On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:45:10AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > This came through the list not to long ago, I believe. I recently > bought a DVD burner, and already have a TV capture card. This past week > I captured enough video from our camcorder to make a DVD. So I loaded > up Roxio's DVD suite and built a movie. Now when I go to burn it, it > has to encode the movie first. Something that apparently takes a lot of > time and processing and disk space. The problem is, either Windows or > Roxio isn't up to lasting that long. I've tried probably 6 times and > each time either Windows crashes and reboots, or Roxio just blips away > and is gone. Each time I have to start from the beginning. > > So now I'm looking to dvdauthor and doing it manually in Linux. Any > advice?
You just want to encode and burn on Linux? You'll need to know what format it is on coming out of your Win tools. You can use tcprobe from transcode for that if Roxio doesn't give details, but it should. $ tcprobe -i <file.avi> See the tcprobe manpage for details on how to interpret the output. As far as encoding for DVDs with dvdauthor, this is the most direct and to the point howto I've found. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/files/README.FreeBSD?rev=1.3 You just need to replace the ... in the first transcode command with your format options from the tcprobe command above. Then you have to create your dvdauthor config file. The format is fairly simple markup. http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/ex-title.html. This is the simplest basic approach, there are other ways. Depending on what format you can get from Roxio, you might be able to use a lav2yuv | mpeg2enc pipe, which would likely be faster than going through transcode. You could also capture with lavrec, edit with glav, and then use the lav2yuv | mpeg2enc pipe to encode on linux. All these programs come from the mjpegtools package. You can also capture in yuv4mpeg format with xawtv and then encode directly with mpeg2enc. If you're not doing much editing, this is the _really_ simple and quick way. I can probably help if you have questions along the way. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
