Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec: setting gain/offset for captured video signal?

2011-01-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:39:48 +0100 Primoz PETERLIN wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Once again, I need to digitize some old tapes, so I reactivated my > trusty mjpeg-tools. :) > > However, I noticed some of the tapes come out rather washed out when > digitized, i.e., white is almost saturated, and

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec: setting gain/offset for captured video signal?

2011-01-30 Thread Martin Samuelsson
> bright" or "v4lctl contrast" command, but the video signal captured by > lavrec seems unaffected by it. Curious. I think it should work fine. I don't have any Zoran card running at the moment, and can't experiment with it. Regards, /Martin > > All the be

[Mjpeg-users] Fixing a broken .avi file

2004-10-03 Thread Martin Samuelsson
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 fix such a file? The problem is that lavrec, when the kernel dies, cannot f

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 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 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 v

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

2004-10-05 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] mpeg2enc: progressive vs interlaced quality

2004-10-28 Thread Martin Samuelsson
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 that you need to take > th

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

2004-10-28 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thursday 28 October 2004 17:57, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > This is > > what the purists call an interlaced stream. > > It's not just what "purists" call an interlaced stream - it is an > interlaced stream ;) "Purist" in the nicest possible way, of course. Yes, it's interlaced. >

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

2004-10-28 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thursday 28 October 2004 23:00, Dik Takken wrote: > In order to combine all of this into one MPEG2 stream, I start with > converting all three components to MJPEG files. All three MJPEG files need > to have the same resolution, interlacing and so on, or else lavtrans won't > be able to merge the

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

2004-10-29 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Friday 29 October 2004 12:31, Dik Takken wrote: > This leads me to another question: Does lav2yuv do any postprocessing on > the MJPEG data to reduce compression artifacts? As far as I know: None whatsoever. lav2yuv's purpose in this world is to convert lav files into yuv files, nothing more.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Field order keeps changing

2004-10-29 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thursday 28 October 2004 13:29, Richard Ellis wrote: > > Although I notice today that the whole picture jumps up and down a small > > amount when played back VCR->DC10->xawtv and this vertical shaking is > > visible in the lavrec recorded avi and the encoded mpeg (on the computer > > and tv). T

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

2004-10-29 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thursday 28 October 2004 20:21, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > I make them progressive when I send them to the MPEG encoder > > With yuvdeinterlace or similar processing? If it's really interlaced > content then it won't work to simply tag it as progressive (but you > knew that

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Field order keeps changing

2004-10-29 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Friday 29 October 2004 23:34, scott wrote: > > Scott, have you tried replaying the grabbed file with lavplay and the -x > > flag? > > Just tried with and without -x on the lstest.avi file at Playing that file in slow motion, I'd have to agree with Richard: It's most likely a problem with the V

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

2004-11-07 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sunday 07 November 2004 15:40, Dik Takken wrote: > One quick way to connect tools like lavrec to a nice GUI could be to allow > lavrec to communicate to the world via shell commands. It already can, sort of. Pipes. > For example, if lavrec > would periodically execute a user-specified command

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

2004-12-16 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Monday 13 December 2004 22:32, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Dik Takken wrote: > > What I see when running 'top' is that the user CPU usage is about 90% and > > system usage 10%. This happens when I capture at 640x480 or higher > > resolution. I only get 100% perfect captures a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Colour depth, frame sizes and general comments

2005-02-10 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thursday 10 February 2005 03:19, Richard Ellis wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:32:17PM +, John Gay wrote: > > Yes, but the POV-Ray team already have their hands full creating more > > interesting rendering effects than adding support for several non-square > > pixels that would only conf

Re: [Mjpeg-users] MJPEG and Cinelerra... S.O.S !!!

