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

2003-12-08 Thread Al Bogner
Am Montag, 8. Dezember 2003 01:01 schrieb Steven M. Schultz: You mean, by default mpeg2enc creates fixed-size GOPs? No! mpeg2enc creates variable length GOPs by default. If you want closed ones use -c. If you want fixed size GOPs then set -g and -G to the same value (-g 15

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

2003-12-08 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Al Bogner wrote: Am Montag, 8. Dezember 2003 01:01 schrieb Steven M. Schultz: No! mpeg2enc creates variable length GOPs by default. If you want closed ones use -c. If you want fixed size GOPs then set -g and -G to the same value (-g 15 -G 15). I

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

2003-12-08 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 03:10, Al Bogner wrote: I used -g 15 -G 15 and thought this is closed GOP because -g and -G have the same size. So I have to use -c -g 15 -G 15 if I would like to cut the encoded m2v-file later? You don't need fixed GOP size (-g equal -G) to cut the file. -c should

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

2003-12-07 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 6 Dec 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: Using -g 1 might trigger hiccups on certain hardware DVD players; at least i was able to do that on a fairly new JVC XV-N55 (a very flexible I was curious about that. That would imply that some DVD players would be extremely allergic to I

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

2003-12-07 Thread Andrew Stevens
On Sunday 07 December 2003 07:36, Florin Andrei wrote: Using -g 1 might trigger hiccups on certain hardware DVD players; at least i was able to do that on a fairly new JVC XV-N55 (a very flexible beast: DVD, SVCD, JPEG, MP3...) with a DVD encoded with mjpegtools-1.6.1.92 from a DV source.

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 reasonably rate limited

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

2003-12-07 Thread Steven M. Schultz
On 7 Dec 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 11:30, an unknown sender wrote: It is actually questionable if variable GOP size helps much Huh? Unknown didn't realize that starting a scene change with an I frame is a good thing - and that's what variable gop

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

2003-12-06 Thread Florin Andrei
Using -g 1 might trigger hiccups on certain hardware DVD players; at least i was able to do that on a fairly new JVC XV-N55 (a very flexible beast: DVD, SVCD, JPEG, MP3...) with a DVD encoded with mjpegtools-1.6.1.92 from a DV source. In the beginning i used: -R 0 -g 1 -c -q 6 -4 2 -2 1 -K