From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Videotrans ... Re: Convert .avi to .vob/Linux only?? Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:08:26 -0500 Message-ID: <44061B5A.3000309@gelm.net> References: <20060224152430.GA1275@lnx2.kvinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060224152430.GA1275@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: > 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.. > > 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 - 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