From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 01:40:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7B416A479 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:40:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1898B43D6D for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:40:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i11so45876nzi for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:40:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pz7TM102S2wpOXqejmvHEOoi8X0/7z3OtB5h1wTnRKvMYHJmZb8ck5c3VAaWAqKOMJg0bCSP6s1j2EqgxtAq4MYDuczsFRaxurYr3dzHRLImnVF7iJH5btnjNmGwJdHuP/Fh4PcRepZrmVIiXzlD9sbafmIhrMuuhNvuRSsJRLU= Received: by 10.36.18.16 with SMTP id 16mr7857164nzr; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.49.20 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:40:30 -0700 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: "Mark Kane" In-Reply-To: <20060620201524.4981169f@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060620201524.4981169f@localhost> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Creating DVD Movies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:40:39 -0000 On 6/20/06, Mark Kane wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006, at 17:48:39 -0700, Derrick Ryalls wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > i was wondering if anyone had a good tool recommendation for creating > > DVD movies with FreeBSD. Since I have a child growing up, it is > > appealing to me to make a copy of their favorite DVD and burn it so > > they can handle the copy, not the original (legal to make backup > > copies). I also was thinking it could be handy to author my own dvds, > > but that might not be for a while. > > > > So far, I can use mplayer to get the DVD to an avi file, but I can't > > find anything to get it back onto a dvd. I have tried dvdauthor, but > > the app kept crashing. Does anyone have any suggestions for this? > > Hi. > > I don't normally back up DVDs so I'm not sure the best software to do > that. I did a quick ports search and "multimedia/lxdvdrip" looks nice, > and may do exactly what you want all in one program. > > As for dvdauthor crashing, I would guess it's because you're not giving > it the right format for a DVD. AVI files can't go to DVD, you need to > convert it to MPEG-2 PS and the proper specifications. For this, I use > a GTK+ program called Avidemux2 (it's in multimedia/avidemux2), although > ffmpeg or mencoder should work also. Here are my steps for an AVI file > to DVD: > > 1) Avidemux to video "DVD". Set aspect ratios in "Configure" and set > "DVD Res" in the "Filters" area. If the audio is not already AC3 (check > from the A/V information button on the toolbar), set audio to "FFM > AC3". Set output format at bottom to "MPEG PS A+V". Save the video > "filename.mpg". This one is the longest step, the other two are quite a > bit shorter. > > 2) Take outputted mpeg file and run it through dvdauthor: > > dvdauthor --video=ntsc+16:9+720xfull -t -f filename.mpg -o output > > 3) Burn the authored DVD with dvd+rw tools: > > growisofs -dvd-video -Z /dev/cd0 output > > For a simple backup though I'd check out lxdvdrip or search through > ports to see if there is a faster solution. I don't see much sense in > going from DVD to AVI then back to DVD when you can just rip directly > from the DVD and burn it back. I provided that info for when you > want to author your own videos though. :) > > Hope that helps. > > -Mark > You know, I did try dvdrip (forgot to mention it) but I found it to be geared toward VCD and burning to a CD-R instead of DVDs. I didn't even see lxdvdrip. The pkg-descr does look like it could be the exact thing I am looking for and will try it out. If I were to follow your steps about for a DVD copy, I assume VOB copy or something similar to produce the mpeg would be substituted in step 1, correct? Though this would not handle DVD9 to single DVD5 (compressed video), I might need to rethink that scenario... Thanks for the pointers though.