How to correctly write a video DVD from MPEG-2 files
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Dec 28 05:06:55 UTC 2007
Ed Greshko wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> Long story short:
>> I have a new video camera (sony dcr sr-42). I've records 75 minutes of
>> video on it. I can mount its hdd over USB to my (fc6) laptop and access
>> the .MPG files which are the recording. Two of them, since the first
>> one is 2GB in size, the 2nd file contains the remainder of the video.
>> Seems to be an MPEG-2 video w/AC3 audio embedded.
>> How do I write this to a DVD that anyone can stick it their stand-alone
>> DVD player and play as a single "movie"?
>> I tried using "dvdstyler", but it errors out while checking the video
>> for MPEG-2 errors (lots of bogus packet sizes), and then "mplex"
>> complains about the input files it gets as being unrecognizable.
>> dvdauthor assumes that I have VOB files already (I don't).
>
> Are you sure that is the case?
>
> dvdauthor - assembles multiple mpeg program streams into a suitable DVD
> filesystem
>
>
> Have you tried creating an xml file like so....
>
> <dvdauthor>
> <vmgm />
> <titleset>
> <titles>
> <pgc>
> <vob file="your_video.mpg" chapters="0,0:10,0:20,0:30,0:40,0:50" />
> </pgc>
> </titles>
> </titleset>
> </dvdauthor>
>
> And using a command such as ... dvdauthor -o dvd -x dvd.xml to create the
> dvd-structure in the -o directory....
No, I didn't, I'd rather have a tool that I can say:
create_dvd file.mpg
and have it do all the work, since I have no clue how to convert/massage
the .mpg files into the correct ISO format to be burned onto the DVD.
So, telling me to set up an .xml file assume that I know what to put in
the .xml file (which I do not know).
But, I will play with your example and see if I get anywhere.
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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