BTW, not really a BLFS issue, but just to share another ffmpeg tip that might help someone here out - if after recoding a video stream (usually from a "broadcast" source) to (another) DVD compliant format, you find that it seems strangely "choppy" around moving objects - looks like a strange type of "diagonal comb line" distortion, (it is not affected/improved by higher bitrates), visible on both software and hardware players, try the ffmpeg -deinterlace flag to turn off interlacing:
ffmpeg -i in.mpg -target ntsc-dvd -deinterlace -sameq -s 720x480 -ab 256k -me_range 64 out.mpg The -s 720x480 -ab 256k are specific to the case at hand, and the -me_range 64 (can go up to 128 if want) helps with standards compliance to allow playing on some very picky Pioneer players (e.g., DV-545, DV-656A), or so they say as I don't own those models. Cheers, Mike -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
