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if, for some strange reason, you wanted to use Linux/OSS tools to edit your video file before creating your opus of a DVD, then you would use...

Queue the crickets.

P.S. Kino show promise but, it's alpha at best.

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<a href="http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3" title="heroinewarrior.com">Cinelerra</a heroinewarrior.com> or <a href="http://lives.sourceforge.net/" title="sourceforge.net">lives</a sourceforge.net> might be what you'd need as well. IIRC there's some gnome/mono-based app on the way as well.

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<a href="http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/" title="fixounet.free.fr">Avidemux2</a fixounet.free.fr>, but it isn't that complex.

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VirtualDub[Mod] via WINE? It's open source, too, so it's only a matter of time before a replaceable mplayer-based library is made for it.

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Jahshaka, Cinelerra, MainActor, etc.

Reference: "Software for 3D/2D Artists, Designers, etc." here <a href="http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53452" title="linuxforum.com">http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showto<nobr>p<wbr></nobr> ic=53452</a linuxforum.com>

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or you can visit and try <a href="http://www.vhs-to-dvd.com/vhs-to-dvd.html" title="vhs-to-dvd.com">VHS to DVD</a vhs-to-dvd.com> and transfer your home video tapes to dvd. You can get a pretty good conversion at a reasonable price from a lot of places. But what are most of these companies lacking? Care and attention to detail! Other ways you get totally amateurish product done with domestic equipment.
link: <a href="http://www.vhs-to-dvd.com/" title="vhs-to-dvd.com">http://www.vhs-to-dvd.com/</a vhs-to-dvd.com>

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There's a project being programmed in Mono called <a href="http://www.diva-project.org/" title="diva-project.org">Diva</a diva-project.org>. From the sample videos it looks very promising.

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If grepping for AUDIO_FORMAT gives a mysterious number instead of the codec, grep for AUDIO_CODEC instead.

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"Open your favorite editor and create a file called dvd.xml with the following contents:"

I don't see any contents below this statement. Is it just me? I am at work and using IE6.

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Better to use qdvdauthor to master DVD.
<a href="http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/" title="sourceforge.net">http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/</a sourceforge.net>

Works really well

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It's not just you. I'm reading it at home in Mozilla, and also was weirded out by the fact that no content follows that statement.

Can the author please fix the article?

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Yep Firefox 1.5 here and I can't see anything either.

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Same here with Firefox 1.5

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...you could transcode with AVIDemux2, and author/burn the DVD with DVD Styler. If you must burn using a separate program, you can be lazy and use k3b. Dead simple. Not l33t, but then again, this article isn't exactly an 'enterprise Linux resource' either.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-D

And yes, you can edit those viral Intarweb videos with AVIDemux2.

If you're making home movies and you're doing NTSC DVDs, I suggest using Kino, which makes it nearly as dead-simple. You can burn with k3b or use growisofs directly.

I keep intending to write up how I pull my home videos down to 480x480 23.976fps with noise filtering using transcode, but I'm far too lazy to do that.

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<a href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709" title="gentoo.org">http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709</a gentoo.org>

An awesome work from Gentoo Forums guys, excellent, too.

Best

Juan

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Get ToVid <a href="http://tovid.org/" title="tovid.org">http://tovid.org/</a tovid.org> and conversion is as simple as:

Assuming your video is named myvideo.avi and is wide-screen...

tovid -dvd -pal -wide -in myvideo.avi -out mydvd

will get you a 16:9 PAL DVD-compatible file named mydvd.mpg.

You can then get DVDStyler <a href="http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/" title="sourceforge.net">http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/</a sourceforge.net> and craft menus and branching logic if you are up to something complicated. The result can be a DVD structured directory, an ISO or a direct burn to disc.

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Or just use tovidgui (from the same site)

Creating a multi-chapter, multi-file from mpg, avi, wmv with a nice front-end menu is just a drag and drop operation.

I've used it several times and always got good results.

