From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: tovid - videotrans ? (was Re: Convert .avi to .vob/Linux only??) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:47:34 -0800 Message-ID: <4404C4F6.1090705@comarre.com> References: <20060224152430.GA1275@lnx2.kvinet.com> <43FF57EF.8030803@comarre.com> <4403B178.1070606@gelm.net> <20060228195752.GA1048@lnx2.kvinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060228195752.GA1048@lnx2.kvinet.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 Hal MacArgle wrote: [...] > Update: I just found, buried in my shack, a 3 page txt copy of > an article by Chris Stoddard; "DVD Authoring." I haven't a clue where > I fetched it from.. It goes into some good details, some of which may > not be needed for newer drives.. Worth a look see, maybe? > http://linuxgazette.net/issue83/stoddard.html It's dated 2002, which is a bit old. But then, so is your system, so it might be useful for advice on doing DVD burning with a system that is, by today's standards, a bit light on CPU power and RAM (and maybe HD space; i don't recall if you said). As I skim through it, the one thing I realize that might be an issue for you is the codec your .avi files use. .avi is a container type (for combining video and audio), not a specification of how the video itself is encoded. These days, .avi *typically* means mpeg4 (aka DivX) video, but I doubr that was true for stuff encoded with strwamer (the vidcap application Stoddardf discusses). So you may have to do different transcoding to get from your video to the mpeg2 that DVDs expect. Other parts look quite up to date. growisofs remains the current free-software standard for writing data DVDs, for example ... it's kind of a combination of mkisofs and cdrecord for DVDs. So while you won't find all the answers here, you should find it helpful. - 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