[Mjpeg-users] easy DVD authoring (was: mplex split issue (not what you think!))

2003-10-24 Thread Markus Plail
On 22 Oct 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > tccat -i /dev/dvd -t dvd -P 1 -d 0 | \ > tcdemux -i blah.vob -A 0xe0,0x80,0x20 > small.vob Here's what I do: cpvts -d /dev/dvd -t 1 -n -i -s 0 -q - 2>/dev/null |\ vstrip - -i/toshiba/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO -\$0 -\!o- 0xe0 0xbd 0x80 0xbd 0x20 2>/dev/null |\

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: Multi-pass vbr enconding

2003-09-04 Thread Markus Plail
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003, Leonard Tulipan wrote: >> IMHO the main advantage with 2-pass encoding is, that you can hit a >> target bitrate quite easily without playing with -q and -b until you >> get the best possible result. >> >> For those who don't know what it does: >> SelectRangeEvery(100,10) sele

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Multi-pass vbr enconding

2003-09-03 Thread Markus Plail
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003, Leonard Tulipan wrote: > Now I was wondering how this translates to mpeg2enc CLI > parameters. Can multi-pass vbr even be done under linux? Nope, at least not yet. > If not what are the advantages of vbr anyways? You don't care about the advantages, if it's possible under li

Re: [Mjpeg-users] 2-pass mpeg2

2003-08-14 Thread Markus Plail
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: >> MPlayer does 2-pass DivX quite well, but doesn't do mpeg2, so can't >> be used for SVCD creation. > You do not need 2/n-pass encoding to get a good quality/bitrate. ... > Depending on the video you encode, n-pass encoding might not help much > to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec & 2.4.21

2003-07-05 Thread Markus Plail
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just switched to 2.4.21 but lavrec doesn't work with this kernel. It > records for 1.07 seconds and stops working. Xawtv seems to work > fine. I switched back 2.4.20 and everything works just fine. Just yesterday I recorded a >1h movie with lavrec f

Re: [Mjpeg-users] [OT] DVD Writer recommendation

2003-03-31 Thread Markus Plail
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Al Bogner wrote: >On Montag, 31. März 2003 22:05 Markus Plail wrote: > >> An alternative is the NEC 1100A, a 4x DVD+R writer. Also quite >> cheap and state-of-the-art speed. > > http://www.norskit.de/shop/shop.htm > > DVR IDE NEC ND-1100A

Re: [Mjpeg-users] [OT] DVD Writer recommendation

2003-03-31 Thread Markus Plail
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Javier Hernandez wrote: > Now cames the main doubt: Which DVD burner to buy ? > [snip] > and I think the most recommended ones are: > >Pioneer DVD-105 and Sony DRU-500A > > I would appreciate if anyone at the list have experience with DVD > burning and base on his/her ex

Re: [Mjpeg-users] archives search

2003-03-14 Thread Markus Plail
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Frank Bax wrote: > The sourceforge archives appear not to be searchable - are the > searchable archives? > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=mjpeg-users They are searchable. Have a look at the upper left, where you can normally search for "Software/Group". Th

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex error: INTERNAL ERROR: additional data

2003-02-08 Thread Markus Plail
* davros writes: >Thx, i'll give that a try. I'm going to try to re-transcode as well >using f 4, and/or inquire as to why f 5 is sent - I was wrong about >F'5' - that does in fact send f 5 to mpeg2enc - this doesn't make sense >and seems odd, but, who am i?? -F is an option to give arguments to

[Mjpeg-users] stuttering picture when using --closed-GOPs

2003-02-04 Thread Markus Plail
Hi there! When I use the -c option I get a stuttering picture, It doesn't matter whether the file is played with xine, mplayer or my stand-alone DVD player. From what I see I'd say that the picture hangs for a short while every GOP. I can upload a sample, if it is needed. Source is a DVD (MIB II)

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixed I-frame location

2003-02-02 Thread Markus Plail
* Andrew Stevens writes: >>Definitely true, but I do not author a completely new DVD, but I want >>to remux the the video together with the existing (dts/AC3) >>streams. And with a normal m2v file (produced by either TMPGEnc or >>mpeg2enc) I have stuttering sound. >Hmmm... how very peculiar. Can

