From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 9 01:15:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B759316A402 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-1.gradwell.net (lon-mail-1.gradwell.net [193.111.201.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3657E13C442 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-1.gradwell.net ([193.111.201.125] helo=webmaker country=GB ident=dave^pop3*dgmm*net) by lon-mail-1.gradwell.net with esmtpa (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.243) id 45cbcb27.5684.31 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:19 +0000 (envelope-sender ) From: dgmm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F12DE7BF@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> In-Reply-To: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F12DE7BF@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702090115.21383.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Subject: Re: Guidance requested for multimedia conversion 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: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:15:22 -0000 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