Re: [Mjpeg-users] glav error opening .avi file

2022-10-16 Thread Stephen Mollett via Mjpeg-users
Hi Janos, I know I'm coming into this discussion a bit late but what kind of editing do you need to do on the files? If it's just "topping and tailing" - extracting specific timed sections out of the capture files and encoding them to another file - then the way I do it is with ffmpeg using s

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Authoring problems - SOLVED

2007-04-19 Thread Stephen Mollett
On Thursday 19 Apr 2007, Anne Wilson wrote: > The only remaining problem is how to test it. Sadly, it's 4.8GB... I'll have > to try to find a way to get xine to play direct from the directory. That's the easy bit - "xine dvd://path_to/root_of/dvd_structure" Don't you just hate it when you go a te

Re: [Mjpeg-users] at + lavrec = system hangs...

2007-01-30 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi, On Monday 29 Jan 2007, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > ... I schedule the recording with "at", but... the system hangs. > ... > Well, actually it doesn't really hands: the system load becomes suddenly > so high that even killing the process is very difficult because the > terminal is incredibly slow,

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Semi-OT: camcorder + usb capture software?

2007-01-22 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi, On Monday 22 January 2007 20:00, Anne Wilson wrote: > Now I have to try to find a cable that has the mini connector at one end and > standard firewire at the other. If you've got a branch of Maplin near you, they'd have them - http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=97276 You can even c

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Semi-OT: camcorder + usb capture software?

2007-01-22 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi, On Monday 22 January 2007 15:13, Anne Wilson wrote: > My new digital camcorder uses usb2 for file transfer. I want to import the > output, then edit with mjpegtools. How can I do this? Do I need a > particular software package, intermediate hardware, or just some know-how? If it's got a Fi

Re: [Mjpeg-users] What is the real size -OT

2006-05-03 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi, On Wednesday 03 May 2006 05:28, Bob Stia wrote: > Recently ripped and shrank a DVD and rebuilt it with mplex. Final size was > 4.5GB. growisofs then complained it would not fit on the DVD+R as it had > too many "blocks". > ... > SIs the reality that I have to shoot for under 4.38GB or

Re: [Mjpeg-users] lavrec segfault with matrox driver_fb

2005-04-13 Thread Stephen Mollett
On Monday 11 Apr 2005 04:35, Mark James wrote: >> when recording ends ... lavrec dies with a segmentation fault. >> ... any attempt to capture again just hangs, unless I >> unload and reload the marvel drivers. >> kernel messages from "./iv" until lavrec crashes >> msp3400: Unknown param

[Mjpeg-users] lavrec segfault with matrox driver_fb

2005-04-11 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi, Sorry for posting to both marvel-linux and mjpeg-users lists - I'm not sure whether this is a Marvel driver issue or an mjpegtools issue. For some months, I've had an issue with lavrec on my Marvel G400 capture card. I can record successfully, but when recording ends (either by the -t optio

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Pinnacle/Miro card information

2004-06-01 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi, On Tuesday 01 June 2004 11:36, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > I am a real GNU/Linux fan, but I lost a lot of time transcoding DV into > mpeg-2. Now, it is time to invest into a hardware compression card! > 1) Stock kernel 2.6 support > Are there any mpeg-2 codec included in the stock 2.6.6 kernel?

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DVD PAL frame sizes?

2004-01-15 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi, On Thursday 15 January 2004 22:17, John Gay wrote: > ...the proper size for PAL video is 720 X 576 and NTSC is 720 X 480 > I've been creating some animations based on the 720 X 576 size, but the > images seem extremely grainy to me. You might want to create the images at a larger size then do

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DVD on CD-R?

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi, On Monday 05 January 2004 22:20, John Gay wrote: > This is probably a stupid question but, is it possible to write small DVD's > onto CD-RW's for testing purposes? > ... it might be faster for testing purposes > if I burned the DVD files to a CD to check on my DVD player... What you're descri

Re: [Mjpeg-users] From DVD dumps to YUV

2003-11-06 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi, Just to close the thread, and for the benefit of future archive searches: On Sunday 02 November 2003 23:09, Stephen Mollett wrote: >>> IIRC, you can make MPlayer read directly from a DVD image using the >>> "-dvd-device /path/to/image" option. >> Are you su

Re: [Mjpeg-users] From DVD dumps to YUV

2003-11-02 Thread Stephen Mollett
On Sunday 02 November 2003 18:57, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > IIRC, you can make MPlayer read directly from a DVD image using the > > "-dvd-device /path/to/image" option. > Are you sure that the -dvd-device option can be used to read from a DVD > dump ? From the man page it seems that it is used to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] From DVD dumps to YUV

2003-11-02 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi, On Sunday 02 November 2003 17:17, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > What is the best way to convert the DVD dump ? I can use tccat | mplayer | > yuvscaler | mpeg2enc, but using programs from 3 different projects > (transcode, mplayer and mjpegtools) seems a bit complicated to do the > simple operation

Re: [Mjpeg-users] dvd2dvd

2003-06-04 Thread Stephen Mollett
On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 20:02, Zarathustra wrote: > has anybody managed to copy a dvd onto a dvd(+r)? Try dvdbackup. I've never actually used it for making a copy of a DVD, only for caching one on the hard disk, but apparently you can burn the on-disk structure to a DVD-R(W) and get a playable di

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Disk speeds and Linux LVM (a bit OT)

2003-03-04 Thread Stephen Mollett
On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 05:58, Derek Fountain wrote: > I have two old 5GB SCSI disks which aren't fast enough to capture to. I > also have one newer 40GB IDE disk which is fast enough. Does anyone know > whether, if I put them all together as one logical device under Linux's > LVM, the resultant dis

Re: [Mjpeg-users] PAL and NTSC image sizes [was: MJPEG encoding performances]

2003-02-12 Thread Stephen Mollett
On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 14:48, Martin Collins wrote: >> That means you have to cut 8 pixels each from the left and the right >> margins before rescaling? > Actually, with the Marvel I have to cut 16 pixels from the left, > although this varies slightly with the TV channel. With lavrec I > can do t

Re: [Mjpeg-users] DivX to VCD

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Mollett
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 09:36, Jacob Visser wrote: > Im trying to convert a DivX File to VCD Iv been trying to use > mjpegstools but I dont seem to be able to... > I am hoping that MJPEGTOOLS can do it, but if they cant then can someone > please let me know what to use... Mjpegtools only handles