Bernhard, Your advice was dead on. Increasing the bit rate to a (much) higher value cleaned things up. Thanks very much for your help.
Jon > Hallo > > > I am getting "blocky" poor quality output from mpeg2enc no matter what > > switches I try and use to improve matters. It appears as if my color > > pixels are really big. I have tried encoding to both mpeg1 and mpeg2 > > with the same results. > > > > My source is DV from a Sony Camcorder that has been captured using > > dvgrab. I have viewed both the raw avi output, and the lav2yuv > > trancoded input I am giving mpeg2enc, and both look very good. > Have you take a look at the mjpegpeg howto ? > > Which commands do you use for encoding ? > > > I am using version 1.6.1 of the mjpeg tools under Linux. > > I have a sample of the output at: > > http://stahl.dynu.com/babies/video/tape001.mpg > You use very likely a too small video bitrate. > 1MBit at VCD size is not much. > It you only want a MPEG1 use: someting like: ... | mpeg2enc -b 2000 -q 9 > ..... > > You have a lot of motion in the video, and that motion (of the water) > needs bandwith. > > auf hoffentlich bald, > > Berni the Chaos of Woodquarter > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gz/bernhard ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: A Thawte Code Signing Certificate is essential in establishing user confidence by providing assurance of authenticity and code integrity. Download our Free Code Signing guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0028en _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
