Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Kilfoyle
Just an FYI... I ended up with a good quality DVD using the following encoding sequence: yuvdenoise -F --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Ecli

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-15 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 13:14, Andrew Stevens wrote: > > > > The final result was a smooth flowing image (on my DVD player) with a > > > > bit less quality than the original - it's a bit blotchy in certain > > > > scenes. The original Dolby Digital (2 channel) sound was preserved. > > > > >

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-14 Thread Greg Kilfoyle
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 13:14, Andrew Stevens wrote: > > > The final result was a smooth flowing image (on my DVD player) with a > > > bit less quality than the original - it's a bit blotchy in certain > > > scenes. The original Dolby Digital (2 channel) sound was preserved. > > > > There the -q opti

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-14 Thread Greg Kilfoyle
> Of couse you could use a higer (till 4) quality factor. But did the > original video had 5000kBit average bitrate or maximal bitrate ? I'm not sure how to tell - I got the 5000 from dvdinfo.exe (windows program), from memory. > You loose a bit quality because of the deinterlacing, but as long

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew Stevens
> > The final result was a smooth flowing image (on my DVD player) with a > > bit less quality than the original - it's a bit blotchy in certain > > scenes. The original Dolby Digital (2 channel) sound was preserved. > > There the -q option might help. If it is just certain scenes then you need t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-12 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > yuvscaler -O SIZE_720x480 | \ If you create a DVD you could use -O DVD too. > mpeg2enc -f 9 -q 7 -b 5000 -n n -o enc.m2v > > That is a combination that never works "-q 1 -b 5000" > > In the" Creating MPEG2 Videos" is a subsection: "Which values should be > > used for VBR Encoding" t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-11 Thread Greg Kilfoyle
> I'd say that mplayer with the mjpegtools is a combination that works. > I've tested it with some shorter streams on my equipment at home that > can play back PAL and NTSC, and they worked well. Here's the latest sequence that I tried: # get dvd title into .vob file mplayer dvd://2 -dumpstream

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-08 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I live in the U.S. and received a PAL DVD from family back in Australia. > > I want to convert the DVD from PAL to NTSC and burn a new DVD (it's less > than 4.7GB). Different standarts makt things really nice ;) You find a longer explanation of the things I'm talking about in the "mjpeg

[Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-08 Thread Greg Kilfoyle
Hi, I live in the U.S. and received a PAL DVD from family back in Australia. I want to convert the DVD from PAL to NTSC and burn a new DVD (it's less than 4.7GB). I've played with a number of different tools including: mplayer, dvdbackup, dvdauthor, transcode, mjpegtools; but I can't find the ri