Hello,

So we had a important task, capture our friends wedding day, and make a DVD/VCD/SVCD movie. Up till now, we used MOS and LinuxPPC.

Attempt 1, use ffmpeg to convert the DV camera files to standart VCD format.
Output: Useless, no CBR support.. Most DVD players stotter..

Attempt 2, use ffmpeg to convert the DV camera files to standart SVCD format.
Output: Useless, no CBR support.. Only some DVD players will play these files.

Anyone, mos/linux expert please help,
we are totally out of options..

We also tried to 'just' burn the .dv raw data
camera files to DVD with debian/linux. The strange thing is, we created 1 DVD containing 2 .dv files (Both arround 2 GB), but after that, we killed 5 empty DVD's. (Might be a file >4 GB problem)

Our main goal is to create several DVD's with
video/audio playable on all DVD players.

At this point, we have tried all options, exept for using windows.

Please help.

To quote the ffmpeg documentation:
Quote:

I'm sure ffmpeg can do CBR (see above), and you most definitely do not want CBR for an SVCD

did you try MEncoder? It might be able to do the job instead of ffmpeg

Both programs can create mpeg streams suitable for VCD creation on Linux.
On MorphOS ffmpeg is currently the only option, because the MorphOS mencoder 0.91 version has no working mpeg support, v1.0 is needed.

>At this point, we have tried all options, exept for using windows.

So why not do the stuff on Windows ? Save yourself many wasted hours

There are numerous programs available for this task on Linux.
No need for Windows.

> So why not do the stuff on Windows ? Save
> yourself many wasted hours

Good idea, exept for a few minor details,
1. Windows sux,
2. See 1.

No seriously, i only have a laptop, with
less then 600 MB free, 1 DV file can be
huge, so i have to backup everything,
without having a cd-burn device.
(Have one, but doesn't work, registry trouble..)

Bye

> To quote the ffmpeg documentation:
> Quote:
> `-target type'
> specify target file type ("vcd", "svcd" or
> "dvd"). All the format options (bitrate,
> codecs, buffer sizes) are automatically set by
> this option. You can just type:
> ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -target vcd /tmp/vcd.mpg
> I'm sure ffmpeg can do CBR (see above), and you > most definitely do not want CBR for an SVCD

Thanx for that info, didn't know that,
i'm no document reading kind of a user

Bye

> There are numerous programs available for this
> task on Linux.

Well you give me the name of a good program
with a nice GUI that does the job :)

> No need for Windows.

I agree

Quote:

Well i'm using ffmpeg 0.4.8 on linux, but that version doesn't have the -target option.

I now downloaded 0.4.6 and 0.4.9-pre1, mabe
one of these versions has such a option.

Bye
Felix.

Try transcode, MythTV and the other programs I don't remember anymore.

As for ffmpeg, try -vcd

> Try transcode, MythTV and the other programs I > don't remember anymore.

MythTV is new for me, ill check that out.
Transcode is to much commandline for me.

> As for ffmpeg, try -vcd

I did, i dl a version with the -target option
as for VCD, no problem, but SVCD doesn't work
on all DVD players. Realy sux.

Tnx anyway,

Gr.
Felix.