Ed Greshko wrote: > 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. Thanks Ed, this part I can handle. I've written many data DVDs before. I can even get K3B to do it if its already in ISO file structure format (ie, the directories are in the right places). -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