2005-05-02 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:53:35 +0200 "Michael Steinhauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > did you read this page? > http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra/cinelerra.html#LOADING%20FILES > > I think,this does the trick. The original question didn't contain much information as to what work

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Strange error -- lavrec saying Not ready for capture

2005-07-25 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:37:02 -0700 "Vincent Yau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Bernhard: > > I have checked and nothing else is running or using up any > relevant port (/dev/dsp 0-4 or /dev/audio) > > Just for testing, I even purposedly played an mp3 music > and then ran fuser and it

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Strange error -- lavrec saying Not ready for capture

2005-07-25 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:55:07 +0200 Martin Samuelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any other suggestion? > > Some sound cards doesn't like using 44100 Hz sampling rate. One I have accept > it, but distort the captured sound. Does -r 48000 give better results? > &g

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

2005-08-13 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:13:25 +0200 "Ronald S. Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please report bugs on the -users lists; I'll try to prepare RPMs Mkay. Here's a curiosity: When I run lavplay with software playback, the window contain just color bars, and is not being updated. I don't know if

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

2005-08-14 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:36:03 +0200 (CEST) Dik Takken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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... Another thin

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DC10+ PVR with lavrec then lavplay General Questions

2005-08-18 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:17:31 +1200 Phil Bertram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I correct in assuming I can do all of this with ... > 2.6.x kernal, Yes. > zoran kernal drivers Yes. > and v4l kernal drivers Yes. > and, without X (xorg) ? Yes. In practice, you'd have to compile your own mj

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Matrox rainbow runner studio

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:37:34 -0700 (PDT) "Steven M. Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Still, if you're looking for something pure, cool, > > old-fashioned and flashy, so something that'll impress girls [*] as > > Hmmm, when are you supposed to have time to impress girls if you're >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools 1.8.0 released!

2005-09-19 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:38:33 -0400 "Ronald S. Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, ... > !!! mjpegtools-1.8.0 is released !!! Wohoo! /Sam --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App

[Mjpeg-users] mencoding mjpeg

2005-09-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Here's a somewhat backwards question: Is it possible to mencode an avi file that is playable through lavplay and an MJPEG card? The mencoder is MEncoder 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4, lavplay is (haven't gotten around to update yet) lavplay1.6.1.90 and the MJPEG cards are AverMedia 6 Eyes and Miro DC10+.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mencoding mjpeg

2005-09-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:45:36 +0200 Martin Samuelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg:vbitrate=500 Old command line. -oac pcm gives a file with playable sound, and vbitrate has no effect, as far as I can te

[Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools upgrade report

2005-09-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:45:36 +0200 Martin Samuelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lavplay is (haven't gotten around to update yet) lavplay1.6.1.90 Well, time to upgrade to the latest and greatest on at least one of my machines. The rpm bails out with this message: error: Faile

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools upgrade report

2005-09-25 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:32:48 -0400 "Ronald S. Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's on a fully up-do-date FC3 machine, including > > The RPM is for FC4, it was built on a FC4+updates machine. That explains that, then. Could be more visible in the rpm name, though. I guess the relevant p

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting back from DVD

2005-10-17 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:08:04 +0200 Bernhard Frühmesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 22:43 +0200, Bernhard Frühmesser wrote: > > > >>Does anybody know if it is possible to "rip" back the DVD to use it with > >>the mjpegtools (glav) et

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Creating a jpg from an avi

2005-10-26 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:12:03 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Based on the work I did last year, I issued the command > > lavtrans -o title.jpg -f i 286 ~/susan.avi Maybe lavtrans -o title.jpg -f i -i 286 ~/susan.avi would work better? /Martin -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Creating a jpg from an avi

2005-10-26 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:52:38 -0400 Richard Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look carefully at the error message. It's saying it can't find a > file named "286". Ah. Always hit "Get all" before hitting "Reply". Your answer was better than mine. /Sam -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] A bug ?

