Re: dvd and region code.

Brett Ellis is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!
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> I'm not sure about region settings but when you copy it, do it in ntsc
> format just to be sure.. there are progs around that can do this..
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> Brett
I thought I'd close this thread with something useful

After having a look around tovid (cli) did the job nicely. Default is ntsc but 
can be easily changed to pal. Didn't bother with the tovidgui Once Tovid is 
installed and I have the obscure stuff onboard, e.g. faac and faad, its just 
a couple commands and time.

The school play was recorded on dvd and I first had to combine a couple vob 
files into one.

#cat ./*.VOB > /mnt/hdd5/videos/xmas/xmovie.vob

# tovid -in /mnt/hdd5/videos/xmas/xmovie.vob -out Ned-Kelly

The audio and video will be stripped into seperate files them multiplexed 
resulting in an  mpg suitable for burning)

#makexml Ned-Kelly.mpg Ned-Kelly  
#dvdauthor -o Ned-Kelly -x Ned-Kelly.xml 

After running dvdauthor I have a directory named Ned-Kelly with dvd file 
structure ready for burning.

Time to get these dvd's posted off to the States. 

Best wishes to all for the Holidays!

-- 
Cheers,

Rick Miles

Movement stopped is no movement,
and rest set in motion is no rest.

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