Re: Export to DVD

On 02/23/2010 09:42 AM, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> I admittedly could not make sense of the jargon in video transcoding,
> but I eventually gave up trying to make DVDs -- not just kino's ffmpeg
> and mencoder, but all software I tried on any O/S I found I was unable
> to create a DVD that would reliably play on all the DVD players in the
> house (we have 5) and also play on the equipment owned by both sets of
> grandparents.  I probably spent $50 creating useless plastic disks
> before I eventually found a page online, I forget now where, listing all
> the many many parameters that can be set in DVD encoding, and which
> settings would work with which of a long long and incomplete list of
> commercial DVD players.   That was enough for me.  I later learned as
> well that some machines just won't play DVD-R.
>
> Since both grandparents now have computers that can reach online video,
> we just upload to YouTube or Facebook, and since most modern DVD players
> (those made in the past 4 years) will also play DivX files, I save all
> my own projects on data-DVD, bought a nice multi-format player, and make
> do with the default menu-select screen -- most people I know would want
> the video on their computer anyway, so giving them a DVD, they will only
> rip it anyway.



At the risk and peril of being burned at the stake for the following 
comments, I'll say that whoever came up with the video editing programs 
and DVD creation programs had noble intentions.  Having said that, 
consider how many "man-hours" have been wasted in trying to get some 
"really easy" program to do what we want.  The web is full of 
"tutorials" that either are poorly written, lacking information or just 
confusing.

Having said that- I like Kino.  I'm thankful that it works well on my 
machine and I don't have to fight with it.


Previously, all of my video editing and DVD making was done using 
ArcSoft Showbiz.  My version is from the year 2003.  It works.  I don't 
have to fight with it...but I'd really like a simple program in Linux as 
I hate Windows and MS.



>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Dan Dennedy <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:41 PM, <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>      > I'm having a very hard time getting Kino to create an Export DVD file
>      > that'll actually play on my "stand alone" player.
>
>     Are you using Export > MPEG or Export > Other > DVD (FFmpeg)?
>
>     Historically, mpeg2enc as used by Export > MPEG, has produced more
>     reliable playback than FFmpeg, but I do not know if that is still the
>     case. A semi-pro I know who was using Kino to make DVDs used the
>     Export > Other route for the following reason. Another thing people
>     have reported is more reliable playback with AC-3 rather than MPEG-1
>     Layer II (MP2) audio. By default, Export > MPEG uses MP2 and Export >
>     Other > DVD (FFmpeg) uses AC-3. However, if your version of ffmpeg
>     command line options is compatible with your Kino version, then you
>     can enter "ffmpeg" into the Audio Encoding field of the Advanced
>     section of the Export > MPEG window and it will produce with AC-3
>     audio:
>     http://www.kinodv.org/help/mpeg_advanced
>
>     Regardless of your open source authoring frontend on Linux - Kino,
>     Varsha, or Qdvdauthor - they all use dvdauthor under the covers, which
>     has been fairly reliable, but probably not as good as commercial
>     solutions.
>
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