app for VCD creation

slackmagic · 08-29-2003, 12:38 AM

hi there,

does anyone know if there is some sort of VCD creation application for linux? I used to create VCDs under Windows with NERO before I switched to Linux - it was able to re-encode vidz if needed and created video CDs successfully.

I tried to use Nero under VMWARE (with a virtual WinXP O/S) everything worked fine until I was gonna burn the CD - it just wouldn't read something properly and keeps saying that the CD is unwriteable - even it recognizes it as an empty one under 'CD info')

So I either find myself an application that allows me to do similar things through linux, or I have to copy files over via samba and then boot up to my Windows 2K (which I very very very seldom do) and burn the CDs from there. Any suggestion guys?

Thanks again for your time!

DrOzz · 08-29-2003, 12:41 AM

avidemux

slackmagic · 08-29-2003, 12:49 AM

I just went to the DOCS link and looked very quickly, but ....so this application is able to create VCDs out of almost any format right?

DrOzz · 08-29-2003, 12:49 AM

well what formats are you files?

slackmagic · 08-29-2003, 12:53 AM

just a small list - i'm pretty sure it'll recognize all these formats but just wanted to make sure lol

.dat
.mpg
.avi
.wmv

mainly these

DrOzz · 08-29-2003, 12:56 AM

not sure about the dat file since i don't use them file formats, but the other three will be alright, but regarding the wmv files you have to do this:

Quote:

Although Avidemux can now open the contents of a WMV2 file (Windows Media Player 7.x/8.x format) - the video data must be contained within an AVI container.

To create this container, you can use the MEncoder package in copy mode (eg.): mencoder [wmv file] -oac copy -ovc copy -cache 8192 -ofps 100.0 -o [avi file]

thats taken from the docs on the site....

slackmagic · 08-29-2003, 01:03 AM

well, I'm tryng to install it, first got the rpm for RH 8.0/9.0 and hehe, we're back with all those missing deps...back on freshrpm, coudn't find those there, so I had to go to rpmfind.net and trying to get them slowly, after i installed 2, i gave up and i'm currently upgrading/updating apt-get and see if that helps me

thanks for introducing me the app...i'm pretty sure it's exactely what i'm looking for!