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

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject:

I still see it listed in portage.
Both on the website: http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=dvd
And in my portage tree:

vbmaster · n00b Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 52 Location: Portugal

Altight, but till now I didn't need that package.

At this moment i'm trying to add the subtitle to the mpg file, but spumux command gives me this output:

dinsmore · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 54

Hi there, I just bought a new computer with a dvd-rw drive, and wanted to make dvd's from my avi files... But I'm getting a problem when transcoding the movie... It says something about a buffer underflow and a broken pipe :S any ideas?
Here's the output:

vbmaster · n00b Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 52 Location: Portugal

I would say that you don't have the ffmpeg package....

dinsmore · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 54

Ahmm, I do have the ffmpeg v. 0.4.9_p20051216 package installed, but maybe I need to emerge another package (transcode) with some ffmpeg use flag or to add support to it? :S

vbmaster · n00b Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 52 Location: Portugal

I emerged it normally and it was fine... :\

dinsmore · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 54

I tried with tovid, which doesn't use ffmpeg as default (really slower too :S), and it worked fine, so then it must be the ffmpeg... I'll try re-emerging and see what happens...

drfresh · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2006 Posts: 2

Sorry to ask. But I can't figure it out...

I have the tools on windows and some program should have created the DVD using these tools but didn't do it right. What I have is:

title1.m2v
title2.ac3
directory with subpictures including a subtitle.xml file.

The program generated a author.xml file that seems corrupt. It looks like:

dinsmore · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 54

Have you tried editing the xml file so that it looks similar to the one posted in this thread? I'm just thinking outloud anyway, but I don't think it will do no harm to try... :P

drfresh · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2006 Posts: 2

Nope - I need to know how to handle the subtitles. I don't quite know the steps? Can you perhaps point to where that's described? On the first post in this intire thread I can't quite find it except for handling srt subs. But I have them as .png files, with an XML that looks like this:

rodoval · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 2

Hello all and thanks for the guide of the first post of the thread! But... I can't change the subtitle colors using "palette" as described in dvdauthor config file. I've applied the patch but the text is always yellow (not gray) with black (or dark) border. The only change is that the program not stop with error message, but the palette.rgb file is ignored! ¿Any help with this?

Greetings to the Gentoo community!

rodoval

rodoval · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 2

[quote="rodoval"]Hello all and thanks for the guide of the first post of the thread! But... I can't change the subtitle colors using "palette" as described in dvdauthor config file. I've applied the patch but the text is always yellow (not gray) with black (or dark) border. The only change is that the program not stop with error message, but the palette.rgb file is ignored! ¿Any help with this?
[/quote]

It works fine now! I can't identify my fail, maybe related to Xine which I have using for testing.

Best regards,

rodoval

shiznix · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:38 am Post subject: Re: transcode error

Mirrorball · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 235 Location: Brazil

Thanks for helping me make my first DVD ever. It came out great. I just think the suggested font-size for subtitles was too small. I had to squeeze my eyes to read them (but then I was not wearing glasses).

gessy · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject: Subtitles and DVDauthor

Hi,

Is there a way to use dvdauthor to create a dvd of a movie that shows two subtitles at the same time (one on top and another on bottom), once it doesn't have full support for ass subtitles?

DVDauthor man page:

gessy · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject: Re: Put subtilte on DVD

thebiggiantmouse · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Da Bronx

this is great. this thread is about two years old and its still really relevant. this has saved me a lot of searching. is there an update to this?
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tkhobbes · Guru Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 367 Location: Switzerland

Hello, I followed all the steps, and I have a DVD image now. It is playing perfectly with xine.
However, when issueing the growisofs command, I get this error:

vectorsigma · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

I'm having the exact problem as the person below but there doesn't seem to be a reply. Anyone know how to fix it? I've tried everything I can think of.

vectorsigma · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject:

I found a couple of solutions to the above problem.

The first I tried was to have 2 versions of the menu VOB, one for 16:9 and another for 4:3, both with the exact same mpeg but mplexed with different highlight and select images. The 4:3 images were scaled down to 720x405 (make sure not to use antialiasing, it will create more than 4 colours) then the canvas size increased back to 720x576. I then added some code to select which menu to use based on the dvd player's settings (widescreen or letterbox):

rekonrad · Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:37 am Post subject: some help...

I've followed the instructions on this thread with the exception of encoding. For this I've been using Tovid.. Because I've had difficulty following the instructions regarding making menus with gimp (I think the new version of gimp must be quite different than the one in 2003 - date of this thread).

In any case I'm quite happy authoring with no menus. I've used the sample DVD.xml without menus in this thread successfully but now suddenly my final product will only read the first track (mpg). I have 12 separate titles but only the first is read. I thought at first it was my standalone DVD player but xine confirms that only the track 1 will play.
Here is my xml file:

<dvdauthor dest="DVD">
<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<video widescreen="nopanscan" />
<pgc>
<vob file="1.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="2.mpg" />
</pgc>

<pgc>
<vob file="3.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="4.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="5.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="6.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="11.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="22.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="33.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="44.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="55.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="66.mpg" />
</pgc>

</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>

During "dvdauthor -x DVD.xml" it shows all 12 tracks/titles being processed.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Richard

gkmac · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: some help...

evoweiss · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:17 pm Post subject:

Hi all,

I'm trying to convert something from an old VHS tape (somebody else converted it into an avi file) into a DVD. The original video was 4:3 and running the film through mplayer gives me the output below. When I go through the steps of creating the DVD (including specifying the right ar in transcode), all seems to work out. However, I cannot seem to get a 4:3 version or something approaching that as the final project. Any tips?

Best,

Alex

csab · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I've used this tutorial for while but now I encountered the first problem. In the "tweakage" part, the following command line is given:

Beetle B. · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 524