On 6/15/06, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a few .avi files from TV shows that I have downloaded. I would > like to convert these .avi files and burn them to DVD such that I could > view these programs on my TV (DVD). > > I've done a little bit of searching on Google and have come up with some > seemingly dated instructions on how to accomplish this. > > What I have found thus far involves a GUI. If possible, I would like to > avoid a GUI and just do it from the command line. This might not be > possible, I haven't a clue. > > I would appreciate any pointers to howto's. I am completely clueless in > what might be involved in this process. I had the same issues a while back and here's a great link I found, it's from the Gentoo Wiki, but it's a really good doc on the guts of DVD authoring. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709 I've also used DVDAuthor to build a fairly simply Menu for the DVDs and to transcode them to ISOs as well.
In addition to the previous suggestions, let me introduce you to Videotrans: http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/ Videotrans is similar to Tovid (with no GUI, though), but, up to my best knowledge, Videotrans performs better regarding sound, as the sound of VOB files produced by Tovid have a volume significantly lower than the original AVI file. Paul
