DCP-o-matic

Hi,

Are you using libav as packaged by Debian? DCP-o-matic wants FFmpeg, so you will need to build that from source; something like
should do it.

DCP-o-matic will make a 3D DCP if you tick "3D" in the DCP panel. If you have 2D content in a 3D DCP, the content will be copied to each eye. Alternatively, you can put 3D content in by importing a file and then specifying how the 3D is encoded (by using the frame type option as discussed ...

Hi there,

My experience is here.
Best, Carl

I'm afraid that sounds roughly right for a computer of that vintage. JPEG2000 encoding (especially with the open-source encoder) is a slow business! There are some benchmarks here which show the encoding rates in frames per second for various machines. I can't find a passmark result for the PowerPC ...

Ah, I just noticed this: 1,73.0 git 814382b0a3 What language are the encoding machines using? I think there's a crashing bug with the server on non-English locales. I haven't managed to reproduce it yet, unfortunately. Also, the server ISO was broken on 1.73.0. If you try 1.76.0 you might have more ...

Actually, there is brief mention at the bottom of this manual page:
http://dcpomatic.com/manual/html/ch10.html

Is there anything else anyone needs to know?

Carl, is there some documentation on the server live images? Not really :) They are just versions of Debian which boot up and start a DCP-o-matic encoding server. I will put some documentation on the website. On Linux it should be as easy as dd if=dcpomatic_server_image.iso of=/dev/sd_MY_MEMORY_STI...

Hi, I would suspect lack of RAM on your encode servers for the crashes (or rather, lack of RAM that can be addressed by a single process under 32-bit operating systems). Maybe you could try dropping them right down to something like: dcpomatic_server_cli -t 2 and seeing if that makes any difference....

Hi folks, This is a little complicated as a change from 25 to 24fps should not re-encode frames, but a change from, say, 25 to 50fps will at the very least have to duplicate frames in the output (so it can't just use the same video MXF). There should be a way around that, though: I'll look into it. ...

Hi Katherine,

Thanks. I'm afraid that's a tricky one. I'm still looking into it.
Cheers, Carl