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

Terje J. Hanssen terjejhanssen at gmail.com
Sun Dec 19 00:25:29 CET 2021



Den 18.12.2021 04:35, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
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> On Saturday, December 18, 2021, Terje J. Hanssen 
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>     Den 17.12.2021 22:49, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
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>         On Saturday, December 18, 2021, Terje J. Hanssen via Cin
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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>>
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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?
>
>                         -----------------
>
>                         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
>
>                         [......]
>
>
>                         205M SD-DV50.dv (ffmpeg re-encoded/remuxed)
>         AV-info:
>
>                         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
>
>                         ===================
>
>                         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).
>
>                         My VLC player or Gnome movieplayer did not
>         playback
>                     the DV50 file,
>                         while ffplay did (as usual without audio?).
>
>                         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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>             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)
>             ------------------------------
>
>             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:***
>
>
>         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..?
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>     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
>     <https://brunosan.eu/images/ffmpeg_howto.html#Encoding_MPEG-2_I-frame_only_in_Highest_Quality>
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>     ffmpeg -i <input_file> -vcodec mpeg2video -pix_fmt yuv422p -qscale
>     1 -qmin 1 -intra -an output.m2v
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>
> you missed
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> -intra?

Thanks for reviewing. "-intra" should definitely be there, and I know I 
used it before editing and troubleshooting the audiopart, removing -an. 
Cleaned up and added also some other parameters
-q:v 1 -qmin 1 -intra


3) MP2I50 from DV50:
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ffmpeg -i SD-DV50.dv -c:v mpeg2video -q:v 1 -qmin 1 -intra -bf 2 -b:v 
50M -maxrate 50M -minrate 50M -c:a pcm_s16be -f vob SD-MP2I50.mpg
[...]
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
[... a lot of vob buffer messages scrolling ....]
[vob @ 0x564dbf6a0680] packet too large, ignoring buffer limits to mux it
[vob @ 0x564dbf6a0680] buffer underflow st=1 bufi=7204 size=7680
frame=  745 fps=460 q=1.0 Lsize=  189584kB time=00:00:29.76 
bitrate=52186.6kbits/s speed=18.4x
video:181698kB audio:5588kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global 
headers:0kB muxing overhead: 1.227127%

avprobe SD-MP2I50.mpg
avprobe version 12.3, Copyright (c) 2007-2018 the Libav developers
   built on Mar 26 2018 12:39 with gcc 7 (SUSE Linux)
Input #0, mpeg, from 'SD-MP2I50.mpg':
   Duration: 00:00:29.80, start: 0.540000, bitrate: 52116 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

================

(Re)tested also with

4) No intra (-intra)
ffmpeg -i SD-DV50.dv -c:v mpeg2video -bf 2 -b:v 50M -maxrate 50M 
-minrate 50M -c:a pcm_s16be -f vob SD-MP2-50.mpg

5) Without specified Video bitrate (-b:v)
ffmpeg -i SD-DV50.dv -c:v mpeg2video -q:v 1 -qmin 1 -intra -bf 2 -c:a 
pcm_s16be -f vob SD-MP2I-.mpg

6) Video only - no Audio (-an):
ffmpeg -i SD-DV50.dv -vcodec mpeg2video -q:v 1 -qmin 1 -intra -an 
SD-MP2I50-an.m2v

-----------------

du -sh *
284M    SD-MOV.mov
205M    SD-DV50.dv
186M    SD-MP2I50.mpg    (3)
186M    SD-MP2-50.mpg    (4)
153M    SD-MP2I-.mpg     (5)
146M    SD-MP2I50-an.m2v (6)

As seen, no size difference between -intra (3) and without intra flag 
specified (4) above:
186/205 = 90% size of the input SD-DV50.dv

I would expect this due to high bitrate and some more effectiv video 
compression for MPEG-2 over DV50.
While the consumer DV25/4:2:0 pal uses 5:1 intra compression, the 
pro(sumer) DV50/4:2:2 uses lower 3.3:1.

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7) Another, equivalent SD MPEG-2/ 422P at ML option to setup for Cin-GG/ 
FFMpeg preset could be:

D10 aka Sony IMX50 Encoding - a standard definition professional video 
recording format. Uses intraframe
compression, 4:2:2 color subsampling and user-selectable constant video 
data rate of 30, 40 or 50 Mbit/s.

422P at ML  720 × 576 25 FPS 4:2:2 Sampling 50 Mbits/s
Sony IMX50 (I only), Broadcast Contribution (I&P only)

The Howto contains both a short and a long script version.

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>
> ffmpeg changes cmd line and API quickly.. (
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> try "-g 1" and check keyframes with some linevlike those?
>
> https://snippets.bentasker.co.uk/page-1707191206-Get-Video-Keyframe-Interval-(ffprobe)-BASH.html 
> <https://snippets.bentasker.co.uk/page-1707191206-Get-Video-Keyframe-Interval-(ffprobe)-BASH.html>
>

I tried to copy and paste some line from the manual url, but
If you possibly can setup an exact FF syntax to run here, I can do it ;)

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