Try DeVeDe. I've successfully burned dvd player dvd's with it in the past. Not sure off the top of my head which formats it takes, it might even take your straight .dv.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Theresa Kehoe<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 09:17 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: >> My experience with video on Linux (Ubuntu or any other distro) has >> been lackluster. Not that it can't be done, but rather there seem to >> be a lot of pieces to the puzzle. And those peices either don't fit >> very well together or fit together in non-obvious ways. >> >> If you solve this puzzle, please do let the rest of us know. > > :-) > > Success!!! > > Since I was (am) a total newbie at DVDs, camcorders, and the like, I am > more than happy to share what little knowledge I've gleaned. > > Step 1: capture video from camcorder > > The camcorder only has a firewire cable, and if you run kino as a > regular user, firewire won't work (known bug with Ubuntu 8.04). You > have to run kino as root (although I did find a workaround [1] later), > so from a terminal, type "gksudo kino" (without quotes). Then it > recognized the firewire link to the camcorder, and I was able to capture > the file -- note that upload time is about realtime, that is, an hour's > filming took an hour to capture. Note that kino is going to store those > initial raw files (.dv) in the /root subdirectory. Every time the > camcorder stopped and started again, it was a new file. > > Step 2: edit video > > The kino tutorial was pretty good at this; all I did was merged the two > files into one big file (from icon toolbar, choose "join current and > next scene"). > > Step 3: create titles > > Again, the kino tutorial was pretty good at this. One hint, though: use > the file browser to point to the directory you want to create your new > file in, enter the file name without an extension, and click save. I > tried just typing a file name into the File textbox, and it didn't > actually save anything. > > Step 4: render > > This took about 2:1, that is, an hour's video took 2 hours to render. > I'm running an Intel Core(tm)2 Duo E7400 with 4GB RAM. > > Step 5: export > > This is where I got seriously confused. What file formats make up a DVD > playable in a non-computer DVD player? How does it all work? Start > with kino's "export" tab. Options include IEEE 1394, DV File, Stills, > Audio, MPEG, and Other. Dinking with DV files let me create raw videos, > which were just as huge as the original (12.2GB), and far too big to fit > on a single disk. > > Did some reading, and realized MPEG is a common format which compacts > the raw files that will work with DVD players. So I started playing > with the various file formats available (like generic MPEG-1, generic > MPEG-2, DVD, etc). I was able to create an MPEG file which was about > 1.8GB in size, and which seems to have the same quality as the original > raw film. > > Scott Granneman mentioned mp4, so I did some detouring looking for that > (hint: check "Other" tab). It did create the file, which was about half > the size of the MPEG file, or just under 1GB in size. Quality was > comparable. > > I used GnomeBaker to burn the resulting file to DVD ... and got a "media > disk" which my computer can read, but the DVD attached to the television > turns up its nose at. > > I want the end result to be a DVD my auntie can put into her player and > watch. So how to do that? > > Again I tried various unsuccessful options ... but back to kino, and I > found a way. > > Went back to MPEG tab, specified file format as DVD, and then under > Output dvdauthor XML I chose "Burn to /dev/dvd with growisofs". > > It took slightly longer than the other exports, because at the end, it > also actually burned the disc. > > Put DVD into the player attached to the television, and VOILA!! > > So, not sure how much help this will be, but at least now I have created > a playable movie DVD with Ubuntu from a raw file captured from a > camcorder. > > Hope this helps. > > Theresa > > [1] http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/119492 > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
