I normally use transcode to do this job. It's neither fast nor elegant and is a bit fiddly - but it works perfectly. You'll need to split your MPEG file into separate video and audio streams.
Work out what bitrate will allow you to fit your recording onto a DVD and put that in a file (dvd.prof) like this: max_bitrate=4700000.0 Then transcode the video with a command like this: transcode -i input.m2v -y mpeg,null -o output -V -F d,,dvd.prof Hopefully there are more elegant solutions around - this works but has the drawback that my AthlonXP 2500 only manages about 6fps. Laurence On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 20:58, Dr. Peter Bieringer wrote: > Hi, > > sure some of you know about the very nice Windows tool "DVDshrink". > It's an MPEG2 recompressor which compresses the frames instead of > recompress a stream completly. This is much faster. > > Does anyone know about the existance of such a tool for Linux? > > And if yes, is this usable for DVB shrinking? > > I (and I'm sure not alone) looking for such a tool to shrink vdr records to > a size which can be burned on DVD-R. > > E.g. a live music concert record with 160 min duration has a size of 5.5 > GByte, too much for a DVD-R. 20% shrinking would help... > > Thank you very much, > > Peter > -- > Dr. Peter Bieringer http://www.bieringer.de/pb/ > GPG/PGP Key 0x958F422D mailto: pb at bieringer dot de > Deep Space 6 Co-Founder and Core Member http://www.deepspace6.net/ > -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
