Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:43:55 +1000 From: Ray Newman <ray@one.com.au> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JVC Everio Camera and DVDs Message-ID: <44BDF0CB.7060503@one.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060719005630.473dbd24.steve@sohara.org> References: <44BD5510.5030308@one.com.au> <20060719005630.473dbd24.steve@sohara.org>
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I have a problem with the term "re-multiplex"; what does this mean? Also the transcode port won't build anyway. I guess my question should be: what is wrong with the MPEG2 files from this camera? Ray Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:39:28 +1000 > Ray Newman <ray@one.com.au> wrote: > >> I have a JVC Everio Camera. This records directly to MPEG2 in files >> on the internal (2 GB) disk - for some strange reason with a .MOD >> extension. I copy these files by mounting the camera via USB to >> my FreeBSD 6.1 system and rename them to .mpg. mplayer is happy >> playing the files. >> >> As near as I can see, most DVD authoring software is aimed at the DV >> tape format. My question: Is there a simple way I can cut a collection >> of these MPEG2 files directly to DVD? > > You probably need to re-multiplex them with mplex or tcmplex to add > the VOBU navigation packets and then assemble them into DVD format with > dvdauthor. You can split them with tcextract (from transcode) or mpeg2desc > (from dvdauthor). If you don't want menus and subtitles then you can avoid > messing with the XML and just use: > > dvdauthor -o <target dir> <list of vob files> > > for each title set you want, and > > dvdauthor -o <target_dir> -T > > to add the basic root menu structure. With one title set this > leaves a DVD that most (all ?) DVD players will just play. > > It's all easier to do than it is to explain :) >
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