From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: Convert .avi to .vob/Linux only?? Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:58:10 -0500 Message-ID: <20060316195810.GA1027@lnx2.kvinet.com> References: <20060224152430.GA1275@lnx2.kvinet.com> <44061B5A.3000309@gelm.net> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44061B5A.3000309@gelm.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: chuck gelm Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 03-01, chuck gelm wrote: > Hal et allia: > > I converted three (3) .avi files and burned them to DVD and can > play them on my DVD player. Text menu also! :-) > I installed videotrans and stumbled through enough required > additional project installations to get it to work. Thus: > > #!/bin/sh > # create a DVD-player for .avi movies > > movie-to-dvd -m ntsc -d letterbox -a 4:3 CloseToHomeS01E08.avi > CloseToHomeS01E09.avi CloseToHomeS01E10.avi > > movie-make-title-simple -o title -m ntsc -n none > > movie-title -T 2x2 -c none -o title.vob -t title CloseToHomeS01E08.m2v > CloseToHomeS01E09.m2v CloseToHomeS01E10.m2v > > dvdauthor -o dvd_directory -x title.vob-dvdauthor.xml > > growisofs -dvd-video -Z /dev/dvd dvd_directory > > #end > > There is some word wrapping in my display while entering this note. > The commands are double spaced, so if you see consecutive lines, > there was 'word wrap' and not a newline. ;-) > > HTH, Chuck Greetings: Helped immensely in that I am now, routinely, burning DVD's from tapes; which spawns more questions.. Of course. Typically using xawtv, and a BT878 card, to grab a 50 minute total analogue tape to an avi file and then following the above to burn the final DVD on either DVD+R or DVD+RW blanks I notice one thing: The burn "shading" on the blank is only 1/3 the width of the surface and; mounting the DVD reports less than 1gB in length.. It's obvious that something is crunching the data more than, what, "normal." I note the blanks list four different Modes from "HQ" as 60 minutes on a 4.7gB disc thru "EP" 240 minutes each disc, but I see no reference to select these modes, that I can find... I would like to burn the best quality; closer to the original if possible.. With everything else the same, TV set; monitor etc, the view quality of the original VHS tape is better than the view of the DVD copy, so something is happening, somewhere /or/ I'm doing something wrong... (The blanks I'm using are not white box but so called prime) I'm learning but, obviously, have a long way to go. TIA. -- 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