c you should see the function bufalloc() which > > is where the malloc error is coming from. The only thing I can > > think of to try is add a "fprintf(stderr, "size = %d\n", size);" > I did it. The request size

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > High motion videos might benefit from '-g' being decreased - in fact > > you could set that to 1 (if you're using the cvs version of mpeg2enc > > Issues with set-top-boxes in that case? None. Smaller GOP sizes just increase the filesize but all

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -H and -E

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > Is there any conflict if i use -H and -E simultaneously? No conflict at all. -E processing is done after the quantization tables have been used. > If not, does it make sense from a logical p.o.v. to use them both? Makes a lot of

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 08:43, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > But most of the professional DVDs i've seen are at or around 9800 kb/s > > Not really. Or rather how are you determining that? By taking > the .m2v streamsize in bytes and dividing by t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 08:11, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > mplex -h does not work according to manual. Instead of activating the > > --keep-hf, it prints the usage help. :-) > > mplex has no --keep-hf option. > mpeg2enc has a -H option which is the same as --k

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Richard Ellis
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:21:37AM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > > I actually thought the total max mandated by the DVD standard is > 10.08 Mbps or something like that (and it's the sum of the actively > played tracks, not of all the stuff in the VOB). So that would > leave, above a 9800 kbps ceil

Re: [Mjpeg-users] feature request

2003-11-26 Thread Andrew Stevens
Hi Andrei, > If i understand correctly, one of the reasons why mplex cannot multiplex > subtitles was the scarcity of tools to generate subtitle streams with > timestamp information. Thanks for the info - adding subtitle muxing itself once you can get the timing info is pretty easy. It is quite

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Richard Ellis wrote: > I've seen that same 10.08Mbps maximum upper limit for DVD's as well. I haven't seen any that come even close to the upper limit. Perhaps one of the "Superbits" titles would be worth a look, they leave out all the extras (additi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > It's necessary to leave room for peaks or spikes in the bitrate - > > exceeding the legal limit even briefly will cause playback problems > > Right, but as far as m2v and mpeg2enc, _isolated_ (disregarding DVD > limits, other tracks, etc.), are con