Recording mpg's

Thanks for the tips.

I'm getting so many different ones... Now I've heard that 720x480 is the DV
standard.... ahh.... see? That's my problem... No one seems to know for SURE
what I should do it at. Now I've got it at NTSC 720x480 at 30 fps at 4:3
aspect ratio, compressed as MPEG2, looks pretty good, but I have no DV
equipment to actually test it on a real TV to see what it looks like.

I opened up Adobe Premiere and they show the DV standard for NTSC as 720x450
(and I think they have a 720x480 option as well) so I am sticking with the
latter for MPEG2 unless I hear a more absolute answer from somewhere...

Do you have any links that state that 752x480 is the right standard? Or are
you just guessing from memory?

~Jeff



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Poulter" <polt@snaptek.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Recording mpg's


| try 752x480 that is standard DV digital video format... i believe that
| is what dvds use also and they are encoded in mpeg2... at 29.70 fps
|
| jason
|
|
| Jeff wrote:
| > Following up on this... I have an off-the-list-question about MPEG 2.
| >
| > Has anyone taken classes in Video Production anywhere?
| >
| > I'm making a commercial for a client and they need the final project
encoded
| > in MPEG2.
| >
| > First, I am having trouble finding out what resolution American TVs use.
| > I've read that we use PAL, and I've read that we use NTSC standards, but
| > then also, I've seen resolutions of 720 x 450 and I've seen them at
| > 500-something by something... I used NTSC 720 x 450 when I started, I'm
now
| > done with it, but when I go to encode it as MPEG-2 it says that the
| > resolution needs to be in increments of 8... that would make it 720 x
| > 456....
| >
| > Can anyone help?
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "George Toft" <george@georgetoft.com>
| > To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
| > Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 7:16 PM
| > Subject: Re: Recording mpg's
| >
| >
| > | Using this link as a reference, and the docs, I was able to compile
| > | and install mplayer in under 2 hours. It is clearly the best movie
| > | player I have ever seen for Linux.
| > |
| > | SuSE uses the "required" gcc version, so it compiled OK. The hardest
| > | part was realizing that I didn't have gtk-devel installed :)
| > |
| > | mencoder is another issue . . .
| > |
| > | Thanks for the pointer.
| > |
| > | George
| > |
| > |
| > | KevinO wrote:
| > | >
| > | > George Toft wrote:
| > | > > I looked at mplayer briefly, and discovered it was going to be
| > | > > a paing in the butt to get working under SuSE. I guess that will
| > | > > be my next project, when I get lots of spare time.
| > | >
| > | > I found this information helpful :
| > | >
| > | > http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1214.mplayer.html
| > | >
| > | > I used gcc ver. 2.96 , IIRC .
| > | > --
| > | > Kevin O'Connor
| > | >
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fun
| > ...
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| > Inc.
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