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:21:10 +1300 "E.Chalaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > perhaps you could try: > > > > cat * | yuyvto4m ... > > Well I ususally have 36000 to 5 files ... too much for "cat" to handle > therfore the need to use find ... Or perhaps not? The thing you most likely are exp

Re: [Mjpeg-users] edlist files

2005-11-04 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:52:27 +0100 Bernhard Praschinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo > > > the button "save secect" or "save all" in glav generate edit list file. > > Ok, but glav is interactive. How generate these files invoking glav > > from within a script, for example? > I ask myselv

Re: [Mjpeg-users] why edit list files

2005-11-04 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:10:25 +0100 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I'm a newbie and not well documented about the edit list file format, > only what I've read in a old message (2002-06-07) from the mjpeg-user list, > by Ronald Bultje: > > " * The format of an edit list file

Re: [Mjpeg-users] why edit list files

2005-11-05 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:35:23 +0100 Bernhard Praschinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The hardest part about creating edit lists with script is figuring out > > how many frames each file has. I cheat by having exactly 1 frames > > in all but the last file. > > With lavinfo you get the numb

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Denoising old material

2005-11-21 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:15:15 +0100 Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ( ; > yuv4mpeg> ; ... ) | mpeg2enc > How can I get rid of the headers of the individual streams? tail +2 should do the trick. You could also split every take needing different processing parameters into its own y

Re: [Mjpeg-users] I suppose, file with no avi header

2005-12-20 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:20:56 +0100 Bernhard Praschinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo > > > > I suppose, that when I pressed control+c to interrupt capturing, I > > noticed "audio task dead" message, and it may have been when it was > > with this sequence. > That should not happen. Did you

Re: [Mjpeg-users] I suppose, file with no avi header

2006-01-04 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:08:58 -0500 Richard Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, it's not that tedious, and no calculations are needed, at > least to get enough of a header to make one of the "lav" programs > (lav2yuv for example) to read the file. Then the file length longword in the heade

Re: [Mjpeg-users] [PATCH 0/7] Misc fixes and cleanups to the zr36067 drivers

2006-01-08 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:11:50 +0100 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ronald and all, > > I have been working on a few fixes and cleanups to the i2c chip drivers > used with the zr36067 driver (adv7170, adv7175, bt819, bt856, saa7110, > saa7111, saa7114 and saa7185). Judging by that lis

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Misc fixes and cleanups to the zr36067 drivers

2006-01-09 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 08:19:00 -0500 "Ronald S. Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I lost the patch and never thought of it again. Gosh, that sounds > familiar. Vaguely. :) > Anyway, just resend once in a while, I'll integrate it at some > point. The patch is just very big, so takes a while.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: [PATCH 5/7] adv7175: Drop the register cache

2006-01-12 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:02:39 -0500 "Ronald S. Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I may do that if you want, but it'll probably hurt the code readbility. > > May I ask what is wrong with using the i2c-dev driver with i2cdump for > > debugging purposes instead? > > Never heard of. ;-). Good enou

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Lavrec: No colors in captured analog videos, proposed solution does not work

2006-01-26 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:18:00 +0100 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now my problem: I cannot find the vpx3220.c file. I scanned the whole > system and found only vpx3220.ko, where I cannot insert the proposed You need the kernel source, or it will be rather difficult to patch and

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Driver-zoran 0.9.4

2006-01-27 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:56:37 +0100 Fabio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning, I tried to install driver-zoran on a Suse 8.1, but when I > typed "./update dp10" I got an error which is reported in attachment. Can > You help me? Mere mortals are not allowed to insert kernel modules. Becom

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Misc fixes and cleanups to the zr36067 drivers

2006-02-19 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 08:19:00 -0500 "Ronald S. Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I lost the patch and never thought of it again. Gosh, that sounds > familiar. Anyway, just resend once in a while, I'll integrate it at some > point. The patch is just very big, so takes a while... Consider it

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DC10+ and video out

2006-04-09 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 14:32:54 +0100 Dave Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guys. > I'm new to the list so don't shot me down if these are silly questions. Never. > I have a Pinnacle DC10+ that I am using with Mythtv to capture from my cable > box. Cool. I didn't know Mythtv did MJPEG cards