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Agree. After all while it can prove useful to use a command script from a Terminal in certain situations it's not ideal for everyone. Especially since the Linux community is trying to get Windows users to accept "migration" from Windows to Linux as a possibility. It would be easier to accomplish the task of video file conversion and transfer with tools such as those found in the multimedia section here <a href="http://kde-apps.org/" title="kde-apps.org">http://kde-apps.org/</a kde-apps.org>

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What it you had more than one video that you would like to make into one dvd disc with each video being another chapter? Assuming it can be done with multiple files how would you go about it?

Cheers.

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non-gui tools = disaster in a newbie's hands...<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.....

LOL, I have a 13 year old daughter that just copied and pasted the command in, making the appropriate changes and came to show the finished product off to me.

LOL. Email me and I will have her help you if you like.

"Linux...so easy even Windows Users can eventually figure it out."

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I don't think the "newbie" was the target audience for this article. When I read it I thought of it as a "quick recipie" for those who already have a bit of experience with the underlying technologies.

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<a href="http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/" title="sourceforge.net">http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/</a sourceforge.net>

nuf said.

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use the qdvdauthor to generate the dvdauthor.xml file, then fine tune it. Note you need to remove the aspect option that it puts in there (something like 2.1:2 or something)

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Oh wow, talk about a high ceiling.
What easy commands. I'm sure I'll remember those when I need them.

Please. This is just another reason why many people will never convert to linux, the command structure. While it may be simple for some folks, are you seriously going to remember a 4 line 20 different option command line exactally as the program wants it?

non-gui tools = disaster in a newbie's hands.

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tovid is much slicker than this.

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Exactly - unless he can dumb things down to the point where all us 'point and click' end users can do it, he should just shut up and blow away.

After all, it's not like there are 'power users' any more who are actually comfortable with the technology stuff who get any benefit from this kind of material.

The Internet is the realm of the stupid and ignorant - technically competent people should just get away - it's not like they contributed anything to the world we live in.

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how about book marking pages, copy and pasting and then having the flexibility to understand the command-line & modify it to suit needs, the world is not one-size fits all. But this document is a keeper in the bookmarks - great resource

tuxp3 at leetworks dot com

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If you prefer, you can use encode2mpeg.

And yes, you probably should read some information in the man pages or in the documentation to build a very long command-line...

But I promise :
1) you can create a configuration file, so you only need to reed the documentation once ( or if you got some problem... )
2) You can directly burn the dvd, without using any authoring tool. Just get the source video or videos, some background image for the menu, and that's all you need. You can choose,
use some converting tool ( as tmpgenc ) that is very powerfull, but is not easy at all....,
work with an "friendly graphic interface" for build the DVD , and the DVD after about One hour of manual work.... or learn how to write the command line for encode2mpeg...

3) is OpenSource

I hope I have helped to you.
Best Regards
Luis

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Ever hear of a shell script moron?

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I'm getting lip sync errors using the above conversion commands, any ideas?

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My guess is that there's a mismatch in the audio sample rates somewhere along the line. If you create a video that says it has audio sampled at 44 KHz but it's actually sampled at 48 KHz, then the audio would gradually go out of sync, as it would essentially be playing back at the wrong speed. This is the main cause of these types of problems that I've seen in my (admittedly limited) experience with video.

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Thanks, its a pity since it much faster than the TMPGEnc method I've been using to do it.

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I have one video file with this problem. How can I correct the sampling of the audio in this file? I am still not familiar with all the options...

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Awesome tutorial, I've used mplayer/mencoder as a "power user" for nearly 3 years now, and I still hadn't found a way to encode to MPEG-2, instead having to rely on mjpegtools to do the job. Thank you very much!<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)

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Same here. I was looking for a way to do this and your tutorial solved my problem. Thank you very much for posting this.

