[Mjpeg-users] Version 1.6.2 Compile problems

2004-02-22 Thread Dik Takken
Hi All, I succeeded in compiling MJPEG Tools version 1.6.2, but I had some difficulties. Every time the compile command referenced the SDL library, it failed to find it and linking failed. I fixed this by replacing all occurrences of "-lSDL" with "/usr/lib/libSDL.so" in the Makefile. Other SDL de

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Version 1.6.2 Compile problems

2004-02-22 Thread Dik Takken
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Dik Takken wrote: > > > I succeeded in compiling MJPEG Tools version 1.6.2, but I had some > > difficulties. Every time the compile command referenced the SDL library, > > it failed to find it and l

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Version 1.6.2 Compile problems

2004-02-22 Thread Dik Takken
> I do know know why the linker can not find libSDL. Perhaps it is > because the -L option from `sdl-config --libs` is not correct somehow. > > What happens if you do this instead: > > gcc test.cc `sdl-config --libs` This works fine. Also, executing sdl-confi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Version 1.6.2 Compile problems

2004-02-23 Thread Dik Takken
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Dik Takken wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] lavtools]$ make > > /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -march=athlon > > -pipe -O2 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -s -Wall

Re: [Mjpeg-users] libtool: link: cannot find the library `'

2004-03-05 Thread Dik Takken
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Maxwell Sayles wrote: > I'm trying to build mjpegtools1.6.2. I managed to build jmpeg-mmx-0.1.5 > without a hitch, and then libquicktime-0.9.2 again no problem. I unpackage > mjpegtools and did a configure with > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/max/tmp/mjpegtools-1.6.2/

[Mjpeg-users] Interlaced input for mpeg2enc

2004-07-06 Thread Dik Takken
Hello, I am trying to create an interlaced MPEG2 stream using mpeg2enc, but mpeg2enc warns me that I am feeding it progressive video and the chroma of the output is all messed up. It says: ++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] Interlaced encoding selected with progressive input! ++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] (This will d

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Interlaced input for mpeg2enc

2004-07-06 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Matto Marjanovic wrote: mpeg2enc only knows what the stream header tells it --- pipe the output of mplayer into "head -1" and you can see for yourself. My guess is that mplayer is indicating "Ip" for "progressive/non-interlaced". You were right, MPlayer was generating a progres

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Interlaced input for mpeg2enc

2004-07-07 Thread Dik Takken
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Matto Marjanovic wrote: There is a difference between "producing a stream whose header claims to be interlaced" and "producing an interlaced stream". I've never really looked at the mplayer source code myself, but my (cynical) guess would be that this option does #1, not #2. We

[Mjpeg-users] yuvcorrect syntax?

2004-07-08 Thread Dik Takken
Hi, Can anyone of you please give me one example of how to use yuvcorrect to correct the color of a yuv4mpeg stream? There is no information about this in manual or on the internet. yuvcorrect -h is not very clear either. I ttied something like: yuvcorrect -R B_Gamma_Input 0.5 but it says I pro

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools freeze

2004-07-19 Thread Dik Takken
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other things to consider. The KTxxx chipset has a known issue (as me research recalls) where by heavy DMA transfers can lock the bus. If you are dumping to intergrated IDE disks this may be related. I suggest more research. Could be FUD, but I believe

[Mjpeg-users] Interlaced video from images?

2004-08-20 Thread Dik Takken
Hello, I'm having difficulties generating interlaced MPEG2 streams from images. I have a script that outputs numbered frames. I generate an MPEG2 stream like this: png2yuv -j Frame%d.png -b 1 -f 25 | mpeg2enc -f 3 -b 9000 -a 3 -o Video.m2v I am trying to combine two subsequent images into one in

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Interlaced video from images?

2004-08-20 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Dik Takken wrote: I'm having difficulties generating interlaced MPEG2 streams from images. I Most of the time people are interested in _de_interlacing ;) png2yuv -j Frame%d.png -b 1 -f 25 | mpeg2enc -f 3 -b 9000 -a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Interlaced video from images?