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to take a shapshot from the dc30

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:23:36 +0200 Rob van Dam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the Miro installed on my home server because I want to run a (low > traffic) weather cam. Now I trying to find out howto to grab a jpg from > /dev/video every 5 sec. The output jpg must be overwritten everytime, s

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to take a shapshot from the dc30

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:13:14 +0200 Rob van Dam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also think this is the way to go. Is it possible to pipe lavrec > directly to lavtrans? (a hint how to do this would be very much > apreciated :) ) No. In some regards, the lavtools are somewhat limited. Lavtrans, for

Re: [Mjpeg-users] jpeg 'flpbook' rather than movie?

2006-05-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:54:55 -0700 "David Strozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I really don't want a movie as much as a 'flipbook' - I just want > a program that shows the images, say a series of jpeg files, one at a > time, at a frame rate I specify, and with a nice enough UI that I can > pa

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Quicktime codecs

2006-06-02 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 15:24:26 +1200 "E.Chalaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deleting quicktime codecs You get that too? I was mystified by this message when I tried to make lav2avi.sh work with the latest mencoder, but attributed it to the somewhat less than nice way I installed the mjpegtools

Re: [Mjpeg-users] audio sync

2006-06-25 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:55:57 -0700 (PDT) "Steven M. Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Bob Stia wrote: > >> for bit"? You still rip them and recombine them right? Are you saying > >> that > > > it is the "shrink" process that screws them up? > > At least in the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting from various files to DVD files?

2006-08-22 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:32:50 + John Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this is more an mencoder question, but this list is filled with much > friendlier experts in this field than most other lists (-; We'll have to rectify that, then... :) > I've tried to figure out which fomats it li

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Image artifacts when recording with lavrec and DC10+

2006-10-11 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:23:26 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Piecka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Bernhard, > > Sorry again that I haven't gotten back to this sooner. It seems that > work severly restricts my other interests. Work has an annoying way of doing that. Personally, I think work should be ba

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Playing with buffers...

2006-10-14 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:07:39 +0200 Bernhard Praschinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The buffers are a cache for the system. Normaly lavrec can store up to > 32 buffer befor they are written to disk. If you have a "slow" disk > increasing the buffers (-n/--mjpeg-buffers) might be a good idea. You

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Very old and poor Video from VHS > improove image quality?

2006-11-03 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:15:33 +0100 stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW: I would implement a filter like this but my job > hinders me doing real work, currently... *g* An all too common situation. You can't really live with a job, but you sure as heck can't live _without_ one, either. :) /S

[Mjpeg-users] Motion vectors

2006-11-26 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Hello list! I'm pondering a little thingy, a video sequence recognizer. I've thought about looking for variations in luminance and/or chrominance in the image, but come to the conclusion that my TV providers, at least, have none or very little consistency in their settings when broadcasting the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DV analyzer tool / optimizing video rendering?

2006-11-26 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:41:35 +0100 stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am amazed. After 10 times DV re-encoding with ffmpeg, the file at a > first glance looks like it was unaltered. WOW. Looks like this is going to make all parties happy. Good. :) /Sam --

Re: [Mjpeg-users] flickering trouble - creating DVD 100$ reward

2006-12-04 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:05:49 +0100 Harm Weidmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.schenck.de/dvdimg/seq0frame0001.jpg Ah. I can tell you why you get the flickering. Nicolas might have provided you with a command line to fix it; I haven't bothered to find out exactly what it does, but it'

Re: [Mjpeg-users] problems when loading zr36067 driver

2006-12-09 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:59:22 -0500 "Ronald S. Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > one of those new Bendino's (which are sometimes > sold as DC10+). Gah. I wish they wouldn't do that! /Sam - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influen

Re: [Mjpeg-users] File size question

2007-01-06 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:22:32 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Steven. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13226045 All hail Steven! (And the person(s) that put that support into avilib for him to find, of course.) /Sam -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video source

