[Mjpeg-users] frame rate conversion

2008-05-22 Thread Florin Andrei
e a smooth conversion 60 --> 59.94? Other suggestions? (the source is artificially-generated video, like capturing a screensaver or something like that, and is exactly 60fps, it cannot be adjusted at the source) -- Florin Andrei http://fl

Re: [Mjpeg-users] old issue (stuttering) with mpeg2enc, still unsolved

2008-03-13 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: > > For a number of years, I had an annoying problem with my home-made > videos: After less than a minute of playing, the image starts to > stutter. This is a bit like the stutter due to panning, only continuous > and much worse. It's like the play

Re: [Mjpeg-users] File size differs from two tools for MPEG2

2008-02-29 Thread Florin Andrei
" (well, lossy perfect), the other with just a small amount of mosquito noise. Once you're close to "perfection" you have to really crank up the bitrate to produce any kind of visible changes. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ---

Re: [Mjpeg-users] File size differs from two tools for MPEG2

2008-02-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Stan Gammons wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 14:34 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: You also need to install (under Wine) AviSynth and the Panasonic DV Codec. And the SoundOut AviSynth plugin to generate AC3. Then you can process DV AVI Type 2 files and generate m2v and ac3 files out of them, which

Re: [Mjpeg-users] File size differs from two tools for MPEG2

2008-02-29 Thread Florin Andrei
ess. Why are you using raw DV? AVI encapsulation makes DV more accessible to a larger variety of tools. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Mi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] old issue (stuttering) with mpeg2enc, still unsolved

2008-02-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: > > I'll make another DVD soon and then I'll know for sure. But the cause is > definitely one of the toolchain components, at this moment it's likely > mpeg2enc. Found the DV master files for an older DVD and re-converted it using HCenc. No stu

Re: [Mjpeg-users] old issue (stuttering) with mpeg2enc, still unsolved

2008-02-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Did you check the bitrates of the resulting mpeg files? I verified the bitrates with mplex on almost all DVDs. I verified some of them on the DVD player, which can optionally display live information about the video stream. Everything looks fine. I'm not sure what else I can do. -- Flor

[Mjpeg-users] old issue (stuttering) with mpeg2enc, still unsolved

2008-02-21 Thread Florin Andrei
e cause is definitely one of the toolchain components, at this moment it's likely mpeg2enc. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microso

Re: [Mjpeg-users] workaround (PPC) for mpeg2enc's buggyness

2008-01-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Mark Heath wrote: > > On 23/01/2008, at 5:16 AM, Florin Andrei wrote: > >> Mark Heath wrote: >>> Anyway I've been using the mpeg2 encoder in ffmpeg and have been >>> happy with the results. >> I asked recently on their mailing list if they solved

Re: [Mjpeg-users] workaround (PPC) for mpeg2enc's buggyness

2008-01-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Mark Heath wrote: > > Anyway I've been using the mpeg2 encoder in ffmpeg and have been > happy with the results. I asked recently on their mailing list if they solved the rate control issues and they said no. Kind of a big issue if the target media is DVD. -- Flori

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 1.9.0-RC3 mpeg2enc - extensive rate control tests, possible issue?

2007-12-26 Thread Florin Andrei
lease will wait for soure. Cool. I'll test the next release candidate when it becomes available. Meanwhile, I went back to 1.9.0-RC2 which appears to work fine for me with "-q 5 -K tmpgenc" -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 1.9.0-RC3 mpeg2enc - extensive rate control tests, possible issue?

2007-12-17 Thread Florin Andrei
with crappy DVD players and I want to avoid that if possible. After all, the reason why I've been using mjpegtools and not ffmpeg to generate the MPEG2 tracks for quite a few years now is rate control. Well, last time I checked the image quality was better too, so I&#x

[Mjpeg-users] 1.9.0-RC3 mpeg2enc - extensive rate control tests, possible issue?

