Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007 9:30 PM, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote: >> Andrew Flegg wrote: >>> Many of you use my script 770-encode to transcode videos for your >>> Nokia Internet Tablet. This name is obviously an anachronism, so to >>> go along with the imminent availability of the N810, it's now been >>> renamed "tablet-encode" and moved to a Garage project: >> This looks really excellent, many thanks. > > Glad it looks useful to you :-) > >> One small query, however, from someone who knows absolutely zilch about >> video files...if I insert a DVD into my Ubuntu Gutsy laptop, how do I >> know *which* file[s] to give as arguments to tablet-encode? The listing >> of /media/cdrom0 says there's an AUDIO_TS directory (empty) and a >> VIDEO_TS directory (full): > > As Brad Midgley says, lsdvd and dvdinfo are your best bets. These > should tell you the titles on the disc. Both of these are broken in Ubuntu Gutsy, unfortunately. $ lsdvd *** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:1539 *** *** for info_length % sizeof(cell_adr_t) == 0 *** *** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:1674 *** *** for info_length % sizeof(uint32_t) == 0 *** *** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:1539 *** *** for info_length % sizeof(cell_adr_t) == 0 *** libdvdread: Invalid title IFO (VTS_01_0.IFO). libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 1 (VTS_01_0.BUP). Can't open ifo 1! $ ./dvdinfo.py ================================================== dvdinfo.py version 1.1 Sybren St?vel <sybren at stuvel.eu> http://www.stuvel.eu/dvdinfo ================================================== Done reading. Longest title: 0 Chapters: None Audio tracks: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./dvdinfo.py", line 207, in <module> main() File "./dvdinfo.py", line 199, in main for aid, info in audiotracks.iteritems(): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'iteritems' $ > *Usually* the main feature is title 1, so you can do: > > tablet-encode -p best dvd://1 myfilm.avi "Failed to get movie info." What's dvd://? I've never seen that method of a URI before. Inserting a DVD in my Inspiron 4150 automounts it as /media/cdrom0 Will it then encode just one VOB file, or will it somehow know that the movie is split across eight or nine of them? > I may well, at some point, do a Gtk+ GUI which shows DVD thumbnails > and chapter information to make this easier; but if anyone got there > before me, I'd be *very* happy to give them svn access to > mediautils.garage.maemo.org. Better, given that there is usually only one movie per DVD, add an option that says table-encode -p whatever -fromdvd myfilm.avi If you're doing this from a DVD, which I assume is by far and away the most common scenario, is it possible to make tablet-encode work out what file to start at? ///Peter
