mpeg2enc - howto do HALF-D1 ? [SOLVED]

hds · Post by **hds** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:36 pm

hi,
i am using kino to convert my DV AVI stuff to mpeg, and i would like to use HALF-D1. unfortunately i cant find the parameter in the (fairly small) manpage.
any helpers?

FishB8 · Post by **FishB8** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:00 pm

Are you looking for "Half-D1" as a preset? It might be easier to just enter the specs manually. (D1 of course means different things depending on NTSC vs. PAL, 1.0 vs 0.9 Pixel Aspect Ratio, and weather it's a strict CCIR601 or DV output.)

hds · Post by **hds** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:20 pm

FishB8 wrote:Are you looking for "Half-D1" as a preset?

best wish, yes.

FishB8 wrote: It might be easier to just enter the specs manually.

how? sample please!
btw: PAL in my case (352x576) but i am able to adjust anything by hand. just send me an example.

FishB8 · Post by **FishB8** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:42 pm

Uggh. You're right. Not the most dirrect interface for exporting to non standard frame sizes. I haven't the time to look into it immediately, but I would suggest your best bet for a solution would be to look into the DV Pipe export. This allows you to export the DV to a pipe where you can pick it up with another program/script. I'm sure transcode or something similar can interface with the pipe, resize the output and dump it to a file.

Not the easiest point and click solution, but it would be the fastest and most direct.

hds · Post by **hds** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:51 pm

FishB8 wrote: Not the easiest point and click solution, but it would be the fastest and most direct.

yeah, i already looked into it - but didnt understand anything about it

see, it does resize/scale if i say export to VCD or SVCD. - so it must be possible to pass the resolution somehow? no - transcode is not even emerged yet and (S)VCD does work anyway

hds · Post by **hds** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:42 am

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tovid/

excellent work. it even comes with a GUI ( GUI needs wxPython, though..).
really nice work!