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here's 6 basic steps to convert a .AVI to DVD so you can watch your movies on your home player, not just your computer. . .But first we need to figure out if it's a fullscreen movie or letterbox movie. . .Movies normally come in two sizes: 4:3 (fullscreen) or 16:9 (letterbox) which they call aspect ratio. . .They also come in two formats PAL (Non-US) and NTSC (US). . .The following examples are for NTSC Only!

what you need first:
transcode
mplayer
Mjpegtools
ffmpeg
dvd+rw-tools
Dvdauthor
some hardrive space

in this example I will be using a 16:9 movie.avi for our conversion. . .

1.) Split the .avi file into 2 seperate files, one for video and one for audio:

Code:

transcode -i movie.avi -y ffmpeg --export_prof dvd-ntsc --export_asr 3 -o movie -D0 -s2 -m movie.ac3 -J modfps=clonetype=3 --export_fps 29.97

this will make:
movie.m2v (video)
movie.ac3 (audio)

note: if you're doing a fullscreen (4:3) movie then simply change --export_asr 3 to --export_asr 2

2.) (optional) Extract 5.1 Audio:

Code:

tcextract -d2 -i movie.avi -a0 -x ac3 | tcextract -d2 -x ac3 -t raw > movie.ac3

This is an extra step if you know your .avi file actually has 5.1 surround sound. (Step one only produces a stereo .ac3 file !)
How can you tell? Do this first:

Code:

mplayer -vo dummy -identify movie.avi 2> /dev/null | grep "5.1 ("

if you get this output then you have 5.1:

Code:

AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 384.0 kbit/s

if you don't, just ignore this step!

3.) Put the video & audio file back together:

Code:

mplex -f 8 -o dvd_movie.mpg movie.m2v movie.ac3

this will make dvd_movie.mpg ready for DVD authoring. . .

4.) open your favorite text editor and paste the following:

Code:

<dvdauthor dest="DVD">

  <vmgm />

  <titleset>

    <titles>

      <pgc>

        <vob file="dvd_movie.mpg" chapters="0,15:00,30:00,45:00,1:00:00"/>

      </pgc>

      </titles>

  </titleset>

 </dvdauthor>

save the file as: dvdauthor.xml
in the same directory as your movie files
(you can also change the chapters to fit the times of your movie)

5.) Create a DVD directory where your movie files are and do this:

Code:

dvdauthor -x dvdauthor.xml

this will create two AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories in your DVD directory. . .

6.) Test it & Burn it:

to test it:

Code:

xine dvd:/full/path/to/DVD/VIDEO_TS/

to burn it:

Code:

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video DVD/

note: I like to use DVD-RW discs for a test before I use a real disc. . .
If all goes well, the above will produce movie with no menus, just the movie that should play when you put in your disc. . .and if there's more than one .avi then simply do this in your dvdauthor.xml file:

Code:

<dvdauthor dest="DVD">

  <vmgm />

  <titleset>

    <titles>

      <pgc>

        <vob file="dvd_movie_part1.mpg" chapters="0,15:00,30:00,45:00,1:00:00"/>

        <vob file="dvd_movie_part2.mpg" chapters="0,15:00,30:00,45:00,1:00:00"/>

      </pgc>

    </titles>

  </titleset>

 </dvdauthor>

GOOD LUCK!

you might want to submit this to our linuxanswers subsite to get the best out of this.

I tried, but didn't see it post. . .

Anyway here's how you add subtitles to your video stream:

1.) download the correct subtitle from http://eXTratitles.to

2.) use a program from dvdauthor called Spumux to add the subtitle text into the DVD video. Just make sure you have a .spumux dir in your home dir and put your fav .tff font in it. I used Vera.tff but any True Type font will do. Open your fav text editor and paste this:

Code:

<subpictures> <stream> <textsub filename="movie.srt" characterset="ISO8859-1" fontsize="18.0" font="Vera.ttf" horizontal-alignment="center" vertical-alignment="bottom" left-margin="60" right-margin="60" top-margin="20" bottom-margin="30" subtitle-fps="29.97" movie-fps="29.97" movie-width="720" movie-height="478"/> </stream> </subpictures>

save as 'subtitle.xml'

3.) Merge the subtitles into the DVD video:

Code:

spumux -s0 subtitle.xml < dvd_movie.mpg > dvd_movie.mpg.temp mv dvd_movie.mpg.temp dvd_movie.mpg

when complete you should now have subtitles in your dvd_movie.mpg

I goto http://cdcovers.cc for all my printing and menu needs. . .

This is good news. More instruction for Avi/DVD. How does this compare with tovid? It seems to use the same tools. I don't know if tovid does subtitle tracks, but maybe there's an opportunity to collaborate...

never heard of tovid
is that a script?

Several scripts, and an optional GUI. There are several threads here about it. The homepage is here

Hi I am not a expert, so just sorry me if my question it's not appropriate. I am trying to convert my divx to DVD, and I found this tutorial, I download and installed transcode-1.0.2-3.1.fc3.rf, by yum(I am under fedora core 3). I tried to use it in the "ptesone way", but it does not work; the error is the follow below:

Code:

[transcode] warning : [import_ffmpeg.so] frame decoding failed

[export_ffmpeg.so]: INFO: Display aspect ratio calculated as 1.333333

[export_ffmpeg.so]: INFO: Sample aspect ratio calculated as 0.888889

[mpeg2video @ 0xb5a9c5c8]only YUV420 is supported

[export_ffmpeg.so] could not open FFMPEG codec

[transcode] warning : (encoder.c) video export module error: init failed

[transcode] critical: failed to init encoder

I have be trying to understand, but until now I'haven't found no solution. Do you have suggest?
Thanks really much, and sorry for my English, tajo01

please don't ask questions in old threads.

Recent experience?

There must be SW that does this in one step: AVI-> playable DVD
No?

please don't ask questions in old threads.