Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Andrew Stevens
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 23:35, Richard Ellis wrote: Hi Richard, In that case it will kill the majority of the performance benifit provided by the caches, because there's very little locality of reference for the cache to compensate for. It moves through at least 512k for pass one, then

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Trent Piepho
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: The next bottlenecks would be the run-length coding and the use of variance instead of SAD in motion compensation mode and DCT mode selection. Sadly Is SAD really any faster to calculate than variance? SAD uses an absolute value-add operation while

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Trent Piepho
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Trent Piepho wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: Is SAD really any faster to calculate than variance? SAD uses an absolute value-add operation while variance is multiply-add. Multiply-add is usually

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Richard Ellis
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:34:38AM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: The next bottlenecks would be the run-length coding and the use of variance instead of SAD in motion compensation mode and DCT mode selection. Sadly Is SAD really any faster to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -M 2/3 on SMP is slower than -M 0

2003-12-19 Thread Florin Andrei
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 01:49, Steven M. Schultz wrote: At any rate I checked out ffmpeg's mpeg2 encoding vs mpeg2enc on my G4 Powerbook. Yes, ffmpeg has a big speed advantage (~2x) but the resulting output is 'grainy' (same bitrate, no B frames) (and the rate control

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 20:23, Steven M. Schultz wrote: You can set the bitrate to 9000 kbits/sec but with a high '-q' the encoder will only use a fraction of the maximum bitrate. Lower -q and watch the encoder come closer to the maximum rate. You set the maximum bitrate and then adjust -q so

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 19 Dec 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: You mean that for whole movies ( 1 hour) or for smaller scenes? For the movie as a whole. Shorter scenes will, as you have seen, run up against the limit and there's nothing wrong about that. The guidline often is given as 20% but

[Mjpeg-users] Tool for joining MP2 files ?

2003-12-19 Thread romildo
Hello. I am making a SVCD where the MP2 audio is encoded from two different sources (one AC3 file and one OGG file). How can I join the MP2 segments into a unique file for multiplexing with the MPEG2 video stream? Regards. Romildo --- This

[Mjpeg-users] Dropouts every 3-8 seconds

2003-12-19 Thread Al Bogner
I have a Grundig GDV-130 (a TYT / Scan 2000 clone) with DVD-Loader version A700AC08 (Raymedia RL-A700 with FW AC08). Till now I only found brands (Sony DVD-R, Verbatim DVD+R from MMC) which can be read by the Raymedia-drive. Unfortunately there are every 3-8 seconds dropouts with the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread mjpeg
From Steven M. Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 18 Dec 2003: You set the maximum bitrate and then adjust -q so that the Average is ~10% lower than the Peak rate. Ok. I noticed that for some chapters on the DVD, the average bitrate reported by mplex was almost 50% of the max bitrate!

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I noticed that for some chapters on the DVD, the average bitrate reported by mplex was almost 50% of the max bitrate! What does this mean? Ah, I see my posting made it out - I never saw it come around. After discarding 80 to 90%

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Filesize/bitrate vs. quality

2003-12-19 Thread Matto Marjanovic
[a footnote:] ... This particular movie is black and white so the chroma is killed with 'y4mshift -M' (sets U and V to 128). ... mpeg2dec -s -o pgmpipe foo.vob | \ pgmtoy4m -i t -a 10:11 -r 3:1001 | \ y4mshift -M | \ y4mscaler -v 0 -S option=sinc:8 -O

[Mjpeg-users] glav error: Error mapping audio buffer

2003-12-19 Thread Sascha Hlawacz
glav won't seem to load for me. If I try, for example: glav recorded-clip.avi I get this: ++: **ERROR: [lavplay] Error initializing Audio: Audio task died. Reason: Error mapping audio buffer - Input/output error ++: lavtools version 1.6.1 When I record, I must select the 'read', rather than

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Tool for joining MP2 files ?

2003-12-19 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo I am making a SVCD where the MP2 audio is encoded from two different sources (one AC3 file and one OGG file). How can I join the MP2 segments into a unique file for multiplexing with the MPEG2 video stream? I do not know if there ist a tool. Each file has a header and a end. So you woud

Re: [Mjpeg-users] glav error: Error mapping audio buffer

2003-12-19 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo glav won't seem to load for me. If I try, for example: glav recorded-clip.avi I get this: ++: **ERROR: [lavplay] Error initializing Audio: Audio task died. Reason: Error mapping audio buffer - Input/output error ++: lavtools version 1.6.1 When I record, I must select the