Re: Convert .avi to .vob/Linux only??

[chuck <chuck@gelm.net>]

Hal MacArgle wrote:

>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. <grin>
>TIA.
>  
>
Hi, Hal:

 I don't know about the quality of VHS->.avi, but to create a higher 
quality DVD from an .avi:
  man movie-to-dvd ( -q ["low","normal","high",N] ).
where, in kilobits per second, low=3500, normal=6000, high=8000, N=user 
supplied number.

So, if the distortion occurs in the VHS -> .AVI, this may be no help.  :-|

HTH, Chuck


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