JVC Everio Camera and DVDs

[Ray Newman]

I have a problem with the term "re-multiplex"; what does this mean?
Also the transcode port won't build anyway.

I guess my question should be: what is wrong with the MPEG2 files from
this camera?


Ray

Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> 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 :)
>