Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation
Don't use straight dvdauthor... unless: * You really enjoy editing large XML files hand * Making complex menus * Very familiar with DVD structure Creating the xml files is not that difficult. I have generated animated menus (with buttons which are highlighted on mouse over and selection) with plain dvdauthor, a few command line tools and a little help of gimp for creating the buttons! I think you can get into it without much effort. Dvdauthor itself has a good documentation here: http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html I don't think that you will have to join your mpg's together, but trial and error will prove that right or wrong! For dvdauthor the mpg's doesn`t need to be joined as you can see in my previous example! If you prefer gui tools you can try media-video/qdvdauthor, media-video/dvdstyler or media-video/tovid. Regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation
Hello, So, I have decided to purchase an external (firewire) DVD burner that is known to be support by (gentoo) linux Any recommendations? Also, I have a series of files as a result of starting and stopping a sony video camera at football games: file M2U1.MPG M2U1.MPG: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex So looking around I cannot seem to be able to find out how you combine these short mpg video files into 'chapters' or such like the sequential files you see in a DVD scene menu. At the very least, I need to be be able to combine them: M2U1.MPG . M2U00043.MPG into a single image for burning onto a DVD. My goals is to be able to take video in lots of small files and combine them into an image and then burn several of these (game) images onto a single dvd for replay in an ordinary DVD player. Any help or ideas are appreciated. James James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation
app-cdr/tkdvd Great frontend for dvd+rw-tools and cdrecord. Runs like a charm on my OpenBSD 4.1 i386 box. Haven't tried it on gentoo yet, but it's nice a lightweight. Also if you like bloatware/KDE, try app-cdr/k3b . Nicer GUI and runs like a charm on my AMD64 Gentoo 2007.0 . I've been using this a while and it never goes wrong. -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation
Hi James Also, I have a series of files as a result of starting and stopping a sony video camera at football games: At the very least, I need to be be able to combine them: M2U1.MPG . M2U00043.MPG into a single image How about, e.g.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ cat m2u00068.mpg new.mpg [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ cat m2u00058.mpg new.mpg You could script this for a large number of files of course. regards Garry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation
On 29 Aug 2007, at 18:59, James wrote: ... So, I have decided to purchase an external (firewire) DVD burner that is known to be support by (gentoo) linux Any recommendations? Hi there, I think you'll find that pretty much all the firewire enclosures use the same chipset(s), (Oxford?) and that they're detected when you plug them in assigned a wossisname, such as /dev/sda or /dev/sdb or whatever. This is certainly been the case with all the USB / firewire hard-drive adaptors I've used; I can't say I've used my firewire writer under Linux but I'm sure it'll work the same. Just stick any DVD writer of your choice in: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817113016 I think you'll find this at least 20% cheaper than buying any prepackaged external writer. Also, I have a series of files as a result of starting and stopping a sony video camera at football games: file M2U1.MPG M2U1.MPG: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex So looking around I cannot seem to be able to find out how you combine these short mpg video files into 'chapters' or such like the sequential files you see in a DVD scene menu. I don't know much about this, but I think you'll prolly want to look at media-video/dvdauthor and maybe media-video/dvdstyler. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 14:27:33 Garry Smith wrote: Hi James Also, I have a series of files as a result of starting and stopping a sony video camera at football games: At the very least, I need to be be able to combine them: M2U1.MPG . M2U00043.MPG into a single image How about, e.g.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ cat m2u00068.mpg new.mpg [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ cat m2u00058.mpg new.mpg You could script this for a large number of files of course. regards Garry You can also use media-video/mpgtx which works from the command line Use mpgjoin to join mpg files, very easy -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 17:59 +, James wrote: Hello, So, I have decided to purchase an external (firewire) DVD burner that is known to be support by (gentoo) linux Any recommendations? sorry, no help from me here :) [snip] At the very least, I need to be be able to combine them: M2U1.MPG . M2U00043.MPG into a single image for burning onto a DVD. My goals is to be able to take video in lots of small files and combine them into an image and then burn several of these (game) images onto a single dvd for replay in an ordinary DVD player. perhaps this should have been a separate email! I've just been looking at dvd authoring too. Try out dvdstyler - http://www.dvdstyler.de/ - it looks pretty good, at least in concept. I haven't tried it yet. I got the idea from a Linux World Expo presentation here: http://www.greenfly.org/talks/multimedia/dvd.html not bad reading. I like the point it makes: Don't use straight dvdauthor... unless: * You really enjoy editing large XML files hand * Making complex menus * Very familiar with DVD structure I don't think that you will have to join your mpg's together, but trial and error will prove that right or wrong! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I had the rare misfortune of being one of the first people to try and implement a PL/1 compiler. -- T. Cheatham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
