From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 06:18:20 2005 Return-Path: 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 C544F16A4D0 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 06:18:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail231.csoft.net (resin.csoft.net [63.111.22.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3094A43D82 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 06:18:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jakemsr@jakemsr.com) Received: (qmail 4286 invoked from network); 3 May 2005 06:24:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO puff.jakemsr.gom) (63.111.27.87) by mail231.csoft.net with SMTP; 3 May 2005 06:24:26 -0000 Received: (from jakemsr@jakemsr.com) by puff.jakemsr.gom (mini_sendmail/1.3.5 16nov2003); Mon, 02 May 2005 23:18:19 PDT (sender jakemsr@puff.jakemsr.gom) Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 23:18:19 -0700 From: Jacob Meuser To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050503061819.GD11140@puff.jakemsr.gom> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <4275A2C3.1000304@chuckr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4275A2C3.1000304@chuckr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Subject: Re: ripping cd's X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 06:18:20 -0000 On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:47:15AM +0000, Chuck Robey wrote: > I am rather amazed that the video work on my amd64 box is going to > remarkably well. The sound works digitally across 5.1 channels, and > what's more, it looks like all of k3b's functions (at least to the point > I understand them) are all working. All completely without any reliance > whatsoever upon x86 compatibility. It's all done with native-built > ports, no packages. > > Anyhow, I have acidrip working well, and I've ripped a dvd. This is > that dvd from a few weeks ago, its' got region==2, and it's in PAL, so I > want to set it up in some format that plays in my friend's old dvd > player, so he can finally, at long last *see* the dvd he paid for. if you need to reencode, to go from PAL to NTSC, use ffmpeg's '-target ntsc-dvd' option, or transcode's '--export_prof dvd-ntsc'. these options should take care of most of the DVD encoding details. > He could have watched it some weeks ago on my system, but he wants to > see it at home. How unreasonable! Anyhow, after I ripped it with > Acidrip, it came right up on an .avi format, all in the same format. > So, question, anyone know what sort of format plays from a cd to a dvd > player (I am happily willing to lose the menus) it might be easiest to just make a DVD, unless you know what the player will grok. making a basic DVD, without menu's and such, may take a few steps, but it's really not that hard. --