Fwd: [PLUG] dvd authoring

["John Fiore" <fiore.mlist@gmail.com>]

I burned another DVD last night.  It turns out the the mencoder
settings that I gave you are fine too.  The dvdauthor settings that I
was using are very plain, and create a DVD with no menus, no chapters,
and the movie starts as soon as the disk is inserted.  If I have time
someday, I might try something fancier, but this served my primary
purpose, which was to back up shows recorded from a certain device
(rhymes with MeeBo) without having to use Windows.

Here are the dvdauthor settings:
  dvdauthor -o moviedvd.dvd -v ntsc+4:3 movie.mpg
  dvdauthor -o moviedvd.dvd -T
  mkisofs -dvd-video -o movieiso.iso moviedvd.dvd

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From: John Fiore <fiore.mlist@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 19, 2006 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] dvd authoring
To: art.alexion@verizon.net, Philadelphia Linux User's Group
Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>


I just started monkeying with this stuff a day or two ago, and I'm
finding the whole thing to be a major pain too.

Here's the command that I used successfully to encode something that
dvdauthor didn't choke on:
  ffmpeg -i inputfile.mpg  -target ntsc-dvd -y -aspect 4:3 outputfile.mpg

For the last hour or two, I've been trying to do the same with
mencoder, using the following settings that are slightly modified from
the ones suggested on the mplayer web site.  We'll see how it goes:

mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf  \
    -vf scale=720:480,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcr  \
    esample=48000 \
    -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=3500:keyint=18:vstrict=0:a
codec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=4/3 -ofps 30000/1001 -o outputfile.mpg
inputfile.mpg

Coincidentally, I just downloaded qdvdauthor for the first time
yesterday.  I haven't played around with it much, but to be honest at
first glance, it doesn't appear to be any easier than  dvdauthor by
itself.  If you have any luck with it, please let me know.

John

On 12/19/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> I am having trouble getting dvdauthor do its magic.  I don't know if the
> problem is the way in which mencoder and ffmpeg are converting to mp2 or
> there is something wrong with my dvdauthor or I am not doing it right.
> dvdauthor seems to choke on "can't parse 1:1".  I get the same message with
> 4:3 and widescreen mp2s.  Is anyone who has successfully used dvdauthor
> willing to try this if I post my mp2 files somewhere?
>
> BTW I am using qdvdauthor as a front end.
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