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Hi all,
I traveled to Africa in December and recorded some video with a
Sony Handycam (DCR-HC20). I wanted to put the video on a DVD
using linux tools. The tools I found are still not very friendly,
but I was able to build a video DVD (NTSC).=20
Summary:
1) Used kino to converted raw DV files to MPEG.
2) Used qdvdauthor to build the DVD file structure.
3) Used mkisofs -o dvd.iso -dvd-video /dvd-file-structure/
to build the iso image.
4) Used k3b to burn the DVD.
Note: I think that qdvdauthor will do steps 2-4. However, I was
on a machine without a DVD burner at the time and thus limited
myself to building the file structure.=20
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Kino to convert raw DV to MPEG
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With kino 0.8.0, I read the DV files then in the Export menu,
chose the MPEG tab and File Format "8-DVD". I checked "scene
split", which I think generates one MPEG file per raw DV file,
instead of creating a big single MPEG file. My goal was to be
sure I would have N chapters in the final DVD; I don't know whether
checking the "scent split" box made any difference but I got
what I think I needed.
Kino:
http://www.kinodv.org/
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qdvdauthor to create DVD file structure
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My initial goal was to put unedited video on a DVD
with absolutely nothing fancy. I found that harder to
do than to create one with a little bit of structure.
In particular, I ended up choosing this structure to
reflect the fact that I had video from two locations:
* Top menu has a background image
* Two buttons on the top menu. First button
navigates to the first video clip. Second button=20
navigates to clip 20 (of 29), the first clip from
location 2.
Starting with a new project I created the structure as follows:
* Add the MPEG clips with DVDAuthor/Add Movie Source (in the=20
top menu bar). You also are prompted to enter some directories=20
for directory paths for temporary files and also (on page two of the=20
prompt) the final directory where the DVD file structure will be =20
built. I think the DVD directory needs to exist before you generate
the DVD file structure in it
The video clips appear in the "All" window (see
All|Video|Audio). They are represented by thumbnail images.
* Add and resize a background image (JPEG in my case) via
the "Add Background" button available when viewing the
"Main Menu VMGM" tab.
* I added a text title by right clicking on the background
image (in Main Menu VMGM) and adding and styling text.
* I created the two buttons by dragging the thumbnail images
from the "All" view that interested me. When you drag an
image you get both an image and a label. I edited the label
accordingly and placed the buttons where I wanted in the
window.
* To make each button navigate to the relevant movie clip,
right click on the thumbnail and select "Edit". Then,
with the action "Jump", choose the video clip you want
the viewer to navigate to when selecting that button.
* Create the DVD file structure by selecting "DVD Burn",
which opens a menu showing what commands will be executed
to do so. Since I did not want to actually burn a DVD, just
build files, I left unchecked "Don't execute Burn DVD".=20
[The label for that checkbox is the opposite of what=20
I think it should be...]
* Hit OK and a dialog box will show you debugging output.
I encountered one error:=20
"ERR: Cannot parse video option 2.21:1"
Apparently the "aspect" attribute or the value "2.21:1" used in the
qdvdauthor configuration file format is not supported by one of
the tools. I did not figure out how to suppress generation of
that value or to change the value. Instead, I removed the
attribute from the configuration file (look for dvdauthor.xml
in the directory you named for temporary files) and then ran
the following from the command line:
dvdauthor -x "/path-to-temp-files/dvdauthor.xml"
Qdvdauthor:
http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
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Other tools
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I also tried "dvdstyler" which initially seemed like
it would be friendly, but in the end I did not find it
intuitive.
Gerald pointed me to mkdvd, which looks promising
for very simple tasks. I didn't try it out. This example
from the man page is particularly compelling:
Create a DVD-R(W) from your vacation movie.
$ mkdvd.pike --burn Vacation.dv
That's pretty much all I wanted to do: put digital
video on a DVD and play it in order.
mkdvd:
http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd.html
--=20
Ian Jacobs (
[email protected])
http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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