ffmpegX 0.0.3 released

[major]

if you use NTSC FILM framerate it becomes less or more offsync?

[carmine]

more i think. ill try doing it in different framerates, i havent actually tried that yet - doh! the video plays like crap though, so its not just that its offsync.

[carmine]

alright i just encoded a chapter. it plays fine to begin with, but then it stops playing the video while the audio keeps going. im clueless now.

[major]

alright i just encoded a chapter. it plays fine to begin with, but then it stops playing the video while the audio keeps going. im clueless now.

does it stop on quicktime or on the DVD player?

[carmine]

quicktime. im not burning because the outputted files are all crap.

[major]

You said you encoded something with 0.0.2, could it be that you used GOP=240 as this was the 0.0.2 default (intended for DivX encoding)?

A value of GOP=12 should always be used when encoding to mpeg-1.

[AntnyMD]

So I went to burn the MPEG files I made with 0.0.3, first using GNU VCDImager then Toast, then using the XVCD post-processing step in ffmpegX then Toast. Both burns played back really choppy, although they played remarkably smoothly in Quicktime. I went back and re-encoded the program at a lower bitrate, thinking that was the problem (first bitrate entered was 1536 for video, send time was 1400 for video). Both subsequent burns also played back choppy on the standalones. I decided it was because ffmpegX does variable bitrate XVCD, which none of my players can handle.

Outside of the VBR issue, the actual encodes themselves played back in Quicktime smoothly, with really crisp pictures, audio in sync at 48kHz and 44.1kHz sampling rates, and even the encoding speed was a bit faster over 0.0.2.