2007-12-16 Thread Florin Andrei
the bottom gets up to 9200k bitrate. I can provide a sample of one of the DV input files, but only by request and only to the developers - I won't post the URL to the mailing list because even a short sample can be pretty big. -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-12 Thread Florin Andrei
is: mpeg2enc -v 0 -I 1 -f 8 -b 8000 -F 4 -n n -a 3 -o file.m2v -c -q 5 -4 1 -2 1 -s -D 10 -K kvcd -R 2 -M 2 I only modify -q in these tests. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-12 Thread Florin Andrei
max on one file, and it's otherwise around 8000, plus or minus a few hundred, on all other files. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It&

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-12 Thread Florin Andrei
5.6. So, in essence, when upgrading from RC2 to RC3, one should just use higher values for -q, is that right? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marke

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-11 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: > > I'm re-runing the whole thing with -q 7 Much better with -q 7 but it still exceeds the limit of 8000 on a few occasions. It doesn't seem like rate control is much better, or perhaps I'm mistaken. It does seem like it requires larger values for

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-11 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: > Bernhard Praschinger wrote: >> I have made the mjpegtools 1.9.0 RC3 and put it online. >> The main fix is that the rate control is not broken any more. > > I am getting insane average and peak bitrates with RC3 when transcoding > DV material to DVD

Re: [Mjpeg-users] RC3 aviable

2007-12-11 Thread Florin Andrei
hoot, and the average is fairly low, perhaps half the peak, depending on the file. I will try again with a higher -q, but RC3 seems to behave very different from older versions, while RC2 is more similar to the old behavior. -- Florin Andrei http://f

Re: [Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: > I can probably test it also on Ubuntu 7.10, I'll see what I can do about > that. CVS compiles fine on 7.10 if I use the same -lX11 patch. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
the same cheap digital camera. It's pretty hard to distinguish between the custom matrix and tmpgenc. They pretty much look the same to me. Both are clearly better than the default and the hi-res matrices, which have massive (by comparison) artifacts and blockiness. -- Florin And

[Mjpeg-users] rate control issues with current CVS?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
k bit-rate: 10186000 bits/sec This is not mplex having hallucinations, the file sizes really are very different. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through lo

Re: [Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
s, yeah, I had 1.9.0-rc2 installed in /opt and it was in PATH and in the /etc/ld.so.conf* Moved it out of the way and today's CVS compiles just fine. Sorry for the false alarm. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
x27;s Ubuntu 7.04 with the Ubuntu Studio packages installed (plus a bunch of multimedia-related libs and apps), but I'll be happy to be a crash test dummy every once in a while. I can probably test it also on Ubuntu 7.10, I'll see what I can do about that. Thanks, -- Florin And

Re: [Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
-20071106/lavtools' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/florin/work/mjpeg_play-cvs-20071106' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net ema

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
I set the max bitrate to 8000 to avoid spikes, but I assume 2-pass will be much better and presumably the max bitrate could be set pretty close to the maximum allowed by the DVD standard. Right? This will be a very good feature when it gets released. -- Florin Andre

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
ith 1.9.0-rc? Is 2-pass already documented somewhere? (for users, not for programmers) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find pro

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc is feeling better

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
tion/support to do a proper hand over. So far > no interest. Hopefully (I work from home nowadays) I'll have a bit more time > this winter and push mpeg2enc forward again! I get it. Not enough people contributing to the project. It's a very nice app

[Mjpeg-users] hi-res matrix - not the best image quality?

2007-11-05 Thread Florin Andrei
6 24,25,26,29,29,31,34,38 25,26,28,29,31,34,38,42 # TMPEGEnc NON-INTRA table 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24 18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25 19,20,21,22,23,24,26,27 20,21,22,23,25,26,27,28 21,22,23,24,26,27,28,30 22,23,24,26,27,28,30,31 23,24,25,27,28,30,31,33 -- Florin Andre

[Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2007-11-05 Thread Florin Andrei
-A|--ratecontroller What's the difference between 0 and 1? Ever played with larger values for -r when the source is a fairly good (new) DV camcorder? Worth bumping it up? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc is feeling better

2007-11-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Florin Andrei wrote: > >> I said this before - you guys should make releases way more often. Very > > Of what? Broken software? No sense doing a release for the last > year or whatever since it was broken. And

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc is feeling better

2007-11-05 Thread Florin Andrei
on corrupted video. > > So, do a 'cvs update', rebuild and commence testing. I said this before - you guys should make releases way more often. Very few people are going to track the CVS. BTW, if I'm using 1.8.0 (default on Ubuntu), what do I get if I upgrade

[Mjpeg-users] state of the HD Linux "union" ?