2007-01-17 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:58:30 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to tell lavrec to look to video1 instead of video0? By running lavrec without any parameters, you can get a long list of accepted parameters. At the very end is the following: > Environment variables reco

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Request for another ML-JPEG

2007-02-10 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:28:35 -0800 (PST) "Steven M. Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just another "it's easy to make wishes" posting - at least that's how > it looks to me. No links or pointers to information about ML-JPEG, > so we're not only supposed to design/create the c

Re: [Mjpeg-users] videogrep

2007-02-13 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:45:25 -0700 "Joe Friedrichsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you considered just looking for those awful watermarks every > network overlays during broadcast? Strangely enough, those watermarks > aren't added during commercials. Makes you wonder who the networks > really

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec's output corrupted...

2007-03-18 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:38:08 +0100 Andrea Giuliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also would like any hint or link about the general issue, I mean "how > lavrec builds its own output file and how it makes them real AVI file > only when it closes them". AVI files are files containing data contai

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec's output corrupted...

2007-03-21 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:27:36 +0100 Andrea Giuliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many thanks for your hint! It was not easy, but at least I got to fix my > last, corrupted AVI file. Completely! Well done! And probably with better tools than those I used. > It took some time to tune the receipt,

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Multiple .avi files from lavrec

2007-03-26 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:29:29 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still trying to get back to the old behaviour of having the lavrec output > split into 1.7GB .avi files. I thought that filename%02d.avi was the form I > had used in the past. but that gave me filename00.avi, which

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec recordings not seekable in mplayer (raw video stream found)

2007-04-05 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:03:23 +0200 nico berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I understand, motion jpeg is I-frame only, so every frame IS a > keyframe, right? In a manner of speaking. > Hopfully someone has an idea here.. What you describe sounds like avi files with a missing index chunk. (

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec recordings not seekable in mplayer (raw video stream found)

2007-04-06 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:21:16 +0200 nico berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Always happens. Rebuilding is no option, because it takes ages and also > I will need the files for many other purpuses.. mplayer/mencoder also has the ability to add and write back that missing chunk to a broken file.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Recorded mjpeg movies in studio on win98 does not play with lavplay

2008-01-05 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:04:09 -0300 Dennis Naerebout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do have a set of recorded MJPEG files recorded 7 years ago on windows98 with > pinnacle studio and a DC10plus The files play fine with gstreamer only no > other > program seems to play them including lavplay. Ouch

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Recording from Computer to VTR?

2008-04-13 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:19:01 +0200 Bernhard Praschinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo > > > I am not sure, but i think i read somewhere that i can "copy out" record > > videos from the computer to the VTR via the Pinacle DC 10+ and > > mjpegtools? No? > With lavplay/glav, you can output t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Sound issues and other recording options ...

2008-04-29 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:44:34 +0200 Bernhard Praschinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > arecord -f cd -v -t wav test.wav > > Plays back is perfect. > > Than I would guess that it is a mixer problem with lavrec and the mixer Another thing to consider is that arecord uses the ALSA API, while lav

[Mjpeg-users] Question regarding DC10+

2008-07-01 Thread Martin Samuelsson
A while ago, I noticed that my 6Eyes card had problems when playing back video via the card itself in Fedora 9. I put together another box, containing a Buz, a 6Eyes and a DC10+, running Fedora 9. I found out that the DC10+ shared this inability to play back video, while the Buz did not. Intrigu

Re: [Mjpeg-users] [PATCH] zr36067: Load the avs6eyes chip drivers automatically

2008-07-02 Thread Martin Samuelsson
r-loading.html /Sam > * * * * * > > We do that for all other boards so why not for the avs6eyes? > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Martin Samuelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c |6 ++ > 1 file changed, 6

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DC30plus[0] no TV decoder loaded for device!