2004-08-21 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Oh, that's an old version but even 1.6.2 doesn't have y4minterlace. There are a few new tools/utilities that are only in the CVS version. I think it'll be necessary for you to get the CVS version built. If you have fairly

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Xine vs Mplayer - a passing comment

2004-08-27 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I find that playing a certain file in mplayer gives much brighter display than when playing it in xine. Is this a recognised fact, or another indication that there is something wrong with my xine? Isn't it right

[Mjpeg-users] Feeding frames to mpeg2enc

2004-10-11 Thread Dik Takken
Hi, I develop scripts that generate MPEG2 streams by using imagemagick to draw the frames and using png2yuv to feed the frames to mpeg2enc. The problem I'm having is that all frames that are needed for the MPEG stream need to be stored on harddisk before png2yuv can start feeding them to mpeg2e

[Mjpeg-users] lavtrans: Seamless Cut & Paste

2004-10-22 Thread Dik Takken
Hello, I am trying to cut MJPEG AVI files into pieces and then put them back together again. I need it to do processing on parts of the video using external software (ImageMagick). I cut the pieces using this command: lavtrans -o piece1.avi -f a cut.eli and the edit list looks like: LAV Edit Lis

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavtrans: Seamless Cut & Paste

2004-10-25 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Dik Takken wrote: I fixed it. Apparently, the merge edit list did not work because I did not specify the exact length of each fragment. I thought lavtrans would figure that out by itself. Now I use lavinfo to get the frame count and use that info to generate a correct edit

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavtrans: Seamless Cut & Paste

2004-10-26 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: Hallo I fixed it. Apparently, the merge edit list did not work because I did not specify the exact length of each fragment. I thought lavtrans would figure that out by itself. Now I use lavinfo to get the frame count and use that info to generate a c

[Mjpeg-users] Some more glav/lavplay problems

2004-10-27 Thread Dik Takken
Here are two more problems that I discovered while working with glav/lavplay: * When you play a very short avi with glav, glav exits when playing is finished. When you play longer avi files, glav stays open and I can edit the video. This should also be possible for short avi files. * You can't

[Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-10-27 Thread Dik Takken
Hello, I noticed something strange while playing with mpeg2enc. When I encode a sequence of frames to progressive mpeg2, the output quality is *much* better than when I encode the same image sequence to progressive mpeg2. It seems to me that something must be wrong here. I use these options for

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-10-27 Thread Dik Takken
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Dik Takken wrote: I noticed something strange while playing with mpeg2enc. When I encode a sequence of frames to progressive mpeg2, the output quality is *much* better than when I encode the same image sequence to progressive mpeg2

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-10-28 Thread Dik Takken
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Martin Samuelsson wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 01:45, Steven M. Schultz wrote: The frames that I feed to mpeg2enc are actually not interlaced, they are ordinary 'progressive' images. But since I use png2yuv to generate an Ok - that's what I figured. Now to interlace

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-10-28 Thread Dik Takken
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: that I don't care about filesize, as long as my stand-alone DVD player will play it. The only restriction I need for that is to use -f 8 and -b < 9700 IIRC. Oh, it's not just the filesize or AVERAGE bitrate that's going to be the problem. I

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-10-28 Thread Dik Takken
But, the way mpeg2enc prevents the encoded data from going over that 9800 max (for VBR encoding) is by silently increasing the effective -q value for you behind the scenes. So for the peaks, to keep the True, BUT - it is NOT "instantaneous"! By the time the encoder detects that the r

[Mjpeg-users] Combining interlaced and progressive video

2004-10-28 Thread Dik Takken
The thread about interlaced vs progressive video quality contained a lot of useful info about how to deal with progressive and interlaced video. Now I want to try appying it do something useful, I hope. :) Suppose I want to mix progressive and interlaced video material. For example, I have a bi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-10-29 Thread Dik Takken
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Ah, that's an important detail. It might be a good thing if the man page would be a bit more clear about this. Actually it is mentioned in the toplevel (mjpegtools) manpage: "A quality factor should be chosen that way that the mplex output of Peak b

