How do I go about burning a movie on morphos? What is the best technique(commands, and programs)
found dvd engine, and dvdauthor, but I suck at shell commands..

found thisMEncoder link and wondered if some could pick out the string to convert from avi to vob

Do you mean burn the file onto a DVD-R ?

If you mean burn a DVD that you can put in a consumer DVD player and play on TV then you've got a lot of work to convert it into a suitable video coding, audio coding, resolution, bit rate etc. dvdauthor and mencoder are good places to start looking.

yea, I mentioned that....I can't seem to figure out the technical set of commands, as I tried, but was unsuccessful.

Umm, you're thinking that two lines of CLI will be enough to create a burnable DVD image ? I'm sorry but you really need to do your research on this.

Try keywords "create DVD mencoder".

You will get something like

Code:

But you have to understand what all those options mean otherwise you'll end up making lots of expensive silver coasters. Many people post tips with magic incantations for using mencoder but don't know what the options mean. This is a case where you have to RTFM and separate the information from people who know what they are doing and the people who don't.

You need to know about DVD specifications for bit rate and coding; dvdauthor set up and how to burn the image when it is complete.

What abaout this software;
http://www.amiganews.de/en/news/AN-2008-12-00040-EN.html
Never tried myself, but sounded nice. Information is/was sparse, the webpage www.pegasossoft.de seriously lacks information (and is not really browseable with that Firefox on the Eee I am using right now).

> What abaout this software;
> http://www.amiganews.de/en/news/AN-2008-12-00040-EN.html

Most recent version would be:

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2009-01-00033-EN.html

> the webpage www.pegasossoft.de seriously lacks information (and is not really
> browseable with that Firefox on the Eee I am using right now).

That's been the condition of that site from the year dot. And it has zilch to do with the browser ;-)

maybe a burner will help u

using the below set of lines, produced resulting files in about 45mins.

mencoder <input file> -o <output file> -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg
-mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:vstrict=0:acodec=ac3

Again this is just tinkering, and a/v sync may not be in tune, but two files were produced one a mpeg of 1.7gigs, and a vob which was 565.6 megs. The original file was avi 699.1megs.

What would be the next step, and how does dvdauthor come into play? Do I now proceed to FP, and set the dirs. then burn? I haven't found anything on this next step or steps.

dvd author -m command produced A/V_TS folders, but I can't decifer the next set of codes (pls don't WTF me )

dvdauthor -v ntsc + 16:9 + 720xfull -a ac3 + en -o [location/file] -f|[location:temp/file.vob

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2009/11/30 19:33 ]

1) Is this the correct setup for dvdauthor?(-x dvdauthor.xml)

<dvdauthor dest="DVD">
<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<video widescreen="nopanscan" />
<pgc>
<vob file="file.vob" chapters="0,0:30,1:00,1:30,2:30,3:00,3:30,4:00"/>
</pgc>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>

2) how do I impliment it?

3) what does this error [ Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
Bytes: 0xA0 0x3C 0x74 0x69
<titleset>] mean?

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2009/11/30 22:10 ]

dvd-engine links seem broken..
would like to give this another attempt

How about going to the Mplayer site..There is extensive documentation.. "A lot of how to's http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.txt
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html

there is also a main page link in the second link above
you can do it..show us the path:)


[ Edited by osco on 2010/1/18 0:45 ]

[ Edited by osco on 2010/1/18 0:46 ]

[ Edited by osco on 2010/1/18 0:49 ]

> dvd-engine links seem broken..

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2010-01-00045-EN.html

thanks!

Can someone contact the author and port DVDAuthorGUI
He may share the source code. I've been unsuccessful with coding .vob

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2010/2/1 20:59 ]

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2010/2/5 22:50 ]

Maybe this (new) peace of software can help !?

http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2010-02-00037-DE.html

But i did'nt tired it by myself...
Would be nice to hear, if it is usefull or not

Hey, now that looks interesting! I have completed the task successfully, but I guess I could tinker with this program. Possibly some time inbetween Olympic events heh
thanks

edit: readme translationInstallation:
The archive must only be endpackt, and you can Verszeichnis
Any copy somewhere.
Furthermore, one must possess to operate as follows: mplayer, mencoder, dvdauthor,
spumux ffmpeg, (MOS version of FAB), pngnq, mkisofs, mkvmerge.
Thus one can use BlueHD at all, we must create a directory, where
at least 18 GB of space is available. This is required because of
the calculation of the ISO's generated a lot of Temporary data. In this directory
niss, depending on the name of the DVD re-separated lists of BlueHD
created.

