On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 15:13 +0300, Mark Ryden wrote: > Hello, > I tried several times to convert an an avi to a DVD and than to burn > it and try to play it on a DVD player (no a PC dvd). > The result is that I have to make many attemps to try to insert the > media inside the DVD and wait. After many such attempts is start correctly. > > This happened to me with more than one media. However, I must say that the DVD > itslef is brand new and from good quality and it plays DVD without any > problem. > > Could it be that something in the process is incorrect or there is a better way > to do it ? > > What I do is this: > I have movie.avi. > I run: > mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf > scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts > vcodec=mpeg2video:vstrict=1:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=4/3 > -ofps 25 -o movie.mpg /work/down/mov/homeAlone1/movie.avi > > than I use dvdauthor, in this way: > > dvdauthor -o dvdFolder -x dvd.xml > > whereas the dvd.xml is this: > > <dvdauthor> > <vmgm /> > <titleset> > <titles> > <pgc> > <vob file="movie.mpg" /> > </pgc> > </titles> > </titleset> > </dvdauthor> > > Now, under dvdFolder, two folders are created: AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS > and everything is OK. When I try to play the result with vlc, by > running File->Open Directiry and navigate to the VIDEO_TS, everything > is perfect. > Now , I create an .iso, in this way: > mkisofs -o movie.iso -dvd-video pathTodvdFolder. > > The I burn this movie.iso with k3b ( By tools->Burn DVD iso from k3b). > > When I try to play the DVD media I burned with the PC DVD - it is perfectly OK. > > When I try to play the DVD media with a non-PC DVD (a good quality DVD > which is connected to > a TV), I have problems as depicted above. It does not play it > immediately. I have > to try 5 or more time to insert the DVD and pull it out and again, untill it > starts. > Any ideas what is wrong in this process? Not a direct answer to your question, but I wasted many hours and gazillions of cpu cycles doing this kind of thing (I used 'tovid' if it helps) before I realized that my DVD player -- an LG -- can just play a list of .avi files directly. In fact it also has a USB port so I don't even need to burn a DVD :-) poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
