# burn an iso: $ writeit.pl --burn marc-tng.01.iso
This Module is part of the Movie Making Manual
5.11 VCD & SVCD Authoring 5.12 DVD Authoring # 5.13 Streaming video
5.13.1 p2p video streaming for low bandwidth
# 5.14 Subtitles
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writeit makes life easier for burning CDs from the command line
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
Super_demux, a better transport stream TS to ES demultiplexor.
This one will produce clean ES where mplayer and ts2pes + es_demux of convergence.de fail. If you get header problems with the demuxed audio .mp2, run it through mpgedit like this:
mpgedit -e0 q2.mp2
This will produce a correct mp2.
You can find mpgedit at http://www.mpgedit.org/mpgedit/.
xste-3.5.4 subtitle editor, the latest version with now also output for subtitler-yuv. Add your own subtitles in your own language, using an audio file as reference.
The xste chapters.txt format is however compatible with dvdwizard and dvdauthor.
subtitler-yuv-0.6.4.2.tgz subtitler-yuv for use with mjpegtools for adding subtitles, pictures, and effects embedded in the picture.
Perhaps add in screen subtitles and effects to .mpv (mpeg2 stream) with subtitler-yuv (from xste .ppml output): see the subtitler-yuv docs.
combine_wave-0.2.tgz combine_wave, to sync up 2 audio channels and / or combine 2 mono audio channels into one stereo wave channel, command line tool.
multimux-0.2.3.tgz multimux combines up to 8 audio mono wave channels into one big multi channel wave file, that can then be turned in for example AC3 surround with ffmpeg. That way you can have an AC3 channel on the DVD that has for example: front left English, front right Spanish, rear left French, and rear right Italian. For example in a hall you can have English on the PA, and several headphones for the other three languages for people from other countries. 5 languages also works OK, use center speaker, but 6 will not work, LFE output is only for low frequencies. This requires a DVD player with 5.1 channel output, or a 4 channel (at least) soundcard if you play the DVD or .vob on the PC. Delays can be specified for each channel, so you can align the sound. Now with support for files > 2 GB. command line tool.
pwavecat-0.4.4.tgz concatenates any number of audio files to stdout. All input files need to be in the same format (as the first), output file will also be in that format. command line tool.
substract_wave-0.2.tgz This program substracts 2 mono wave files from each other by a factor specified on the command line. It can also add 2 wave files (of half amplitude). The input files must be in the same format. This can be used to cancel a background main language in a translation channel. Here mono stereo via net is an interesting experiment using substract wave. Here mono stereo via net with AC3 the same experiment with low bitrate AC3. command line tool.
tcmplex-panteltje-0.4.6.tgz tcmplex-pantelje, audio video multiplexer from the transcode distribution, re-wrote it for 8 audio channels, this version fixes an AC3 bug causing 'pts moves backward' messages in dvdauthor. Timing problem with delays fixed, compile problem with gcc-3.3.3 fixed, error if no -c flag fixed.
submux-dvd-0.5.1.tgz submux-dvd, subtitle multiplexer, muxes subtitles into .vob, based on original 'submux' for CVD and SVCD by unknown author, changed for DVD muxing and coding support (use only DVD!). This accepts xste .sub output. Extensive research on DVD specifications has been done by Adrie Stolk to make this re-write possible. A Python script for format conversion is being developed by Mike Albon.
A Linux subtitle editor with many possibilities, all you need is an audio wave file.
Current version is 3.5.4
It is a 'filter' for use with the Linux transcode program.
Current version is 0.8.6
Current version is 0.6.4.8 BETA, audio and video editing to frame accuracy, redefinable text objects, bugfixes! Use with xste-3.5.4 or later, that version has a GUI interface with programmable animation templates.
Reads yuv from stdin and writes yuv with the effects added to stdout!!! All that in mjpegtools format, just pipe your movie throught it! Subtitler-yuv uses mplayer type fonts.
lsm info file This will grab subtitles from (for example BBC) teletext, and make a .srt file. You can use the .srt file with mplayer, or encode to DivX with mencoder or transcode, and use the .srt in a standalone player.
KPlayer is a KDE media player based on MPlayer. With KPlayer you can easily play a wide variety of video and audio files and streams using a rich and friendly interface compliant with KDE standards. Features include video, audio and subtitle playback from file, URL, DVD, VCD, audio CD, TV, etc.; volume, contrast, brightness, hue and saturation controls; zooming, full screen and fixed aspect options; status and progress display and seeking; detailed message log; drag and drop support; and configuration dialog.
ksubeditor is a DivX subtitle editor for KDE 3.x. It is able to edit and convert subtitles between different subtitle formats. It is able to easily change the time of the subtitle and fit it to the movie.
