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*Tags*: cmd:tovid

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Here's what I used to (successfully) create a dvd:

tovid -in <input file> -out <output prefix>
makexml <mpeg file> <xml prefix>
dvdauthor -o <directory> -x <xml file>

Example:

tovid -in shrek.avi -out shrek
makexml shrek.mpg shrek
dvdauthor -o shrek -x shrek.xml

This should leave you with a directory called shrek in which the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories can be found, and which can be burned directly from K3B, and some intermediate files that you can delete when you feel like it.

2005-8-28

making dvd without menus—finally!

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I finally figured out what I was doing wrong and the solution was there all the time. After using 'tovid' to convert the file to an .mpg, …, I ran:

>makexml *.mpg name-of-directory

Next I ran dvdauthor:

>dvdauthor -x *.xml

This created the subdirectories containing all the goodies - /audio_ts /video_ts The rest I used 'mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o dvd.iso [name of directory containing audio and video_ts]' then finally

'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=dvd.iso'

making dvd without menus—finally!

> I wanted to make a dvd without the hassle of menus. So the next thing I did
> was run 'makexml'. This is where I had a problem. I didn't realize that the
> resulting .xml file would contain a directory that would be created by
> dvdauthor! So, after realizing this

You can also use 'dvdauthor -o dir_name …' to provide your own output directory name.