Paul Tansom wrote:
> This isn't something I've played around with much. I got a genlock for
> my old Amiga 1500 many moons ago, and have done a bit of capture on a
> PC. Initially using my old Matrox Marvel card and Windows, and more
> recently (OK, about 5 years ago instead of about 9 years ago!) I
> reviewed a PCMCIA firewire card and did come capture using Kino on an
> old Debian install. I'm back at it now with a couple of projects that I
> need to sort out now though, so hoped someone could give me a few good
> starting points.
>
> The requirements are pretty similar, but not quite identical:
>
> 1. I have a set of .flv files that I want to get onto my HD/DVD recorder
> so that I can then burn them to DVD along with some bits already on the
> recorder. I've converted them to mpeg files (unfortunately using Windows
> for the conversion as for some reason the copy of ffmpeg on Debian
> doesn't handle .flv files - I'm assuming licensing/freedom issues) and
> joined them together (a simple cat worked well enough which surprised
> me), so the next stage is to get them onto DVD. I'm not expecting to be
> able to copy from a burnt DVD to the HD, so assume I somehow need to
> copy them onto a DVD-RAM disk in the appropriate format.
DeVeDe handles a wide variety of formats when creating DVDs, including
.flv -- see
http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html
dvdrip will do any DVD reading required -- see
http://exit1.org/dvdrip/
>
> This looks likely to cause me to resort to Windows as the DVD format is
> UDF and I've not been able to read that on Linux (although to be honest
> I've not investigated far, but since this is likely a one off I'll
> probably be lazy!). The disk seems to require 3 files, a .VRO that seems
> to be an mpeg file with a different extension, and a pair of config
> files with the .bup and .ifo extensions. I've on idea how to create
> those though.
>
> 2. This is the more interesting and longer term one. I have some video
> recorded on DV (and Hi8 for older stuff) that I'll be either capturing
> onto the recorder (probably causing issues related to the above) or
> more likely directly to the PC (the DV can come in via firewire easily
> enough). What I then need to do is edit, create some titles and burn to
> DVD in a format for standard players.
>
>>From what I can see from a bit of Google work the best apps to use for
> this seem to be kino/dvgrab for capture, Cinelerra for editing and then
> dvdstyler/dvdauthor to create the DVD iso ready to burn, although LiVES
> also gets a few mentions. Has anyone tried these, or can anyone suggest
> any others worth investigating?
>
I've used Kino and DVDStyler successfully once or twice. QDVDauthor is
workable too -- see
http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
cheers
Chris
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Chris Dennis cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
