Mediapipe problems

[jchansen]

Hi folks.

I'm buggered; things were working a while ago.

If I use Mediapipe .76, it quits whenever the quicktime decoder pipe selects a file. This happens if I add pipes one at a time, or as part of a pipeline from MMT (A new version! go Ross go!)

If I use Mediapipe .82, everything seems to load fine, but then the app freezes when I try to configure the Mpeg Encoder pipe.

Does anyone have a solution? I saw on the mediapipe board that a number of people have quitting problems.

I hope Mobodo releases medipipe with batch encoding again.

Thanks all.

Jeremy

[Ross]

A couple of things to concider,

MediaPipe may be doing a global search for mpipes.
So, make sure you install "system" or "local" not both.
Two sets of pipe will cause it not to launch or other bad things.
This includes all the old (non-compatible) pipes from version 0.7.6

A simple fix, if you want to keep 0.7.6 around, would be to "Stuff It"
Same would go for 0.8.2

Hope this helps
RNC

[jchansen]

Thanks Ross! I deleted other folders and it works fine once again. Kudos!

Another question for all: DV files read directly have terrible video quality, I'm assuming because it is interlaced, and exporting to something like MJPEG before encoding deinterlaces the file. Is there a work around, so that I can capture video via firewire and feed it directly into mediapipe?

Thanks.

[Ross]

FYI: I don't know what you DV source is, but I allways set my camcorder to "progress scan", because seems like I allways do some sort of editing on the computer (iMovie). If not, p-scan still looks OK direct to TV.

[jchansen]

Then I think that I was right about the problem: my Canon must record in interlaced format only, and I need progressive to manipulate cleanly on my computer. I don't think that I can alter my camera's format. Is there a way to capture in progressive scan (via iMovie or BTV etc.)?

Jeremy