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From: Karl Oelschlaeger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 7:34 PM
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Subject: [brlug-general] Re: DVD authoring

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> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:58:37 -0500
> From: Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] DVD authoring
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> Have you tried K3B?  It does DVD.  
> 
> DVD itself, as I recall, is convoluted.  There's a variety of media with 
> similar names, +R, -R, etc., which some players recognize and some do not.   
> Some players even recognize video CDs.
> 
> On Thursday 09 June 2005 07:51 pm, Joseph Fruchey wrote:
> > I have a couple of Family Guy episodes in XviD format (gee, I wonder
> > where I got them...) that I would like to burn to DVD. Where do I even
> > begin? Everything I found when searching seemed so convoluted.
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu.
> >
> > Joey
> 

K3B does do DVD, but does not do the video transcoding and preparation
of video object files yet. You would have to have a way to create the
VTS_X_YY.VOB and VTS_X_YY.IFO files yourself.

Joey, 

I think what you are looking for is the transcode project. You can find it 
here: 

http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode

>From their web page: 

"Transcode is a suite of command line utilities for transcoding various video 
and audio codecs, and for converting beween different container formats. It can 
decode and encode many audio and video formats, e.g.

    * DivX
    * MPEG-1/2/4
    * Quicktime
    * AC3 audio"

And, if I understand it correctly, XviD is a variation (mirror image?) on DivX. 
I haven't played around with DVD's much as I don't yet understand how one is 
assembled and the interrelationship between the various codecs. I did install 
DVD::Rip, which is one of the GUI frontends to transcode, on Xandros and 
successfully ripped a DVD with it. It is pretty slick and rather fast too. I 
ripped a full DVD in less than an hour, which, from I hear from some of the 
Window$ experts that are doing it, is darned fast. I wound up with a bunch of 
files spread over two different directory trees, so then the task becomes how 
to properly reassemble the ripped files. Sounds like a good topic for an 
upcoming Newbies workshop. 

I hope this helps, 

Ed Richards



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