[MPlayer-users] mjpeg and mencoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:16:12AM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > > - capture from analog TV/sat but using some noise removal filters at
> > >   capturing time, then lossless compression will go better.
> > > 
> > > for example -vop pp=dn:c:64:128:256 is a good start, but we definitly need
> > > a better, pre-pixel noise filter, with motion compensation etc.
> > 
> > :))
> > 
> > > > Why?  Because I can't do live TV capture unless I use mjpeg.  DIVX is just
> > > > too slow ;(  There are some things I want captured at 640x480 instead of
> > > > 320x240 or what not :/
> > > you shouldn't capture at 640x480...
> > > and for any Y res >288 you should do deinterlacing too.
> > 
> > 240 for NTSC. And I think he's trying to preserve the interlacing to
> > encode to SVCD, so deinterlacing would just reduce quality.
> 
> ah.
> but ffmpeg's mjpeg codec doesn't supports interlacing (per-field coding) afaik.

But ffmpeg's mpeg4 supports interlaced DCT, which would help a good
bit in intra-only mode.

Rich