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Combining interlaced and progressive video

2004-10-29 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Martin Samuelsson wrote: A better strategy, albeit more space consuming, would be to convert them into YUV4MPEG2 (if it still is called that nowadays; the raw YUV files produced by lav2yuv) instead. If you have more CPU than disk, you could convert-stream-and-feed-the-encoder v

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Combining interlaced and progressive video

2004-10-29 Thread Dik Takken
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Matto Marjanovic wrote: >STEP 2: > >I use lavtrans to 'grow' a new avi file by adding 'single_picture.avi' to >itself and repeat that 100 times, like so (pseudo code): ... Or, cat picture.ppm | ppmtoy4m -n 100 -r -F 25:1 -I t -L | ... That would work in this particular case, b

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-10-29 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, James Bigler wrote: One thing that has worked very well is to use the 1/2 encoded frame size (352x480 for 525line systems and 352x288 for 625line systems). That should have been 352x576 for 625line systems. the 352xN is a valid DVD frame size

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-10-29 Thread Dik Takken
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: The other thing to look at is the output of 'mplex'. Mplex prints out the "Average" and "Peak" rates. You can get those numbers fairly quickly by specifying "-o /dev/null" to mplex: mplex -f 8 -o /dev/null input.m2v I have t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Combining interlaced and progressive video

2004-10-30 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: This is a task well suited for the various yuv* tools; yuvdenoise, yuvcorrect, Hmmm, if it's "post encoding" processing you're talking about would it be better to do that in the encoder rather than the filtering the input stream prio

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Combining interlaced and progressive video

2004-10-30 Thread Dik Takken
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: I should try using mplayer to feed the mjpeg file to mpeg2enc and see if that yields a better mpeg2 stream. If that works, mpeg2enc could benefit from the MPlayer pp filters as well. Ummm, but mplayer's a _de_coder ;) Exactly. :) I guess I'm not

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Combining interlaced and progressive video

2004-10-30 Thread Dik Takken
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: I should try using mplayer to feed the mjpeg file to mpeg2enc and see if that yields a better mpeg2 stream. If that works, mpeg2enc could benefit from the MPlayer pp filters as well. I did try it now. I took a photograph and fed it to a script that gen

Re: [Mjpeg-users] howto copy my own dvd?

2004-11-01 Thread Dik Takken
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, sean wrote: now I want to copy these dvd's. no copyright, just a copy of my own dvd's. Any good CD/DVD burning application can do this for you. I would advise you to install K3B which is easy plug 'n play, click 'n run. google shows me lots of ways around css, but is there an

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-11-01 Thread Dik Takken
It seems to me that something must be wrong here. I use these options for mpeg2enc: ... | mpeg2enc -f 8 -b 9500 -q 1 -a 3 -o output.m2v Well - one thing that's wrong is using -q 1. Known, in some cases, to suffer from DCT/iDCT overflow in the MMX/SSE code. Or are you doing th

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: howto copy my own dvd?

2004-11-01 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, sean wrote: That's where is started, but - strangely enough - it won't copy a dvd. It will copy a cd. k3b-0.11.17. I guess you are missing some utility that K3B needs. I ended up using dd and growisofs. I guess that could work as well, yes. :) sean ---

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-11-01 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Dik Takken wrote: Just something you might want to know about the DCT/iDCT overflow thing (you might know it already): I managed to trigger this overflow problem at -q 2 too. So, for braindead encoding purposes, -q 3 is the limit

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Audio level meter for lavrec

2004-11-07 Thread Dik Takken
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: Hi Steve, On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 06:27, Steve Tell wrote: After recording two and a half hours of video with one channel of the stereo audio missing, I decided that lavrec should display audio level meters while recording. (I also decided that I hate 1/8"

[Mjpeg-users] Joining MPEG2 files

2004-11-12 Thread Dik Takken
Hi all, Some people say that MPEG2 streams joined by DVDAuthor can confuse some set-top DVD players. What I mean is that you combine multiple MPEG2 chapters into one title, like so: It is said that not all players can seamlessly play the transitions between the cha