Development Status: 4 - Beta Latest Releases: ksubeditor-0.2 September 29, 2003
GNOME Subtitle Editor is a GNOME tool for editing and converting DivX ;-) Subtitles. It reads/writes SubRip (.srt) and MicroDVD (.sub) files.
Release:
0.4pre 2002-06-04 0.3 2002-03-09 0.2 2002-02-28 0.1 2002-02-20
GTKsubtitler is small program for editing and converting DivX subtitles. It supports : moveing mergeing converting to iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-2 on four subtitle formats.
PROJECT CLOSED, as of 2005.04.12
Subtitles supports the simple loading, re-timing, converting, and storing of movie subtitle files. The supported formats include .srt, .sub, and .smi.
Released 27 Jan 2005
KSubtile allows moving, stretching, and editing of SRT subtitle files and all other subtitle formats understood by MPlayer.
Concrete future features
Fix bugs.
Things being worked on
Nothing in particular.
..taker/VOBSub/
ExtSub is an utility which extracts and decodes subtitle data from VOB files.
../vobstripper/
vobstripper copies a .VOB file containing DVD video from stdin to stdout, discarding subtitles and all but one AC3 audio channel.
..php/dvdprobe/
dvdprobe is a Python interface to the tcprobe program from transcode. It scans a DVD for useful information such as titles, chapters, playback time, audio tracks, and subtitles.
..s/ifoinfo.php
ifoinfo is a small tool that uses libdvdread to extract title information from a DVD. This includes information about audio-tracks, subtitles, and chapters.
A subtitle timing utility for Linux written in Qt, much like SubStation Alpha on Windows. Handles editing of various subtitle formats and timing with the help of an audio file.
Latest Releases: 2005-03-31
Subconv converts divx subtitles from one format to another (from srt/ tmplayer/mdvd/sub2 to tmplayer/srt). It can also adjust subtitles delay and split subtitles. Subconv requires Python 2.1.
..lsaman/lives/
LiVES is the Linux Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size - the stripped binary is under 400K, yet it has many advanced features.
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It supports AVI, MPEG, NuppelVideo and other file formats. Video can be cut, appended, filtered, reencoded and saved as AVI or MPEG-1/MPEG-2 (VCD, SVCD, DVD).
..icle/static/2
Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in RawDV and AVI format, in both type- 1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings. You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands. Also, Kino can load movies and export the composite movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX. Still frame export uses Imlib1, which has built-in support for PPM, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and whatever your ImageMagick installation supports. MP3 requires lame. Ogg Vorbis requires oggenc. MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX require mjpegtools 1.6.0.
Cinelerra is a free, open-source, non-linear video editor for the Linux operating system written originally by Heroine Virtual Ltd. (which itself is a solo project by Adam Williams).
The mjpeg programs are a set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux. Although primarily intended for use with capture / playback boards based on the Zoran ZR36067 MJPEG codec chip, the mjpegtools can easily be used to process and compress MJPEG video streams captured using xawtv using simple frame-buffer devices.
FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. * ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert one video file format to another. It also supports grabbing and encoding in real time from a TV card. * ffserver is an HTTP (RTSP is being developped) multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts. Time shifting of live broadcast is also supported. * ffplay is a simple media player based on SDL and on the ffmpeg libraries. * libavcodec is a library containing all the ffmpeg audio/video encoders and decoders. Most codecs were developped from scratch to ensure best performances and high code reusability. * libavformat is a library containing parsers and generators for all common audio/video formats.
camorama is a GNOME 2 Webcam application featuring various image filters.
GTKsubtitler is small program for editing and converting DivX subtitles. It supports : moveing mergeing converting to iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-2 on four subtitle formats.
..ts/konverter/
Konverter is an easy to use but powerfull KDE frontend for MEncoder that helps to convert almost every videofile into the most common different videoformats and codecs. Beside converting, Konverter also gives you the possibility to scale/crop your videos, change codec details or just changes the audio format of your file.
Jahshaka is the worlds first OpenSource Realtime Editing and Effects System. Jahshaka takes advantage of the power of OpenGL and OpenML to give its users exceptional levels of performance. We currently support Linux, Irix and Windows, and Mac OsX is coming!
..kdenlive.html
Kdenlive! (pronounced Kay-den-live) is a Non Linear Video Editing Suite for KDE.
cutter is a program to cut videos with. It reads in some recorded or computed file and used the avifile library (especially the DivX :-) codec to compress the video.
