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Says it supports anything mplayer does. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Scott Kokotovitch<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
