I have no experience with this, but my friend who uses Linux a lot to make DVDs wrote this:
<snip> If Dad isn't interested in DVD menus, then this is all actually quite simple: * Use Kino to transfer the video tapes via firewire from the camcorder into the PC. * Export from Kino in MPEG-2 format (undoubtably the longest part of this process: 3 - 4 hours per hour of video) * Use dvdauthor to create a single playlist DVD filesystem * Use mkisofs to create an ISO image of the DVD * Use growfs to put that iso onto the blank DVD Now, if you want to get into menus and fancy stuff, it gets a lot harder. � Useful links: http://polidori.sourceforge.net/ http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/ No experience with any of those. Of course, the long-term upshot for everyone except Dad is that you can do some amazingly cool stuff with all this command-line junk, as long as you have patience: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8639690 As always, one tool does one task well, and lots of "glue" applications pop up to fill out the user space left vacant with that tool: http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/ And lots of user-created doco: http://gecius.de/linux/dvd.html http://www.pcxperience.org/james/dvd/ http://www.tappin.me.uk/Linux/dvd.html Menus are the hardest bits for me, still. </snip> On Monday 14 June 2004 4:04 pm, Jeff Tickle wrote: > *gasp* :-O HOLY CRAP. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709 > > Yes, this is definitely the traditional Linux way of doing things, for > sure! > > I've been looking for a good project to learn GTK with. Looks like I've > found it! > > Anyone interested in a nice graphical front-end to bring all these > instructions together? I mean I don't mind doing it this way, but Dad > will certainly feel different. So I guess I'll make something to handle > the graphical end of DVD authoring, unless someone knows of a project > already started that I can get in on or something, but you're right, > there's not much out there in this area. > > -Jeff > > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 12:51, Michael Thompson wrote: > > Not sure how easy/hard it is to get the data from the vcr to the > > computer, but I do know that the dvdauthor software I found to try and > > arrange my mpegs on the dvd with menus, etc, was *not* easy. Basically, > > you have to create an XML file with all the menus and movie files laid > > out how you want them, then it creates a DVD iso. After a few hours of > > playing with it, still had no success. Apparently, its not as easy as > > "just putting the files in a VIDEO_TS directory and burning". > > > > A google search on "dvdauthor" will probably bring up some information, > > but if you're looking for something "point and click" (brings us back to > > usability issues again?) then you're probably better of using one of the > > <sigh> "other" OSes... > > > > BTW, I was hoping that my new PowerBook (which came with iDVD) would > > allow me to author my DVDs into ISO files which I could burn on my linux > > PC, but apparently it requires a hack that is *not* allowed under the > > DMCA as my PowerBook did not come with the DVD burner built in. So, if > > you buy a Mac hoping to put your home videos on DVD, pay the extra $200 > > for the DVD burner. > > > > --mike > > > > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:27, Jeff Tickle wrote: > > > Howdy.. > > > > > > My Dad wants to start a fun little conversion project. He has a bunch > > > of VHS tapes that he'd like to convert to DVDs, plus some stuff he's > > > recorded on a digital video camera (not sure of the model... so we'll > > > just assume it works with Linux until I find out otherwise.) > > > > > > Does anyone have experience doing this with Linux? One thing I'm going > > > to have to do is make the entire process as easy as possible. I > > > haven't done much research yet but I just wanted to get word from any > > > of your experiences. The two things I have absolutely no clue how to > > > do are take the video from the camera and write video to a DVD. > > > > > > -Jeff > > > > > > -- > > > Jeff Tickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > JTSoft.net > > -- > Jeff Tickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > JTSoft.net -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
