Creating DVDs

[theAdmiral]

Hello to Everyone.

I have a set of movies on hard disk that I would like to burn to DVD so that I can play them on my TV. Their formats are *.avi. How do I go about doing this in K3b? I have tried the PAL setting. Doesn't work. Then I tried the NTSC setting. Still doesn't work. Can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
theAdmiral

[namopereht]

Re: Creating DVDs

Easiest point and click method I have found is to install "devede" from the repos. Converts, makes menus if you want, and kicks out a dvd iso image to burn with k3b.

namopereht

[theAdmiral]

Re: Creating DVDs

I tried that with both the Pal and the the NTSC setting. What are the step-by-steps, please? What are the tricks?

theAdmiral

[sithlord48]

Re: Creating DVDs

hey i have sugestion for for avi2dvd question..

i use avidemux to do this process..

first off assuming a clean install your gonna want to do a few things first
install the restricted extras (mp3 codec dvd playpack, flash , java and a bunch more)

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras

now open up adept and go to the manage repositories section. enable the partner repo under 3rd party.
update you package list and install the package "avidemux"

after installing under multimedia in the kmenu you should see avidemux run it

open your source video,

on the right hand side. you seed some drop down menus and buttons...
under video from the dropdown select, DVD (either one) and (click config to change aspect from its default 4:3 if you need to) now for the audio one you want one of the AC3 selected, and for format drop down you want to have VIDEO_TS(A+V) now save your video (it will do the encoding...)

now you prolly want this on a DVD disk , when avidemux is done you will have a dvd format video saved where you placed it ,so lets burn it
so lets open up k3b.
in k3b you first want to do the following
file->new project->new dvd video project.
now you should see on the bottom half a new dvd video project so lets go to the place where you saved the dvd files you made w/ avidemux. here you should notice a folder named video_ts open it up and copy the file to the video_ts folder in the new project. now click burn to burn you disk.

and just note sometimes if you trying to play this disk in a console player you might need to use a dvd-R or a dvd+r (some times even diffrent companys dvd works better or worse on sed console dvd player) and perhaps burn at 4x. i suggest using DVD-R disks and a ps2 to play back the dvds when done if your really having issues w/ the disks.

gl lets us know how it goes

[theAdmiral]

Re: Creating DVDs

I followed your suggestion up to installing the Avidemux software. First tried the GTK version. Didn't work, so I tried the Qt version. Didn't really know which one is best, so I tried both. I got basically the same errors for both attempts to install, respective to their versions.

APT Error. Context:
Package download failed,
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...ntu1_i386.deb: Size mismatch,
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...untu1_all.deb: Size mismatch,
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...-0.0_i386.deb: Size mismatch,
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...ild2_i386.deb: Size mismatch,
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...ntu5_i386.deb: Size mismatch,
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...ntu5_i386.deb: Size mismatch,
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...2l-6_i386.deb: Size mismatch

What should I do now, please?

Thank you,
theAdmiral

[sithlord48]

Re: Creating DVDs

for you error.. if you run terminal try

sudo apt-get update

you might get and error about un comitted changes and a sugestion to run dpkg as shown try what it says there if you get the error

if that don't work,
you could try installing the package from here
http://www.getdeb.net/app/Avidemux
just dl the .deb file for your platform.

[theAdmiral]

Re: Creating DVDs

First, I tried

sudo apt-get update

Didn't work--something about connections were unable to be made.

Then I tried to download the files from getdeb.net and I started running into dependency errors. Went back to

sudo apt-get update

to see if there would be any change. There was none. Is there a way that you can make this easier? I would greatly appreciate. One thing that would help would be more details. Like, am I supposed to install the common and the QT files? The QT file is throwing dependency errors right now. So is the main file.

Thanks again,
theAdmiral

[sithlord48]

Re: Creating DVDs

well if its telling you the packages its dependant on that you don't have start installing them eventually you will have all the ones you need... idk on my machines i just do a simple sudo apt-get install avidemux and it goes and gets all the dependcies and just installs it....

[namopereht]

Re: Creating DVDs

Here's a great tutorial I found on unix-tutorials.com for devede. Screenshots and everything. http://www.unix-tutorials.com/go.php?id=3006

namopereht

I tried that with both the Pal and the the NTSC setting. What are the step-by-steps, please? What are the tricks?

theAdmiral

[theAdmiral]

Re: Creating DVDs

open your source video,

on the right hand side. you seed some drop down menus and buttons...
under video from the dropdown select, DVD (either one) and (click config to change aspect from its default 4:3 if you need to) now for the audio one you want one of the AC3 selected, and for format drop down you want to have VIDEO_TS(A+V) now save your video (it will do the encoding...)

now you prolly want this on a DVD disk , when avidemux is done you will have a dvd format video saved where you placed it

So far things are going ok with the apt-get install avidemux. My question now is, what file format do I save it as? Avidemux does not default to any specific file type when you go to save the file for having it encoded.

Thanks,
theAdmiral

[sithlord48]

Re: Creating DVDs

this is done by selecting the output format to VIDEO_TS (A+V)
will save a folder called video_ts in this folder you will have .vob files and a few others all ready to be burned on to a dvd

[kbunt]

Re: Creating DVDs

Hey, Admiral, I suggest trying devede first but it's up to you. I have used both and Devede is easier to start with, imho.

There's a few links that have some instructions but they aren't the best so YMMV but take a look:

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/02/05/150718.php

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DeVeDe

http://chronologicaldissonance.blogs...th-devede.html

Let us know if any of those links help. Most are Ubuntu-oriented but the last link has a brief mention related to Kubuntu/KDE.

[theAdmiral]

Re: Creating DVDs

I followed the following portion:

[quote=sithlord48 ]

But when I tried to burn with these instructions:

in k3b you first want to do the following
file->new project->new dvd video project.
now you should see on the bottom half a new dvd video project so lets go to the place where you saved the dvd files you made w/ avidemux. here you should notice a folder named video_ts open it up and copy the file to the video_ts folder in the new project. now click burn to burn you disk.

To burn the disc, I got the following errors:

-(i)The project does not contain all necessary VideoDVD files.
-(i)The resulting DVD will most likely not be playable on a HiFi DVD player.
-(X)Could not determine size of resulting image file.

You can't be telling me that this is the best the Linux/Kubuntu can do, can you? What do I do to get this to burn. BTW, I am trying to put Star Wars I-III on one disc.

theAdmiral

[sithlord48]

Re: Creating DVDs

ok so what files do you have ... in your video_ts folder thats giving this error ?

[theAdmiral]

Re: Creating DVDs

The status bar says three files in three folders. I don't know how that happened. What I attempted to move to the project are three *.vob files. (1)The Phantom Menace, (2)Attack of the Clones, and (3)Revenge of the Sith.