From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 19 08:46:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C87316A4DE for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:46:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@one.com.au) Received: from one.one.com.au (gatekeeper.one.com.au [125.253.1.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A21A43D92 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:45:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ray@one.com.au) Received: from [10.10.10.1] (pup.local [10.10.10.1]) by one.one.com.au (8.13.6/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k6J8hw2U053297 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:44:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ray@one.com.au) Message-ID: <44BDF0CB.7060503@one.com.au> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:43:55 +1000 From: Ray Newman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <44BD5510.5030308@one.com.au> <20060719005630.473dbd24.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20060719005630.473dbd24.steve@sohara.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: JVC Everio Camera and DVDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:46:02 -0000 I have a problem with the term "re-multiplex"; what does this mean? Also the transcode port won't build anyway. I guess my question should be: what is wrong with the MPEG2 files from this camera? Ray Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:39:28 +1000 > Ray Newman wrote: > >> I have a JVC Everio Camera. This records directly to MPEG2 in files >> on the internal (2 GB) disk - for some strange reason with a .MOD >> extension. I copy these files by mounting the camera via USB to >> my FreeBSD 6.1 system and rename them to .mpg. mplayer is happy >> playing the files. >> >> As near as I can see, most DVD authoring software is aimed at the DV >> tape format. My question: Is there a simple way I can cut a collection >> of these MPEG2 files directly to DVD? > > You probably need to re-multiplex them with mplex or tcmplex to add > the VOBU navigation packets and then assemble them into DVD format with > dvdauthor. You can split them with tcextract (from transcode) or mpeg2desc > (from dvdauthor). If you don't want menus and subtitles then you can avoid > messing with the XML and just use: > > dvdauthor -o > > for each title set you want, and > > dvdauthor -o -T > > to add the basic root menu structure. With one title set this > leaves a DVD that most (all ?) DVD players will just play. > > It's all easier to do than it is to explain :) >