Have you looked at dvdstyler? I haven't used it but it's supposed to be able to create menus. I think it's command line driven, no gui though.
Matt On Sun, December 24, 2006 10:29 pm, T. Bryan wrote: > For the archives.... > > I finally got back to this project, and I think that I've found a > working > solution. I had considered using this issue as an excuse to buy a Mac > Mini, > but I just couldn't stand to give up on getting this working since I > thought > that it *should* work. :) > > On Sunday 20 August 2006 11:18, T. Bryan wrote: >> So, I finally bout a firewire card for my main Linux machine. I'd >> like to >> download the video from my camcorder and burn some DVDs. I've done >> some >> reading, so I have a pretty good idea of the process, but I'm >> running into >> a problem with dropped frames. > > While DMA was enabled (checked it with hdparm), I think that the main > issue > was that 32-bit I/O and multi-sector I/O were both disabled. Just > making > that change fixed most of my problems. I was still seeing dropped > frames > from time to time, but it was much less of a problem. Today, I > rearranged my > storage a bit.... > >> My machine is older, but it's not ancient. >> AMD Athlon 1 GHz >> 768 MB RAM >> Drives: >> The video is being stored to /dev/hda. >> /dev/hda 160 GB IDE, dmesg says UDMA(100) >> /dev/hdc 8 GB IDE, dmesg says UDMA(33) > > I used to have swap on /dev/hdc. I moved it /dev/hda, and now I can > use > /dev/hdc as a dedicated drive for capture from the firewire card. I > pulled > about 30 minutes of video this afternoon without a single dropped > frame. > > Now I just need to figure out how to create DVD menus. > > ---Tom > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
