I have recently aquired a DVD recorder and I want to record on it, transfer the result to my computer, do some simple editing (chop out adverts) and write the results back to a different DVD. I can transfer the contents of a DVD to my computer using DVD-Rip. I can edit the resultant .VOB files using Avidemux. What I can't find out how to do is to write the results back to a DVD. One of my problems is that I really don't understand much of the terminology. Any advice, as non-technical as possible, will be much appreciated. -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
On Monday 17 January 2005 9:13 pm, Barry Samuels wrote:
I have recently aquired a DVD recorder and I want to record on it, transfer the result to my computer, do some simple editing (chop out adverts) and write the results back to a different DVD.
I can transfer the contents of a DVD to my computer using DVD-Rip. I can edit the resultant .VOB files using Avidemux. What I can't find out how to do is to write the results back to a DVD.
One of my problems is that I really don't understand much of the terminology.
Any advice, as non-technical as possible, will be much appreciated.
Possibly the best way to start is with a gui frontend to dvdauthor http://freshmeat.net/projects/qdvdauthor/ The way I understand it, once you have edited the contents of the VOB's (particularly anything that affects their play length) you need to recreate the ifo files. The VOB's themselves are just mpeg video but the ifo's contain the indexing information.
On 2005.01.17 22:09, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Possibly the best way to start is with a gui frontend to dvdauthor
I have just tried qdvdauthor and can't get it to do anything. I can point it at some .VOBs using 'Add Movie' and then click 'Create DVD' but all I get is a window full of empy drop-down boxes. Clicking 'Ok' on that gets me to another empty window. Clicking 'Ok' on that gives me nothing. I'm mystified. Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:58, Barry Samuels wrote:
On 2005.01.17 22:09, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Possibly the best way to start is with a gui frontend to dvdauthor
I have just tried qdvdauthor and can't get it to do anything.
I can point it at some .VOBs using 'Add Movie' and then click 'Create DVD' but all I get is a window full of empy drop-down boxes. Clicking 'Ok' on that gets me to another empty window. Clicking 'Ok' on that gives me nothing.
I'm mystified.
I'm developing a (GPL) GUI package in Java for doing DVD authoring and other things. I'd be happy to give as much help as you need. Like Q-DVDAuthor and Varsha it acts as a wrapper for dvdauthor and other tools; it just takes a slightly different view of what's important and what isn't. To try it, get Java 1.5 - nothing earlier will work here - installed on your computer (go to http://java.sun.com), then go to a console and type <Java Install Folder>/bin/javaws http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.jnlp The program has quite a lot of built-in help, but I expect you'll have all the usual beginner problems so don't hesitate to nag me for answers. Regarding your particular project, I tried to do much the same the other day and found dvdauthor didn't like to re-author VOBs ripped from a DVD. It was happy once they were recoded to regular MPEG2. I haven't looked into avidemux so perhaps therein lies an answer. It's also worth going to http://www.videohelp.com and checking out the Linux forum there. -- GT
On 2005.01.19 20:24, Graham wrote:
I have just tried qdvdauthor and can't get it to do anything. I can point it at some .VOBs using 'Add Movie' and then click 'Create DVD' but all I get is a window full of empy drop-down boxes. Clicking 'Ok' on that gets me to another empty window. Clicking 'Ok' on that gives me nothing. I'm mystified.
I'm developing a (GPL) GUI package in Java for doing DVD authoring and other things. I'd be happy to give as much help as you need. Like Q-DVDAuthor and Varsha it acts as a wrapper for dvdauthor and other tools; it just takes a slightly different view of what's important and what isn't. To try it, get Java 1.5
I don't really want to install Java on my machine at this point although I have to say that really was a generous offer. You obviously didn't realise what you might have been letting yourself in for :-)
Regarding your particular project, I tried to do much the same the other day and found dvdauthor didn't like to re-author VOBs ripped from a DVD. It was happy once they were recoded to regular MPEG2. I haven't looked into avidemux so perhaps therein lies an answer. It's also worth going to http://www.videohelp.com and checking out the Linux forum there. --
I have now made a little progress. I recently discovered that DVD-RW discs recorded using VR mode use the UDF filesystem and support for that was excluded from my kernel. I have now included UDF support and, voila!, I can read DVD-RW discs recorded on my DVD recorder using VR mode. If I use VR recording I can edit the result on the DVD recorder itself then, because I can now now read UDF discs, I can make a UDF disc image using Mount-Iso and write it to another DVD using growisofs which is basically all I wanted to do. It would be nice if I could record using VIDEO mode because that is more universally accepted by DVD players I believe, edit on my computer and re-master (is that the correct term?) onto a new DVD. But that may come given time. Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
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