Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intensive, so that explains your slow playback (especially for those huge resolutions). I think mp4a

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 02:10, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intensive, so that explains your slow playback (especially

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/18/09 02:10, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 11:19, Paul Hartman wrote: Hmm, I'm not sure... is this file (or one like it) available online anywhere that I could see if it works on my machine? Paul, I've sent you a link to that video if you want to check it out. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 14:20, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, I can confirm that tovid failed for me as well. However, this mencoder commandline seems to have created a working DVD-compatible mpg file (PAL): mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn HD video MPEG4 to DVD? I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to reduce the quality. Do I need Blue-Ray dvd recorder to be able to play HD

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Joseph
On 04/17/09 15:03, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn HD video MPEG4 to DVD? I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to reduce the quality. Do I need

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/09 15:03, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn HD video MPEG4 to DVD? I want to be able

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:43:35 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn HD video MPEG4 to DVD? I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to reduce the quality. Do I need Blue-Ray dvd recorder to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Joseph
On 04/17/09 16:04, Paul Hartman wrote: [snip] Well if you just want to play it on the computer then the format doesn't matter (as long as the mplayer or whatever you use can play it). It's just a data disc. I want to play it on larger screen TV (it supports all latest formats). I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/09 16:04, Paul Hartman wrote: [snip] Well if you just want to play it on the computer then the format doesn't matter (as long as the mplayer or whatever you use can play it). It's just a data disc. I want to play

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Joseph
On 04/17/09 18:01, Paul Hartman wrote: [snip] No, a DVD video player can only play DVDs (and sometimes VCDs which are even worse quality than DVD). If they could play HD then Blu-Ray would have no reason to exist :) While some DVD players can output a 720p/1080i/1080p picture, it is simple

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Apr 2009, at 20:43, Joseph wrote: ... I have new camera that records HD (1920x1080) mpeg4 movies, most files are below 3GB; Assuming videos of your dog / cat / children you're probably best storing the original video files on hard-disk, burning as a DVD at standard definitions

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Stroller
On 18 Apr 2009, at 01:40, Joseph wrote: ... I don't think hooking up computer would help. When I try to play HD MP4 (file that I recorded) in Xine it complains that CPU is not fast enough - it keeps complaining that amount of frames is too high (60-fields/s) and that is on my: Quad CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 01:50, Stroller wrote: On 18 Apr 2009, at 01:40, Joseph wrote: ... I don't think hooking up computer would help. When I try to play HD MP4 (file that I recorded) in Xine it complains that CPU is not fast enough - it keeps complaining that amount of frames is too high

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 01:47, Stroller wrote: On 17 Apr 2009, at 20:43, Joseph wrote: ... I have new camera that records HD (1920x1080) mpeg4 movies, most files are below 3GB; Assuming videos of your dog / cat / children you're probably best storing the original video files on hard-disk, burning as a

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Joseph
On 04/17/09 19:41, Joseph wrote: For current usage I just convert them to standard DVD: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg # convert to mpeg2 dvdauthor -t -o foobar foobar.mpg # author the file dvdauthor -T -o foobar Well: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg is

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/09 19:41, Joseph wrote: For current usage I just convert them to standard DVD: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg # convert to mpeg2 dvdauthor -t -o foobar foobar.mpg # author the file dvdauthor -T -o

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Joseph
On 04/17/09 22:43, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/09 19:41, Joseph wrote: For current usage I just convert them to standard DVD: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg # convert to mpeg2 dvdauthor -t -o foobar