2007-08-10 Thread Florin Andrei
ameras are usable as an HD source for Linux? Not just with dvgrab, but in general. What are the HD formats that can be used on Linux? What are the options for editing? (Cinelerra? Jahshaka?) Authoring? Burning HD disks? -- Florin Andrei http://flori

[Mjpeg-users] is a 64 bit OS "better" for mpeg2enc?

2007-04-30 Thread Florin Andrei
e any difference, in terms of encoding speed, if I use the 64 bit OS instead of 32 bit. Otherwise I don't care much for 64 bit, and actually a lot of multimedia stuff (Flash, playing proprietary codecs, etc.) is much easier on 32 bit. -- Florin Andrei http://flori

[Mjpeg-users] GPU acceleration

2006-10-02 Thread Florin Andrei
th most quality settings turned all the way up and stuff like that). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

[Mjpeg-users] force mplex

2006-08-26 Thread Florin Andrei
, to look a bit more back and forth and catch again the frames chain? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Digital Video to DVD conversion tools

2006-04-06 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:38 -0700, Roman Shaposhnick wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:59:31PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > > http://florin.myip.org/soft/conv-dvd/ > > It seems that you use transcode for decoding DV. Also I think > that transcode still uses

[Mjpeg-users] Digital Video to DVD conversion tools

2006-04-06 Thread Florin Andrei
Based on mpeg2enc: http://florin.myip.org/soft/conv-dvd/ Feel free to use them. Comments are welcome. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Yuvtools

2006-03-07 Thread Florin Andrei
tion interpolation. It would be great to include that in mjpegtools. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media.

[Mjpeg-users] article: Video compression artifacts and MPEG noise reduction

2006-02-27 Thread Florin Andrei
http://www.videsignline.com/howto/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180207350 Nice introduction to the concept of compression artifacts. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking

[Mjpeg-users] generate static video stream

2006-01-27 Thread Florin Andrei
I want to generate a static MPEG2 video stream that's compatible with the DVD specifications (either NTSC or PAL). I can deal with the MPEG2 and DVD part, I just don't know how to generate a YUV that has the same image repeated over and over. -- Florin Andrei http://flori

Re: [Mjpeg-users] The best quality OSS mpeg2 encoder?

2005-09-09 Thread Florin Andrei
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 15:12 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > achieve its means. At least that was the intent of the original author, > Thomas Ostreich, and it's "lieutenant" (and successor to maintainership) > Tilmann Bitterberg. "his" not "it

Re: [Mjpeg-users] The best quality OSS mpeg2 encoder?

2005-09-09 Thread Florin Andrei
g DV (digital camcorder) to DVD, focused on image quality and standards compliance: http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode?DVtoDVD Scroll half-way down until you find my HOWTO on that page. It's not "very out of date", it's still pretty usable. Only the conv-dvd file needs

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Release Time?

2005-09-08 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 23:24 -0700, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Florin Andrei wrote: > > But some older mjpegtools versions never had this issue, even at 8500, > > No, they had the problem. I recall various postings with "8500" and > the advi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Release Time?

2005-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
t users use packages, but package repositories only follow "stable" releases (rpm.livna.org is an exception since it also tracks release candidates), so they still use buggy software. Plus, sparse releases means low feedback for the developers. Everybody loses. Too bad, since it'

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: Release Time?

2005-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
> ffmpeg? Nope. Plain old digital camcorder, captured via dvgrab. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lif

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Release Time?

2005-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 19:39 -0700, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > FWIW, I was thinking to try out rc3 with: > > Where have you been for the last several months? ;) Dividing my time between a million things I _must_ do. Playi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Release Time?

2005-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:20 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > FWIW, I was thinking to try out rc3 with: > - Fedora 4 > - gcc-4.0.1 > - transcode-1.0 > - reasonable settings for DV-to-DVD conversion Actually, I'm concerned with an issue that I've seen before with MPEG2 stream

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Release Time?

