vcd's

[Calum]

any other good programs? are there any (linux) converters for quicktime formats to a real format? (i mean mpeg) or real video/audio to mpeg?

i asked this at doom9.org and got nothing but abuse in response.

what with avi being a microsoft format, and no even a real format at that (it can contain streams made by a shitload of different audio and video codecs), i didn't know it was so easy to convert from. Also, of course microsoft no longer support this format, since WMV is so much more superior... -)  

[voidmain]

Yes, mencoder should convert both of those types. And since mplayer/mencoder can use Windows codecs you basically can convert any type of format that Windows knows about and then some.

[ November 01, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Calum]

sounds very good, i think i will have to seriously get into that, thanks for the tip.

[voidmain]

Hey you just gave me an idea. I'm not much good at writing GUI apps in C/C++ (QT/GTK) but I can do most anything with Perl/PHP. In fact I know I could write a web page fairly quickly that would accept an uploaded file of any format and allow you to select a format to convert it to (along with other formatting options such as effects/sizing) using mencoder on the backend and then download it. I have writtem many such image convertion web apps. In fact I wrote an entire web based video security system that would use uploaded web cam images and perform motion detection and archiving etc..

I would bet that if I can find an hour or two of spare time I could have something pretty slick whipped up. Right now I've been focusing on video editing and VCDs though. Maybe later this evening I'll work on something. And then I believe there is a PHP-GTK library that might make it easy for me to convert it to a GTK app, dunno, haven't looked at that yet.

[DJ]

I know this is a little off topic but is it possible to burn a DVD on your PC and watch it on a 'normal' (entertainment center type) DVD player? My roomy and I had this discussion and I was curious because I would most certainly rather buy a DVD-R for my pc ($499 and under before my discount at Best Buy) than some of the entertainment center types which I have seen as high as $999 there

DJ

[voidmain]

I know for a fact you can make VCD/SVCDs that are playable in home entertainment DVD players (not all of them like CDRs though, check the compatibility list):

http://www.vcdimager.org/compatibility.phtml

As far as DVDs I believe it is possible to create and write DVDs although this is still in the early stages as far as my short investigation can find:

http://www.vcdimager.org/dvdv.phtml

I believe if it's not here yet it will be shortly but I believe it is possible now:

http://dvd.chevelless230.com/

[ November 01, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[voidmain]

I'm an idiot. I just realized that "kino" can export to various MPEG video disc formats (VCD/SVCD/DVD). It can also export to various AVI (divx) formats. So the first of the two scripts that I wrote in an earlier post is useless (unless you want to do the conversion on the command line which does have certain benefits). The only script that is needed is the second one to actually create the VCD image and write it to disk.

[ November 01, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[treydogg526tx]

thanks void man, worked like a champ, now watching movies, now find me a DTV HU emulator that works, and I can get rid of windows completely      

above question, yes, you can rip dvd's to your pc then burn them, however, you must have a dvd player in your pc, and a program that will crack the lock on the DVD