Re: [Mjpeg-users] standard SVCD cannot be played

2002-12-31 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi - > From: Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Did you denoise the material first? The average bit rate shown > > No. Try it - as an experiment if nothing else. > My source is a rather cheap DV camera (Sony TRV240). On one hand, being I can go you one cheaper - I'v

Re: [Mjpeg-users] standard SVCD cannot be played

2002-12-31 Thread Florin Andrei
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 08:09, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > Did you denoise the material first? The average bit rate shown > is right up against the maximum. No. My source is a rather cheap DV camera (Sony TRV240). On one hand, being a digital camera makes it less noisy than other (an

Re: [Mjpeg-users] standard SVCD cannot be played

2002-12-31 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi - > From: Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > jitter/stuttering I had to drop the average bitrate down from > > SVCD's ~2500 to around 2100... > > Argh! > If i remember correctly, i used to encode at a smaller bitrate than > standard. Maybe it's the same thing. Yes, it could

Re: [Mjpeg-users] standard SVCD cannot be played

2002-12-30 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 21:32, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > Ah, ok - I thought I had seen programs with tons of options before > but transcode is in a class by itself ;) :-) > Possible. I have seen a player (JVC as I recall) that claimed > to support SVCDs but in order to

Re: [Mjpeg-users] standard SVCD cannot be played

2002-12-30 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi - > From: Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > transcode -i ../dv -F 4,"-a 2 -I 1 -S ${maxfs}" -b 128 -V \ > > > -g 720x480 -B 0,15,16 -x dv,avi -y mpeg2enc,mp2enc \ > > > -E 44100 -J resample -o ${name} > > > Actually, -g means the _input_ image size. I think it's redundant (my > D

Re: [Mjpeg-users] standard SVCD cannot be played

2002-12-30 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 20:56, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > > > From: Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm creating what i think are _standard_ SVCDs, that is, i'm observing > > the SVCD specifications exactly. I would expect that to be playable on > > _standard_ SVCDs are encoded (in NTSC

Re: [Mjpeg-users] standard SVCD cannot be played

2002-12-30 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi - > From: Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm creating what i think are _standard_ SVCDs, that is, i'm observing > the SVCD specifications exactly. I would expect that to be playable on _standard_ SVCDs are encoded (in NTSC countries) as 480x480 - it looks from the command

[Mjpeg-users] standard SVCD cannot be played

2002-12-30 Thread Florin Andrei
I'm creating what i think are _standard_ SVCDs, that is, i'm observing the SVCD specifications exactly. I would expect that to be playable on every DVD player that knows the SVCD standard. Well, not. A friend of mine has a Panasonic DVD player that was able to play just fine some non-standard SVCDs