2005-09-07 Thread Florin Andrei
#x27;ll be able to provide feed-back in a couple days. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools on irix

2005-08-20 Thread Florin Andrei
mplete collection of software building tools here... http://freeware.sgi.com/ ...including gcc and gmake. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22,

[Mjpeg-users] unicap

2005-08-18 Thread Florin Andrei
, and video-to-firewire converters, and provides GTK widgets for live video display and access to device properties. (I'm not afiliated, just saw it on Freshmeat today) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsor

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: BUG - audio/video alignment issue

2005-03-25 Thread Florin Andrei
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 08:53 -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > It seems like mplex can only handle differences up to a certain value > > (around 200ms or so), after which it will not create a correct file. Yet... > > I think

[Mjpeg-users] Re: BUG - audio/video alignment issue

2005-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:19 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 23:17 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > Find a DVD where the PTS difference between video and audio is larger > > than 200ms. Then go through the steps above. > > The result will be a DVD wit

[Mjpeg-users] Re: BUG - audio/video alignment issue

2005-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 23:17 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > Find a DVD where the PTS difference between video and audio is larger > than 200ms. Then go through the steps above. > The result will be a DVD with video and audio not in sync! Weird: tcprobe will report the same PTS differen

[Mjpeg-users] BUG - audio/video alignment issue

2005-03-23 Thread Florin Andrei
author -o ${proj} -c `cat chapters.txt` ${proj}.vob dvdauthor -T -o ${proj} Now here is the actual problem: Find a DVD where the PTS difference between video and audio is larger than 200ms. Then go through the steps above. The result will be a DVD with video and audio not in sync! For PTS diffe

Re: [Mjpeg-users] generating HDTV

2005-01-02 Thread Florin Andrei
ve displays (plasma, LCD, DLP) are on the rise at the expense of the 1080i native ones (CRT), one would expect the stations to start broadcasting more using 720p. Anyway, i'm wandering off topic... -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

Re: [Mjpeg-users] problems with 1.6.2

2004-10-12 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 14:39, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Florin Andrei wrote: > > It's not easy to test other players. > > Depends where you live I guess. It's been trivial to take a couple > test DVDs to the local Circuit City (or Best Buy or w

Re: [Mjpeg-users] problems with 1.6.2

2004-10-12 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 23:13, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 00:59, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > > > Have you tired it using a std quantisation matrix ? > > I am encoding with the tmpgenc matrix right now and i will report the > results. > mpeg2enc -v 0 -I

Re: [Mjpeg-users] problems with 1.6.2

2004-10-10 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 09:18, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Florin Andrei wrote: > > Neither. I upgraded to 1.6.2 when it was released, and the player is a > > bit over one year old already. > > Ah, so you haven't created very many (any) DVDs since goi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] problems with 1.6.2

2004-10-10 Thread Florin Andrei
sual, all software players are playing those DVDs just fine. > Has you mp2 audio really 48kHz sampline rate. I can't tell from what you > wrote here: > # MP2 sound > # -y mpeg2enc,mp2enc -b 224 -m $out \ > The sampling rate of 44.1kHz is not liked by my player. It certain

Re: [Mjpeg-users] maximum rate issue

2004-05-02 Thread Florin Andrei
or me, the pre (or beta) releases before 1.6.2 worked very well at 8500 kbps. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g.

[Mjpeg-users] maximum rate issue

2004-04-29 Thread Florin Andrei
e the rate control got worse in 1.6.2 The source is always an amateur-grade DV camcorder. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market...

Re: [Mjpeg-users] fixing AC3 stream?

2004-03-18 Thread Florin Andrei
am (possibly by replacing the damaged > parts with silence or clicks&noise) ? a52dec decodes it w/o problems, so > the error in the file seems to be minor. I got this problem once. The AC3 stream seemed otherwise valid (it was extracted from a DVD), but mplex didn't accept it

[Mjpeg-users] RE: [Dvdauthor-users] obtaining maximum player compatibility

2004-03-18 Thread Florin Andrei
nyway. But now i use AC3 and the point became moot. > Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/docs/DV-to-DVD-HOWTO.txt -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This S

[Mjpeg-users] Re: [Dvdauthor-users] obtaining maximum player compatibility

2004-03-18 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 01:14, Maarten de Boer wrote: > Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/docs/DV-to-DVD-HOWTO.txt > > > > It describes a method slightly different than yours, but it has some > > comments on

[Mjpeg-users] Re: [Dvdauthor-users] obtaining maximum player compatibility

2004-03-17 Thread Florin Andrei
t than yours, but it has some comments on what are the do's and don'ts of DVD player compatibility. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented b

[Mjpeg-users] DV-to-DVD, AC3 and A/V sync - bugfix

2004-01-19 Thread Florin Andrei
the screen for like 0.3 seconds and there's no sound for the duration). As for a software player, i tested with xine and there's no pause. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools 1.6.2-RC4 available!