[Mjpeg-users] lavrec/play oss/alsa/SDL bug

2004-11-15 Thread Dik Takken
I think I might have bumped into a problem with the latest stable mjpegtools. I compiled (emerged, actually) mjpegtools with SDL support, and SDL has support for both OSS and ALSA. My box uses ALSA. When I try capturing video, or playing captured video, I observe the following: * I start lavre

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting avi files into (S)VCD and putting them into one single CD

2004-11-26 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, A. Lanza wrote: Hi list, i have some avi files (divx, xvid, etc.) arround 730 MB. in size. What i would like is to convert each one of these files into VCD or SVCD format, so i can watch it on TV through my home DVD player. Also, i would like to convert/compress it in a way tha

Re: [Mjpeg-users] What Recent MJPEG Card?

2004-12-16 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Richard Ellis wrote: I want to edit the video after capture, so an MPEG2 capture card is not an option. The image quality is too low. Editing is indeed an option: LVE (http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/). Something like this is very useful, but when I say editing, I actually mean

Re: [Mjpeg-users] What Recent MJPEG Card?

2004-12-16 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Keep in mind as well that for MJPEG, if you crank the quality of the recording up quite high, you'll also need a speedy hard drive to... Yep - and I think that (more than the speed of the cpu) is what is causing problems for Dik. What I see

[Mjpeg-users] What Recent MJPEG Card?

2004-12-16 Thread Dik Takken
Since my computer (Athlon 1400) is too slow to capture high quality, full res MJPEG video, I consider buying a hardware MJPEG capture card. There is lots of info in the archives about a lot of famous MJPEG cards, but most of them are no longer sold in the shop around the corner. So, I'm looking

Re: [Mjpeg-users] What Recent MJPEG Card?

2004-12-16 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Mark Rages wrote: It is also possible to do simple cut/paste editing on MPEG without re-encoding. I have a Python library for doing so: http://mlug.missouri.edu/~markrages/software/python_mpeg/ Wow, that looks interesting. Too bad I don't know any Python. Can this thing join

Re: [Mjpeg-users] What Recent MJPEG Card?

2004-12-16 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Martin Samuelsson wrote: Hmmm, that is puzzling - I thought the card was supposed to be doing the jpeg compression, almost sounds like some of that is being done in the host. Please correct me if I'm wrong here, but... You seem to assume that Dik has a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] y4mdenoise (in CVS) now does 2 processors!

2005-01-06 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Steven Boswell II wrote: there's currently a coding frenzy around mpeg2enc and the denoisers. While this coding fenzy is going on, I would like to know if there is any interest in implementing a per-GOP multi-pass encoding mode. Currently, I need to run mpeg2enc 4 or even 5 ti

Re: [Mjpeg-users] y4mdenoise (in CVS) now does 2 processors!

2005-01-07 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Currently, I need to run mpeg2enc 4 or even 5 times in order to find the optimal quantiser number (the -q option) that yields the best quality and uses all available bitrate. That's why I'm currently Or simply use --cbr and let the encoder vary the -q a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] y4mdenoise (in CVS) now does 2 processors!

2005-01-09 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Nicolas Boos wrote: Le Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:27:26 +0100 (CET) Dik Takken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : Currently, I need to run mpeg2enc 4 or even 5 times in order to find the optimal quantiser number (the -q option) that yiel

Re: [Mjpeg-users] y4mdenoise (in CVS) now does 2 processors!

2005-01-09 Thread Dik Takken
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Trent Piepho wrote: I thought that Dik meant the effective -q never went below 8, even though it go have gone all the way to 4 and still be within the target bitrate. Exactly. If that's happening it's a Bug. It might start ou

[Mjpeg-users] yuvunsharp utility?

2005-03-08 Thread Dik Takken
Hi, I was wondering if anyone is planning to add an unsharp masking utility to the MJPEG Tools. I use unsharp masking a lot when processing recordings of my JVC digital DV camera. Unsharp masking makes a HUGE difference in image quality. Unfortunately, the only app that can do unsharp masking o

Re: [Mjpeg-users] yuvunsharp utility?

