Re: [Mjpeg-users] Where to denoise in 3 pass encoding

2004-09-21 Thread Derek Fountain
> But since it sounds like the goal is computer playback in small areas > (384x288 or so) this might be worth thinking about: > > For lower ("VCD") resolution I think it's better capturing at the > 1/2 size (384x288 for "PAL") to begin with. This will be progressive > (since it's only 1 fiel

[Mjpeg-users] Fixing split video streams

2004-09-21 Thread Lehmeier Michael
I know I have already asked this a couple of months ago but I am really getting desperate here. I'm directly streaming to hard disk from my satellite reciever. In order to burn it to dvd I have do demux, reencode the audio and then remux it. The problem is that mplex does not recognize the demuxed

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing split video streams

2004-09-21 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I know I have already asked this a couple of months ago but I am really > getting desperate here. > I'm directly streaming to hard disk from my satellite reciever. In order > to burn it to dvd I have do demux, reencode the audio and then remux it. > > The problem is that mplex does not re

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-21 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > If you're in a 625line (usually "PAL") video country then VHS has > 576 active (vertical) lines in 2 fields just like TV and DVDs. > > VHS does lack resolution though since it effectively only has 200 or > so horizontal lines. I still have not found any re

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Where to denoise in 3 pass encoding

2004-09-21 Thread Martin Collins
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:25:00 +0800 Derek Fountain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I'm asking, here's another quick question: can I do anything > with the sound to lower the file size? It's just crowd noise and > commentary so I can drop the quality right down if that's possible. > I was just tr

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-21 Thread Richard Ellis
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > Hallo > > > If you're in a 625line (usually "PAL") video country then VHS has > > 576 active (vertical) lines in 2 fields just like TV and DVDs. > > > > VHS does lack resolution though since it effectively only has 200 > > or

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixing split video streams

2004-09-21 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > I just tired it with a TS stream from the German Sender: 3sat at > 720x576, and 48kHz stereo audio. And it worked well. I demuxed it with a What type of audio is being used? In the US the HDTV stations are using AC3 (either 384K

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Interlacing bewilderment

2004-09-21 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > The HOWTO says: "If you have an interlaced source (broadcast) you can encode > it as interlaced stream. Or deinterlace the stream and encode it as > progressive stream. If you deinterlace it with yuvdenoise -F, you will lose > details." The bad thing is that Boradcast movies can also be no

Re: [Mjpeg-users] new user and a couple of questions

2004-09-21 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > > > I am running kernel 2.6.8. I see that there are zr36067 and so on > > > drivers in that kernel source so I am using them. Thats part of my first > > > question > > > > > > My motherboard is about 2-3 years old a Soltek VIA based board > > > KT133/KM133 according to lspci. I see tha

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Where to denoise in 3 pass encoding

2004-09-21 Thread Derek Fountain
> > I'm using a tuned version of the 3 pass lav2avi.sh script which basically > > does: > > The MPlayer/mencoder developers have deprecated (and highly > discourage the use of) the 3 pass method and recommend the use > of the 2 pass method. The lav2avi.sh script hasn't been > updated/rewritten

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Where to denoise in 3 pass encoding

2004-09-21 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Derek Fountain wrote: > The MPlayer docs describe the 2 pass method like this: ... > but, er, that doesn't appear to make sense when the input is coming from > lav2yuv because there's no sound. So what is the two pass method now > recommended? 1 audio pass and 1 vi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Where to denoise in 3 pass encoding

2004-09-21 Thread Derek Fountain
> mencoder -audiofile out.mp3 -oac copy ... > > just prepare the .mp3 or whatever ahead of time and use that. OK. That appears to mean the lav2wav-to-mp3 stage is still required, which is what I thought. I still have it in my script. > As an experiment you might try doing a one pass encod