Re: [Hampshire] convert download video to domestic DVD?
Well thanks to all for their suggestions comments. All I apparently needed to do was install devede through Synaptic (updated mplayer first with apt-get, though I am not sure how necessary that was; and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse was already there). It's not the most intuitive of interfaces and the docs are ... oh, what docs? There don't seem to be any. But after making a coaster I seemed to get the hang of it and it seems to have done the job OK. Havenot watched the produced DVD all through, but it loads and starts OK. I noticed devede bringing in dvdauthor as it installed. I'm guessing it is to some extent a wrapper round that and some of those converter tools with 20 parameter argument lists. I am all in favour of the CLI and that is where I spend most of my time, but when I see vic...@ss07:~/QGW02_2009$ man mplayer | wc -l 8079 then I am quite happy to let someone/thing else do the heavy lifting. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] convert download video to domestic DVD?
Hi, OK from TV licence POV: yes OK for copyright: no Would that stop me: no :) Install Mplayer, w32codecs (from the Medibuntu repos) and the Gstreamer ugly codec set. This will give you the ability to play just about any media file. Then install DeVeDe. This will give you the ability to make a DVD that will play in a standard player from any set of files that your newly pimped Mplayer install can play. Enjoy! Paul. --Original Message-- From: Victor Churchill Sender: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk To: Hampshire LUG Mailing List ReplyTo: Hampshire LUG Mailing List Subject: [Hampshire] convert download video to domestic DVD? Sent: 29 Apr 2009 22:29 I have some material downloaded by BitTorrent of a TV series currently being broadcast. (I believe this is OK from a TV license viewpoint and trust it is from the copyright viewpoint as well.) The download files are .avi format, and while I can view them on my desktop my OH would like to watch them on the regular TV (I can't think why... something to do with the space in here? ;-) The home DVD player does not like a DVD burnt with the .avi files. The TV has an S_Video input but I do not have an S-Video output on the laptop. Likewise a yellow socket whose name I do not know on the TV but not on the laptop. Normal (VGA?) video out on laptop but not in on TV. So no direct connection. Is there a way on Ubuntu to write a 'regular' DVD that will play on a domestic player? -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] convert download video to domestic DVD?
--- On Wed, 29/4/09, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: The TV has an S_Video input but I do not have an S-Video output on the laptop. Likewise a yellow socket whose name I do not know on the TV but not on the laptop. Normal (VGA?) video out on laptop but not in on TV. So no direct connection. hi victor make sure your graphics card is capable of tv out before purchasing any cables. i had a quick search and adaptors such as these [1] do not work on all computers. regards bryan [1] http://www.computercasesandcables.com/ccc/CV-25120.html -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] convert download video to domestic DVD?
2009/4/30 B STEVENS b.stevens...@btinternet.com: --- On Wed, 29/4/09, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: The TV has an S_Video input but I do not have an S-Video output on the laptop. Likewise a yellow socket whose name I do not know on the TV but not on the laptop. Normal (VGA?) video out on laptop but not in on TV. So no direct connection. hi victor make sure your graphics card is capable of tv out before purchasing any cables. i had a quick search and adaptors such as these [1] do not work on all computers. Thank you for that cautionary note, Bryan. That is indeed the sort of item I was thinking of looking for. Fortunately my wife's laptop is a fairly newish one and I would hope that it would be capable of this but I suppose age is not really that relevant; it's just a case of what the manufacturers chose to include. I will probably try the DeVeDe route first for my immediate problem, but this could be a useful fallback anyway. victor -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] convert download video to domestic DVD?
Thanks all for the replies. After reading Hugo's post I started thinking it might be easier/quicker to hunt around for a hardware solution (the right sort of cable) but I will take a look at DeVeDe. Will report back how I get on... -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] convert download video to domestic DVD?
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:42:42PM +0100, Leo wrote: I'd also have thought that mplayer or ffmpeg could convert them to MPEG2, but don't know the specific command off the top of my head. Yes, they can. However, your difficulty is shared by everyone else. They're both very hard to drive unless you know a huge amount about both video encoding and the app in question. That was why I avoided mentioning either of them yesterday... :) Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: h...@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- You shouldn't anthropomorphise computers. They really --- don't like that. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] convert download video to domestic DVD?
Hugo Mills wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:42:42PM +0100, Leo wrote: I'd also have thought that mplayer or ffmpeg could convert them to MPEG2, but don't know the specific command off the top of my head. Yes, they can. However, your difficulty is shared by everyone else. They're both very hard to drive unless you know a huge amount about both video encoding and the app in question. That was why I avoided mentioning either of them yesterday... :) Hugo. I did this a couple of years ago with mencoder to convert the format and qdvdauthor to make the dvd. Mencoder needed a command line about 20 parameters long - I got it off someone's web page. Qdvdauthor was fairly easy. The mencode parameters required are probably still on various howtos. ISTR most of them could just be cut and pasted MikeD -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
