Re: [gentoo-user] Video conversion

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:24:09 +0800
Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:22 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > Try these. Should be a simple --target DVD 
> > 
> > *  media-video/tovid [ Masked ]
> 
> It seems to be removed... or did you use an overlay?
> 
> $ emerge -S tovid
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : tovid ]
> [ Applications found : 0 ]
> 
> $ ls /usr/portage/media-video/tovid
> ls: /usr/portage/media-video/tovid: No such file or directory

any2vob and any2dvd are excellent tools. They are not in the official portage tree, but there are ebuilds on the author's site. any2vob makes any video file into a dvd compliant vob file. any2dvd leverages any2vob and goes further to make a full dvd iso with menus and chaptering (at predefined intervals). any2vob will even upmix a 5.1 ac3 soundtrack so you get a 5.1 soundtrack from stereo source. Highly recommended, but watch your hard drive space, there are very large temp files created.

http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/any2vob/

http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/ebuilds/

There is also a very good long running thread on this software on forums.gentoo.org, just search the forums on "any2vob" and you will find it.

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