From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: Convert .avi to .vob/Linux only?? Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:34:23 -0500 Message-ID: <20060225203423.GA2241@lnx2.kvinet.com> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > Greetings; Ray, Conway, Stephen and Artures--Appreciate!!. This is > going to take some time; see below.. > > > On 02-24, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > Hal MacArgle wrote: > > > Greetings; I just spent two hours trying to find software or > > >information converting video .avi files to .vob, in order to burn > > >some personal .avi files to a DVD that's playable on a stand alone > > >DVD player.. I have the files in .avi format and a Plextor DVD > > >burner, etc.. MPlayer lets me view them on the computer monitor of > > >course.. > > > > > > Interesting in that this is the first time I've noticed when > > >accessing www.google.com/linux, that I get linked to 100% of the > > >MSWindows stuff.. I gave up.. > > > > > > Anyone have any suggestions?? TIA.. > > > > > > > How did you use the Google site? I searched there on "vob create" and > > got, with one intervening step, to a Sourceforge project called > > "Videotrans" that says it is "a set of scripts that converts a movie > > file in any format that mplayer understands (AVI, etc) to a DVD > > compatible VOB file, including all the necessary conversions. Further, > > an automatic DVD menu generator is provided." > > I searched for 'convert .avi to .vob' on/ google.com/linux.. > > > > > > I cannot say how good this project is ... I've never tried to convert > > any of my home video to standard DVD format (and it's not in the Debian > > archive, which it why it is new to me) ... but it certainly is not a > > Windows response. (I did see some of them, BTW, referencing WINE.) > > > > An entry in this thread by "redbeard" -- > > > > http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gaming-games-multimedia-entertainment/52379-mpeg-dvd-vob-format-conversion.html > > > > -- was how I found it (this thread was what the Google search itself > > returned, near the top). His description makes it sound pretty > > functional. Other messages in this thread mention a couple of other > > possibilities too. > > I will try that site but it looks like I've got a long run > ahead of me.. > > > > > > Perhaps if you give videotrans a test run, you can tell us how good it > > actually is? > > I fetched videotrans-1.4.0 from SF and configure balked right > off the bat requiring ffmpeg, which I had on another machine so I > installed it (trial because I dont know which version.) Configure > balked again requiring mpeg2enc, which I don't have.. Thought I'd > better peruse the configure file and sure enough needed a bunch more; > png2yuv, jpeg2yuv, dvdauthor's spumux which, in turn needs qt, which > I have and imagemagicks convert which I have.. Of course mplayer 1.0, > pre7, try2 is needed and that in turn, when I installed it, needed no > less than 8 libs; 7 easy and 1 hard to find.. Bottom line, I'm going > to need so many libraries there wont be enough room on the HD for the > video files.. Plenty of learning power there and a lot of > time, for me... Get to work. :^).. A far cry from running CP/M on a > Commodore 128, eh?? I may be pushing my envelope.. > > -- > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1 (2.4.29) > . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs