From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 9 02:52:38 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 4E28616A402 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 02:52:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-unix@earthlink.net) Received: from pop-tawny.atl.sa.earthlink.net (pop-tawny.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297DB13C47E for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 02:52:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-unix@earthlink.net) Received: from fl-71-54-28-212.dhcp.embarqhsd.net ([71.54.28.212] helo=kt.weeeble.com) by pop-tawny.atl.sa.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1HFLsL-0005d6-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:52:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:52:36 -0500 From: Randy Pratt To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20070208215236.5fb6968e.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200702090115.21383.freebsd01@dgmm.net> References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F12DE7BF@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> <200702090115.21383.freebsd01@dgmm.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 02:52:38 -0000 On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 +0000 dgmm wrote: > 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. The multimedia/avidemux2 is a bit easier to use (IMO) than mencoder since its a gui-type video editor/converter that can produce the mpeg2 program streams from avi files for use with dvdstyler. Its really quite nice with lots of intuitive features. The ease in converting with any of the utilities will depend largely on the source material. Randy --