writeit makes life easier for burning CDs from the command line

http://writeit.sourceforge.net/

The tovid suite http://tovid.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#s2

The tovid suite is primarily a collection of bash scripts, each designed for a specific task. It use mplayer instead of mencoder to encode video to MPEG format.

writeit is a command line perl front-end to a number of CD/DVD burning programs, a swiss-army knife for burning. Among the functionality: burning of CD-R(W), DVD+/-R(W), Audio CDs, (S)VCDs with menus, XviD/DivX to DVD-Video conversion, …

A number of simple examples are:

#  burn an iso:
$ writeit.pl --burn marc-tng.01.iso

# create multiple isos from a series of directories
$ writeit.pl --image tng.02 --image tng.03 --image tng.04

# burn a cue/bin file
$ writeit.pl --raw image.cue

# write a dvd+/-r(w) from directory or from an iso
$ writeit.pl --dvd data/
$ writeit.pl --dvd data.01.iso

# The following options burn an image immediately on the disk, you might want to check the menu building options that are implemented in writeit.pl to store multiple mpg tracks (X)(S)VCD on one disk (CD or DVD)

# create a (X)VCD
$ writeit.pl --vcd file.mpg
# create a (X)SVCD
$ writeit.pl --svcd svcdfile.mpg

# Transcode 3 files using the mplayer plugin of transcode to a DVD image. Create a seperate title for eacht file. The result will be a DVD image (*.iso) which contains 3 titles.
$ writeit.pl --mplayer --titles --dvdv 24.s03e01.ws.dvdrip.xvid-sfm.avi --dvdv 24.s03e02.ws.dvdrip.xvid-sfm.avi --dvdv 24.s03e03.ws.dvdrip.xvid-sfm.avi

2.16.1 2004-09-20
2.16   2004-09-20
2.15   2004-04-13
2.14   2003-11-27

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