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The original /. article: DVD Authoring under Linux?


This guide was posted on the Gentoo Forums by shiznix. Find it here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709 [gentoo.org]


A few links:
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/

http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/
http://www.pcxperience.org/james/dvd/presentations/20031016/medres/text0.html

http://www.tappin.me.uk/Linux/dvd.html
http://gecius.de/linux/dvd.html

http://www.dahnielson.com/primer.txt
http://polidori.chapelperilous.net/

http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/

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“Build your own” in Linux–my steps in DVD making (Score:5, Informative)
by Linuxathome (johnvu.net)


Shortest answer I can give you:

1. Use kino [schirmacher.de] to do the video editing, and output/export (i.e. save as) an MPEG-2 (DVD format). To get this to work you will most likely need Mplayer
[mplayerhq.hu] installed because you’ll need the mplex commandline tool

to “multiplex” your audio and video files. Some like to use transcode
[fh-weingarten.de], but I like Mplayer much better.

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A few words to the wise (Score:4, Informative)
by spoonboy42 (146048)


Authoring video DVDs on linux is more than a little

difficult, these days. That said, with a little command line knowledge
and some good old-fashioned ingenuity, you can accomplish much.


I found this article

[linuxgazette.com] to be a good starting point. The beginning of the
article assumes that you’ll be working with a framegrabber and

generating MJPEG video with appropriate resolution/framerate, etc.
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world, so you’ll actually

need to transcode your videos into the MJPEG format before you do the
MPEG2 encoding. I find that mencoder is usually the best way to

accomplish this:

mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -oac copy -vf scale=720:480 -sws 9 your_file.avi -o mjpeg_stream.avi

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