Re: mjpegtools to dvdauthor (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?)

2004-08-29 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: VIDEO_TS lists as: VIDEO_TS.BUP VTS_01_0.BUP VTS_01_1.VOB VIDEO_TS.IFO VTS_01_0.IFO VTS_01_2.VOB Is this what you would expect? The two files seem to be split purely because Yes. You have the three mpg files authored as a single title so

Re: mjpegtools to dvdauthor (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?)

2004-08-28 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: Check the authoring using xine (version 0.9.2x if possible :) $ xine dvd:/$PWD/my-dvd/ (the trailing / is important) Despite the fact that xine could not play the .mpg properly it had no problems at all with this. !! Burn my-dvd.raw to a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: skip first frame, y4mcut, debian

2004-08-28 Thread Selva Nair
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [In July I asked how to skip the first frame in a yuv stream, because mplayer was putting a green frame at the beginning. I apologize to Steven Shultz and Selva Nair for not having answered earlier to their helpful messages.] On Wed, 14 Jul

Re: mjpegtools to dvdauthor (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?)

2004-08-27 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 20:52, Selva Nair wrote: For basic dvd you only need to do I'm either blind or just plain stupid. I built my-dvd.xml like this: dvdauthor dest=/Data/Movies/ Be sure

Re: mjpegtools to dvdauthor (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?)

2004-08-27 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, May be we should move this thread to dvdauthor.. No - it worked perfectly. I burned the -q 8 version and it plays on my stand-alone player. QED. Wonderful ! Now I go for the new, improved version of my production ;-) Thanks for all the help.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Interlacing question

2004-08-27 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, I can see that this is interlaced, but how do I know whether it is top- or bottom-field-first? video_inter = 1 means top-field-first, 2 for bottom-field-first. I think it is documented somewhere.. FWIW, here is a patch for lavinfo.c that replaces the interlacing and chroma numbers by

mjpegtools to dvdauthor (was Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?)

2004-08-26 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 19:10, Selva Nair wrote: The moment of truth is when it plays on your standalone dvd player. Then you will have something to tell everyone :) But I need dvdauthor for that - right? I managed it once, with a small stream

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-25 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: I took the problem to the xine mailing list, and after making the file available for download I got this reply: quote The problem is caused by the video PTS values. xine tries to predict what the correct PTS value is. Then some video frames might

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 04:16, Selva Nair wrote: Hi Anne, Hi, Selva At last I managed to reproduce your stuttering audio on another machine with the latest xine (xine-lib-1-rc5, xine-ui-0.99.2

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, Tutorial time again, though ;-) First, what do these parameters mean (it's not obvious from the man page)? - -4 2 -2 1 I dont know much about mpeg2 encoding to comment on that; I can only say that -4 and -2 takes an argument in the range 1 to 4, smaller numbers lead to a more

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: OK - I prepared a coda_q4.mpg and launched xine from a console. I saw exactly what you have both been suggesting: xine: found demuxer plugin: MPEG program stream demux plugin av_offset=0 pts spu_offset=0 pts fixing sound card drift by -1453 pts

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: I did try it in totem, but that yielded no info at all. The result was at least as bad as with xine, possibly worse. totem is just another front-end to xine that uses the same xine-library for playback, isn't it? Selva

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Out of curiosity, how did you end up with a 768x576 interlaced PAL avi? That's the square pixel PAL full frame size of course ;) 768/576 = 4/3 I know, but I avoid capture cards that generate square pixels from non-square pixel

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Selva Nair wrote: I know, but I avoid capture cards that generate square pixels from non-square pixel sources. As you know PAL or for that matter NTSC frames It's not generating square from non-square. It's

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-24 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Selva Nair wrote: Agreed, if its sampling at 14.75Mhz no scaling is needed, only a 1 pixel padding. Oops - slight misunderstanding there. For PAL if it was sampling at 13.5MHz there would be no need

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, I cant see anything obviously wrong with your mplex output. On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: I just don't get it, Selva. I've rebuilt the soundtrack then mplexed it again, and I still have stuttering sound. I'm posting the entire output of mplex, in case it gives you

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, I forgot to say that the reason I would try an SVCD was because I had tried playing the mpg back in both xine and totem with the same result. I suppose I could burn a cd with the file, but for a 2-minute test I didn't want to be bothered. Perhaps I should. Most dvd players

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 16:17, Steven M. Schultz wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: I forgot to say that the reason I would try an SVCD was because I had tried playing the mpg back in both

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, it plays. One problem, though. By now I don't have the original file, and I'm pretty confused about which of the myriad commands I've tried is the one to give me a clean, basic DVD write. Could you please remind me? Is it just lav2yuv coda.eli | yuvscaler -O DVD | yuvdenoise

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-23 Thread Selva Nair
Hi Anne, On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 Aug 2004 21:13, Steven M. Schultz wrote: If you have a system monitoring tool available it would be interesting to start that and observe the system's behaviour.

