Re: Export to DVD

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.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Dan Dennedy <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:41 PM,  <[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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