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If you want multiple files, just add more vob tags, like so:

<tt> <tt><dvdauthor>
  <vmgm<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/>
    <titleset>
      <titles>
        <pgc>
          <vob file="vid1.mpg" chapters="0" pause="2"<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/>
          <vob file="vid2.mpg" chapters="0" pause="2"<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/>
          <vob file="vid3.mpg" chapters="0" pause="2"<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/>
        </pgc>
      </titles>
    </titleset>
</dvdauthor></tt></tt>

This will create a disc with three videos, with chapters at the beginning of each, and two seconds delay between each. No menus, though. If you want to split the videos into smaller chapters, you can add more entries in the chapter attribute. Make sure you get the minutes/seconds/hours right! A comment above mentioned that the guide might be wrong about the chapter division.

Oh, and make sure the total size of the videos is less than 4 700 000 bytes. Your file sizes probably show in Gibibytes (1 GiB = 1024³ bytes), DVD's are 4.7 Gigabytes (1 GB = 1000³ bytes).

Wonderful guide! This was much easier and haxx0r-ish than using tovid, which was giving me headache instead of a DVD.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)

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The line

<tt><vob file="your_video.mpg" chapters="0,0:10,0:20,0:30,0:40,0:50"<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/></tt>

does not create six 10-minute-chapters but five chapters 10 seconds each and one chapter which is 59:10 minutes!
The correct line would be

<tt><vob file="your_video.mpg" chapters="0,10:00,20:00,30:00,40:00,50:00"<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/></tt>

Note: If the first line was right, chapters could only contain full minutes...

Mathis Dirksen-Thedens

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This article was very helpful and launched me into a related and much needed project: HDTV to DVD.

All of what I learned is documented as a HOWTO in my blog. Partly so I wouldn't forget how I got everything working, haha. Maybe this will be helpful to others.

I used the info here and many hours of research and testing to come up with a satisfactory recipe for archiving HDTV.

The biggest problem I had was audio/lip sync. This is fixed with an excellent tool: ProjectX. ProjectX took me a while to get installed & running and I documented it on my blog. I have spent hours (days?) trying various tools to 'fix' the hdtv mpeg files, and so far only projectx does the corrections automagically. Awesome tool.

PX demuxes & creates two files (from the hdtv/atsc hidef files created by MythTV): One for video, one for audio. This presented a new problem, what tool(s) to use to convert the video file to the DVD standard. After much reading, I settled on avidemux2. The next problem was that I needed to run avidemux2 on my fast P4 server (because encoding takes a lot of cpu), but my fast server is my myth frontend and that has a plasma monitor. The plasma monitor does not support the high resolutions that PC monitors have, and this is important because when you load a HD file in avidemux the window is sometimes so large that you can't see all of the controls/buttons! So, I ran avidemux remotely via X11 over ssh. To get around a weird error with GTK (used by avidemux), I hunted and learned that I needed to run ssh with the "-Y" switch.

Back to video: Following one of the many guides on avidemux, I converted the hdtv mpg video to dvd format. Then I used mplex to mux the dvd format video with the ac3 audio file created by projectx. This<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.mpg file is just like the one described by the article here ("your_video.mpg"). Then I just followed the rest of this article.

I really wanted to use the simpler steps in this article, but was forced to use projectx due to the typical glitches that will be in most atsc/hdtv recordings.

I'm now able to free up disk space on my mythtv backend by archiving (compressing) to DVD. Thanks to this article, I would not have been inspired to climb this mountain. Nice article!

Donn Lee

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The mplayer distribution also includes a script wrapper to the -identify option called midentify. This is a much simpler way to get information than directly calling mplayer -identify.

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Excellent ..
.. or you can just use DeVeDe and get it over with

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Can any help on converting wmv to avi or DVD

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This was a fantastic guide, thankyou very much for this! Everything went smoothly thankfully.

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One of the best articles I have ever read!
Thank you all worked amazingly ^_^

Cowboy Bebop Time :D
[Modified by: intel17 on February 28, 2008 04:42 PM]

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