What apps to burn DVD on Linux box?

[Little_Goomba]

Anyone care to list an app to burn DVDs in a Linux box? I know I could use Windows, but where's the fun in that? If there are any takers, a runthrough of installation and execution would really be nice.

[TheWickedPriest]

I've tried all of them, but the only one that worked with my drive (a BenQ DW400A) was cdrecord-prodvd. This is a closed-source derivative of cdrecord (same author, so he's allowed to do that). Unfortunately none of the open-source alternatives supported that drive.

Other possibilities include dvdrecord, which is an open-source fork of cdrecord; and dvd+rw-tools.

[prospero]

Originally posted by TheWickedPriest
I've tried all of them, but the only one that worked with my drive (a BenQ DW400A) was cdrecord-prodvd. This is a closed-source derivative of cdrecord (same author, so he's allowed to do that). Unfortunately none of the open-source alternatives supported that drive.

Other possibilities include dvdrecord, which is an open-source fork of cdrecord; and dvd+rw-tools.

Latest issue of Linux Journal (12/03) has a fairly extensive article on DVD authoring and burning under Linux. The tool they list for buring is, according to the article, "cdrecord.prodvd". Here's the link they provide:

http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html

[Little_Goomba]

I bought the issue of Linux Journal. It looks like a good article, but it did'nt have enough information to get me where I need to be.
I am a developer recently migrated to Linux, so the multimedia stuff is not loaded on my PC. Here's what I propose:

I'll make a fresh installation of Linux (Fedora 1) and keep notes on what I load and how I did it. Then post the results when I get there.

[NutMonkey]

dvdrecord worked well for me. I recently installed k3b which I was impressed with, it's a KDE frontend to CD and DVD burning software, it uses dvd+rw tools on the DVD end which I havent' tried.

dvdauthor (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net) is a great program for creating DVD's from mpegs on Linux.

[pcompact]

The DVDrecord distributed with RH9
works for me with a Pioneer A-05
DVD-RW drive. The only problem
is that it reports TAO not supported, so
I have to use the -dao flag.
Pcompact

[xdz]

You need the following programs:

The frequently mentioned tystudio
dvdauthor (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net)
mkisofs with udf support (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html) (I use the Debian Sarge mkisofs)
dvdrecord (https://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=dvdrtools)

Extract your ty streams however you prefer. I use mfs_extract with the tivoweb extract module.

Edit them with tystudio. With my DTivo I output the mpeg files as "DVD" video with no audio processing.

Run the following commands:
dvddirgen -o tempnameofdvd
dvdauthor -o tempnameofdvd chap1.mpg chap2.mpg chap3.mpg
dvdauthor -T -o tempnameofdvd
cd tempnameofdvd
mkisofs -dvd-video -o ../dvd.img .
cd ..
(go root if needed)
dvdrecord -v -dao dev=(your dvd-r scsi id) dvd.img

This works great for me. I've ripped many shows from the DTivo and the discs play on a variety of DVD players. However, there are no menus and the chapters are divided up by the start of each mpeg. I hope this works for you!

[Little_Goomba]

Very good. I used a simple growisofs on a DVD+RW and tried playing it back on several systems. It plays wonderful on the DVD+-RW drive it was burned on as well as an older DVD reader in the same machine. I can't even register the disk as formatted on my Win2K laptop or standalone DVD player, and someone elses WinXP -office could read the title and size of the file, but not the content.
Now I wonder if I have a standards problem or if I burned the disk incorrectly.

[yzf600]

I'm using dvdauthor 0.6.0 and I can't get it to work for me.

Here are my steps:

1) extract ty stream with TyStudio 0.5
2) Cut out unwanted parts of stream (TyStudio)
3) Save stream with:
Video: DVD
Audio: No Transcode


When I use dvdauthor like this:

dvdauthor -o dvd stream.mpg stream2.mpg

I get this:

INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing stream.mpg...
WARN: System header found, but PCI/DSI information is not where expected
(make sure your system header is 18 bytes!)
WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: System header found, but PCI/DSI information is not where expected
(make sure your system header is 18 bytes!)
WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...

Anyone else seen this? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

[fireshipjohn]

Hi,

OK for yzf600...

The mpgs out of tystudio are formatted OK, but do not contain the coirrect codes for DVD playback.

I wrote a small perl script to do this...
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$file_name=shift or die "Usage $0: filename \n";

$off="0";
if($file_name=~ m/\.mpg\s?$/i){$file_name=~ s/\.mpg//i;}
print "converting $file_name.mpg \n";
print "mpeg2desc -s -v 0 -o $file_name.m1v -a 0 -o $file_name.mp2 -m < $file_name.mpg\n";
$off=`mpeg2desc -s -v 0 -o $file_name.m1v -a 0 -o $file_name.mp2 -m < $file_name.mpg`;
chomp $off;
$off=$off/100;
print"offset = $off\n";
print"mplex -f 8 -S 4000 -O $off -o $file_name.vob $file_name.m1v $file_name.mp2\n";
`mplex -f 8 -S 4000 -O $off -o $file_name.vob $file_name.m1v $file_name.mp2`;
`rm -f $file_name.m1v`;
`rm -f $file_name.mp2`;
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As you can see it needs mplax and mpeg2desc.

I call it tympg2dvdvob, so I just do...

tympg2dvdvob The_Fifth_Element.mpg

which outputs 'The_Fifth_Element.vob'

Now you can view that under mplayer or xine and the audio sync is fixed up, and you should be able to pass it to dvdauthor OK.

Cheers

John