From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 9 03:56:55 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 C5D7616A49C for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 03:56:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redchin@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3D313C471 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 03:56:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redchin@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so970192nfc for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:56:54 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UbLYm5U1SogIq2devM0lr4jQ8ENJGpfzoETcQgz06wapChlu0qqCzcbte++HRWNMapaRreJYkMPdfAKgR9z8zL/TzOTCgvu3jcbLcVB+YsKfiKjdeD9GAN/ZF8Qaug1LFhXelbTg48Ao77Ov5ujEAg3STKDgP3u9DuPLDdJUBzw= Received: by 10.82.167.5 with SMTP id p5mr3893242bue.1170993414134; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:56:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.119.10 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:56:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0702081956g6f6859f8xa8f6d959755d25d8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:56:49 -0800 From: "Kevin Downey" To: "Randy Pratt" In-Reply-To: <20070208215236.5fb6968e.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F12DE7BF@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> <200702090115.21383.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <20070208215236.5fb6968e.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 03:56:55 -0000 On 2/8/07, Randy Pratt wrote: > 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 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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.