Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:30:05 +0100 From: dgmm <freebsd01@dgmm.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making dvd from videos. (- hey you're lucky!) Message-ID: <200507252330.06181.freebsd01@dgmm.net> In-Reply-To: <42E30F39.4050804@nawcom.no-ip.com> References: <c6ef380c050723045570349efb@mail.gmail.com> <42E30F39.4050804@nawcom.no-ip.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sunday 24 July 2005 04:47, nawcom wrote: > heres a script for converting your classic codec based avi file to a VOB > file for burning onto a DVD. i didnt test the program out, but i did > check to make sure it's freebsd compatible. and luckly all of the needed > programs are in /usr/ports/multimedia. You're lucky! > http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/wiki?AviToVob > it looks like it does the following: > -1. use mencoder to pull the video out of its container format or codec, > -2. use mplayer to extract the audio channels into a separate file > -3. converts the audio into an MP2 file > -4. use transcode to convert the new avi into a VCD/SVCD compliant m2v > file -5. use mplex to group the m2v and mp2 file to a full working mpg -6. > use dvdauthor to make a legit folder containing the video file, title > info, etc. im sure you can modify it to your needs. > -7. use mkisofs to create an iso file out of the folder > -8. use dvdrecord to burn the fucker. > > 8 steps in one shell script. not that bad huh. i may bookmark this page > for future use. > -Ben You can do it with just mencoder too. mencoder -of mpeg -vf scale=720:576 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:mbd=2:keyint=25:vrc_minrate=600:vbitrate=2500 -oac lavc -af lavcresample=44100 -srate44100 -mpegopts format=mpeg2 infile.avi -o outfile.mpg Not sure about all the settings in that, it's a while since I used it. The bitrates above may or may not be correct. I'd strongly suggest anyone using mplayer/mencoder read the mplayer and mencoder users list linked from the mplayer home page. -- Dave
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200507252330.06181.freebsd01>