old binaries link ? please

[sherry]

Have made a clean install of ffmpegX with last binaries (March 6).
But every time I'm trying to output a DVD-R I'm ending up with a VIDEO_TS file of 1.5 Go. The picture is, no need to say, a bit blurred.
I had the feeling it worked much better with older binaries. Does anyone have a link to dl them ?
Or a idea to help me out with this pb. cheers

[major]

Lower the "q" quantizer value.

[sherry]

Tks major. I did that. Brought down q quantizer from 3 to 1 and it's not changed a thing.
it's really weird. Much appcte if you have any other idea
cheers

[major]

Try CBR and higher the bitrate. Try "QT decode".

[schmeg]

There can be radically different file sizes encoding to MPEG-2 using the two different methods in ffmpegX: the mplayer option or quicktime option.

Just for giggles, you can rip an individual chapter, and encode it using the two methods. Set the video bitrate the same, and you'll see a big difference in the resulting file (mplayer will be MUCH smaller).

I'd like to know if there additional quality settings that can be tweaked under the mplayer setting. I've used this to encode subtitled movies. Although it handles the subtitles well, even at a high (9000) bitrate the movie is usually blockier than what I can get using mpeg2enc.

The quantizer settings seem to have no effect when using mplayer (I encoded a sample chapter using identical settings other than q=2 and q=15... the resulting files were the same size, and I saw now change in the code pasted into Terminal).

Are there other settings that can improve quality under mplayer, other than increased bitrate?

Mille grazie.

[sherry]

Have tried evrything i.e. CBR and QTdecoder even a bitrate of 9000. Picture is still blurred. Am just desperate to understand what is going on. It's just like the .VOB file can't be changed but to a 1.5 Go VIDEO_TS file.
Below is what is read in the terminal window.
Tks for any help. cheers


MPlayer dev-CVS-030306-17:43-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

AltiVec found
Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /Users/serisier/.mplayer/config
Reading /Users/serisier/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/Users/serisier/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
CommandLine: '-noframedrop' '-vo' 'yuv4mpeg' '-ao' 'pcm' '-waveheader' '-v' '-osdlevel' '0' '/UNBREAKABLE/TITLE01-ANGLE1.VOB' '-aid' '128' '-sid' '4'
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/Users/serisier/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /Users/serisier/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using Unoptimized OnScreenDisplay
Using usleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/Users/serisier/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /Users/serisier/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
get_path('TITLE01-ANGLE1.VOB.conf') -> '/Users/serisier/.mplayer/TITLE01-ANGLE1.VOB.conf'

Playing /UNBREAKABLE/TITLE01-ANGLE1.VOB
Not an URL!
File size is 4652871680 bytes
Checking for YUV4MPEG2
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xedb4c0
ASF_check: not ASF guid!
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xedb4c0
Checking for NuppelVideo
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xedb4c0
Checking for REAL
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xedb4c0
Checking for SMJPEG
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0xedb4c0
Searching demuxer type for filename /UNBREAKABLE/TITLE01-ANGLE1.VOB ext: .VOB
Trying demuxer 2 based on filename extension
system stream synced at 0x0 (13)!
==> Found video stream: 0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
==> Found audio stream: 128
Searching for sequence header... OK!
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.00 fps 6577.5 kbps (822.2 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
get_path('sub/') -> '/Users/serisier/.mplayer/sub/'
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
dec_audio: Allocating 3840 bytes for input buffer
dec_audio: Allocating 6144 + 65536 = 71680 bytes for output buffer
Using AltiVec optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 384.0 kbit/s
A52 flags before a52_frame: 0x2A
A52 flags after a52_frame: 0xA
No accelerated resampler found
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x20), ratio: 48000->192000 (384.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
================================================== ========================
vo_yuv4mpeg: Using (default) progressive frame mode
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Trying filter chain: vo
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling)
Trying filter chain: scale vo
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: No accelerated IDCT transform found
libmpeg2: No accelerated motion compensation found
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
Trying filter chain: vo
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO Config (720x576->1024x576,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659)
VO: [yuv4mpeg] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12
VO: Description: yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to "stream.yuv")
VO: Author: Robert Kesterson <robertk@robertk.com>
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
================================================== ========================
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
[libaf] Adding filter dummy
[dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=48000Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000000 and bps = 2
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, big endian signed int
AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Big-Endian)
PCM: File: audiodump.wav (WAVE)
PCM: Samplerate: 48000Hz Channels: Stereo Format Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
PCM: Info: fastest dumping is achieved with -vc null -vo null
PCM: Info: to write WAVE files use -waveheader (default); for RAW PCM -nowaveheader.
AO: [pcm] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
AO: Description: RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output
AO: Author: Atmosfear
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
[dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=48000Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000000 and bps = 2
[libaf] Adding filter format
[format] Changing sample format from 16bit big endian signed int to 16bit little endian signed int
[dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=48000Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000000 and bps = 2
[format] Changing sample format from 16bit big endian signed int to 16bit little endian signed int
Starting playback...
[libaf] Reallocating memory in module format, old len = 0, new len = 65540
*** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 720x576x12bpp YUV planar, 622080 bytes
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] Generating dummy SVCD scan-data offsets to be filled in by "vcdimager"
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] If you're not using vcdimager you may wish to turn this off using -d
*** [vo] Allocating (slices) mp_image_t, 720x576x12bpp YUV planar, 622080 bytes
*** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 720x576x12bpp YUV planar, 622080 bytes%
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[sherry]

it's just like if ffmpegXg chooses its own bitrate and refuses to change whatever the figure you set in the video tab.
Has tried with another .VOB. Have tried with ffmpegXe, in vain.
So any one has a link for old binaries which worked great ? tks