2008-07-29 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:26:37 +0100 "Jonathan Walmsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This has been doing my nut for weeks. I have a Pinnacle miroDC30+ installed > on openSUSE 11.0. Each time I attempt to use the device I get various I/O > errors. dmesg tells me that there's no TV de

Re: [Mjpeg-users] multiple dc10 cards and python module for mjpegtools

2008-08-19 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:58:16 +0200 richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using multiple (3 now) dc10plus cards for doing live video shows as I've got a Buz, a 6 Eyes and a DC10+ in mine. > So everything works fine > except for the dc10plus cards > They are not always initialized

Re: [Mjpeg-users] multiple dc10 cards and python module for mjpegtools

2008-08-19 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:14:38 +0200 Bernhard Praschinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it might have something to do with the order in which the cards are > > initialized when all cards are found first an then initialized it seems > > to work, but when a card is initialized before other cards are

Re: [Mjpeg-users] multiple dc10 cards and python module for mjpegtools

2008-08-19 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:08:31 +0200 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That is most likely the problem, yes. If you dig at the really low > > levels in the initialization routines, you'll probably find out that > > the video encoders and decoders are initialized at least nine times > > eac

Re: [Mjpeg-users] multiple dc10 cards and python module for mjpegtools

2008-08-21 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:13:46 +0200 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:29:22 +0200, richard wrote: > > you're a hero > > > > it works > > thanks, > > That's great. I would like at least one more tester (Sam?) and then I > think the patch is ready to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] multiple dc10 cards and python module for mjpegtools

2008-08-21 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:23:51 +0200 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did some quick testing. All I have to do now to get the expected > > performance from my cards (a working Buz, a mostly working DC10+ > > (the lock-up-on-play-business) and a slightly less working 6 Eyes > > (still ex

Re: [Mjpeg-users] multiple dc10 cards and python module for mjpegtools

2008-08-25 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:23:51 +0200 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:58:12 +0200, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > > Now I've done some basic checks for memory leaks, and found none. I'd > > say go for it. > > I'm going to spl

Re: [Mjpeg-users] multiple dc10 cards and python module for mjpegtools

2008-08-26 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:41:25 +0200 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:26:50 +0200, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > > I've looked through your "[PATCH 1/2] zr36067: Convert to new-style > > i2c device binding" and "[PATCH 2/2] Drop

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting the zoran driver to V4L2

2008-08-31 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:18:35 +0200 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sam, > > Is the conversion of the zoran driver from V4L1 to V4L2 part of your > plans? Apparently V4L1 will be removed from the kernel by the end of > the year, so the zoran driver needs to be converted, otherwise it

Re: [Mjpeg-users] My records with lavrec are in black & white

2008-11-03 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:37:06 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > I'm trying to record my vhs with lavrec and I can do it with this command: > > lavrec -f a -i P -R m -c 1 -q 100 -d 2 /home/m/nomefile.avi > > But my records are in black & white. Curious. >INFO: [lavrec] Input Sou

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Some noob questions...

2009-01-19 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:13:14 +0100 Marko Cebokli wrote: > Hello all, Welcome! > The tools are prefixed by lav..., yuv... and y4m I have guessed that > lav... are the things that have to do with MPEG. Is this right? It would be fairly safe to assume that the lav stuff deal with MJPEG (and

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting vnc session to a movie file.

2009-09-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:00:07 +0530 "Nagalenoj H." wrote: > > * How should I use a different codec to convert? Whether there is any > other command to use in mjpegtools? > Let me say what I'm trying to get. I need to convert a vnc session to > swf file. I don't know how to do this direct

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Maximum GOP size

2002-12-22 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sunday 22 December 2002 19:42, Matti Haveri wrote: > What is the maximum GOP size? That depends on what you mean. :) "The maximum useful" GOP size is somewhat smaller than in my GOP size experiment, where I set a GOP size of 1500. It works, the file was even smaller than it normally is, but m

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: Maximum GOP size

2002-12-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 14:26, Andrew Stevens wrote: > Hi Matti, > > > >That depends on what you mean. :) "The maximum useful" GOP size is > > > somewhat smaller than in my GOP size experiment, where I set a GOP size > > > of 1500. It works, the file was even smaller than it normally is, but >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2002-12-30 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 03:20, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At the difference in space usage, disk. I have a 5:27s clip here > > that I was testing with. It is 720x480, default lavrec jpeg quality > > (50% I think it is isn't it?). It is 917MB in siz

Re: [Mjpeg-users] any mpeg2 encoder faster than mpeg2enc?

