[Cin] Is SD and HD 422 Video Capture obtainable with V4L(2)?

Terje J. Hanssen terjejhanssen at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 00:10:23 CET 2021



Den 17.12.2021 22:49, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
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> On Saturday, December 18, 2021, Terje J. Hanssen via Cin 
> <cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org <mailto:cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org>> wrote:
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>     Den 17.12.2021 15:00, skrev Terje J. Hanssen:
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>         Den 17.12.2021 04:58, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
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>             On Friday, December 17, 2021, Terje J. Hanssen
>             <terjejhanssen at gmail.com <mailto:terjejhanssen at gmail.com>
>             <mailto:terjejhanssen at gmail.com
>             <mailto:terjejhanssen at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>         [......]
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>                 ===============
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>                 I-frame-only 50 Megabit MPEG-2 or comparable DV50 in
>             4:2:2 as
>                 high-end, "visually lossless" intermediate format for
>             archival and
>                 suited for editing?
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>                 -----------------
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>                 Regarding DV50, FFMpeg has a friendly "target dv50"
>             support
>                 (similar as "target DVD"). So to get a first look on a
>             DV50 test
>                 file, I simply transcoded 422/10bit Video and PCM
>             audio from a MOV
>                 file (ProRes 422HQ) to a raw DV50 (422/8bit) file:
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>                     ffmpeg -i SD-MOV.mov -target pal-dv50 SD-DV50.dv
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>                 [......]
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>                 205M SD-DV50.dv (ffmpeg re-encoded/remuxed) AV-info:
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>                 avprobe SD-DV50.dv
>                 avprobe version 12.3, Copyright (c) 2007-2018 the
>             Libav developers
>                   built on Mar 26 2018 12:39 with gcc 11 (SUSE Linux)
>                 [dv @ 0x55cdddb96440] Estimating duration from
>             bitrate, this may
>                 be inaccurate
>                 Input #0, dv, from 'SD-DV50.dv':
>                   Metadata:
>                     timecode        : 00:00:00:00
>                   Duration: 00:00:29.80, start: 0.000000, bitrate:
>             57600 kb/s
>                   Stream #0:0: Video: dvvideo, yuv422p, 720x576 [SAR
>             16:15 DAR
>                 4:3], 25000 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
>                   Stream #0:1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo,
>             s16, 1536 kb/s
>                   Stream #0:2: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo,
>             s16, 1536 kb/s
>                 # avprobe output
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>                 ===================
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>                 As seen above, it looks like ffmpeg produced wrong
>             meta data for
>                 the DV50 video bitrate (25 Mb/s=DV25), while the total
>             bitrate
>                 57.6 Mb/s is correct. (Also similar was seen with
>             ffprobe and
>                 Mediainfo).
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>                 My VLC player or Gnome movieplayer did not playback
>             the DV50 file,
>                 while ffplay did (as usual without audio?).
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>                 Cin-GG miss a DV50 preset among format setting.
>             However DV50 else
>                 loades preliminary OK in Cin-GG (via ffmpeg).
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>
>             I'll look at dv50 output preset..
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>         Fine
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>     ===============
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>     I tried also to transcode and remux 422 Video and PCM Audio to a
>     50 Mbps MPEG-2 I-frame only program stream.
>
>     1) MPG From MOV (ProRes 422HQ)
>     ------------------------------
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>     ffmpeg -i SD-MOV.mov -c:v mpeg2video -bf 2 -b:v 50M -maxrate 50M
>     -minrate 50M -c:a pcm_s16be -f vob SD-MP2I-50.mpg
>     [....]
>     Stream mapping:
>       Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (prores (native) -> mpeg2video (native))
>       Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (pcm_s24le (native) -> pcm_s16be (native))
>     Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
>     [mpeg2video @ 0x560ffd164ec0] Automatically choosing VBV buffer
>     size of 746 kbyte
>     [vob @ 0x560ffd14d180] At most 8 channels allowed for LPCM streams.
>     Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec
>     parameters ?): Invalid argument
>     Error initializing output stream 0:1 --
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>     ***This failed because PreRes Audio uses 16 channels:***
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>
> yeah... interesting limitation.. and interesting number of channels..
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>     ffprobe SD-MOV.mov 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep Stream.*Audio
>       Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: pcm_s24le (lpcm / 0x6D63706C), 48000
>     Hz, 16 channels, s32 (24 bit), 18432 kb/s (default)
>
>
>     2) MPG from DV50
>     ----------------
>     ffmpeg -i SD-DV50.dv -c:v mpeg2video -bf 2 -b:v 50M -maxrate 50M
>     -minrate 50M -c:a pcm_s16be -f vob SD-MP2I-50.mpg
>
>     du -sh *
>     205M    SD-DV50.dv
>     284M    SD-MOV.mov
>     186M    SD-MP2I-50.mpg
>
>     avprobe SD-MP2I-50.mpg
>     Input #0, mpeg, from 'SD-MP2I-50.mpg':
>       Duration: 00:00:29.77, start: 0.540000, bitrate: 52167 kb/s
>         Stream #0:0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video (4:2:2), yuv422p(tv,
>     progressive), 720x576 [SAR 16:15 DAR 4:3], 50000 kb/s, 25 fps, 25
>     tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
>         Stream #0:1[0xa0]: Audio: pcm_dvd, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16,
>     1536 kb/s
>
>     ***** The SD-MP2I-50.mpg file size is here 90% of DV50 ********
>
>     The SD-MP2I-50.mpg playback ok with VLC, Gnome movieplayer,
>     ffplay, and loads and playback in Cin-GG
>     The audio volume seems low (weak), but can probably be adjusted
>     higher with ffmpeg
>
>
> well, but I missed keyframe parameter? bitrate is big but I think 
> without special param ffmpeg still will not make all-I mpeg2 stream..?
>
>

The first Video part of my ffmpeg script was based on this standard 
FFmpeg Howto for
"MPEG-2 I-frame only Highest Quality Encoding", which didn't include a 
keyframe parameter !?
https://brunosan.eu/images/ffmpeg_howto.html#Encoding_MPEG-2_I-frame_only_in_Highest_Quality

ffmpeg -i <input_file> -vcodec mpeg2video -pix_fmt yuv422p -qscale 1 
-qmin 1 -intra -an output.m2v

I dropped -pix_fmt yuv422p when I saw it was detected and automatic from 
the input file.


So I added the second PCM Audio part (similar I did for SD-DV) according 
to 1. Answer at
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48265448/mpeg-2-program-stream-w-pcm-audio

FFmpeg only supports muxing 16 bit PCM in a MPEG2 PS. Use

ffmpeg -i "input.mov" \
   -c:v mpeg2video -pix_fmt yuv422p -bf 2 -b:v 50M -maxrate 50M -minrate 
50M \
   -s 1920x1080 -aspect 16:9 \
   -c:a pcm_s16be -f vob "output.mpg"

The -f vob is needed to force a MPEG-2 PS, else ffmpeg will select 
MPEG-1 Systems muxer.






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