Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-19 Thread Greg Kilfoyle
Just an FYI... I ended up with a good quality DVD using the following encoding sequence: yuvdenoise -F stream.yuv | \ yuvfps -r 3:1001 | \ yuvscaler -O DVD | mpeg2enc -f 8 -q 5 -b 8500 -n n -I 0 -R 2 -4 2 -2 1 \ -c -K tmpgenc -o enc.m2v I've watched the whole 90 minute

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-14 Thread Greg Kilfoyle
Of couse you could use a higer (till 4) quality factor. But did the original video had 5000kBit average bitrate or maximal bitrate ? I'm not sure how to tell - I got the 5000 from dvdinfo.exe (windows program), from memory. You loose a bit quality because of the deinterlacing, but as long

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-14 Thread Greg Kilfoyle
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 13:14, Andrew Stevens wrote: The final result was a smooth flowing image (on my DVD player) with a bit less quality than the original - it's a bit blotchy in certain scenes. The original Dolby Digital (2 channel) sound was preserved. There the -q option might

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew Stevens
The final result was a smooth flowing image (on my DVD player) with a bit less quality than the original - it's a bit blotchy in certain scenes. The original Dolby Digital (2 channel) sound was preserved. There the -q option might help. If it is just certain scenes then you need to boost

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-12 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo yuvscaler -O SIZE_720x480 | \ If you create a DVD you could use -O DVD too. mpeg2enc -f 9 -q 7 -b 5000 -n n -o enc.m2v That is a combination that never works -q 1 -b 5000 In the Creating MPEG2 Videos is a subsection: Which values should be used for VBR Encoding that tells you

[Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-08 Thread Greg Kilfoyle
Hi, I live in the U.S. and received a PAL DVD from family back in Australia. I want to convert the DVD from PAL to NTSC and burn a new DVD (it's less than 4.7GB). I've played with a number of different tools including: mplayer, dvdbackup, dvdauthor, transcode, mjpegtools; but I can't find the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

2004-01-08 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo I live in the U.S. and received a PAL DVD from family back in Australia. I want to convert the DVD from PAL to NTSC and burn a new DVD (it's less than 4.7GB). Different standarts makt things really nice ;) You find a longer explanation of the things I'm talking about in the mjpeg