2004-01-16 Thread Florin Andrei
quot; but i was able to multiplex AC3 with it correctly, so why it's a bug? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the brea

[Mjpeg-users] Re: [Mjpeg-developer] Re: [Dvdauthor-users] mpeg2desc -m is outputing 3 second delay

2004-01-05 Thread Florin Andrei
*) frame rate: -f 23.976 [25.000] frc=1 (*) PTS=0.1792, frame_time=41 ms, bitrate=8500 kbps audio track: -a 0 [0] -e 48000,16,2 [48000,16,2] -n 0x50 [0x2000] (*) PTS=1.0792, bitrate=224 kbps -D -21 --av_fine_ms -24 (frames & ms

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 1.6.2 on gcc 2.96?

2004-01-05 Thread Florin Andrei
o problems whatsoever. The mplayer gang are clever people, but they often get too religious. So, anyone still running RH7.x should have a fixed gcc by now. In any case, those should be rare instances, as the vast majority of RH users have migrated at least to RH9 by now, so they should be using at

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex not recognizing mpeg1 from mencoder

2004-01-04 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 17:23, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 4 Jan 2004, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > MPEG2 without B frames makes some DVD players choke. The default > > What player is so braindamaged and standards non-compliant as to > choke on an *optional* part of the MPEG

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools 1.6.2 release candidate 3 online

2004-01-04 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 18:03, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 29 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > In file included from export_yuv4mpeg.c:42: > > /usr/include/mjpegtools/yuv4mpeg.h:29:25: mjpeg_types.h: No such file or > > directory > > /usr/include/mjpegtools/yuv

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex not recognizing mpeg1 from mencoder

2004-01-04 Thread Florin Andrei
quot;safe" and should not generate streams that might not work. What would be the new -R setting to imitate the old behaviour? Would it be "-R 2"? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsore

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

2003-12-19 Thread Florin Andrei
uot;scene" i mean the interval between two Stops or Pauses when recording the movie with the camcorder. I use that thing as some sort of sui-generis video unit, because when i author my DVDs quite often i put each scene into its own chapter on the DVD. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.

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

2003-12-19 Thread Florin Andrei
s) (and the > rate control is, well, almost non existent - ~2x spikes that'd drive > a hardware player nuts). Any chance repeating that on an Intel or AMD processor? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.n

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Optimizing the stream

2003-12-09 Thread Florin Andrei
my default matrix :-) for use with material shot on amateur-grade digital camcorders. It's pretty amazing - almost all the quality of hi-res but without the piggish bandwidth requirements. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -g 1 and hardware DVD players

2003-12-08 Thread Florin Andrei
(-g equal -G) to cut the file. -c should suffice. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tut

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -g 1 and hardware DVD players

2003-12-07 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 11:30, an unknown sender wrote: > On Sunday 07 December 2003 07:36, Florin Andrei wrote: > > Using -g 1 might trigger hiccups on certain hardware DVD players > > Just to note that there is actually no real purpose to setting -g 1 for DVD or > other reaso

[Mjpeg-users] -g 1 and hardware DVD players

2003-12-06 Thread Florin Andrei
ot; and it continued to be fine. I didn't try to add just "-g 1" but it looks kinda pointless. Results seem to stay the same with different matrices, with adding -N and/or -E, etc. Of course, i didn't test quite _every_ combination. -

Re: [Mjpeg-users] average higher than max

2003-12-01 Thread Florin Andrei
t other than that, and if the peak is below the max value specified by the DVD standards, it should be ok on standalone DVD players, right? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program

[Mjpeg-users] average higher than max

2003-12-01 Thread Florin Andrei
V/AVI file? By the looks of it, the high-motion scenes are quite a while after the start. Is it likely that i'll run into trouble with a "average higher than max" DVD played on set-top boxes? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Update on: mpeg2enc current cvs segfault ?

