From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 19 15:47:10 2004 Return-Path: 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 D681C16A4CF for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:47:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wingfoot.org (caduceus.wingfoot.org [64.32.179.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E8143D39 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:47:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ges@wingfoot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC83D1F446D; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:47:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (caduceus.wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76555-06; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:47:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [64.32.179.50]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8FD71F446C; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:47:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <414DA9F7.7040205@wingfoot.org> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:47:03 -0400 From: Glenn Sieb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Thunderbird/0.8 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vulpes Velox References: <414CF27E.60709@wingfoot.org> <20040919004838.617c7676@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20040919004838.617c7676@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at wingfoot.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD question... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:47:11 -0000 Vulpes Velox said the following on 9/19/2004 1:48 AM: >>I'm pretty sure I can find AVI/MPEG editing packages for BSD easy >>enough. >> >> >avidemux, mplayer, ffmpeg should take care of nearly all of your >needs > > Yup--as I said... :) >>But I'm having a dickens of a time finding something that will let >>me author DVDs. Any pointing in directions or help would be greatly >>appreciated! >> >> > >Try searching the ports tree :P > >man ports > > Y'know--I *had* searched the ports tree. I found one package, but it wasn't anywhere near 'ready' for primetime. /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor From the homepage "A simple set of tools to help you author a DVD. The idea is to be able to create menus, buttons, chapters, etc, but for now you can just take an mpeg stream (as created by mplex -f 8 from mjpegtools 1.6.0) and write it to DVD." I figured maybe I was missing something, so I figured I'd ask. >I've personally have had better luck with mutlimedia and the like >under freebsd, than I ever have under windows. > > Ah, I haven't as of yet. Best, G. -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759