avi to DVD suite

[c0vert]

Hey guys,
I'm wondering if anyone knows of some good program where I can put .avi files onto a DVD that is playable on my DVD player. Also something nice about it would be the option of making a DVD menu so you can choose which clip to play (like on DVD movies). I know people have done it on Mac, so I'm wondering what programs are out there to do it on linux, and which ones have the best features.

Thanks
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AMD 64 3000+
1 Gig Corsair DRR400 RAM
ATI RAdeon 9800 Pro
KN8E-deluxe
SATA 120 Gig Seagate

[gimpel]

That massively depends on your DVD player being able to play MPEG-4 directly or not.
If it can, just put the avi on DVD, and play it.
If it can't, then you'll have to convert it to MPEG-2 PS first.

There is a great GUI tool called avidemux which works quite well, but I prefer some easy command line.
Here is a GREAT howto: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709

I just put those two transcode commands each in a script, the one to create a full dvd, the other to create a half size dvd in order to put 2 movies on one dvd.

For authoring the menus I use DVDStyler.

There is also a tool called tovid in portage which can do all this in one command
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http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki - pro-audio software overlay

[c0vert]

Thanks a lot, I'll check those out.
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AMD 64 3000+
1 Gig Corsair DRR400 RAM
ATI RAdeon 9800 Pro
KN8E-deluxe
SATA 120 Gig Seagate

[paulbiz]

I've had good luck with tovid and the tovid GUI

The one problem with everything I've ever tried in linux is getting the sound and picture in sync. Tovid seems to do as good a job as anything I've tried. TV shows can be problematic, though. After the cut-commercial breaks the sound can go bad. Re-encoding from AVI-to-AVI and reindexing (mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -idx) might fix it. I haven't had many times when I needed to make a DVD from TV shows.