vcd's

[treydogg526tx]

anyone know a  simple way to burn VCD's or SVCD's in linux?  I can convert from avi, stuff like that, with kino, and otehr apps, but is there an all in one like nero?

[Calum]

why not ask at doom9.org? (that was sarcasm by the way, those windoids do nothing but flame you if you say you use linux)
not sure, but i'd be interested in this issue too.

[treydogg526tx]

yeah it's sad, that, and the ability to hack other objects (I will not post what to avoid getting in trouble <evil grin>   is the ONLY reason I keep XP on my machine.

[hm_murdock]

what format is VCD?

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by treydogg526tx:
anyone know a  simple way to burn VCD's or SVCD's in linux?  I can convert from avi, stuff like that, with kino, and otehr apps, but is there an all in one like nero?

Un-Frickin-Believable! Thanks for turning me on to "kino"!! It works perfectly with my Sony DCR-TRV320 w/ieee1394 interface. I think this works better than DV Studio that I used under Windows. In fact I rarely did any capturing of my video because I hated to reboot into Windows. Now I'll be able to do a lot more video capturing. I don't have a DVD drive so I'm not sure what capabilities exist for that. But I am pretty sure the capability exists for dumping the video to CD or DVD. Have you looked into MEncoder? I don't believe there is a good graphical interface for it but it does an excellent job at converting between video formats. Thanks again for the tip.

Also the "apt-get" for RPM utilility works great. Nice having the Debian style package management and the abilitity to automatically get and install dependent packages. Took a few seconds for me to figure out how to configure it to get through my proxy server but it works great now.

[treydogg526tx]

a vcd is a video VCD, the ability to take a vcd mpeg, and convert it so that it will play on your dvd player via, cdr.  And thanks void main, I'll give that a try.

[KernelPanic]

quote:Originally posted by void main:


Un-Frickin-Believable! Thanks for turning me on to "kino"!! It works perfectly with my Sony DCR-TRV320 w/ieee1394 interface. I think this works better than DV Studio that I used under Windows. In fact I rarely did any capturing of my video because I hated to reboot into Windows. Now I'll be able to do a lot more video capturing. I don't have a DVD drive so I'm not sure what capabilities exist for that. But I am pretty sure the capability exists for dumping the video to CD or DVD. Have you looked into MEncoder? I don't believe there is a good graphical interface for it but it does an excellent job at converting between video formats. Thanks again for the tip.

Also the "apt-get" for RPM utilility works great. Nice having the Debian style package management and the abilitity to automatically get and install dependent packages. Took a few seconds for me to figure out how to configure it to get through my proxy server but it works great now.

kmencoder

[Kintaro]

VCD is just MPEG and the VCD's are just in the ISO9660 format. And the MPEG data is just stored on a folder "MPEGAV" on the VCD. To play one, just open the file contained in that folder.

[treydogg526tx]

well, half right, however, a true vcd, or svcd, will split the audio and video, you'll notice that sometimes if you have a foul audio frame, it will only play video when you play it on your dvd player.  However, you are right, it puts it in the mpeg folder for you dvd player to read it.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by treydogg526tx:
anyone know a  simple way to burn VCD's or SVCD's in linux?  I can convert from avi, stuff like that, with kino, and otehr apps, but is there an all in one like nero?

Hey! Looky what I found:

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

I am getting ready to try it out now...

[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.

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).