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Mark Haney wrote: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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>> Mark Haney posted <43C65F25.8000906@××××××××××××.org>, excerpted |
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>> below, on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:52:37 -0500: |
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>>> I googled this and found a nice HOWTO on the Gentoo Wiki, but it's a |
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>>> couple years old. Are there any new tools to automate converting movie |
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>>> files (.avi, etc) to DVD format, even DVD ISO format? |
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>> You didn't post the link and I'm too lazy to do the search myself to |
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>> check if it's listed or not, but definitely checkout k3b if you |
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>> haven't. It can do a lot of conversions on-the-fly. If it can't do |
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>> them on-the-fly |
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>> to actually burn, because the CPU simply isn't powerful enough for the |
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>> conversion to keep up with the burn, it can create the ISO in tmpspace |
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>> and |
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>> then burn it when it's done, if desired, pretty much automatically. Yes, |
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>> it DOES handle DVDs, now (it may not have a couple years ago as that's |
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>> about the time Mandrake contributed the patches, IIRC). |
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> I didn't think to post the link, my bad. |
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>> I haven't actually used k3b for video conversion, but I've used it for |
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>> on-the-fly MP3 to CDA conversion, to burn CDs playable in a regular CD |
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>> player, and it worked well. I know it's supposed to handle video as |
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>> well, |
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>> just haven't tried it. |
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>> The biggest downside is if you don't have KDE merged, it'll require |
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>> kdelibs and perhaps part of kdebase, in addition to all the transcode |
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>> stuff you'll probably want to enable via USE flags. However, it's |
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>> generally considered /the/ way to go for that sort of thing, even if you |
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>> have to merge some KDE stuff just for it. There's simply nothing else |
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>> that does what it does, in such a simple and intuitive way. |
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> This isn't a downside as I run KDE anyway. Thanks for the reply. |
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personally I use any2vob to convert the .avi or whatever to .vob files.. |
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then use qdvdauthor to make the DVD.. then k3b to burn it... |
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it might be a long way around, but it works... |
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