[SOLVED] Guidance requested for multimedia conversion
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Downey Sent: Friday, 9 February 2007 2:57 PM To: Randy Pratt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Guidance requested for multimedia conversion On 2/8/07, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 + dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 February 2007 00:04, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, Being much more a system programmer / database person than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from a video media expert. I need to convert an 8 minute .avi file into a basic dvd. No menus or anything, just a dumb as possible 'load it, press play' disk. As long as I can do that, and also get the dvd player to do loop play, its fine. I have a dvd burner, have used it via command line and k3b to burn data Cds and data DVDs. I am quite happy to load a list of ports to do the conversion, layout and burning for the video DVD... I just need a list of ports to load, and the sequence of command lines to execute. FreeBSD 5.4 Release, KDE 3.5.4. Ports tree within 1 week of current, normally use portmanager for port installs, but direct make is ok too. Thanks Murray T Start here... http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#menc- feat-vcd-dvd In particular, scroll down to section 14.8.5 for some recipes to create the DVD compatible video then you'll want multimedia/dvdauthor to create the disc image and finally sysutils/dvd+rw-tools for burning You might want to look at multimedia/dvdstyler as a GUI front end to dvdauthor and, depending on your set-up/dvd writer it might do the burning from the GUI too. It's not exactly point'n'shoot but all you need should be there. The multimedia/avidemux2 is a bit easier to use (IMO) than mencoder since its a gui-type video editor/converter that can produce the mpeg2 program streams from avi files for use with dvdstyler. Its really quite nice with lots of intuitive features. The ease in converting with any of the utilities will depend largely on the source material. Randy tovid (multimedia/tovid) will do it. Thanks all who responded --- I now have a working methodology ! I am using mencoder with a ginormous command string, followed by dvdstyler. Attempts tovid / dvdstyler -- tovid ran clean, -- dvdstyler didnt like the resultant .mpg file mencoder / dvdstyler [1] -- mencoder ran clean -- dvdstyler happy -- result was 16:9 format ?? -- Played ok on $69 dvd player -- Played ok on picky big Sony home theatre system -- Played ok on laptop PowerDVD player -- didnt load on small (newer) Sony player mencoder / dvdstyler [2] -- mencoder ran clean -- dvdstyler happy -- result was 4:3 format fixed command line cut/paste error -- Played ok on $69 dvd player -- Played ok on picky big Sony home theatre system -- Played ok on laptop PowerDVD player -- didnt load on small (newer) Sony player mencoder / dvdstyler [3] -- mencoder ran clean -- dvdstyler happy added single menu with PLAY button -- result was 4:3 format -- Played ok on $69 dvd player -- Played ok on picky big Sony home theatre system -- Played ok on laptop PowerDVD player -- Played ok on small (newer) Sony player Still to try avidemux2 as I have some small pixelation occurring in smoe frames and an oddity on the credit roll at the end. (white text scrolling up a purple background, leaving trails of small 'blip-marks') But overall, a satisfactory result. Thank you all. mjt ps Greg L, your response wound up in a different folder here so isnt in this thread, thanks to you also re dvdstyler. --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Guidance requested for multimedia conversion
Hi all, Being much more a system programmer / database person than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from a video media expert. I need to convert an 8 minute .avi file into a basic dvd. No menus or anything, just a dumb as possible 'load it, press play' disk. As long as I can do that, and also get the dvd player to do loop play, its fine. I have a dvd burner, have used it via command line and k3b to burn data Cds and data DVDs. I am quite happy to load a list of ports to do the conversion, layout and burning for the video DVD... I just need a list of ports to load, and the sequence of command lines to execute. FreeBSD 5.4 Release, KDE 3.5.4. Ports tree within 1 week of current, normally use portmanager for port installs, but direct make is ok too. Thanks Murray T --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Guidance requested for multimedia conversion
On Friday, 9 February 2007 at 11:04:58 +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, Being much more a system programmer / database person than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from a video media expert. I need to convert an 8 minute .avi file into a basic dvd. No menus or anything, just a dumb as possible 'load it, press play' disk. As long as I can do that, and also get the dvd player to do loop play, its fine. I'm working on just such a HOWTO, but I'm currently missing the first step: convert the AVI to MPEG-2. Maybe mencoder (part of mplayer) can help you there. I'm planning to do this step some time soon as well, so I'd be interested in hearing what you use. The rest is described at http://www.lemis.com/grog/HOWTO/dvdburn.html. Sorry about the format, which describes more the problems you'll find than how to do it; I'm working on a new description, but it's not finished yet. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpYOQhhkfnoH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Guidance requested for multimedia conversion
