Re: Problems with dvdauthor - please help.

From: Peter (phaywood_at_alphalink.com.au.NO.SPAM)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:32:58 GMT

Groovy hepcat Bill Davidsen was jivin' on Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:01:26
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Re: Problems with dvdauthor - please help.'s a cool scene! Dig it!

>I was asked to create a DVD with some various clips people has assembled
>on a particular topic. Unfortunately some are recorded, some are pulled
>from the net, and they are in various .avi, .wmv, .rm, .mpg etc formats,
>and some were taken with clip recordings on still cameras and are
>downsize 320x200 or something larger but not 640x480.

  You can use transcode (with other tools) to resize and convert video
to the required format. For stills, you can use gimp to do the same. I
find the following transcode command line very useful for creating DVD
compliant MPEG (in PAL format - for NTSC make necessary adjustments):

transcode -V -x mplayer, raw --export_prof dvd_pal --export_par 2 -F
"8,-H -92" -w 6000 -y mpeg2enc,mp2enc -E 48000 -i your_input_video.avi
-o your_output_prefix

You can adjust the quality & size by changing the video bit rate (-w
option).

>The desired result is a DVD with an intro (to be recorded with whatever
>a Sony DV camera generates) and then a menu of clips to view. The small
>format clips really should be upsized to some standard size for NTSC
>viewing, since they are clips of solving problems in the field. I have
>tools to resize still images without serious artifact, I assume there
>are similar video programs and/or methods.

  Like I said, transcode can do that. So can mencoder. No doubt there
are others.

>Can someone point me to the the tools needed and a description of the
>steps to create such a menu and DVD? Preferably somewhere between a set
>of steps to follow blindly and hope (although I would try that) and a
>discussion of the meaning of individual bits in headers, which is only
>useful if you want to write your own application from scratch.
>
>If this is simply more than can be reasonably done with Linux, tell me
>now before I say I can do it ;-)

  It's easily done, though can be a little involved and sometimes
painstaking. Go to the following URL for a very good guide and
discussion of the topic:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709 

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