..ch/transcode/
Transcode is a linux text-console utility for video stream processing. Decoding and encoding is done by loading modules that are responsible for feeding transcode with raw video/audio streams (import modules) and encoding the frames (export modules). It supports elementary video and audio frame transformations, including de-interlacing or fast resizing of video frames and loading of external filters.
LVE frame and GOP accurate editing of MPEG1/2 video files. differnt mpeg Formats are supported: o program streams ("PS") including DVD conform vob format, o single elemtary video streams ("ES"). o multiplexed, packed elementary A/V streams ("PES"), often used by DVB recording software. o transport streams ("TS") - one video pid, but multiple audio pids. it's a further DVB format (restriction: no error detection/correction, program tables won't be analyzed). o PVA streams (experimental), used by some DVB recording M$-soft.
GOPchop is an MPEG2-PS editor that cuts on GOP boundries so that the resulting MPEG2-PS file does not need to be re-encoded when saving the resulting desired frames. It is useful for editing commercials out of MPEG2 TV capture files.
The console interface provides real-time interaction on video from file or on video from a video4linux device. The graphical interface provides non linear editing on video from file (MJPEG / DV avi type 2) and/or streaming from multiple sources (multiple v4l/vloopback/...) You can create a sample by setting a starting and an ending position in the video file. this newly created sample can be edited in the Sample Editor. You can set looptype, playback speed, add and remove effects from the chain, customize effect parameters and finally you can render this sample to a new video file.
Dvgrab receives the audio and video data from a digital camcorder via the ieee1394 (FireWire) interface and stores them into an AVI file. It features autosplit of long video sequences into several files, and supports saving the data as raw frames, AVI type 1 and AVI type 2.
CinePaint is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry -- used in 2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films. CinePaint is used for painting of background mattes and for frame-by-frame retouching of movies. It is being extended to do film restoration. CinePaint is available for Linux, Macintosh OS X, Windows, and other popular operating systems.
FreeJ is a digital instrument for video livesets, featuring realtime rendering of multilayered video and chained effect filtering directly on the screen. FreeJ threats every video source as a layer, making then possible to dynamically apply on each a chain of filters, loadable as effect plugins and easily customizable. Layers are implemented to mix together live inputs (video4linux devices), DIVX/AVI files (with avifile library) and PNG images. Text and oscilloscope layers are being implemented. FreeJ is being developed in the hope to provide the GNU community with a free, modular and highly customizable application to perform video livesets; a free and open framework that lets anybody implement his own filters concentrating simply on the dsp algorithm developed and furthermore to combine them over any supported layer.
..nimmaker.html
animmaker is a utility for producing a raw AVI file from image and audio pipes and files. Currently, the only supported image format is raw TGA. The resulting AVI file can be encoded and postprocessed with other utilities like mencoder.
.._Presentation
LiveCut is a graphical helper for people who have to synchronize different media sources like audio or video sources, slides, text transcriptions, while making movies or SMIL presentations. It marks the time at which events happen, and generates a simple text file which can be reused either manually or automatically later (e.g., in an SMIL generator).
..erl/#jcapture
An automatic Webcam image grabber & image manipulator. Call it from your crontab once a minute, or however often you want to update the image.
..cdkutter.html
Vcdkutter is a small program based on xreadvcd by Ales Makarov. It provides you options of cutting a video CD dat file from one arbitrary frame to another, which allows you to save individual scenes rather than the entire movie.
Perfect complement to Kino, helps you make videos from stills. Pan and zoom in your high or low definition pictures.
LVE is a Linux non-linear video editor.
The Gstreamer Pipeline Editor (gst-editor) is a graphical pipeline contruction and manipulation tool. Using the Gnome Canvas as the foundation, it allows you to draw media pipelines very quickly. It's not anywhere near complete yet, but it still lets you do some amazing things.
PiTiVi is a non-linear audio/video editor for GNU/Linux using the GStreamer multimedia framework.
medi8 is a non-linear audio/video editor written as an Eclipse plugin.
..jects/gfourcc
This program identifies the codec used in AVI files (*.avi) and allow the user to change the FourCC description code (like fourcc-changer in Windows). Useful for people working with Microsoft AVI file.
Commercial editing tools for Linux. (Best commercial video editor for linux)
Smokewas re-architected to provide Total Resolution Freedom in a robust non-linear editing and finishing system. Total resolution Freedom provides editors with the complete flexibility to edit media at any resolution, aspect ratio and frame rate in a single timeline, to mix them in compositions and to master to any desired output format. smoke is the only editing system in the industry with real-time 10- and 12-bit 4:4:4 (RGB) media support for uncompressed 2K, HD and SD.
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documented on: 2005.04.12