Sorry..this kills my test run

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2010/2/13 0:07 ]

Took me 5 minutes with google.......

DVDauthor, Spumux: http://aminet.net/gfx/conv/dvdauthor-morphos.lha
mkisofs: http://aminet.net/dev/gg/mkisofs-2.0bin.lha
mkvmerge: http://www.christianrosentreter.com/download/ports/mkvtoolnix-0.9.1-morphos.lha
pngnq: http://aminet.net/package.php?package=gfx/misc/png_neuquant-mos.lha
mplayer/mencoder/ffmpeg: http://fabportnawak.free.fr/

> mkisofs: http://aminet.net/dev/gg/mkisofs-2.0bin.lha

MorphOS native version contained in:
http://aminet.net/package/disk/cdrom/dvdrtools

I was making reference to the 18gigs, not sure if that's necessary, but i was unable to create a dvd-iso. I got a pop up in german saying something about can't create file check ....
I saved dvd pref to a file on my seagate usb, and upon dvd author pop-up(after selecting erzeuge dvd-iso) I'm assuming it 's asking where to put temp, so i directed a temp also on external.
no go.....hopefully someone else got it ...it seems easy enough

@ xyphoid

I did quite some testing but couldn't get it to work at 1st but finally found out what the problem is. You must enter excately the same file names as how they are written in the gui, eg. I had GMplayer on my system and therefore it didn't work, the gui needs MPlayer! You have to rename it, and all the others is well.

2nd when saving the bluehd.cfg (when you hit the "Speichern..." button) the file is saved with an error, as it does not create a new line in the cfg for the "DVD-Verzeichnis". So I opend the file in a texteditor and added a new line for it.

3rd after having hit "Speichern..." the cfg is onl copied to Envarc but not to Env, so either you do a reset or you copy it by hand also to Env.

I also noticed that if you call the Temp directory BlueHD/ as I did, it want work neither. I include here a config file which works here:

System:MPlayer/mencoder
System:MPlayer/MPlayer
System:MPlayer/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
System:C/dvdauthor
System:C/spumux
System:C/pngnq
System:C/mkvmerge
System:C/mkisofs
P3-MM:DVD-Temp/

and here is the one created after having hit "Speichern..."

System:MPlayer/mencoder
System:MPlayer/MPlayer
System:MPlayer/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
System:C/dvdauthor
System:C/spumux
System:C/pngnq
System:C/mkvmerge
System:C/mkisofsP3-MM:DVD-Temp/

Hope this helps.

all i get is a dir named temDVDname(it adds the word temp and cuts off the p) containing an empty dvd folder and an x. xml file. no conversion takes place.
all my exe are in c: was the 18gig necessary, or apparently I missed something else

C:mencoder
C:MPlayer
C:ffmpeg
C:dvdauthor
C:spumux
C:pngnq
C:mkvmerge
C:mkisofs
Seagate:Temp/test
where should the erzeuge DVD-iso (create) default to when pressed

weird, it seems to be going now. i put a / at end of temp/test

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2010/2/16 23:28 ]

ok it works for me now and gets it done in about 2hrs. I assume it does blu-ray? hence the name. the other video opts. hd-video-dvd (mkv) and hd-video-dvd (mp4) something to play with which is the reason for 18gig avail.

Overall pretty neat program to have for us. now you don't have to type in a long syntax to create a dvd. Well done thanks to the author!!!

Do the combination of programs listed in this thread allow us to duplicate our commercial DVD movies for backup purposes to new DVD's, or to copy old commercial (copy protected) VHS movies and write them to new DVD's?

I have been told that all I need to get rid of copy protection, such as Macro-Vision, is to run the output through a TBC on one of my Amigas or PCs. Has anyone had any experience with this to back up any of their movies?