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vcd's
voidmain:
Ok, I just made my first VCD. Pretty cool. I whipped up a couple of scripts so I didn't have to remember the commands but basically I used kino to capture and edit the video from my digital video camera then saved the video in DV2 format (say in a file called "file.avi"). Then I use my two scripts to create the VCD:
$ 2vcdmpeg file.avi
This script will take the DV2 file "file.avi" and convert it to the VCD MPEG format "file.mpeg".
$ 2vcdwrite "My VCD Volume Label" file.mpeg
This script will take one or more VCD MPEG files and create the VCD with a volume label.
Here is the "2vcdmpeg" script:
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Here is the "2vcdwrite" script:
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Now, this is for the extremely basic. You can also create a VCD menu and chapters. These scripts will not do that, you'll need to read the docs on the web site for that. There is also a good forum. Also, this assumes you have all the proper software install (mjpegtools, vcdimager, cdrdao, kino).
I haven't tried the graphical frontends for vcdimager but they looked sort of cheesy and limiting. But I don't know enough about them.
There are a couple of sample VCDs on the web site that you can download and burn with "cdrdao" that show a graphical chapter menu and have some sample movies.
[ November 01, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
voidmain:
Holy crap! I just found out I can use my video camera to back up my computer. It will hold around 10GB of data and it is actually faster than most tape drives. I just happened to have a bunch of old data grade 8MM tapes lying around as well.
http://dvbackup.sourceforge.net/
Another good list of cool DV utilities
http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala/dvbackup.html
[ November 01, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
treydogg526tx:
nice void, but let me ask this, can you convert files? ie you download a movie, maybe it's in .avi format, can you burn it to a vcd? That's what I'm trying to accomplish.
Kintaro:
Look around on sourceforge www.sf.net there will be a converting program there.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by treydogg526tx:
nice void, but let me ask this, can you convert files? ie you download a movie, maybe it's in .avi format, can you burn it to a vcd? That's what I'm trying to accomplish.
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You should be able to convert any video to a VCD. But it may have to be resized. I believe VCD is limited to like two resolutions. Without actually doing it I believe I would have little trouble converting most anything using a combination of MEncoder and mjpegtools (or maybe just one of the two).
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