From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck Subject: Re: Convert .avi to .vob/Linux only?? Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:48:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4419CF26.10104@gelm.net> References: <20060224152430.GA1275@lnx2.kvinet.com> <44061B5A.3000309@gelm.net> <20060316195810.GA1027@lnx2.kvinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060316195810.GA1027@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 Cc: haltec@kvinet.com 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. >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 - 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