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavtools/png2yuv compilation problem

2003-02-02 Thread Markus Plail
* Steven M Schultz writes: >I'm having a bit of trouble compiling the lavtools/png2yuv >program and it's a bit of a puzzle what to look at next. >If I use gcc 2.95.3 I get this: >[snip] If you are speaking about current CVS all I can say is that it compiles fine here with gcc 2.95.3. regards Mark

Re: [Mjpeg-developer] Re: [Mjpeg-users] Compiling CVS

2003-01-21 Thread Markus Plail
* Bernhard Praschinger writes: >>I don't know about "normal", but if it's any comfort, I get the same >>error. I think there's some files not checked in or something. >>(There were some very large changes recently in CVS.) >I also had some problems but a "make distclean", and running "configure"

[Mjpeg-users] [OT?] I-frame locations

2003-01-21 Thread Markus Plail
Hi there! Is there any linux software which is able to extract the I-frame locations from a VOB file? regards Markus --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoft

[Mjpeg-users] Compiling CVS

2003-01-21 Thread Markus Plail
Hi there! I can't compile CVS (head) at the moment: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I .. -I ../utils-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -c -o mpeg2enc.o `test -f 'mpeg2enc.cc' ||

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixed I-frame location

2003-01-20 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Andrew! * Andrew Stevens writes: >>What I think it means that frame #61269 has to be an I-frame, and >>there should be no other I-frame until frame #61281, which is the next >>I-frame. This seems to be needed in order to remux a MPEG2 video >>stream to a valid DVD structure and to not have sync

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Fixed I-frame location

2003-01-19 Thread Markus Plail
* Andrew Stevens writes: >On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 5:53 am, Markus Plail wrote: >>In order to be able to use 'mpeg2enc'oded streams in IfoEdit it is >>necessary to have fixed I-frame location (from what I understand). One >>can create a template for TMPEnc which look

[Mjpeg-users] Fixed I-frame location

2003-01-18 Thread Markus Plail
Hi there! In order to be able to use 'mpeg2enc'oded streams in IfoEdit it is necessary to have fixed I-frame location (from what I understand). One can create a template for TMPEnc which looks like that: ... 61269,I 61281,I 61293,I 61305,I 61317,I 61329,I 61341,I 61353,I 61365,I ... Would it be

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Prepare files for ifogen (size)?

2003-01-18 Thread Markus Plail
Hi Gregoire! * Gregoire Favre writes: >as mplex can't split files in a suitable way for ifogen, I have joined >my files, and I have lots of files bigger than 2Gb, and when I try to >create a DVD with such files: >ifogen -o /video2/tmp/VIDEO_TS/VTS --next-vts file.mpg >STAT: Picking VTS 04 >STAT

[Mjpeg-users] Size estiamtion of DVD compliant mpeg streams

2003-01-08 Thread Markus Plail
Hi there! When I re-encode a DVD to fit on a DVD-R I have the problem of finding the correct parameters for it to fit. E.g. I tried '-b 6000' with all other values left at default. What I got was about 2300kBit/s. I know I can play around with -q, but is it also possible to use constant bitrate? W

Re: [Mjpeg-users] can't mplex large files

2002-12-16 Thread Markus Plail
* Florin Andrei writes: >On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 23:54, Markus Plail wrote: >>* Florin Andrei writes: >>> [mplex trying to split a file] >> >>How about using the -S parameter? >Yes, i added -S 795 to the mplex command line, but that didn't change >anyt

Re: [Mjpeg-users] can't mplex large files

2002-12-15 Thread Markus Plail
* Florin Andrei writes: > [mplex trying to split a file] >If that's useful, here's the mpeg2enc command line i used to generate >the video stream: >mpeg2enc -v 0 -f 4 -F 4 -n n -o "cass1".m2v -a 2 -I 1 How about using the -S parameter? /-- mplex --help --- | --max-segment-size|-S size |