Where dya pick it up from?
T
aria.co.uk - they had a special offer so I think it costs some more now, but still worth it...
]]>I used transcode for it with meg2enc-plugin and converted the audio to ac3. You may have to upscale the movie to anamorphic 16:9 (all commercial dvd's are in this format I believe) ... What is this or do you know it already ?
anamorphic dvd: Well the total numbers of pixels form a 4:3-image, but the movie is actually 16:9 (the image is stretched vertically). You can use yuvscaler with the bicubic algorithm for this (I believe). I gives very nice results!!! I tried some other algorithms and I have to say the bicubic algorithm is very nice. I couldn't really say the movie was upscaled.
So you have to upscale to (for PAL) 768*576 (I think ....) (no black borders).
How did I do this ? If you want to know this, I don't know immedialty again, but if you're really interested I can spend some time on it ...
Anyway, I highly suggest recompiling transcode and all it's dependencies from source ... and look at the configure-options and sometime add some options .. like with ffmpeg you can see if your cpu supports the cmov-instruction and also ne sure to have -march=<your cpu-type>. Every optimization is welcome !!! For me it is athlon-tbird for athlon thunderbird. Maybe throw an O3 in it. I also have -fomit-frame-pointer. You can set these in /etc/makepkg.conf I believe (or something like that).
Well the movie I transcode from divx or xvid to mpeg-2 (dvd) had a 3-hour duration and it took me 18 hours to transcode it ... I have to say the upscaling doubled the time ... I didn't know what I should do or knowed precisely what anamophic dvd was, so did some things twice ... I really suggest compiling things yourself with as most optimisations as possible! I first didn't optimise the scaling part and then it took 28 hours ...
I have an athlon-thunderbird 900 Mhz 128 MB ram.
The rest goes quicker ... You don't really haev to make menu's if you want, just specify the mpeg-2-movie-parts in dvd-author and make your dvd-directories that you can burn to dvd. You can also add multiple subtitle-translations if you want.
It takes some while to learn ...
If I remember well ... (I don't know if I transcoded to mpeg-2 before upscaling or not .. although upscaling first is maybe better)
There was also an incompatibilty between transcode and yuvscalers YUV4MPEG2-format. Transcode exported the old format I think ... myabe it's solved now ... else you need to use an older mpjpegtools(for yuvscaler) I think.
(It can also be wise to do a picture pass-through so there are as much audio-parts as picture parts ... to have less chance on desynchronisation I think ... I'm not sure about this though and about the method. You can export the audio to a separate file ... with the -m options(?) of transcode ... but not necessary maybe ... )
Transcode the audio to ac3-format ... that -E 48000 is also important I believe (saw it on your gentoo-link). I suppose players only play some formats only ... ?
so ... to upscale: if you splitted the audio and video already, export the video to yuv4mpeg and specify as outputfile /dev/output and pipe (|) it to yuvscaler. You can then pipe it to mpeg2enc to transclode it to mpeg-2-format. I'm not sure if I did it this way ... you can maybe also use transcode again instead of mpeg2enc. There is also ffmpeg ... but I used mpeg2enc. For mpeg-2-generation use best-quality-output. I believe the lower the Quantisation-number the better thr quality(every part of the imahe is divied by a number I believe and the lower that number the higher the numbers stay ... lesser 0-values you'll have and so lesser is thrown away I think .... ), but maybe there is a simple option for this.
You can multiplex the audio and video-stream to an mpeg-2stream ... with mplex or so I think.
Then use dvd-author to create the dvd-structure, ....
A divx can be nto so standard or so (or faulty) which can give problems ... the above passthrough for equal audio/video-parts can maybe help ... or use of mplayer pass-through wich can maybe help. It gave me some headaches ...
Well hopes this helps a bit ...
]]>Where dya pick it up from? Maybe when I get my student loan..... heh
T
]]>Dunno about anyone else, but I've been looking for ages for a way to convert various movie types into something that can be watched on a DVD player.
I've seen a few scripts about, but nothing concrete. Just got a DVD writer yesterday, and found a very nice HowTo over at the Gentoo forums, here.
I'm going to give it a try today - anyone know how long encoding takes? Because there's no progress bar for CLI, heh.
Hope people find that useful, credit to the author.
T.
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