Guidance requested for multimedia conversion

[Kevin Downey]

On 2/8/07, Randy Pratt <bsd-unix at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 +0000
> dgmm <freebsd01 at dgmm.net> wrote:
>
> > On Friday 09 February 2007 00:04, Murray Taylor wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Being much more a system programmer / database person
> > > than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from
> > > a video media expert.
> > >
> > > I need to convert an 8 minute .avi file into a basic dvd.
> > > No menus or anything, just a dumb as possible 'load it, press play'
> > > disk. As long as I can do that, and also get the dvd player to
> > > do loop play, its fine.
> > >
> > > I have a dvd burner, have used it via command line and k3b to
> > > burn data Cds and data DVDs.
> > >
> > > I am quite happy to load a list of ports to do the conversion,
> > > layout and burning for the video DVD... I just need a list of
> > > ports to load, and the sequence of command lines to execute.
> > >
> > > FreeBSD 5.4 Release,  KDE 3.5.4.
> > > Ports tree within 1 week of current, normally use portmanager
> > > for port installs, but direct make is ok too.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Murray T
> >
> > Start here...
> >
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#menc-feat-vcd-dvd
> >
> > In particular, scroll down to section 14.8.5 for some "recipes" to create the
> > DVD compatible video then you'll want multimedia/dvdauthor to create the disc
> > image and finally sysutils/dvd+rw-tools for burning
> >
> > You might want to look at multimedia/dvdstyler as a GUI front end to dvdauthor
> > and, depending on your set-up/dvd writer it might do the burning from the GUI
> > too.
> >
> > It's not exactly point'n'shoot but all you need should be there.
>
> The multimedia/avidemux2 is a bit easier to use (IMO) than mencoder
> since its a gui-type video editor/converter that can produce the mpeg2
> program streams from avi files for use with dvdstyler.  Its really
> quite nice with lots of intuitive features.
>
> The ease in converting with any of the utilities will depend largely
> on the source material.
>
> Randy
>
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tovid (multimedia/tovid) will do it.

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