Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> 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.... > > No, I didn't, I'd rather have a tool that I can say: > > create_dvd file.mpg > > and have it do all the work, since I have no clue how to convert/massage > the .mpg files into the correct ISO format to be burned onto the DVD. > So, telling me to set up an .xml file assume that I know what to put in > the .xml file (which I do not know). Doing above should create a structure in the directory specified by the -o parameter. Then it is a simple matter to use a command like... growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video ./dvd/ The above assumes your dvd writer is /dev/dvd and the structure created by dvdauthor is located at your present position in the filesystem.
