Hello Mike, On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:00:10 -0500 "M.Lewis" <cajun@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > > 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 > > > > Thanks to all. I'll review these suggestions and see which one best > suits what I'm looking for. Thanks for all the suggestions! Don't know what it worth yet, but for DVD authoring, freshmeat.net has just announced DeVeDe: http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html Regards, -- wwp
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