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

[r8dhex]

My system specs are

Athlon 64 3000+ @2400Mhz
1GB RAM

I'm currently encoding an 98MB avi, playing time is around 30Mins (i think). I'm currently only using transcode and mplex for simplicity.

How long would this usually take?

[Pumaman]

Hi,

when I make a menu, it looks fine on my widescreen TV but messes up on my 4:3 TV. It seams that the buttons aren't scaled when the image is letterboxed.

To illustrate, this is what a menu might look like in widescreen, and this is what the same menu would look like letterboxed on a standard TV.

Does anyone have the same problem, and can anyone help?

My spumux xml looks like this:

[viperlin]

hey, been trying any2dvd and with some of my avi's its perfect however on the larger ones it seems to get so far and then the audio cuts out while playing and wont play for the rest of the film, which is frankly a coaster ive been making a lot of them lately all the same files, seems to be corrupted audio bits ,however the files themselves play fine or just jitter for a second, any way i can modify it to skip and carry on with the audio as normal?

[bigbob73]

[viperlin]

ah the files end up in 1GB VOB's, however i guess the first convert would be to a full movie file, it makes a sensible reason
i shall investigate futher cheers!!

[skorpion.se]

Hi!
Altough I have read some tutorials on the net I still not understand all of dvdauthor

My problem is that I have 1000+ mpeg's that are sorted in groups and undergroups. I would like to do a dvd out of them with the groups and undergroups. I just want the menus to be simple, just text.

So how would I create this dvd?
How do I create these menus the simpliest way? (I have everything in a mysql-db if it would help)

Example:
I have a mpeg that is called 11_22_33.mpeg
This file belongs to the group 11 and the undergroup 22
I would like my dvd to list all headgroups (like 11) If I enter the group 11, the undergroups will show (including 22 and others) If I then enter 22 the mpegs will show up (including 33) If I then enter 33 the mpeg will play.
I hope you understand.

How would a basic xml-file look like for this?

Thanks in advance

Niclas in sweden

[viperlin]

[skorpion.se]

ROFLMAO
How could you guess that?

Actually not (sorry), my mpegs are tutorials (not p0rn-tutorials, I know how to fuck )
They are instructions for poi and staff.

It would be more easy for me to be able to set up my laptop on the grass and switch between different tutorials with my remote at the same time I'm practising.

/niclas

[viperlin]

[skorpion.se]

okay
I doesnt matter if you believe me or not, do you (or someone else) know how to do what I'm asking for.
I would really appreciate it

/Niclas

[Schizoid]

I am trying to make a DVD out of mpeg2 files downloaded from archive.org. For example, I have downloaded Fritz Langs "M" (http://www.archive.org/details/M_) in mpeg2 format.

patrick@Kawaii64 $ file M_.mpeg
M_.mpeg: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex

As far as I know this is already in the proper format for a dvd, correct? I tried to make a very simple dvdauthor.xml file:

[-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e]

I'm using any 2 dvd and it keeps failing on making dvd file structure

[gessy]

Hi

I made one download of a movie and it he came in the following format:

VIDEO_TS/
16K VIDEO_TS.BUP
16K VIDEO_TS.IFO
250M VIDEO_TS.VOB
80K VTS_01_0.BUP
80K VTS_01_0.IFO
748K VTS_01_0.VOB
1,0G VTS_01_1.VOB
1,0G VTS_01_2.VOB
1,0G VTS_01_3.VOB
1,0G VTS_01_4.VOB
42M VTS_01_5.VOB

And i would add one more subtitle and i don't know how, anyone knows?

[theg33kb0y]

I have a strange problem after using any2dvd. It creates a DVD tree which is compatible with xine and plays fine in Linux. The strange part is that it does not play in a conventional DVD player (I've tried two). I have also tried DVD+R and DVD-R but both give "Unrecognized Disk" or similar error by the player.

My process is like so:

any2dvd --workdir="$movie".d --surround=yes -i "$movie"

where $movie is something like foo.avi.

To burn a DVD, I do
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video DVD/

ffmpeg -i of the VOB's is below.

Any ideas? I don't even know where to start troubleshooting! Thank you for your help!

-geek

[yabbadabbadont]

Does it help any if you use this instead?

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video DVD/
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[theg33kb0y]

Nope. The dvd player said "Incorrect Disc". I can only assume it is confused about the format, but it doesn't give a very good idea of how it is confused! What else might I try?

[theg33kb0y]

Does this give any hint? This is the vlc output when playing directly from the disc. I tried ripping the VIDEO_TS directory from one of my dvds and reburn it with growisofs, which it did. It even played properly in the TV dvd (except that it was scrabled probably due to css) but it was definately more functional than giving "invalid disc". So it must be something in my transcoding process or dvd authoring. Any idea where to start to verify that my transcode is setup properly for dvd playback?

-geek

[yabbadabbadont]

What version of dvd+rw-tools are you using? I've read other posts that suggest downgrading to dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8. You might give that a try.
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[Schizoid]

[Pasha]

Does anyone know whether it is possible to make use of the input from the remote control in the DVD menus, using dvdauthor?

Normally I convert AVIs to MPEG2, using my own script, then design the background for the DVD menu in the GIMP, finally using dvdstyler to add buttons.

Now the situation is as follows: I would like to make a button, which would lead to a screen, where a user needs to enter a code (say, 4 pre-defined numbers) using a remote control. The title only plays if the code entered is correct - does anyone have an idea how I should approach that?

P.S. About a year ago I used DSA Roadsense DVD to prepare for the UK Driving Hazard Perception Test - I remember there being something like that.

[Decibels]

Great tutorial! Thanks!

Finally got a working menu that waits until I press enter or play and starts the video. Only have one Button (ie PLAY)
Everything works except the button colors, they aren't what I used.

Breakdown:
Menu Breakdown what colors,...
1) Used a background.jpg (Blue background) converted to mpg (menu.mpg) that had Big Title and Chapter listing.
Also put with White letters PLAY on the background that converted to menu.mpg
image.png (transparnent background White letters for word PLAY)
select.png (transparnent background Red letters for word PLAY)
highlight.png (transparnent background Yellow letters for word PLAY )
The PLAY button in different colors overlaid on each other in each layer so no offset.
Don't have a box around the letters PLAY, used x0,y0,x1,y1 for location)
Used the Gimp plugin for dvdauthor.
The image, select and highlight were converted to index palette. Earlier I had several colors, but just used one
this time, so one color each and the transparent background.

2) The spumux .xml file used: (this .xml doesn't show image.png cause wanted to see if creating a blank one made a diff and it didn't)

[DetectiveInspekta]

Trying to put two different files on with different aspect ratios

[khiraly]

[Decibels]

Well, guess no one has an answer to my post.

I did find out one thing. Ogle doesn't necessarily display the correct button colors. I use yellow (highlight) and red (select) this time.
Ogle showed them as yellow and black. Got tired of trying to fix it, so burnt the dvd, put it in the player and it is correct: yellow/red.

So if your trying to get your buttons working with certain colors, you can't rely on Ogle to display them correctly.
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[vbmaster]

Package dvd+rw-tools is needed, but I can't find it in portage....

Where is that? It's really important to the convertion process?