I've looked through the LQ DVD walkthru for this task, but I can't seem to ./configure mjpegtools. I don't think my processor is supported. Something about a k8 cpu not valid.

So I'm on the hunt for an alternative. Anyone know of anything that'll do the job? I'm trying to convert AVIs into playable DVDs.

K3B does it for me i think. tries that? its very good

I believe K3B is only made for burning, not decoding video and audio and re-encoding them. I don't think this is what I'm looking for. Any more ideas?

hmm the version of k3b i have has the option to encode video, and lets you choose video codec, audio codec, bit rates and sample streams for audio for dvds. and it also lets you chagne the res's of the videos?
oir maby you looking for more complex vid editing?

ryan

I think K3b can encode videos from DVDs, but it can't decode videos back to DVDs.

K3b can burn a video DVD if you have the VIDEO_TS structure produced ahead of time. It will produce a SVCD from individual mpegs.

Here is a web site that might interest you:
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...rialVideo.html
It has an overview on encoding, non-linear editing, and authoring. Also try googling for other information.

It seems like there's nothing else but mjpegtools that does the job ...

jschiwal what did you mean by this:

So it's possible to use K3B without mjpegtools?

Not being at a linux computer right now, I'm not sure which packages need to be installed for K3b to burn a video DVD. Some programs are required and some are optional. K3b is a graphical front end for programs that run in the shell. The actual burning of the disk is done in the background.

K3b will not import mpeg videos to produce a DVD video. You will need to do that ahead of time using other tools. It can import mpeg videos to produce a VCD or SVCD. You may need to run the K3b configuration to see if you need other tools installed, such as tcprobe, etc.

That is a great link. Thank you.

I am trying to get Varsha working. Has anyone had any success with this? I cant get off the ground. Log follows:

david@linuxpc:~/Downloads$ sudo java -jar varsha.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Cannot load AWT toolkit: gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit
at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(java.lang.Runnable) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(java.lang.Runnable) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.addInvalidComponent(javax.swing.JComponent) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JComponent.revalidate() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JComponent.setOpaque(boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JPanel.JPanel(java.awt.LayoutManager, boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JPanel.JPanel() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JRootPane.createGlassPane() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JRootPane.getGlassPane() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JRootPane.JRootPane() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JFrame.createRootPane() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JFrame.getRootPane() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JFrame.frameInit() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at javax.swing.JFrame.JFrame() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at varsha.ui.Varsha.Varsha() (Unknown Source)
at varsha.ui.Varsha.main(java.lang.String[]) (Unknown Source)
at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.call_main() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit not found in gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:varsha.jar,file:./], parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}}
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String, boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.Class.forName(java.lang.String, boolean, java.lang.ClassLoader) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.Class.forName(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
...18 more
david@linuxpc:~/Downloads$