2003-11-30 Thread Florin Andrei
O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686"? > be to adjust the return value of posix_memalign(). The long term > fix is to upgrade glibc of course ;) Well, mine is glibc-2.3.2 which is pretty new, and mplex -O still fails. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ---

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: mjpegtools 1.6.2 release candidate 3 online

2003-11-30 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 01:19, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > From: Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > mplex -O is still broken. > > Seems to work for me. > mplex -f 8 -O -500 -o foo.mpg foo.m2v foo.mp2 > And using mplayer to view the movie showed the expect

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools 1.6.2 release candidate 3 online

2003-11-29 Thread Florin Andrei
parse error before "level" make[2]: *** [export_yuv4mpeg.lo] Error 1 In yuv4mpeg.h there are these two lines: #include #include I replaced them with these: #include "mjpeg_types.h" #include "mjpeg_logging.h" And now everything compiles just

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools 1.6.2 release candidate 3 online

2003-11-29 Thread Florin Andrei
doesn't work :-) only recently i've heard that some people are actually using it. I'm using Red Hat 9 (and RH 8 a while ago), if that's any clue. I'm willing to run various tests to help you squish the bug. Just let me know what to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools 1.6.2 release candidate 3 online

2003-11-28 Thread Florin Andrei
from all installed header files > * long command-line options now work for mplex > * typo fixes One more typo fix (see attach). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- mpeg2enc.1.old 2003-11-28 12:06:31.0 -0800 +++ mpeg2enc.1 2003-11-28 12:07:01.0 -0800 @@ -500,

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -H and -E

2003-11-28 Thread Florin Andrei
budget... ;) Well, i just realised i might still want to cram 2 hours on a single DVD. With -g 1 -G 1 that might not be possible anymore. (well, i'll try) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored b

Re: [Mjpeg-users] -H and -E

2003-11-27 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:04, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > Is there any conflict if i use -H and -E simultaneously? > > No conflict at all. -E processing is done after the quantization > tables have been used. Ah, ok. So, since

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 08:11, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > mplex -h does not work according to manual. Instead of activating the > > --keep-hf, it prints the usage help. :-) > > mplex has no --keep-hf option. > mpeg2enc has a -H opt

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 08:43, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 26 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > But most of the professional DVDs i've seen are at or around 9800 kb/s > > Not really. Or rather how are you determining that? By taking > the .m2v streamsize i

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 23:35, Florin Andrei wrote: > Whenever that makes sense (such as what are default values, etc.), > please add the answers to these questions (if any) to the mpeg2enc man > page. Thank you. Actually, it would be great if the man page would specify all defau

[Mjpeg-users] -H and -E

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
I'm not sure i understand how -E works, so... Is there any conflict if i use -H and -E simultaneously? If not, does it make sense from a logical p.o.v. to use them both? Does -H override -K, or the other way 'round? -- Florin Andrei http://flori

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 01:52, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:28, Ronald Bultje wrote: > > > > As of today, release candidate 2 of mjpegtools-1.6.2 (official version: > > 1.6.1.91) is available on your local sourceforge mirror. For URLs, see > > mplex -h

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
rints the usage help. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and hel

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 00:15, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 25 Nov 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > Is it a good choice to use -g 6 -G 18? > > Any possible side-effects of doing that? > > In general, when would you recommend to tweak -g -G? > > High motion videos mi

[Mjpeg-users] mpeg2enc options

2003-11-26 Thread Florin Andrei
c.), please add the answers to these questions (if any) to the mpeg2enc man page. Thank you. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more produc

[Mjpeg-users] feature request

2003-11-25 Thread Florin Andrei
uted to do so many operations for something that should be as simple as: mplex -f 8 -S 4400 ${proj}.m2v ${proj}.ac3 ${proj}.sub \ -o ${proj}.vob -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback P

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpegtools-1.6.2 release candidate 2

2003-11-25 Thread Florin Andrei
ueried in different ways: [EMAIL PROTECTED] stnem]$ mplex mjpegtools mplex-2 version 1.6.1.91 Usage: mplex [params] -o ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] stnem]$ mplex -f 8 -S 4400 ${proj}.m2v ${proj}.ac3 -o ${proj}.vob INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.2 ($Date: 2003/05/13 20:27:15 $) -- Florin And

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Bug: mplex --vbr doesnt work

2003-11-25 Thread Florin Andrei
s ago in CVS. Did it make it to the 1.6.1.91? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHA

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex -O

2003-11-24 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 23:30, Andrew Stevens wrote: > On Monday 24 November 2003 06:06, Florin Andrei wrote: > > mplex -f 8 -S 150 -O 500 ${proj}.m2v ${proj}.ac3 -o 1.vob > > mplex -f 8 -S 150 -O -500 ${proj}.m2v ${proj}.ac3 -o 2.vob > > Then i compare the sync info on t

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