CD & DVD avi onto bootable dvd

[trashchris]

hey guys i have a series of avi files i want to put on dvd so that someone can play them back in a normal dvd player. i know this can be done as i seen it when people made the unofficial heroes season 1 dvds, just after the American season finished.
its the same kind of thing i want to do, just with another series.
Any suggestion how to do this. Im using Linux at the moment but i also have a windows setup i can use.

Chris

 

[biffo1]

yea mate u can create a dvd with the avi files , i normally use nero in windows which u said u can run , or what ever u normally use

 

[trashchris]

yea mate u can create a dvd with the avi files , i normally use nero in windows which u said u can run , or what ever u normally use

ok i'll transfer the files, n install nero later

cheers

 

[beady]

There's plenty of ways to do this. Do a forum search. In Linux, I use mencoder. The following bash script will convert a series of avi files as arguments to dvd compatible mpg files.

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You can mess around with the bitrate(vbitrate), video scaling (scale and expand) etc. There's nothing clever here, but I use this script all the time when converting downloaded tv shows. The settings here will look fine on a standard TV. If you want to increase the quality, you could do a two pass encode at a higher bitrate, but I generally don't bother.
Read the mplayer/mencoder manpage.

You can then use DVDStyler to make a DVD from the resulting mpg files.

All major distributions have both mplayer and dvdstyler in a repository somewhere.

 

[trashchris]

cheers bud spot on, i'll give it ago torrow when i get a chance n let you know