On 8/8/05, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 07 2005, Jon Roed wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone knew of a program out there for making VCD's. > > Yes, I make VCD's all the time and basically, what I use is mplayer + > mjpegtools + toolame + vcdimager to make them. > > Some of the programs cited above can be grabbed from Christian Marillat's > repository. > > > I have heard of a couple of ways to do it, but they all seemed pretty > > complicated. Is there something nice and simple that doesn't involve > > using a terminal ? > > I don't know, but then, I am not afraid of using a terminal and, in fact, I > prefer to use it (but I am not opposed to the idea of having something > where I can fine-tune the parameters used for compression). > > I have modified the script that comes with mplayer to make VCD's so that it > works with current mplayer (1.0pre7, if I am not mistaken) and all that it > takes is something like the following command line: > > mencvcd dt -a 2 -noburn -toolame -svcdout -tvnorm n -vfr 4 dt.avi > > Not really that complicated, once you learn what the parameters are. All > that it takes is a *lot* of time, especially if you don't have a fast > machine. > > > Hope this helps, Rogério. How to grab video from an analog camcarder reliably in linux using a tv tuner card with bt878 chip.
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