Hello and Welcome,
This is Jensemann's homepage, using a complete new design and layout now to be more informative. I also deceided to switch to english because I detected that much visitors are from foreign countries and I think therefore it makes more sense to continue in english.

If you encounter any problems while browsing this page please drop me an email.

You can reach any of the main topics by selecting one of the hyperlinks in the upper link list. I've not too much time to work on the chapters, that's why some pages are still "white".

So, these are the topics you will find on the following pages:

 

Home

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This page.

 

News

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The News: Information about latest updates on this page, short news regarding one of the topics covered by this page and so on..

 

MPEG Encoding / PVA-Transcoding

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MPEG Encoding (or Transcoding if we convert) is one of the interesting things I like to do since home DVD players (like the Yamakawa I own) are capable of playing self-made videos as VCD / XVCD / SVCD's. I collect informations about several encoders, filters, tools to help creating a good quality, guides to create several video cd formats and so on.

Digital Video Broadcast devices (DVB PC cards, settop boxes like the dbox) allow you to save the broadcasted MPEG-2 stream on disk while you watch it. The advantages are clear: Somebody did the work for you to convert analog material into an MPEG-2 stream, the quality is really brilliant and the required space for the file to store it is small (in terms of modern harddrives).

But how ever you get the PVA-Stream on your harddrive, you need to convert it because the bitrate is to high, the frame size is wrong, the format of the stream is not SVCD-compilant and the audio + video streams are out of sync. The tricky part is to re-synchronize A+V and fix the stream! You will find tips how to do this with some cool little tools. Warning: Still it's not a one-click-create-the-cd process, so expect some work is left for you and your CPU ;-).

 

SVCD

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One way to show own videos on a DVD player is creating Super-Video CD's (SVCD's). There are more options (VCD, XVCD) but I prefer this format since it offers the best results to me and the compromise between playing time and quality is the best in my opinion. I try to explain how I do it.

Dependent on the source you have several options to end up with an SVCD compilant stream (and even much more options to *not* end up there).

 

Yamakawa Home DVD Player APhile 713 / 713

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The YAMAKAWA DVD player can play DVD / VCD / SVCD / XVCD / Audio-CD's / MP3-CD's. On this page i collect useful information about the player, tests, resellers, support, special tools and so on.

 

Download

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Here I place tools I created + code snippets.

 

MP3

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Some informations i find useful, how to create MP3 CD's for the DVD player.

 

Links

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Links I like to recommend, to several topics, now grouped a little bit to have a clearer overview.

 

Contact the Author of this Webpage

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Contact information, email + web address information.