On Friday 09 February 2007 00:04, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, Being much more a system programmer / database person than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from a video media expert. I need to convert an 8 minute .avi file into a basic dvd. No menus or anything, just a dumb as possible 'load it, press play' disk. As long as I can do that, and also get the dvd player to do loop play, its fine. I have a dvd burner, have used it via command line and k3b to burn data Cds and data DVDs. I am quite happy to load a list of ports to do the conversion, layout and burning for the video DVD... I just need a list of ports to load, and the sequence of command lines to execute. FreeBSD 5.4 Release, KDE 3.5.4. Ports tree within 1 week of current, normally use portmanager for port installs, but direct make is ok too. Thanks Murray T Start here... http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#menc-feat-vcd-dvd In particular, scroll down to section 14.8.5 for some recipes to create the DVD compatible video then you'll want multimedia/dvdauthor to create the disc image and finally sysutils/dvd+rw-tools for burning You might want to look at multimedia/dvdstyler as a GUI front end to dvdauthor and, depending on your set-up/dvd writer it might do the burning from the GUI too. It's not exactly point'n'shoot but all you need should be there. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Guidance requested for multimedia conversion
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 + dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 February 2007 00:04, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, Being much more a system programmer / database person than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from a video media expert. I need to convert an 8 minute .avi file into a basic dvd. No menus or anything, just a dumb as possible 'load it, press play' disk. As long as I can do that, and also get the dvd player to do loop play, its fine. I have a dvd burner, have used it via command line and k3b to burn data Cds and data DVDs. I am quite happy to load a list of ports to do the conversion, layout and burning for the video DVD... I just need a list of ports to load, and the sequence of command lines to execute. FreeBSD 5.4 Release, KDE 3.5.4. Ports tree within 1 week of current, normally use portmanager for port installs, but direct make is ok too. Thanks Murray T Start here... http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#menc-feat-vcd-dvd In particular, scroll down to section 14.8.5 for some recipes to create the DVD compatible video then you'll want multimedia/dvdauthor to create the disc image and finally sysutils/dvd+rw-tools for burning You might want to look at multimedia/dvdstyler as a GUI front end to dvdauthor and, depending on your set-up/dvd writer it might do the burning from the GUI too. It's not exactly point'n'shoot but all you need should be there. The multimedia/avidemux2 is a bit easier to use (IMO) than mencoder since its a gui-type video editor/converter that can produce the mpeg2 program streams from avi files for use with dvdstyler. Its really quite nice with lots of intuitive features. The ease in converting with any of the utilities will depend largely on the source material. Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Guidance requested for multimedia conversion
On 2/8/07, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 + dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 February 2007 00:04, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, Being much more a system programmer / database person than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from a video media expert. I need to convert an 8 minute .avi file into a basic dvd. No menus or anything, just a dumb as possible 'load it, press play' disk. As long as I can do that, and also get the dvd player to do loop play, its fine. I have a dvd burner, have used it via command line and k3b to burn data Cds and data DVDs. I am quite happy to load a list of ports to do the conversion, layout and burning for the video DVD... I just need a list of ports to load, and the sequence of command lines to execute. FreeBSD 5.4 Release, KDE 3.5.4. Ports tree within 1 week of current, normally use portmanager for port installs, but direct make is ok too. Thanks Murray T Start here... http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#menc-feat-vcd-dvd In particular, scroll down to section 14.8.5 for some recipes to create the DVD compatible video then you'll want multimedia/dvdauthor to create the disc image and finally sysutils/dvd+rw-tools for burning You might want to look at multimedia/dvdstyler as a GUI front end to dvdauthor and, depending on your set-up/dvd writer it might do the burning from the GUI too. It's not exactly point'n'shoot but all you need should be there. The multimedia/avidemux2 is a bit easier to use (IMO) than mencoder since its a gui-type video editor/converter that can produce the mpeg2 program streams from avi files for use with dvdstyler. Its really quite nice with lots of intuitive features. The ease in converting with any of the utilities will depend largely on the source material. Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] tovid (multimedia/tovid) will do it. -- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
