[mythtv-users] Converting mythtv capture to DVD

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 22:01:18 -0700, JCA wrote:
>     I scheduled a recording with mythfrontend. Mythtv did the
> recording fine, creating an MPEG file. This file plays under mplayer
> in my Linux without problems.
> 
>    Now I fed the MPEG file to dvdauthor, using a dvdauthor.xml file
> that I have successfully used numerous times to create VIDEO_TS
> directories to be burnt to a DVD, which can then be played without
> problems on ordinary DVD players.
> 
>    The problem is that dvdauthor seems to be unable to process the
> MPEG file created by mythtv. It just prints out thousands of lines
> like the following:
> 
> WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...

I use mplex and mencoder to prepare the recording for DVD creation,
like shown here:

http://home.arcor.de/scorpidnb/mythtv/mythcutprojectx

The mplex part is just for re-multiplexing the audio and video tracks.
You don't need it if you have a MPEG stream as your input file.

Regards,
Tino