Howto author AVI->DVD with menus using Linux only !

wmartino · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 140

I am trying to do some make some dvd's on my AMD64. I have emerged all of the packages required. When I try to run transcode I get the following error.

vuud · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 23

I've been playing with making DVD menus for a few days before coming across this post... which is by far the best one out of the lot. I've tried most of the ones that the author cites and I have a feeling he probably had all the same troubles as me.

Anyway

Under DVDAuthor 0.6.10, the titles attribute seems to only be allowed to occur once. I have no idea if this is correct, but I had to change mine to something like this:

vuud · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 23

Hey all,

I am taking mpg2 files from a Hauppauge PVR 350 and creating some DVD's out of them.

I am taking a *.nuv file from Mythtv (mpeg2 when it comes from a 350)
Loading it in Avidemux 2.0.22
Removing commercials
Saving as a DVD PS
Following the majority of this wonderful post

I am ending up with three issues when I am done that I would love any advice on...

villiam · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Canada

With the following transcode line that I have pieced together from posts in this thread:

Ladi · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 3

Does anybody know how to have semi transparent subpictures with DVDAuthor

hope anybody can help

vicious1 · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 7

well i followed this really nice how-to, and got everything emerged with no problem.
The problem comes when i run the command with -y mpeg , it says it cant load module export_mpeg.so ... fine i googled around and some people use mpg2enc,mp2enc so i used that, and now it encodes but the files it creates is a mpa (which is as it should) and a m1v, not a m2v ... is this gonna be a problem?... i am capturing some videos from VCR and making DVD's out of them....

can anyone tell me if this is a problem?

//Vic,
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vicious1 · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 7

speed anyone?
i am encoding a 720x480 mpg with this command line:
transcode -i uncut.mpg -V -y mpeg2enc,mp2enc --export_fps 25 -Z 720x576 --keep_asr -E 48000 -b 224 -o test

I am running an athlon64 3200+ (2ghz) with gentoo amd64, 1GB ram, have all the necessary tools installed and i get 7.5fps encoding????? this cant be right.

why is it so slow?is there a way to speed it up?
The thing is i have about 20GB of MPG2's ,VCR captured family videos which i would like to make into DVD's.

cheers vic.
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GlennM · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:51 pm Post subject:

Just a helpful hint to those of you reading this tutorial...

Don't use the mpeg module from transcode (-y mpeg), it has been deprecated, and has lots of problems. Poke around at the other available options, I personally use "-y ffmpeg -F mpeg2" because it's damn fast, and the quality is fine for me.

steelrose · Apprentice Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 245 Location: Cyprus

GlennM wrote "

Ladi · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 3

I would like to know if anybody already managed to use angle properties with mplex and dvdauthor

RealNitro · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 98

Hi,

I'm trying to add subtitles to my .mpg with spumux. My subtitles.xml:

bogler · n00b Joined: 07 Dec 2002 Posts: 67

zuki · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject:

dosnt test it with such big files.... but take a look at dvdstyler, that would solve most of the problems.....
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RealNitro · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 98

Bump.

Any idea on the subtitles problem?

xunil · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:25 am Post subject:

CDiMa · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:08 pm Post subject: Menu creation

Hi all!
I followed suggestions from all this thread and now I'm able to burn video dvds but still lack understanding how to properly create menus. I can create buttons that jump to other menus, I can jump to titles and chapters within titles.
My problem is that the menus that I create look different than intended and look different when viewed with either xine, ogle or my home dvd player. Since original dvd titles have menus that look the same regardless of the player, what am I missing?
What are the highlight, select and image attributes supposed to do? In all my attempts the results I got look like they act as masks that let pass through the mpg on wich I put them on.

Thanks for all your great work, keep authoring

Ciao!!!

Claudio

RealNitro · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 98

If sb knows how to solve the problem mentioned in my previous post, plz tell me...

GlennM

mkeadle · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Richmond, VA

I just got a burner this past weekend, and emerged all the tools I thought I'd be using to have fun with it. Current dvdauthor happened to be 0.6.10 which has made it fun trying to follow a lot of the docs floating around on the net, as there have been at least two non-obvious changes that have cripled me so far.

The first is the change in the XML that dvdauthor uses. As previously mentioned in this thread, you can only have a single <titles> block. Check the post by bplatt_uk somewhere about page 7 of this thread for more info and an example.

The second I just discovered today, and haven't seen mention of it anywhere else. No matter how well formed, your dvdauthor.xml, spumux.xml, and ninja master skills still wouldn't be enough to create a good looking menu. It seems ImageMagick, somewhere around 6.0.7, has reversed it's definition of transparency. This makes sense, as all my test menus looked like they should have been created with reverse-masks instead of the proper way. The other tip was that spumux was incapable of autodetecting buttons as advertised, turning my entire screen into a single button. I check my system, and sure enough I'm a good Gentoo user, update frequently, and have ImageMagick 6.0.8.1 install. So to get around it a little dvdauthor source hack is required.

In the dvdauthor-0.6.10 package, edit line 180 of src/subgen-image.c to read:

CDiMa

CDiMa

GlennM · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject:

RoadRunner · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:53 am Post subject:

I was having no problems, until I got to the spumux part.. When I run it I get:

CDiMa · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:23 pm Post subject:

RoadRunner · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject:

Thanks CDiMa. mkeadle's patch solved the problem, spumux can now read the image and generate the menu.

My only "problem" is the bad quality of the movies on the DVD..

I have several tv-rips I made, avi's with just jpeg compression, so 4Gb for every 22 minute episode. The quality is pretty good there. Using transcode, no matter what resolutions I set, the picture quality on the dvd get's bad. I mean, it's watchable, but I wanted quality, no matter if I can only put 2 episodes on a dvd.

Anyone has a excelent quality transcode settings?