Gunnar Sjoo пишет:
> Dear forum,
> 

s/forum/"mailing list"/

> my problem is that I want to be able to burn video files to CD:s or DVD:s and 
> I want to do it with Linux (Mandriva 2008 free).

GNU/Linux is not free but Open Source, free only beer :))

>       My cousin does this regularly, he's using Windows and says it's a piece 
> of cake.

Ah, Windows...

>       I've tried to burn video files with K3b, but I always fail, the 
> text "Error" shows and if I have the audio on I can hear a sound like a 
> scornful laughter from the loudspeakers. This is not to my liking.

K3b is just GUI front-end which use console applications like:
cdrdao, cdrecord, dvd+rw-format, eMovix, growisofs, mkisofs,
normalize, readcd, sox, transcode, vcdxbuild, vcdxminfo, vcdxrip

It have not it's own algorithms to burn CD/DVD like Nero or some else
product in Windows world :)

It means, that k3b just help you to burn CD/DVD with graphical interface
(GUI)

If you have an finished project ( or some files ) you can burn it from
console:

// example from burn DVD:

$ growisofs -Z /dev/sr0 -R -J /home/siegerstein/clip.mkv

where /dev/sr0 - is SATA DVD+RW driver in my system.
if you have IDE it can be /dev/hdc ( search you device by exec
$ cat /proc/partitions )

-Z - clean & write all disk, do not merge
-R -J - Rock & Juliet ext
/home/siegerstein/clip.mkv - path to your data

run
$ man growisofs
for more info

transcode is not CD/DVD burner application. It audio/video converter.
k3b or other applications use it for making DVD-Video disk or
audio/video converting on fly...

>       Looking for a solution, I found an article about the program ManDVD 
> claiming that "Let me tell you beforehand that this program is simply 
> amazing. The amount of tasks it can achieve is enormous........."
>       Well, I downloaded it but it didn't work, probably because some support 
> programs were missing, among them Transcode.
>       Tried to download Transcode and studied the instructions in Transcode 
> Wiki, such as Documentation - Building Transcode - Installation instructions 
> and understood absolutely nothing.
>       Starting with the first command in the instructions
> ./configure --help

To install *ANY* program in *nix:
1. download source
2. unpack it
3. ./configure
4. make
5. make install ( by root )

for transcode:
in console, run:
$ wget http://fromani.exit1.org/transcode-1.0. 5rc4.tar.bz2
$ tar xf transcode-1.0. 5rc4.tar.bz2
$ cd transcode-1.0.5rc4

Now you must run ./configure --help to see options,
and then ./configure with you options, for example for my needs:

env CFLAGS="-march=prescott -mtune=prescott -pipe -O2 -ggdb" ./configure
--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-3dnow --enable-mmx
--enable-sse --enable-sse2 --enable-libavcodec \
--enable-libavformat --enable-libmpeg2 --enable-experimental
--enable-statbuffer --enable-v4l --enable-oss --enable-alsa
--enable-freetype2 --enable-lame --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-ogg \
--enable-vorbis --enable-theora --enable-libdvdread --enable-libdv
--enable-a52 --enable-faac --enable-libxml2 --enable-mjpegtools
--enable-sdl --enable-imagemagick  --enable-libjpeg --enable-iconv \
--enable-shared

You can simple run
$ ./configure
$ make

Now from root user: ( $ su - or $ sudo )

# make install

It's all :)
Now transcode is install.
It was install from source ( unix way ;) )

I'm not use Mandriva, but sure it have it's own system
manager package.
Try urpmi transcode (I'm not sure) to install from repositories.


> in what catalogue am I supposed to be when I write this command?
>       I've tried with my home catalogue but the only result is the 
> message "Doesn't exist such a file or folder" (my translation from the Polish 
> language).
>       The instructions under the headers Building Transcode - Introduction 
> are 
> also very puzzling to me.
>       So, if anybody in this world knows how to install and use Transcode and 
> knows how to tell it, please tell me.
> 
> Newbie for ever.

You should read some info about using GNU/Linux,
it not Windows :)

Links:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Installing_and_removing_software
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html

Bests,

Alex J. Ivasyuv /* SIEGERSTEIN */

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