mpeg to DVD [solved]

jgaffney · Apprentice Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Posts: 165

Hello,

I realize there are alot of posts about authoring DVD's, but most talk about creating fancy menus, background music and a bunch of other stuff I don't care for.

I currently have an mpeg file that I would like to put onto a DVD to playpack in my DVD player. I'm looking for a quick easy way to do this. From what I've found dvdstyler or qdvdauthor will do this for me but both are very clunky and I can't seem to get either to work.

Is there an easier way to get this to work? I can do without menus if possible.

dargosch · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 101

Hi,

Maybe you could try the tips provided by the mythtv people here
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.19

Good luck!

/Fredrik
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tuxicated · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 120

If the MPEG file you are talking about is 100% DVD compatible, you can author it using this tool:

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27528

this tool can also check if your MPEG is really DVD compatible. In case your MPEG is not DVD compatible, it needs to be re-encoded. You can do that using:

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29587

jgaffney · Apprentice Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Posts: 165

Thank you for the replies, I finally got it working. So for those looking for a quick easy way to burn an avi file to a DVD without weeding through the long how to's around here is what I did.

I Used ffmpeg and KDE DVD Authoring tool (as mentioned by tuxicated)

ffmpeg -i movie_file.avi -target ntsc-dvd -aspect 4:3 movie.mpg

The KDE DVD Athoring tool is very nice, it blows dvdstyler and qdvdauthor away. It's very simple and easy to use, although it's not in portage yet. It's quite easy to install, just make sure you have the dependencies first (It tells you, they can alll be emerged) and kommander installed.

I haven't tried Km"Pg2 MPEG2 Encoder" yet, but will later this week. ffmpeg command line is quite easy but it would be nice to have a GUI so you don't need to lookup switches and syntax if you want to do anything beyond the basics.