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-22 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 15:18, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: I guess you have used the -b option when you encoded the mpg movie. And you have to add that option +audio bitrate to mplex with the -r

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Too late?

2004-08-22 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, Selva. That went through without a hicough, thanks, but the soundtrack is terrible in both xine and totem. It drops out all over. Any idea what might have caused that? Could be that your sound track is sampled at 44100 but xine expects 48000

Re: [Mjpeg-users] problems with lavtrans generating bad jpegs

2003-10-02 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, M G wrote: It seems there is a problem with the jpeg headers, the original video plays fine and I get the same results for any video I try. Does anyone know what causing this? Is there any software out there that can fix jpeg headers? I'm really tearing my hair out over

Re: [Mjpeg-users] max bitrate

2003-08-15 Thread Selva Nair
On 14 Aug 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: Quoting from the HOWTO, the Creating DVD's section: The maximum bitrate is set to 7500kBps (it talks about mpeg2enc) ?? Is that true? I ran mpeg2enc with -b 9800 and it

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpeg-tools and DVDs

2003-07-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Bernhard Frühmesser wrote: Hello, Does anybody know if the programs tocgen and ifogen come with the program dvdauthor? Hi, dvdauthor is all that you need. See README in the distribution. Selva --- This SF.Net

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Hi - From: Selva Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] As the source is progressive ppm frames, better keep it that way. Use -F 24000:1001 and encode with pull down flag: Well, as it turns out it seems that the encoder is doing the right

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Hi - From: Selva Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forgot to mention that if this is meant to be 4:3 aspect, you should scale to 704x480 and then pad to 720x480. You can avoid vertical scaling using 640x480 ---(scale)-- 704x480 ---pad-- 720x480

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-11 Thread Selva Nair
Hi there, On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: If you use 24000:1001 and pulldown instead of 3:1001, the encoder will keep switching between top_field_first = true/false to generate the pulldown sequence. Now it's my turn to ask why would I want to do a pulldown when

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Hi - From: Selva Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] The general advice is to avoid vertical scaling mainly because vertical scalers should be interlacing-aware -- also for interlaced frames the and y4mscaler is, I believe, interlacing aware

Re: [Mjpeg-users] movies from PPM?

2003-06-10 Thread Selva Nair
Anyone used ppmtoy4m to create composited from PPM images (for example from a scanner/camera) for a DVD? It's working - but what I'm ending up with is 720x480 progressive and that's not, as far as I know, legal for use in making a DVD. What I'm doing so

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mjpeg_play - autogen.sh: cannot find input file:config.h.in

2003-06-07 Thread Selva Nair
autogen.sh hasn't been modified, that I can see, since February 2 of this year. I haven't run into the problem (on either my BSD systems or on SuSE 8.2) so I'm not sure why autogen.sh isn't running autoheader for some folks. Perhaps That prompted me to look why

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec and at

2003-06-05 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Dirk wrote: Well, it works. Thansk for all the tips. The problem is the batch option. For some reason -b doesn't work for me but -B and --batch do. So, there is no need for nice or changing priorities for at. The environment for at is also okay. (well, in my case). ..

Re: Fwd: Re: [Mjpeg-users] Audio sync problems

2003-06-02 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Stuart Hodges wrote: Hi, There are problems with this fix. Although with 3:1001 its watchable, the audio is off from the start. A constant delay is easy to fix: specify a sync offset using the -O or --sync-offset option of mplex. I think the value specified

Re: [Mjpeg-users] dvd with progressive_sequence set

2003-05-31 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 29 May 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I toggled the progressive sequence bit to zero on every system header and the resulting stream now plays correctly with mplayer! Haven't yet checked on the Poineer standalone. Has anyone seen this? I believe dvd is

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Audio sync problems

2003-05-30 Thread Selva Nair
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Stuart Hodges wrote: Hi, yuvfps reports: cat stream.yuv | yuvfps -v2 debout INFO: [yuvfps] yuv2fps (version 0.1) is a general frame resampling utility for yuv streams INFO: [yuvfps] (C) 2002 Alfonso Garcia-Patino Barbolani [EMAIL PROTECTED] INFO:

Re: [Mjpeg-users] XSVCD audio out-of-sync

2003-05-29 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Matti Haveri wrote: Some of my longish PAL XSVCD's audio tend to be out-of-sync. The ordinary ~2500 kb/s SVCDs and corresponding 37-45 minute 352x576 XSVCDs have been OK. But the in the few ~60 minute XSVCDs I have made the audio has been ad 1 second out-of-sync with

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Audio sync problems

2003-05-27 Thread Selva Nair
I'm trying to convert a mpg file, from GATOS, its mpeg1 video, mp2 audio in an mpg file. I extracted the tracks and reencoded like this: mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm long.mpg cat stream.yuv | mpeg2enc -I 1 -f 1 -q 9 -V 230 -P -F 7 -a 1 -o svcd_stream.m2v Unusual