2005-03-08 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Dik Takken wrote: I was wondering if anyone is planning to add an unsharp masking utility to the MJPEG Tools. I use unsharp masking a lot when processing man y4munsharp Oh no.. Yet Another CVS-Only (tm) feature... Hint Hint :) Sure

Re: [Mjpeg-users] yuvunsharp utility?

2005-03-09 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: I think though if we wait for "perfection" the release would be postponed indefinitely ;) Maybe it would be a good idea to push 1.7.0 out the door and if problems are discovered then release 1.7.1 or whatever. That would

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RE : yuvunsharp utility?

2005-03-10 Thread Dik Takken
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, E.Chalaron wrote: For using the y4munsharp : it is VERY efficient ! Get a frame, play with it under gimp, get the right parameters and off you go in the pipe Nothing to do with the one I found in Transcode ! Have not tried Mencoder, not being fluent in martian yet ! Transco

Re: [Mjpeg-users] losing the plot

2005-03-18 Thread Dik Takken
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Steven Boswell II wrote: As soon as I get mjpegtools' video quality up to my standards (and I'm getting REALLY close), I plan for my next obsession to be bringing open-source video editing up to snuff. I know of kino, lvs, cinelerra, and hvirtual, but haven't looked too de

[Mjpeg-users] Images, Interlacing and Flicker

2005-03-19 Thread Dik Takken
Hello, I was wondering what experience you have with putting static images in DVD movies (like creating a slide show of digital photographs and text slides) and displaying them on a TV screen. The problem is that when the odd and even fields differ a lot (white serif fonts on black background)

[Mjpeg-users] Numerical stream conditioning

2005-03-19 Thread Dik Takken
Hi, Two questions about making video streams better suited for encoding with mpeg2enc: Question 1: When encoding video material to MPEG2 using mpeg2enc, it seems that you can always reduce the required bitrate by using yuvdenoise -f at the end of the processing chain, even when the video looks

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Numerical stream conditioning

2005-03-19 Thread Dik Takken
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: For conditioning like that I use either 'y4mspatialfilter' (with relatively high thresholds) or 'yuvmedianfilter' (in its 'fast' mode with a high weight on the center pixel). Hmm.. Can't use that one in scripts that I want to rel

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Numerical stream conditioning

2005-03-19 Thread Dik Takken
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Dik Takken wrote: I don't know y4mdenoise yet, but is it as non-destructive as 'yuvdenoise -f' is? "non-destructive"? All filtering is destructive - it changes the original data. By non-des

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Numerical stream conditioning

2005-03-20 Thread Dik Takken
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: see the difference between 125 and 129 but we can see the difference between 16 and 20 I believe. That's because of the logarithmical response of the human eye. Maybe it would help if denoising tools and the encoder would also have the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Numerical stream conditioning

2005-03-20 Thread Dik Takken
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Steven Boswell II wrote: My scripts, and the ones you're generating, should end up as part of mjpegtools, part of some future GUI video-editing system, and as notes in our HOWTO. Maybe you should take a look at Kommander. With Kommander you can create GUIs to scripts and comma

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Images, Interlacing and Flicker

2005-03-20 Thread Dik Takken
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Dik Takken wrote: I was wondering what experience you have with putting static images in DVD movies (like creating a slide show of digital photographs and text slides) and displaying them on a TV screen. My experience has been

[Mjpeg-users] MJPEG Tools CVS: Denoise Trouble

2005-05-07 Thread Dik Takken
Hi all, I just couldn't wait any longer for the release of MJPEG Tools 0.7, so I finally decided to take the jump to the latest CVS version. Most of my shell scripts were still working perfectly, except for the denoising part. I use MJPEG Tools to process my digital video camera recordings and

