Hello -
For several months I was successfully creating video DVDs using tovid (http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Installing_tovid). This all went bust after upgrading my system to Ubuntu 12.04. The tovid package in the repo went backwards from 0.34 to 0.33. I did manually reinstall 0.34, but it didn't seem to help. When I try and run "tovid mpg" on one of my video clips, it fails about half the time with a message:
Code:
[tovid]: tovid encountered an error during encoding:
[tovid]: Could not identify source video: <video name>
This message seems to come from tovid's "idvid" script (lines 1123-1125):
Code:
if eval $(idvid -terse "$IN_FILE" 2>/dev/null); then :; else
runtime_error "Could not identify source video: $IN_FILE"
fi
Anyway, figured it's time to throw away the tovid crutch and learn how to use ffmpeg, mplayer, mpeg2enc, or other command-line tools, directly, to convert one of my existing video clips to a video-DVD compliant format. Can anyone help me with this? In the USA, using an NTSC DVD player. Attached below is sample output from "mplayer -identify" one one of my short videos. This example comes from a Samsung camera in MOV format. As an additional complication, the original was taken with the camera held sideways, so the video needs to be rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. I know how to do this in ffmpeg (using -vf "transpose=2" ), but not how to turn that result into something that will play on my DVD.
Hope this is clear - any help would be much appreciated!
Code:
MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Playing IMG_0037.MOV.
libavformat version 53.21.1 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.19.0
libavformat file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang und
VIDEO: [H264] 1920x1080 24bpp 24.000 fps 17156.8 kbps (2094.3 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
major_brand: qt
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=major_brand
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=qt
minor_version: 0
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME1=minor_version
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE1=0
compatible_brands: qt
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME2=compatible_brands
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE2=qt
creation_time: 2012-12-27 23:18:48
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME3=creation_time
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE3=2012-12-27 23:18:48
encoder: 6.0.1
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME4=encoder
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE4=6.0.1
encoder-eng: 6.0.1
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME5=encoder-eng
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE5=6.0.1
date: 2012-12-27T17:18:48-0600
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME6=date
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE6=2012-12-27T17:18:48-0600
date-eng: 2012-12-27T17:18:48-0600
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME7=date-eng
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE7=2012-12-27T17:18:48-0600
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=8
Load subtitles in ./
ID_FILENAME=IMG_0037.MOV
ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=H264
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=17156808
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1920
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=1080
ID_VIDEO_FPS=24.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=MP4A
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=62704
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=1
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=58.26
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
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