Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:56:49 -0800 From: "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com> To: "Randy Pratt" <bsd-unix@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Guidance requested for multimedia conversion Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0702081956g6f6859f8xa8f6d959755d25d8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070208215236.5fb6968e.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F12DE7BF@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> <200702090115.21383.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <20070208215236.5fb6968e.bsd-unix@earthlink.net>
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On 2/8/07, Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@earthlink.net> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 +0000 > dgmm <freebsd01@dgmm.net> 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 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > tovid (multimedia/tovid) will do it. -- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
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