[Mjpeg-users] MJPEG Tools CVS: Chroma resampling

2005-05-07 Thread Dik Takken
Hi, In the archives of this list, I read that the yuvscaler version of MJPEG Tools CVS can do chroma resampling from 4:1:1 to 4:2:0 like so: smil2yuv -i 2 input.dv | y4mscaler -v0 -O chromass=420_MPEG2 -S option=sinc:4 | There are two problems here. First of all, there is no y4mscaler in current

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MJPEG Tools CVS: Denoise Trouble

2005-05-09 Thread Dik Takken
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: (like inside my home) there is a *lot* of chroma noise in the recordings: On a 100% grey background you can see small patches of slightly red colored pixels that appear at random and never last longer than 1 frame. CCD noise :(Small CCDs (consume

[Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc CVS bug?

2005-05-10 Thread Dik Takken
One of my DV files reproducably triggers this error on last week's CVS checkout: INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame4949 P q=8.00 sum act=1886.01297 INFO: [yuvscaler] End of stream! INFO: [yuvscaler] Normal exit: end of stream with frame number 50! INFO: [yuvcorrect] End of stream! INFO

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MJPEG Tools CVS: Denoise Trouble

2005-05-12 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Dik Takken wrote: I did see this new syntax after entering 'yuvdenoise -h' but it did not seem to work either. The reason turns out to be that I entered: ... | yuvdenoise -Y 0 -U 0 -V 0 | ... to try it and it crashed on that, so I got the impression that t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MJPEG Tools CVS: Denoise Trouble

2005-05-13 Thread Dik Takken
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Next, I tried to get rid of all the noise in the chroma data. The CCD I think that is far too ambitious of a goal. Only way to get rid of _all_ the chroma noise is to create a black&white video. A more reasonable goal would be to

[Mjpeg-users] Compute yuvcorrect params from y4mhist output

2005-05-14 Thread Dik Takken
Hello, Does anyone on this list happen to have a shell script to compute color cast / black level / white level corrections from the output of y4mhist? I'm not a real awk hero myself so if someone has done this already it would save me quite a bit of time. Thanks, Dik --

[Mjpeg-users] Compiling y4mscaler

2005-05-17 Thread Dik Takken
Hi, It seems that y4mscaler does not build against recent CVS. Anyone happen to have a patch lying around? Thanks, Dik --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now fo

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Compiling y4mscaler

2005-05-17 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Works fine for me - just tried it a couple minutes ago: Gosh, I'm stupid. I did see the special CVS version but I clicked the wrong link for downloading it... Thanks anyway, Dik --- This SF.Net emai

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Gain on DV

2005-05-19 Thread Dik Takken
On Thu, 19 May 2005, E.Chalaron wrote: Worth a look ? http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93571 Wow, that looks good. Might be very useful for improving DV camcorder recordings. The screencaps on this site show the typical consumer camcorder problems due to sub-optimal lighting cond

[Mjpeg-users] yuvdeinterlace rejects 4:2:0 streams

2005-05-19 Thread Dik Takken
Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble using yuvdeinterlace. It happens from time to time that it refuses to process 4:2:0 streams. Even when I use ... | y4mscaler -O chromass=420_MPEG2 -S option=sinc:4 | ... to explicitely convert the stream from 4:1:1 (DV) to 4:2:0 (DVD) and eventually feed the resul

[Mjpeg-users] How to concatenate yuv streams

2005-05-23 Thread Dik Takken
Hi all, I was just trying to create a single MPEG2 file from multiple DV files, where each DV file is treated differently (different denoising etc). I tried to do this: ( scriptA.sh ; scriptB.sh ) | y4mscaler ... | mpeg2enc ... The shell scripts each produce a yuv stream on stdout. These st

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to concatenate yuv streams

2005-05-23 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Dave Chapman wrote: Steven M. Shultz gave me the solution to this problem a while ago. You need to create a bash function to strip out the header line from the second (and subsequent) yuv streams. e.g. [start of script] Ah, wow. This is very cool. Thanks a lot!! Cheer

