[mythtv-users] Kind of offtopic - how do you make a DVD under linux?

Dwaine Garden DwaineGarden at rogers.com
Wed Jan 28 00:39:53 EST 2004


Andrew Dodd wrote:

>Quoting Chris Delis <cedelis at uillinois.edu>:
>
>  
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>>On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:33:46AM -0500, Dwaine Garden wrote:
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>>>Ajay Sharma wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I've used mkdvd and it works, but it's DAMN SLOW.  I have an Athlon
>>>>1900+ and transcoding about a hour of video took four days.  No joke,
>>>>FOUR DAYS.  But at the end of the whole process, I had a DVD ISO that I
>>>>burned with k3b.
>>>>
>>>>Someone posted a howto on the Gentoo forums for how to burn a DVD using
>>>>Linux tools:
>>>>
>>>>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709
>>>>
>>>>Obviously it's a little gentoo specific but the programs are the same.
>>>>
>>>>later,
>>>>ajay
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>That just sucks.   I'm trying to get some videos onto a dvd-r and watch 
>>>them on my player.   Seems impossible.
>>>
>>>Even nuvexport takes about two days to make a svcd.
>>>
>>>I can not believe all the utils in Linux, and all of them suck that 
>>>much.  It kind of defeats the purpose of buying a PVR-350 card.
>>>      
>>>
>>It does?  I don't follow... I can make DVDs in a matter of a few minutes.
>>IIRC, I have found a few working methods from searching the myth archives.
>>
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>>>Does anyone have any suggestions getting the output from the PVR-350 
>>>onto a dvd-+r disc.    Actually watching it on a dvd player?
>>>
>>>4-7 days is not acceptable....
>>>      
>>>
>>It takes me a few minutes to setup an image and maybe another few minutes to
>>burn
>>to plastic.
>>
>>
>>The last time I created a DVD, I used this script (most of it was borrowed
>>from
>>this very list):
>>
>>----------------------------------
>>#!/bin/sh
>>dvb-mplex -t DVD -o ${2}.mpg $1
>>dvdauthor -o $2 ${2}.mpg
>>dvdauthor -T -o $2
>>rm ${2}.mpg
>>sudo mkisofs -dvd-video -o ${2}.img $2
>>rm -rf $2
>>sudo ./cdrecord-wrapper.sh dev=0,1,0 -v ${2}.img
>>----------------------------------
>>
>>The only tricky parts for me was to first find and download the dvb version
>>of 'mplex' (I got mine from DVB-0.9.tar.gz).  Also, you need a version of
>>mkisofs that supports the '-dvd-video' option (cdrtools-2.00.3.tar.gz I
>>think?).
>>I also encode using stream type: DVD-Special2.
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>I've had no problem with the plain "dvd" stream type.
>
>I've found it easier (and usually more consistent) to use mpeg2desc from
>dvdauthor to demultiplex the audio/video streams, and mplex from mjpegtools to
>remultiplex.  I posted a similar script that uses those tools within the past
>week or two.  It also uses FIFOs instead of files on disk, which VASTLY
>increases the speed of the process and doesn't require gigs of scratch
>diskspace.  (Still needs scratch space for the DVD filestructure though, but
>none for the remultiplexed MPEG that goes into dvdauthor.)
>
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Would you mind posting again the script.  I could not find it on the list.

I also can not find the DVB-mplex software.   The newest version of 
dvb-driver is missing the apps.

I'm lost of the dependancies of all the software to complete a 
conversion to dvd type format.

I must be stupid.

Dwaine.


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