Having previously just used some .xml templates with dvdauthor for dvds with chapters, I had a go with qdvdauthor and found it able to do all that I want in the way of putting together a dvd with menus/sound that will work on any set top dvd box. Qdvdauther is 100% gui but still requires dvdauthor as well as some other cli aps for the backend work but I had all required on board anyway. Note that dvdauthor won't process an mpg that is not in the correct format and for some reason qdvdauthor does not recognise ac3 files when selecting a menu soundtrack in it's filebrowser. That's not a problem since the conversion to mp2 from mp3 or ac3 is just a simple ffmpeg command away.
I always use mencoder to reprocess mpg's before burning to dvd. I use the command pasted in below. The result is usually slightly smaller than original but it also gives me a file that I can shrink further using transcode tools then remux with mplex. The command is set up for PAL, change to suit. I don't know how the command will lok in your client but it is 4 lines long with the first three ending in " \" that is a single space in front of the backslash. mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd \ -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -lavcopts \ vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=16/9 \ -ofps 25 $INPUT_FILE -o $OUTPUT_FILE A Anopheles is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says! > > > I am using TMPGEnc to create the VOB files. > > > > I don't quite understand why you use TMPGEnc at all. If you use the DVD > > multiplexer of DVBCUT (default choise), the files you create with DVBCUT > > are already valid (hopefully...) VOB files. > > I'm not very clear about the distinction between VOB and MPG. > > The output from dvbcut are certainly valid MPG files. I can write them > directly to DVD and play them without further processing on my domestic > machine - but not with menus etc, and my machine always shows them in 4:3 > format regardless of the layout of the MPG file. > > I use TMPG because I want to get conventional menus etc, and the DVD > structure required to support them. And the MPG files involved in the > creation always get "converted" to VOBs (whatever that means) and not > always 1-to-1 . > > I have seen references to DVDauthor on linux and I wouldbe perfectly happy > to use it but the documentation I have suggests it is a bit incomplete/not > useful for full DVD creation. But perhaps I am not looking at the most > recent version. I'll take another look. > > > Also there must be some problem inside the DVBCUT muxer, but > > it works fine for a good fraction of cases. > > And certainly better than avidemux2, which I find usually loses the audio > sync on terrestrial dvb material. > > I'm not _complaining_ about dvbcut - I'm very happy with my use of it so > far. Thanks for all the good work Sven. > > Brian -- Cheers, Rick Miles Movement stopped is no movement, and rest set in motion is no rest. Written on Setting Orange, the 54th of Confusion, 3172 http://www.turtlespond.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DVBCUT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dvbcut-user
