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Mark Haney posted <43C65F25.8000906@××××××××××××.org>, excerpted below, |
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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 haven't. |
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It can do a lot of conversions on-the-fly. If it can't do 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 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 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 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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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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