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Audio sync problems

2003-05-27 Thread Selva Nair
HI, Sorry for the confused options. Its the effect of a weekend tweeking. I switched to the options I use for encoding my video camera to DVD. mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm long.mpg cat audiodump.wav | mp2enc -r 48000 -o mpegsoundfile cat stream.yuv | yuvdenoise -F -f | yuvfps -r

Re: [Mjpeg-users] mplex question

2003-04-04 Thread Selva Nair
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, richard koppenaal wrote: i have some 650 mb cds so thats why i would like to learn how to split files at 630mb thats my reason . As Bernhard wrote 650 MB CDs (ie 74 mins CDs) can take upto about 730 MB of data when burned as a vcd/svcd (MODE2_FORM2 sectors). thanks

Re: [Mjpeg-users] yuvfps and sound

2003-03-25 Thread Selva Nair
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Edouard Chalaron wrote: Hi Got a fabulous NTSC video from USA and would like to make it a PAL DV file. Acquisition is Ok, no worries, thanks to Canopus. Although I am not sure if I have to use AVI1 or 2 to use it with lav2yuv. lav2yuv needs type 2 AVI. I prefer to use

Re: [Mjpeg-users] attempting to get LVS to work...

2003-03-12 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Martin Collins wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:17:00 +0100 Bernhard Praschinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use more files running it that way: glav -p S *.avi glav -p S file1.avi file2.avi ... filex.avi But you cannot load a file edit it and than load a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] is there a way to do inverse telecine in additionto -p?

2003-03-01 Thread Selva Nair
On 1 Mar 2003, Davros wrote: Hi Selva, You've got me worried now! Just when I thought I had a handle on this process... No, my source material is not exactly 24, it's from an ntsc DVD and it's 23.9 something - i thought that the target rate to shoot for was 29.9 something as well!

Re: [Mjpeg-users] is there a way to do inverse telecine in additionto -p?

2003-02-27 Thread Selva Nair
On 27 Feb 2003, Davros wrote: Yes, that helps in a sense, though it doesn't solve my problem... if mpeg2dec spits out 24fps, then, according to the yuvkineco man page, this effectively means I cannot use yuvkeneco unless I convert to another, intermediate format or something, since it

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to extract 1 frame from MPEG file to JPEG file

2003-02-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, CAULIER Gilles wrote: I want make a preview frame for some MPEG files in a KDE application. There is some issue to extract to a JPEG file just one frame from MPEG file ? try mpeg - yuv - ppm using mpeg2dec and y4mtoppm. To give you an idea mpeg2dec -s -o YUV movie.mpg

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to extract 1 frame from MPEG file to JPEG file

2003-02-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Robert Kesterson wrote: Or you could do: mplayer -vo png -frames 1 movie.mpg to save the first frame as a png, or mplayer -vo png -ss 60 -frames 10 movie.png to seek 60 seconds into the movie, then dump 10 frames as png images. Does that really work for

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Quality from my old video camera and the -d setting

2003-02-05 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Robert Kesterson wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Selva Nair wrote: I too have often wondered about moving all my dvd tapes into DVD-R in dv format. For archiving, which medium is more reliable? DVD or tape? You're kidding, right? :) Oh, no I am not going to move my

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Mpeg field order diagnosis

2003-01-30 Thread Selva Nair
This trial and error is costing me a fortune in CDs. Please help. Use CD-RW ;) --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to use the -S option of mplex?

2003-01-06 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Gregoire Favre wrote: On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:49:12PM +0100, Andrew Stevens wrote: Sounds like your using an older version. There was a bug where the size for -f 8 was effectively hard-wired to 2GB. This is certainly fixed in the development version and I

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Transcoding/scaling from 720x480 to (S)VCD

2003-01-06 Thread Selva Nair
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, beatrice wrote: Hi all. I have a mpg file and I'd like to make a VCD (a SVCD will be ok just the same) out of it but I didn't succeed so far. The file is a MPEG1 video 720x480 NTSC 29.97 fps 3750kbps (that's what mplayer tells) I demuxed it with bbdmux, and the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Question about SVCD aspect

2003-01-06 Thread Selva Nair
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Cameron Kerr wrote: Hi all. I'm creating my first SVCD (30 minutes). After mpeg2enc (I'm following the steps in the HOWTO), I preview it with mplayer, and it shows up as a strange aspect, taller than it ought to be, and and with thick black side borders. Also, the image

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Re: too many frame drops

2002-12-11 Thread Selva Nair
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steven M. Schultz wrote: Hi! From: Matti Haveri [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Pioneer 444 PAL DVD player plays (X)SVCDs at 480x576, 352x576, 720x576 and even a VCD-like 352x288 MPEG2 with both 44.1 and 48 kHz audio from about 1455-2500 kb/s. But if I go above