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Hello,

I recently tried to put some digital video on a DVD using
some Windows software and, although it was extremely easy=20
to do, I was not satisfied with the results. Also, I think
I was unable to play the DVD on a standalone DVD player
(a Toshiba). I decided to put myself through the pain of
creating a video DVD in Linux.

1) I used kino [1] capture the video from the handycam=20
  (through a firewire PCI card in my desktop). This was
  pretty straightforward. The only thing that threw me
  was that two options on the "capture" page seem to be
  off by default: "Mute" and "AV/C". Until I realized this,
  I thought I only had access to the video, not the audio.
  The AV/C button lets you see the video time codes, which=20
  is useful for editing.

  [I also played around with Kino's editing functions, which
   I won't go into here. I saved the captured video in a series
   of .dv files, which you can reread into Kino at the command
   line.]

2) Once captured, I exported the video by selecting "MPEG"
  under the Export tab. I selected file format "8 - DVD".
  Based on this resource [2], I added a "-r 48000" option
  to the mp2enc settings for audio. I chose a bit rate of
  9000kb/s for the video (without testing any other settings).
  =20
  The result was a file MyVid001.mpeg. [At some point I expect
  to create multiple mpegs for various chapters, after editing.]

3) As I understand things, the next step is to describe the=20
  DVD structure (i.e., menus, chapters, etc.) with an XML file,
  and create the proper directories and files. I used=20
  dvdauthor [3], which creates the subdirectories, but I couldn't
  make it create the xml description file. I then found qdvdauthor=20
  [4], which provides a GUI and makes the creation of the XML
  file much more obvious. Unfortunately, I couldn't quite get it
  to work (probably due to some incomplete setup).

  I ran "dvdauthor -o Test MyVid001.mpeg" to create:

     $HOME/Test/AUDIO_TS (empty)
     $HOME/Test/VIDEO_TS
     $HOME/Test/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.(BUP|IFO|VOB)

  However, apparently this wasn't right since it didn't
  create the required "VIDEO_TS.VOB" and "VIDEO_TS.BUP".=20
  I kind of stumbled on those by creating the following
  XML description and running  "dvdauthor -x test.xml"

  <dvdauthor dest=3D"Test">
    <vmgm>
       <menus>
       <pgc>
         <vob file=3D"MyVid001.mpeg"/>
       </pgc>
       </menus>
    </vmgm>
 </dvdauthor>

 This created the missing files and also VTS_01_1.*, which I=20
 deleted in favor of VTS_01_0.* which were created the first time
 I ran dvdauthor.

 In short, I seem to have been able to create a minimal DVD
 structure without understanding exactly how. I think that=20
 qdvdauthor or another tool built on top of dvdauthor will make=20
 life easier.=20

4) I think you can use qdvdauthor at this point to burn the
  DVD. However, I didn't know that. So I created a dvd image with
  "mkisofs" and then burned the DVD using "dvdrecord" (per [5]).
  NOTE: I ended up running dvdrecord as root. [I need to see why
  I didn't have certain privs as myself. Use dvdrecord -scanbus
  to find the device information for your DVD burner.]

   mkisofs -dvd-video -o $HOME/test.img $HOME/Test
   dvdrecord speed=3D<yourspeed> -dao dev=3D<yourdev> $HOME/test.img

There are probably easier ways to do this.

_ Ian

[1] http://kino.schirmacher.de/
[2] http://www.tappin.me.uk/Linux/dvd.html
[3] http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
[4] http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
[5] http://dvd.chevelless230.com/
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Ian Jacobs ([email protected])   http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
Tel:                     +1 718 260-9447

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