Help burning "video" DVD.

[Ben Hacker Jr]

Hello All... I hope this is the correct forum for this...

I have a video file *.m4v or *.mp4 that I can play just fine on my PCBSD box using Kaffeine or gmplayer. I can burn Data DVD's all day long.

I want to use K3B (Or command line) to burn this file to a DVD formated so it can be played on a regular (appliance) DVD Player.

I don't know where to start... Dragging it to the disk doesn't seem to work.

When I start the VideoDVD project in K3B it create two initial sub-directories:

K3B data project name
|
+-AUDIO_TS
+-VIDEO_TS

I figure the *.mp4 file needs to be split somehow into Audio and Video and respectively placed into these directories but ...

How To's I have found on line seem to be all about Data burning rather then Video burning.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[Apatewna]

I believe that Kino (/usr/ports/multimedia/kino) has an export function that creates the DVD structure necessary for DVD video creation in K3B.

[Ben Hacker Jr]

I appreciate the reply. I didn't find any other supporting documentation on the KINO software mentioned. It looks more like a Video Capture and editor.

I found the following on a Web Search.

http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=316878
http://www.dvdstyler.de/

I will try the DVDStyler since it is in the Ports and provide status here after testing on PC-BSD v1.3x

[Apatewna]

ffmpeg maybe?

[Ben Hacker Jr]

I believe (Based upon what I have been reading on the web & DVDStyler will not see *.mp4 files in its directory listing...) that I need to convert the M4V/MP4 file into MPG or AVI format first.

I have been able to convert the file using MPlayer/MEncoder but I am not using the correct command line options. When the conversion is completed I have a file that is less the half the size of the original. The audio plays correctly but the video now appears to be a bunch of still pictures that change every 3 or 4 seconds.

I tried the following and both produced the sames results:

mencoder Burn/Ghana.mp4 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -o Burn/test.mpg

mencoder Burn/Ghana.mp4 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of avi -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -o Burn/test.avi

I am not claiming to understand all the abilities of MPlayer. Anyone who does please chime in here. Thanks!

[Ben Hacker Jr]

ffmpeg maybe?

ffmpeg looks good! and it is in the Ports so I think I will give it a try!

Thanks!

[handy]

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