On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 11:11 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > Guy Fraser wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-23-08 at 11:07 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > > > >>Strong wrote: > >> > >>>I wrote recently, but did get any respond, trying to rewrite another > >>>way... > >>>I have a DVD movie, that needs to be edited: video and sound. > >>>Thus the question is: what software i should use to unpack from its > >>>format to the format that will be operable for the video audio > >>>processing as the next step? > >>>Finally, i want to compile it in DVD format again. So, it will be nice > >>>to loose its quality minimally. Big thanks, for Your solutions! > >> > > snipped > > > > Cool! > > > > Where did you get the dvd.xml or what do you use to generate it ? > > > > > > > > I got the script from another thread, "DVD Writing". I have bcc'd the > OP of the script and hopefully they can respond if they don't see the > thread. > > from man dvdauthor... dvdauthor - assembles multiple mpeg program streams into a suitable DVD filesystem OK here is a v. basic dvd.xml... <dvdauthor> <vmgm /> <titleset> <titles> <pgc> <vob file="movie1.mpg "chapters="0,0:30,1:00,1:30,2:30,3:00,3:30,4:00" /> </pgc> </titles> </titleset> </dvdauthor> you can find better examples with menus, splash screens etc on the web. the previous script creates the dvd file system in the 'output' directory from this line using a supplied xml file... echo "Authoring DVD..." >>dvdauthor -o output -x dvd.xml To write back to single layer dvd I use... growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video output/ HTH Terry