2003-01-01 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 07:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:20:44PM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > At the difference in space usage, disk. I have a 5:27s clip here > > > that I was testing with. It is 720x480, defaul

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lav2wav from movtar file is "gurgly"

2003-01-07 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 01:30, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Hey Brian, > > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 22:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Perhaps, but a format that is readable before the file is closed would > > be ideal. > > One word: MPEG... :-(. Technically, it would be possible to use MJPEG AVI files

Re: [Mjpeg-users] seriously old dc10

2003-01-09 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Thursday 09 January 2003 14:32, Steve wrote: > Do I need a driver for the tea6415c and what does this chip doo. It seems to be a video multiplexer of some kind. Or demultiplexer. :) You most likely need a driver for it, anyway. http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/8263/2001/4/50/5464560/ Thi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] stability issues with 440BX and DC10plus?

2003-01-12 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sunday 12 January 2003 15:57, Brian Edmonds wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > BUT: once in a while, the capturing with lavrec stops (ie: timer > > stops, and after a while, I get the well-known "error syncing on a > > buffer, timer expired" message. > > I have never been able to record more

Re: [Mjpeg-users] stability issues with 440BX and DC10plus?

2003-01-12 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Monday 13 January 2003 01:28, Brian Edmonds wrote: > Martin Samuelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What does hdparm -i on the relevant disk say? ...assuming you're using > > ATA, that is... > > # hdparm -i /dev/hda > DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 u

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Questions (catching up after 1 1/2 weeks)

2003-02-07 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Friday 07 February 2003 21:10, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Although even high-quality MJPEG has some annoying noise, I don't > consider this much of a problem, the resulting MPEG never looks bad at > all here (long live denoising)... MJPEG certainly isn't perfect, but can > you really see the differe

Re: [Mjpeg-users] does glav/lavplay de-interlace? Can I prevent it?

2003-03-14 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Friday 14 March 2003 17:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am wondering if glav (or rather lavplay) applies some form of > de-interlacing algorithm before output? Can I suppress this behaviour > if it does? It does. You can. Just give -F to lavplay/glav for that genuine interlace experience. /

[Mjpeg-users] Frames

2003-03-17 Thread Martin Samuelsson
I have a little something that's designed to grab one frame from the video input and process it with ImageMagick. In order to retrieve that single frame, I currently grab one second of avi video with lavrec, the smallest amount possible to specify, and then extract one frame to a jpeg from that

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Frames

2003-03-17 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Monday 17 March 2003 22:16, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Hey Martin, > > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 20:52, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > > Is there a better way to grab just one frame? > > lavrec -f j? Ah, cool. That one's not in my man page, but I'm sure it's been adde

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Strange vertical bands with Xawtv and zoran driver

2003-03-23 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sunday 23 March 2003 16:10, Bert van Oort wrote: > I have moved the card back and did some further testing by changing card > positions, but this doesn't seem to have any effect on the bands. > However I found some other factors that influence the problem: I'd say it's interference, "noise tran

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Strange vertical bands with Xawtv and zoran driver

2003-03-23 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Sunday 23 March 2003 17:58, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Well, with current CVS of the driver, xawtv -xv (YUV overlay in current > CVS) enables the YUV scaler + overlay. xawtv -noxv (RGB overlay) still > uses overlay, which is high-throughput PCI->PCI data transfer. Does that > cause interference? (I'

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