[Mjpeg-users] yuvscaler bug

2005-05-23 Thread Dik Takken
Hello, When I do: smil2yuv test.dv | yuvscaler -I USE_576x512+0+0 -O DVD | yuvplay I get a very weird image with noise and a mixed up interlacing pattern. And when I do: smil2yuv test.dv | yuvscaler -I USE_576x384+0+0 -O DVD | yuvplay yuvplay fails to play the resulting stream. Is this a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] yuvscaler bug

2005-05-23 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005, Dik Takken wrote: smil2yuv test.dv | yuvscaler -I USE_576x512+0+0 -O DVD | yuvplay I get a very weird image with noise and a mixed up interlacing pattern. And when I do: smil2yuv test.dv | yuvscaler -I USE_576x384+0+0 -O

Re: [Mjpeg-users] yuvscaler bug

2005-05-23 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Do you see anything like that 'Deprecated X-tag' message? If you're using the cvs version of mjpegtools you should see that message. Yes, I get them all the time :) bash-2.05b$ smil2yuv test.dv | yuvscaler -I USE_576x512+0+0 -O D

Re: [Mjpeg-users] yuvscaler bug

2005-05-24 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Ok - I am fairly certain I have found the cause of the problem you're having. Hacking acceptance of other formats into yuvscaler would be a major undertaking and that's what I think it would take to avoid

[Mjpeg-users] y4mscaler: weird picture

2005-05-24 Thread Dik Takken
Hi, I recently switched from yuvscaler to y4mscaler for reasons known to some of you ;) and came across a problem: The croma data in the image that has been processed via y4mscaler looks weird. I compared the output of the command smil2yuv -i 2 test.dv | y4mscaler -O chromass=420_MPEG2 -S o

Re: [Mjpeg-users] y4mscaler: weird picture

2005-05-25 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: "2" means 4:1:1 - and I thought you were dealing with PAL DV which is one of the 4:2:0 variants. Ah, so y4mscaler only needs to convert between the PAL-DV variant of 4:2:0 and the PAL-MPEG2 variant that all MJPEG tools van handle.

[Mjpeg-users] Project Orange

2005-05-25 Thread Dik Takken
Hi all, The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, have agreed on producing a 3D Animated Movie Short, to be created with the Open Source 3D suite Blender and other FOSS tools. They would like to cooperate with other Open Source graphics proj

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Scene detection

2005-06-01 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Besides you're quite likely to end up doing something like that anyhow if you're going to DVD. Depending what tools you use to create the DVD you may not be able append multiple files together - so if you were planni

[Mjpeg-users] Some wishes for yuvplay

2005-07-26 Thread Dik Takken
Hi all, I have two wishes for things in yuvplay which I think are useful to have: 1: Allow yuvplay to quit by clicking the 'close' button of the window manager. 2: Allow yuvplay to be used in the middle of a processing chain, like this: ... | y4mscaler ... | yuvplay | mpeg2enc ... Now

Re: [Mjpeg-users] how to encode an MPEG from an AVI?

2005-07-27 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Torsten Mohr wrote: What could i use best nowadays to encode an MPEG from an AVI, e.g. for a SVCD or something similar? MPlayer can play MPEG files and output to a yuv stream. You can pipe the yuv stream direcly to the MJPEGTools utilities. Cheers, Dik --

Re: [Mjpeg-users] how to encode an MPEG from an AVI?

2005-07-27 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Torsten Mohr wrote: What could i use best nowadays to encode an MPEG from an AVI, e.g. for a SVCD or something similar? Sorry, did I just say: MPlayer can play MPEG files? That should have been: MPlayer can play anything, and output the video to a yuv stream. It can also

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting from jpg/png to dv

2005-08-08 Thread Dik Takken
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: I know for decoding purposes building smilutils with ffmpeg's libavcodec and using ffmpeg's DV decoder improved the decoding quality a lot. I do not know if the same is true for the encoding. Wow, that's interesting.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting from jpg/png to dv

2005-08-09 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-avcodec --with-ffmpeg=/usr/include/ffmpeg --enable-mp3lame --enable-vorbis --disable-dependency-tracking Well, there are a couple problems with that. For one thing 0.3.0 is quite old. Last release w

