[olug] DVD writing/authoring in Linux

[Tim - DZ]

Most players prefer DVD-R, especially 'older' home dvd players.
DVD-RW is next.
DVD+R and +RW are pretty much in the same boat and come in third.
DVD-RAM is 'right out'. 


If you have a really picky home player, some DVD-R's may not even work,
you'll have to try different brands...more secifically different colors of
media.  Some drives (xbox comes to mind) are really picky.

Personally I've had the best across the spectrum luck with Sony CDR, Imation
CDRW, Verbatim DVD-R and DVD-RW (my dvd burner does not do + or RAM
varients).

-t 


-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Jordan Wilberding
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 12:18 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] DVD writing/authoring in Linux

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 10:20, Brian Wiese wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:53:00 -0600
> Jordan Wilberding <diginux at diginux.net> wrote:
> 
> |I know k3b writes to dvd, but it doesn't seem to support making 
> |movies from dvd, with the exception of eMovix like I said in my 
> |email. I am wondering if there is something that will allow you 
> |author movies on dvd in Linux without having to do everything 
> |yourself with mkisof and dvdrecord on the command line.
> 
> Still not entirely sure what you mean... do you want to copy a full 
> length DVD movie onto a DVD-R disk like the other thread about xcopy 
> xpress (make a backup), edit and make your own dvd movies from a 
> camcorder/ieee1394/other video source*, or copy a dvd movie into 
> another format (svcd, divx, xvid..) in which case can usually be burnt to
cdrom.
> 
> For 'editing' movies I can just think of cinelerra, and they have 
> links to some other things on their site.  I don't know whether this 
> supports authoring the video into a DVD disc/mpeg layout for burning.
> http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
> 
> I haven't done any dvd authoring myself, but I've seen some of the 
> stuff out there and backup my own dvds to other formats (svcd, divx, 
> xvid..)
> 
> hth
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mkdvd looks like what I need too. I just need something to take video from
my camera and make into a dvd. So I'll give that a try. One more quick
question, will a dvd-rw play in most dvd players or not?

Thanks!
Jordan Wilberding

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