Carlos Lorenzo Matés wrote: > Hi. > > El Martes, 8 de Mayo de 2007, Adam Jimerson escribió: >> I have a .avi file that I need to burn to a dvd, I know that I can't >> just load the .avi file into k3b and burn it. I have KDE DVDauthor >> Wizard and QDVDauthor installed on my system but neather one of them >> will accept the .avi, I need to encode it to a mpeg 2 format. In >> order to encode it I have kvideoencoder and videomaker installed, the >> thing with them are that nether one of them wants to work. In >> videomaker I get a transcode error, I have transcode 1.0.3 installed. >> I do not know the details in order to get kvideoencoder to work, I >> need to know what framerate, bitrate, resolution and I don't know what >> I need to set them to. > > have a look at tovid is a nice command to encode avi to several mpeg variants
I agree with the previous poster, tovid is a very nice tool set. It has a gui, and as I remember it takes only a few clicks to create a dvd file system with menues, buttons and everthing, and it accepts all kinds of formats as input and AFAIK does all settings regarding bitrate/resolution/etc by itself. It is more or less a front end to various linux command line tools; it shows you the complete list of command set it uses to do its things, so it is also a good starting point to get familiar with some of the popular video editing cli tools and their switches. It installed nicely with all dependencies fullfilled from Packman for me (OpenSuse 10.2). If you want to master your own dvd, you might also give dvdstyler (also from Packman) a try, it's also very basic and easy, creates dvd menues and everything, but I am not sure wether it will take .avi as input right away. My tool chain is usually: 1. kino to capture and cut all kinds of input, and convert it to mpeg2 (AFAIK it uses ffmpeg as a backend for conversion), then 2. dvdstyler to create the dvd file system, then 3. k3b to burn All software should be available either on the official repositories or Packman. Regards, Franz.
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