From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: MPG Video Format Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:23:11 -0800 Message-ID: <437962AF.9000902@comarre.com> References: <20051115105214.25290e02@Peter.meridiantelekoms.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20051115105214.25290e02@Peter.meridiantelekoms.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded a video clip of 270 MB in mpg format. I would like to burn it > onto a CD, however, I get the error message with k3b: > > "unable to handle the file due to unsupported format" > > The program graveman tries to write and stops just saying: failed. > > Changing the file.mpg to file.mpeg made no difference. > > The video clip plays nicely with Totem. > > Is there a way to burn it onto a CD? > > Thanks & regards > It depends on what sort of CD you want. If you want to put it on a data CD (an iso9660 filesystem, that is), then one way is to follow this two-step process: 1. mkisofs -J -o somename.iso -r file.mpg 2. cdrecord cdrecord dev=[something] somename.iso Where [something] is an entry like "0,0,0", with the exact value depending where on the SCSI bus (or the ide-scsi simulation of a SCSI bus) the CD writer is (find our with "cdrecord --scanbus"). Depending on your drive and media, you may have to set other parameters too, like speed=[value]. If your CD burner isn't SCSI or using ide-scsi simulation ... I've read that newer versions of cdrecord support burning to /dev/hd* devices, but I've never managed to get it to work here so still use ide-scsi myself. If you want to make a video CD that a DVD player can play back ... those are usually called VCDs or VideoCDs. They use a distinct filesystem, not iso9660, and require some fiddling with the video itself. I've never made one myself, but there is Linux software that's supposed to do it. Look into the packages vcdimager and vcdtools. (As you should be sued to with me, these are Debian package names, so you may find the Slack packages or the underlying developer packages have slightly different names.) mencoder may also be of help with the transcoding part. If you are trying to do something other than one or the other of these things ... then you'll have to be more specific in your question. I'm not familiar with k3b (or Totem) ... other than seeing that both are available as Debian packages, and seeing in the description of k3b that (a) it is a front-end to cdrecord and cdrdao and (b) it supports both iso9660 and VCD burns (among other things, including "eMovix CDs", a format I am unacquainted with). - 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