Re: [Mjpeg-users] Without the hardware....

2004-10-26 Thread Roine Gustafsson
On Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004, at 15:15 Europe/Stockholm, Derek Fountain wrote: Just as a matter of interest, what are the principal uses, if any, of the MJPEG Tools to someone who doesn't have a supported capture card? To me, mjpegtools is a veritable swiss army knife when it comes to video process

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Achieving near-perfection with NTSC videotapes of 24fps films

2005-01-19 Thread Roine Gustafsson
On Wednesday, Jan 19, 2005, at 19:02 Europe/Stockholm, Steven Boswell II wrote: /video/DVD/URGH-A Music War (DVD,ac3,advc-colorscale-conform-kinecoF1-newd1_z1t2m30M3-med_fr1R1w8- m2e_b5055q1D10H).mpg LOL! Worst file name ever! :) Do you have a "filt" tool to demangle that? And on windows, it

Re: [Mjpeg-users] more telecine stuff

2005-01-26 Thread Roine Gustafsson
On Wednesday, Jan 26, 2005, at 06:04 Europe/Stockholm, E.Chalaron wrote: Thanks all for your advice. Will do something about parameters :-) like RTFM and behaving myself... Anyway I have another small thing here. A 400 ft reel of Super 8 comes to 28800 individual frames, which is obviously

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

2005-02-08 Thread Roine Gustafsson
On Tuesday, Feb 8, 2005, at 17:27 Europe/Stockholm, John Gay wrote: Well, I finally figured out how to get POV-Ray to output non-3:4 ratio frames, so I'm playing around with using Wide screen setting. For extra resolution, I'm generating 16:9 frames at 2048 X 1152 for scaling down. The default o

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Opteron + mjpegtools

2005-02-12 Thread Roine Gustafsson
On Feb 12, 2005, at 9:54 AM, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Howdy - On Wednesday and Thursday I put together a new dual Opteron-250 system and installed SuSE 9.2 (64bit). Uneventful install but there were a few issues with rebuilding a few apps (all but one have been reso

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Opteron + mjpegtools

2005-02-12 Thread Roine Gustafsson
On Feb 12, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Amaury Jacquot wrote: 64bit is generally slower than 32bit. The only benefit of 64bit is non-segmented addressing of several gigabytes of data. If you don't need that then 64 bit adressing is just overhead. no it's not. 64 bit on a 32 bit processor is smaller because

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Opteron + mjpegtools

2005-02-12 Thread Roine Gustafsson
A good 64bit CPU (64 bit data) in a 32 bit OS (32 bit address space) will be faster. However, I'll wager the cluster of 32bit beige boxes would be more bang for the buck than a honkin' 64 bit Bigiron UltraPower. Atleast for rendering. Weta used a cluster of 2.8Ghz Xeons, for probably very well

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Opteron + mjpegtools

2005-02-13 Thread Roine Gustafsson
On Feb 13, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that a movie media made of several layers does not have the same granularity (which does obably apply on classic still cameras as well). The blue layer seems to be made of bigger grains than other,