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting from jpg/png to dv

2005-08-10 Thread Dik Takken
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Hmmm, not sure if a release can be done a non-admin of the project. I really really hate forked projects Yes, forking should be the last thing to do of course. - better I think to leave it as a 'cvs version' CVS is real

Re: [Mjpeg-users] install

2005-08-10 Thread Dik Takken
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Peter Dettori wrote: the files are from my digital camera so maybe they fall into the first category, but i guess they are encoded and fall into the second category. Ah, ok. They are probably either MPEG-1 or MPEG-4

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools 1.6.3 release candidate 2 released!

2005-08-14 Thread Dik Takken
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Martin Samuelsson wrote: Would it be possible to make lavplay obey the window's close gadget? Yeah, that one is on my wish list as well... The window manager's close button does not work with both lavplay and yuvplay. It would be great if this could be fixed! And thank

Re: [Mjpeg-users] The best quality OSS mpeg2 encoder?

2005-09-09 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Joe Friedrichsen wrote: I've started to make films recently using linux and I've been trying to find the best mpeg2 encoder for making DVD compliant video. After reading the news groups for a while, I realized this is one of those never-fully-answered, and always-asked ques

[Mjpeg-users] NEW: MPEG2 encoding GUI for MJPEGTools 1.7.0

2005-09-28 Thread Dik Takken
Hi, As I mentioned earlier on this list, I have been working on a simple GUI frontend to MJPEGTools 1.7.0, named KmPg2. Yesterday, I released the first testing version: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29587 More screenshots can be found on my homepage: http://pingwing.xs4all.n

[Mjpeg-users] MJPEGTools 1.8.0: yuvfps problem

2005-11-05 Thread Dik Takken
Hi, I just came across an encoding command that results in an error just before the encoding is finished. The command was: ffmpeg -i "widescreen.dv002.dv" -f image2pipe -vcodec pgmyuv -y /dev/stdout | pgmtoy4m -r 25:1 -i b -a 118:81 | y4mscaler -I sar=118:81 -O infer=exact -O infer=preserve

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MJPEGTools 1.8.0: yuvfps problem

2005-11-06 Thread Dik Takken
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Those do not look like yuvfps errors. The mjpegtools portions of the script would put their name in the messages ([yuvcorrect], and so on). I see that '[yuvplay]' is logging messages but I can't seem to see a "yuvplay

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MJPEGTools 1.8.0: yuvfps problem

2005-11-06 Thread Dik Takken
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: I see this: YUV4MPEG2 W720 H576 F3:1001 Ib A118:81 C420mpeg2 Yep - that's the problem. which looks fine. When I leave out the yuvfps part, the command works 625 line frame dimensions with the 525 line frame rate is fine? :)

Re: [Mjpeg-users] open /dev/video0: No such device (saa7114,linux 2.6.12-1)

2005-11-12 Thread Dik Takken
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Eskali wrote: And if i create it manually with mknod /dev/video c 81 0 i get: v4l-info open /dev/video0: No such Device Im using udev .. Creating /dev nodes yourself is useless when you have udev. Any device that is actually working in your machine will automatically get

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Denoising old material

2005-11-21 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Michael Hanke wrote: - Since there was no automatic exposition of the material every take has its own suboptimal exposure. So I need to have different settings for denoising for every take. This way I can produce many individual mpeg files which must be joined together. Is t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Denoising old material

2005-11-21 Thread Dik Takken
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Michael Hanke wrote: You can do something like this in Bash: ( ; ; ... ) | mpeg2enc How can I get rid of the headers of the individual streams? Errmm... Is it necessary to remove the headers? If it is necessary to remove them, the header is the first line in the outp

[Mjpeg-users] Pinnacle MovieBox DV

2005-12-31 Thread Dik Takken
Hi all, Has any of you ever played with the Pinnacle MovieBox DV A/D converter? It looks like an affordable solution to convert old VHS tapes to DV. Cheers, Dik --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log fi

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