Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-20 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo Here's the command line that I used to generate the video: Drop the -b option, raise the -q to 7-8, and use the denoiser. What can I say, Berni, you da man! :-) After messing around with lots of combinations today, I finally found that my so-called high quality LaserDisc looked a

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-20 Thread Andrew Stevens
HI Robert, Now that I can actually see my video, I have a new problem -- although most of it looks wonderful, parts of it don't look all that good! There's quite a bit of fuzziness at the boundaries between black areas and light areas (i.e. I've seen it with white and pink). Depending

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-20 Thread Robert Kesterson
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: Depending on how bright your screen is, you may not be able to get rid of all the block noise in dark areas. This should actually disappear fairly shortly. I'm working on some tweeks to tbe bit-allocation that will reduce quantisation on

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-20 Thread Steven Boswell
I apologize for asking this AGAIN, but apparently I'm still missing some important detail... mplex generated one big file, and a warning that said Sequence end marker found in video stream but single-segment splitting specified! for every chapter mark. I burned it to DVD, and there were no

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:36:08AM +0100, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: Hello ;-) As I wrote in the mail shortly before you should not use the -M switch (or any other spliting by mplex). If you multiplex a DVD the -M switch was deactivated because it generated several files. The -M option does

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo As I wrote in the mail shortly before you should not use the -M switch (or any other spliting by mplex). If you multiplex a DVD the -M switch was deactivated because it generated several files. The -M option does not generate valid MPEG streams. You should use the -S -B option

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Robert Kesterson
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Steven Boswell wrote: OK, cool. mplex generated one big file, and a warning that said Sequence end marker found in video stream but single-segment splitting specified! for every chapter mark. Just a gues: Make sure you're using a command line that has a template for the

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-19 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:53:40PM +0100, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: When you encode the video you should use the -S -B option. Then mplex will split the file when multiplexing into pices with a correct start and end. As there is no -B option in the released mplex, I assume you are talking

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-18 Thread Robert Kesterson
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Steven Boswell wrote: I tried first to do all of the mastering under Linux. As far as I can tell, dvdauthor runs fine on my multiplexed audio/video files, and mkisofs builds a UDF image fine (though the instructions call for a -dvd-video switch, and that isn't

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-18 Thread Steven Boswell
Bernhard Praschinger wrote: Am I correct if I say that the HP dvd200i is a DVD+R/RW writer ? If yes read the mjpeg-howto (on SF): Section Creating DVD's. I've done so. It uses dd to write to a DVD?? WHOA :-) But it just worked; I have my first chaptered DVD-video. Thanks a bazillion!!!

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-18 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo Am I correct if I say that the HP dvd200i is a DVD+R/RW writer ? If yes read the mjpeg-howto (on SF): Section Creating DVD's. I've done so. It uses dd to write to a DVD?? WHOA :-) But it just worked; I have my first chaptered DVD-video. Thanks a bazillion!!! If you tried to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] Video-encoding questions (mostly DVD related)

2003-01-17 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo First of all, my setup. The computer is an Athlon XP 1800+ with an MSI K7T266 Pro2 motherboard (i.e. a VIA KT266A chipset) and a gig of 266 MHz DDRAM. My DVD writer is an HP dvd200i. I'm running Red Hat 7.3 and mjpegtools 1.6.0. Am I correct if I say that the HP dvd200i is a DVD+R/RW