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

[Andrew Dodd]

Quoting Chris Delis <cedelis at uillinois.edu>:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:33:46AM -0500, Dwaine Garden wrote:
> > 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
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 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.
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.)