I am probably not posting this in the right location on the forum, but I figure when you work through a process pass it on to save someone else the headache.
Two weeks before Christmas I bought my wife and I new acer Aspire 5733 laptops. They had Windows 7 something I refuse to use on them. So in the door out of the box and a dose of linux to fix them. Kubuntu 11.10 on both. Mine would end up with about 30 re-installs over the next 2 weeks trying to get it the way I wanted it. It is back to 11.10 with KDE 4.7.95 on it.
My task before Christmas was to convert 34 video files and burn them to DVD to be used in DVD players hooked to a television i.e movies. With a lot of googling, system reloads of several distros, and a lot of trial and error, I finally came up with a solution that worked. So I will give it to you from a clean install and you can take it from there. I have been able to convert and burn every file format I have tried so far.
As I said I am running Oneiric now and it is the only OS on my system. So here we go assuming you have already downloaded a Kubuntu ISO burned it to the proper media and have just finished a clean install, or already have it installed on your system.
Open terminal and and do the following in this order.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install mencoder ffmpeg winff devede vlc smplayer
I prefer to use vlc for testing playback and you will need the codecs from mplayer. I found that out though trial and error. Once you have installed all of this you are ready to go. Oh it will help if you have a video file you are wanting to convert into a DVD.
Step 1: open Winff. Click the + button to add the file you want to convert and add it. It should appear in the large window after you have located it. Clicked on it to highlight it, and then clicked the open button bottom right. Under the big window select the Convert to button and choose DVD. Then click the Preset button and choose the format that is relevant to your location and preferred playback mode. I am in the US so I used NTSC DVD Fullscreen. Pal formats do not work on the Sony DVD players in my house. Then pick your output folder in the bottom window and click the Convert button at the top. This is a slow process depending on the size of the file you are converting. The end result is you will have a file with the original name but now it will be a .mpg format. Close Winff.
Step 2: Open DeVeDe and click on the top bar Video DVD. Under Titles click on the Properties and button and type in whatever you are wanting the video to be called. When the video is complete and burned this will be the title that comes up on the screen where you will select play with your DVD player to start watching the movie. Under the title window on the left hand side you should see a place to select PAL or NTSC. Where I am at NTSC is the only thing that works. Now under file click the ADD+ button and use the pop-up to locate your file. On the pop-up there is also a place to choose PAL/SECAM or NTSC. Make sure you choose the appropriate one for your project. Then click on the forward buttons until the DVD creation begins. At this point DeVeDe will create a file in your home directory called movie and start the DVD creation process. It is a 4 step process in which it will convert the files again, create the DVD file tree structure, and then create and ISO image to burn to a blank DVD. Step 4 is burning the actual DVD. I close the program after step 3 and burn the ISO with K3B, which DeVeDe would probably default to,but I am not goiong to take the chance that it doesn't. Out of all the media burning programs I have used in linux I have experienced less issues with K3B than any other. It just works.
Step 3: Open K3B, choose More actions, choose Burn Image and navigate to the movie folder in your home directory and choose the ISO. It will be named movie.iso. Pick it and start the burn process. When it is complete pop the DVD in your player and watch it on your TV. This whole process is pretty time consuming but the results are pretty good.
Enjoy!!
Two weeks before Christmas I bought my wife and I new acer Aspire 5733 laptops. They had Windows 7 something I refuse to use on them. So in the door out of the box and a dose of linux to fix them. Kubuntu 11.10 on both. Mine would end up with about 30 re-installs over the next 2 weeks trying to get it the way I wanted it. It is back to 11.10 with KDE 4.7.95 on it.
My task before Christmas was to convert 34 video files and burn them to DVD to be used in DVD players hooked to a television i.e movies. With a lot of googling, system reloads of several distros, and a lot of trial and error, I finally came up with a solution that worked. So I will give it to you from a clean install and you can take it from there. I have been able to convert and burn every file format I have tried so far.
As I said I am running Oneiric now and it is the only OS on my system. So here we go assuming you have already downloaded a Kubuntu ISO burned it to the proper media and have just finished a clean install, or already have it installed on your system.
Open terminal and and do the following in this order.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install mencoder ffmpeg winff devede vlc smplayer
I prefer to use vlc for testing playback and you will need the codecs from mplayer. I found that out though trial and error. Once you have installed all of this you are ready to go. Oh it will help if you have a video file you are wanting to convert into a DVD.
Step 1: open Winff. Click the + button to add the file you want to convert and add it. It should appear in the large window after you have located it. Clicked on it to highlight it, and then clicked the open button bottom right. Under the big window select the Convert to button and choose DVD. Then click the Preset button and choose the format that is relevant to your location and preferred playback mode. I am in the US so I used NTSC DVD Fullscreen. Pal formats do not work on the Sony DVD players in my house. Then pick your output folder in the bottom window and click the Convert button at the top. This is a slow process depending on the size of the file you are converting. The end result is you will have a file with the original name but now it will be a .mpg format. Close Winff.
Step 2: Open DeVeDe and click on the top bar Video DVD. Under Titles click on the Properties and button and type in whatever you are wanting the video to be called. When the video is complete and burned this will be the title that comes up on the screen where you will select play with your DVD player to start watching the movie. Under the title window on the left hand side you should see a place to select PAL or NTSC. Where I am at NTSC is the only thing that works. Now under file click the ADD+ button and use the pop-up to locate your file. On the pop-up there is also a place to choose PAL/SECAM or NTSC. Make sure you choose the appropriate one for your project. Then click on the forward buttons until the DVD creation begins. At this point DeVeDe will create a file in your home directory called movie and start the DVD creation process. It is a 4 step process in which it will convert the files again, create the DVD file tree structure, and then create and ISO image to burn to a blank DVD. Step 4 is burning the actual DVD. I close the program after step 3 and burn the ISO with K3B, which DeVeDe would probably default to,but I am not goiong to take the chance that it doesn't. Out of all the media burning programs I have used in linux I have experienced less issues with K3B than any other. It just works.
Step 3: Open K3B, choose More actions, choose Burn Image and navigate to the movie folder in your home directory and choose the ISO. It will be named movie.iso. Pick it and start the burn process. When it is complete pop the DVD in your player and watch it on your TV. This whole process is pretty time consuming but the results are pretty good.
Enjoy!!
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