[PLUG] oblivious k3b question

[jeff <jeffv@op.net>]

Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> The DVD hierarchy has .VOB, .INF, and some other ones, in directories
> called video_ts and audio_ts. 

Pardon the interruption, but this bit of info took me about a month to 
locate, even using the Redmond Menace<tm>.  Nothing I ran on either OS 
would output anything that any burner would burn to DVD.  The software 
specifically labeled DVD converter wouldn't even give me a .VOB file.

Finally found a program that worked well for the conversion, but failed 
to burn, so I use a 2nd program for that.  Unfortunately not on linux.


> This hierarchy is what you need to write
> to disk, using growisofs, k3b, etc. 

ever so slightly cumbersome.....  :)



> dvdauthor is a bit klunky, a bit hard to get working right, but once you
> master the basics it works really well. I use qdvdauthor for my
> frontend, so I don't have to mess directly with dvdauthor. 

will check that out - thanks.


> BTW: this is the easy part ;-) The hard part is getting those original
> video files into the appropriate mpeg2 format. This involves some black
> magic with transcode, mencoder, avidemux, mplex, and friends.

sure, it's an mpeg2 file, but the audio is encoded in the wrong format, 
the video is in the wrong container, and the DVD won't fit that long a 
program on it.


On a related note, a coworker told me that divx players are becoming 
common in stores (I don't get out much).  They play just about any 
format and seem to be replacing DVD players.  If nothing else, it will 
save huge amounts of DVD real estate, not to mention the sweat and 
screaming caused by trying to convert the files to a burnable format...



-jeff

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