Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Long story short:
> I have a new video camera (sony dcr sr-42). I've records 75 minutes of
> video on it. I can mount its hdd over USB to my (fc6) laptop and access
> the .MPG files which are the recording. Two of them, since the first
> one is 2GB in size, the 2nd file contains the remainder of the video.
> Seems to be an MPEG-2 video w/AC3 audio embedded.
> How do I write this to a DVD that anyone can stick it their stand-alone
> DVD player and play as a single "movie"?
> I tried using "dvdstyler", but it errors out while checking the video
> for MPEG-2 errors (lots of bogus packet sizes), and then "mplex"
> complains about the input files it gets as being unrecognizable.
> dvdauthor assumes that I have VOB files already (I don't).
Are you sure that is the case?
dvdauthor - assembles multiple mpeg program streams into a suitable DVD
filesystem
Have you tried creating an xml file like so....
<dvdauthor>
<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="your_video.mpg" chapters="0,0:10,0:20,0:30,0:40,0:50" />
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>
And using a command such as ... dvdauthor -o dvd -x dvd.xml to create the
dvd-structure in the -o directory....
> MythTV will write out its .mpg recording to DVD for me (and I've done
> it with MythTV recordings), but these files aren't a part of MythTV.
> Any pointers to some *GOOD* tutorials or HowTo scripts that don't
> assume anything? Everything I've found so far assumes either AVI or
> DIVX as the starting video format, or assumes you already know how to
> build VOBs for the DVD (I don't).
> I was surprised that K3B will write data DVDs, but not video DVDs
> (unless I already have the VOB files).
> What packages/scripts have the knowhow to comvert my MPEG-2s into a
> playable DVD? Nothing fancy, just insert the DVD, and have it play the
> single "movie". No menus needed. No submenus/chapters.
> Thanks!
>
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