Thompson Freeman wrote:
Anyway, I got the brilliant idea of putting a slide show together of the past year's pictures, tossing in a few (very few!) movie clips that are in asf format,
Has anybody done this type of project with fedora who would also be willing to share advice and experience?
I did something similar about a year ago with video and stills I took of Hurricane Katrina during and after the storm. I have a Sony DCR DVD403 video cam, which records onto mini-dvd and has a usb port; neither feature is conducive to easy use with Linux. The only way to merge the video into a larger movie is yank the individual vob files off a finalized dvd, then chop them up and reassemble them in the order I want using dvdauthor. I wrote myself a little howto. It's ghastly, but it works.
You need vobwalker and videotrans. [jcliburn@osprey howtos]$ more video_instructions.txt Mount the mini-dvd iso image, if necessary. $ sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/iso/image /mnt/fakecd Concatenate the desired vob files into a single vob file. Pay attention to the order. $ cat /mnt/fakecd/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob /mnt/fakecd/video_ts/vts_01_2.vob \ vts_02_1.vob > origname.vob Split the vob file into its constituent cells in preparation for editing. Vobwalker is available at http://anachronda.homeunix.com:8000/~rivie/vobwalker/ $ vobwalker origname.vob "n%2.3d" Use xine to find cells you don't want, then remove the file(s) that contain the cell(s). rm nXXX Move the remaining cells into a subdirectory just to get them out of the way. mkdir cells mv n* cells Make dvdauthor.xml. This particular example produces three (exceedingly short) movies. The first two are real movies; the third is a group of still images that appear for 5 seconds each when played. $ cat dvdauthor.xml <dvdauthor> <vmgm> <menus> <video format="ntsc" aspect="16:9" widescreen="nopanscan" /> <audio/> <pgc entry="Title" pause="inf"> <pre> if (g1 == 999) { button = g2; g1 = 0; } </pre> <vob file="title.vob"/> <button>g0=0; jump titleset 1 menu;</button> <button>g0=0; jump titleset 2 menu;</button> <button>g0=0; jump titleset 3 menu;</button> </pgc> </menus> </vmgm> <titleset> <menus> <video format="ntsc" aspect="16:9" widescreen="nopanscan" /> <audio/> <pgc> <pre>jump title 1; </pre> </pgc> </menus> <titles> <video format="ntsc" aspect="16:9" widescreen="nopanscan"/> <audio/> <pgc> <vob file="/tmp/dvd/washington/cells/g001"/> <vob file="/tmp/dvd/washington/cells/g002"/> <vob file="/tmp/dvd/washington/cells/g003"/> <post>call vmgm menu;</post> </pgc> </titles> </titleset> <titleset> <menus> <video format="ntsc" aspect="16:9" widescreen="nopanscan"/> <audio/> <pgc> <pre>jump title 1;</pre> </pgc> </menus> <titles> <video format="ntsc" aspect="16:9" widescreen="nopanscan"/> <audio/> <pgc> <vob file="/tmp/dvd/washington/cells/w001"/> <vob file="/tmp/dvd/washington/cells/w002"/> <vob file="/tmp/dvd/washington/cells/w003"/> <post>call vmgm menu;</post> </pgc> </titles> </titleset> <titleset> <!-- This titleset is still images, 4:3 format --> <menus> <video format="ntsc" aspect="4:3" widescreen="nopanscan"/> <audio/> <pgc> <pre>jump title 1;</pre> </pgc> </menus> <titles> <video format="ntsc" aspect="4:3" widescreen="nopanscan"/> <audio/> <pgc> <vob file="/tmp/dvd/washington/cells/w004" pause="5" /> <vob file="/tmp/dvd/washington/cells/w005" pause="5" /> <vob file="/tmp/dvd/washington/cells/w006" pause="5" /> <post>call vmgm menu;</post> </pgc> </titles> </titleset> </dvdauthor> Select among the cell files the ones to represent the menu selections. A still image of the cell will appear as menu item. $ cp cells/nXXX Menu1.vob $ cp cells/nYYY Menu2.vob $ cp cells/nZZZ Menu3.vob Make the title background. This background is solid black. The "movie-" commands come from videotrans, available at Sourceforge. $ movie-make-title-simple -o title -m ntsc Make the menu. $ movie-title -o title.vob -T 2x2 -t title Menu1.vob Menu2.vob Menu3.vob Make the dvd file structure. $ dvdauthor -o iso -x dvdauthor.xml Clean up the menu stuff. $ movie-title -C -o title.vob -T 2x2 -t title Menu1.vob Menu2.vob Menu3.vob Check the dvd file structure with xine. $ xine dvd:/path/to/iso/dir Make the iso image file.
