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    Re: why is it that creating DVD movies in linux is such a beetch

    Dis you try the todiscgui along with tovid?

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    I like to use DeVeDe (latest from getdeb.net)... I just add a few .avi's, let it do the work and I'm left with an .iso file I can burn with Brasero... How hard is that

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    Re: why is it that creating DVD movies in linux is such a beetch

    You need to have a system. DVD making in Linux is a biotch until you have a good system.

    Firstly, let me recommend you compile your own versions of ffmpeg and mplayer/mencoder, it will save you a lot of hassle down the road if you want to do other types of conversions. There are 2 good threads on this forum for that.

    For one single video that you want to convert to DVD, I agree with the tovid method or some mencoder/ffmpeg script. It's the easiest way. More than one video, then use DeVeDe (from the author's site, not repository version). Then you get the menuing as well.

    DVDstyler is a nice graphical frontend to dvdauthor if you want simple menus and text buttons. If you want snapshot or animated buttons I have not found anything in Linux to do that, so I use TMPGenc DVD Author under wine.

    If you work with MPEG2-TS files, there is an essential prog called "replex" (google for it) which remultiplexes TS files into PS for using with DVDstyler/dvdauthor.

    Some other tools you'll need:
    WinFF (use version from author's site)
    Avidemux
    GOPchop
    GOPdit
    DVBcut
    "Video Convertor Script" (search these forums)
    k3b
    encode2mpeg
    dvdfab decrypter (under wine)

    I'm not at my box right now, but I think that's the majority of the key apps you need to cover commercial cutting, encoding, and authoring.

    There are a few other tricks you can pull such as when you have a video that is broken up into multiple parts. You can use the good ol "cat" command or mencoder with direct copy options, prior to encoding. Search for both of these methods.

    There is one other gui dvdauthoring program called qdvdauthor, it supports snapshot buttons and looks really promising in general for some advanced authoring. I was trying to help the developer get it to work with multi-core systems but was never able to get it fully working. I don't know what the status of it is now.

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    Re: why is it that creating DVD movies in linux is such a beetch

    Quote Originally Posted by timcredible View Post
    what? making dvd movies in linux is super easy. have avi files? open devede, point to all your avi files, click next, and in a few minutes you have a dvd iso, ready to burn and play on any dvd player. seriously, it takes no time at all and no knowledge. devede is in synaptic
    Few minutes??? More like a few hours.

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    Re: why is it that creating DVD movies in linux is such a beetch

    I use Devede for my dvd stuff.But tovid is also nice but Devede's gui is far better.

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    Re: why is it that creating DVD movies in linux is such a beetch

    Hallelujah! For the first time since I began with Linux... and I started with RedHat6.0 and Corel Linux too... I made a DVD that worked!!! Thank you all for that "MANDVD" program. It is beautiful!

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    Re: why is it that creating DVD movies in linux is such a beetch

    I use Mencoder and ffmpeg exclusively for transcoding files... well apart from ripping DVDs which I use k9copy for as it is really easy.

    I spent many man hours creating a script to do my transcoding for me, and it was a real PITA, but it only works for mpg or raw dv files so it's probably not that useful for others. Half of the GUI tools you find just use ffmpeg or dvdauthor or mencoder on the back end anyway, so if you're having issues with GUIs, maybe you should bite the bullet and read the mencoder manual It was really helpful, and it has sections for getting certain tasks done, but it is very time consuming.

    One thnig to note: If you create a DVD ISO using DVD author (in intrepid), it will not play with Totem Gstreamer due to a bug in gstreamer, but VLC and Mplayer will play it fine.

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    Re: why is it that creating DVD movies in linux is such a beetch

    Quote Originally Posted by sstusick View Post
    Few minutes??? More like a few hours.
    The transcoding can take quite a bit of time if you have a slow system. There´s nothing an authoring tool can do about that.

    On my system, I can bang out a DVD in about an hour, including transcoding and burning. That´s not bad.

    By the way, I think timcredible meant that it only takes a few minutes to get it going. He´s right about that. DeVeDe is outstanding in that regard. The rest of the time is spent with transcode doing it´s thing.

    My only beef with DeVeDe is that it won´t launch two copies of transcode at the same time. I have four cores but it will only nail one up and I have to wait for all of the transcoding to happen serially, even if I have multiple video files going into the DVD. It could be way faster with a small amount of loading logic and multiple transcode launches.

    Still, it´s tough to knock an application as slick as DeVeDe. It does it´s job simply and effectively. I give it 4.5 penguins.

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    Re: why is it that creating DVD movies in linux is such a beetch

    Quote Originally Posted by racgtpc View Post
    Hallelujah! For the first time since I began with Linux... and I started with RedHat6.0 and Corel Linux too... I made a DVD that worked!!! Thank you all for that "MANDVD" program. It is beautiful!
    Using Ubuntu Jaunty capture your DV with KINO (don't forget to run Kino as "sudo kino" in a terminal window to get firewire to work). Then burn to DVD with MANDVD after adding image and sound and text to menu (haven't tried animations yet). Seems to work great! Also have had really good luck so far with Jaunty and K9COPY for backing up my new commercial DVDs.

    All packages and dependencies for above software were installed on fresh install of recently released Jaunty 9.04 i386 using Synaptic Package Manager. All updates per Update Manager have also been applied.

    LM

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    Re: why is it that creating DVD movies in linux is such a beetch

    It seems whatever software I use it converts ac3 audio to mp2
    during the process.Is there way to make ac3 audio mpg video
    and retain the ac3 audio?

    Any ideas
    Thanks /bob

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