[FC5] Converting AVI to DVD HOWTO?

[wwp]

Hello Mike,


On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:00:10 -0500 "M.Lewis" <cajun at cajuninc.com> wrote:

> Paul Smith wrote:
> > On 6/15/06, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> >> > I have a few .avi files from TV shows that I have downloaded. I would
> >> > like to convert these .avi files and burn them to DVD such that I could
> >> > view these programs on my TV (DVD).
> >> >
> >> > I've done a little bit of searching on Google and have come up with 
> >> some
> >> > seemingly dated instructions on how to accomplish this.
> >> >
> >> > What I have found thus far involves a GUI. If possible, I would like to
> >> > avoid a GUI and just do it from the command line. This might not be
> >> > possible, I haven't a clue.
> >> >
> >> > I would appreciate any pointers to howto's. I am completely clueless in
> >> > what might be involved in this process.
> >>
> >> I had the same issues a while back and here's a great link I found, it's
> >> from the Gentoo Wiki, but it's a really good doc on the guts of DVD
> >> authoring.
> >>
> >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709
> >>
> >> I've also used DVDAuthor to build a fairly simply Menu for the DVDs and
> >> to transcode them to ISOs as well.
> > 
> > In addition to the previous suggestions, let me introduce you to 
> > Videotrans:
> > 
> > http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > Videotrans is similar to Tovid (with no GUI, though), but, up to my
> > best knowledge, Videotrans performs better regarding sound, as the
> > sound of VOB files produced by Tovid have a volume significantly lower
> > than the original AVI file.
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> 
> Thanks to all. I'll review these suggestions and see which one best 
> suits what I'm looking for. Thanks for all the suggestions!

Don't know what it worth yet, but for DVD authoring, freshmeat.net has just
announced DeVeDe: http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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