hi,
i wanted to know if there was a way in k3b to convert dvix, mpeg and avi to dvd. i have done this with nero in windows but i want to know if you can do it in k3b for linux. thanks

k3b is just a burning and ripping front-end. It doesn't have full-fleged media editing ability like Nero. If you want to convert video to dvd, use something like avidemux to convert your video to mpeg2, and dvdstyler for authoring the menu system. Then you can burn the results with k3b or whatever you want.

Tovid is another good script package that can do both conversion and simple authoring.

Another option is Kavi2svcd- which uses ffmpeg and transcode to build vcd, svcd and dvd files (it will burn them, but I use k3b for that).

coool thank you so much for the replies ill give it a whirl!

sincerely
anthony

DeVeDe is also quite neat if you don't care about a DVD menu.
Depends on menconder and python (I think)...



Cheers,
Tink

cool yeah i dont really care about the menus to be honest. what is menconder and python?

mencoder is part of mplayer, and python is an object-oriented
scripting language.



Cheers,
Tink

Specifically, mencoder is the part of mplayer that handles (re)encoding of video. It's one of the most versatile encoders available and is used by many other programs.

As for DVD menus, while you may not be interested in a fancy GUI with buttons and whatnot, you always need to have some kind of menu structure on the DVD so that stand-alone players can read the disk (well, there are some players that can read raw data files, but most don't). A menu structure can be a huge affair of fancy animated menus and buttons, or as simple as "play the video automatically when inserted". Packages like DeVeDe can build a simple menu system for you. But for fancier stuff you need to use a dvd authoring tool (again, I recommend dvdstyler).

PS: I just took a look at the tovid wiki, and I must say it's come a long way since I last looked at it. It's really grown up.