JVC Everio Camera and DVDs

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Tue Jul 18 23:58:12 UTC 2006


On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:39:28 +1000
Ray Newman <ray at one.com.au> wrote:

> I have a JVC Everio Camera.  This records directly to MPEG2 in files
> on the internal (2 GB) disk - for some strange reason with a .MOD
> extension.  I copy these files by mounting the camera via USB to
> my FreeBSD 6.1 system and rename them to .mpg.  mplayer is happy
> playing the files.
> 
> As near as I can see, most DVD authoring software is aimed at the DV
> tape format.  My question:  Is there a simple way I can cut a collection
> of these MPEG2 files directly to DVD?

	You probably need to re-multiplex them with mplex or tcmplex to add
the VOBU navigation packets and then assemble them into DVD format with
dvdauthor. You can split them with tcextract (from transcode) or mpeg2desc
(from dvdauthor). If you don't want menus and subtitles then you can avoid
messing with the XML and just use:

dvdauthor -o <target dir> <list of vob files>

	for each title set you want, and

dvdauthor -o <target_dir> -T

	to add the basic root menu structure. With one title set this
leaves a DVD that most (all ?) DVD players will just play.

	It's all easier to do than it is to explain :)

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