From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Aug 23 17: 9:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from carmel.diva.nl (carmel.diva.nl [195.86.140.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5727A37B628 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:09:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (boland@localhost) by carmel.diva.nl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e7O09Y922094 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:09:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:09:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Michiel Boland To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mplex and VBR video streams Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi. MPEG streams generated by mplex from a variable bitrate video stream (such as those generated by mpeg_encode) and an audio stream are generally unplayable by any decent mpeg player, except plaympeg/gtv which works ok for some mysterious reason. If I mplex two fixed-rate streams everything is perfect. Slight problem: I use mpeg2encode to generate fixed-rate streams which is about 4 times slower than mpeg_encode :( I see lots of 'time out' messages when using mplex on VBR streams which can't be good, and possibly explains why the resulting streams are unplayable. So, have any of you seen either something that can encode fixed-rate MPEG videos faster than mpeg2encode or a replacement for mplex that can handle VBR streams? TIA Cheers Michiel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message