I have avi files in xVid format from my Camera, and I want to create a Video CD that can be viewed on any CD player.
I have searched through the various repos (including rpmforage and kbsingh) and did not find anything that would burn.
I have a number of programs that have no trouble displaying these files. Including xzine, Avidemux, and VideoLAN-Client).
I unfortunately have to make these CDs for tomorrow morning, 8am for my wife to take to her class....
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have avi files in xVid format from my Camera, and I want to create a Video CD that can be viewed on any CD player.
I have searched through the various repos (including rpmforage and kbsingh) and did not find anything that would burn.
I have a number of programs that have no trouble displaying these files. Including xzine, Avidemux, and VideoLAN-Client).
I unfortunately have to make these CDs for tomorrow morning, 8am for my wife to take to her class....
well, I know nothing about Linux video tools, but I can tell you that you'll have to convert them from XVID (MPEG4 streams embedded in AVI format) to straight MPEG1, 352x240(NTSC) or 352x288 (PAL), 25 or 30 FPS, at a specific videoCD profile, constant bandwidth of 1.150 Mbit/sec with MPEG layer 2 audio at 224kbit/sec (xvid probably uses Mpeg Layer 3 audio, which is incompatible with the strict VideoCD specification).. THEN you need to embed these in a VideoCD disk format, which is a CD/XA Mode II Form II format, rather than the more conventional redbook CD-Rom aka ISO9660.]
AND, most CD players don't play VideoCD... SOME(many?) DVD players do, however.
If you were on Microsoft Windows, I'd probably suggest using Nero Vision Express (part of Nero Ultra, $$) to do this, it will generate either proper VideoCD or DVD Video formats from AVI files, but there's dozens of other tools suitable for video trans coding (the Nero stuff does a very decent job on the video compression if you set its options for 2 pass and best quality).
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:43:35 -0700 John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have avi files in xVid format from my Camera, and I want to create a Video CD that can be viewed on any CD player.
I have searched through the various repos (including rpmforage and kbsingh) and did not find anything that would burn.
I have a number of programs that have no trouble displaying these files. Including xzine, Avidemux, and VideoLAN-Client).
I unfortunately have to make these CDs for tomorrow morning, 8am for my wife to take to her class....
well, I know nothing about Linux video tools, but I can tell you that you'll have to convert them from XVID (MPEG4 streams embedded in AVI format) to straight MPEG1, 352x240(NTSC) or 352x288 (PAL), 25 or 30 FPS, at a specific videoCD profile, constant bandwidth of 1.150 Mbit/sec with MPEG layer 2 audio at 224kbit/sec (xvid probably uses Mpeg Layer 3 audio, which is incompatible with the strict VideoCD specification).. THEN you need to embed these in a VideoCD disk format, which is a CD/XA Mode II Form II format, rather than the more conventional redbook CD-Rom aka ISO9660.]
AND, most CD players don't play VideoCD... SOME(many?) DVD players do, however.
If you were on Microsoft Windows, I'd probably suggest using Nero Vision Express (part of Nero Ultra, $$) to do this, it will generate either proper VideoCD or DVD Video formats from AVI files, but there's dozens of other tools suitable for video trans coding (the Nero stuff does a very decent job on the video compression if you set its options for 2 pass and best quality).
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
Bob Marcan wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:43:35 -0700 John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have avi files in xVid format from my Camera, and I want to create a Video CD that can be viewed on any CD player.
I have searched through the various repos (including rpmforage and kbsingh) and did not find anything that would burn.
I have a number of programs that have no trouble displaying these files. Including xzine, Avidemux, and VideoLAN-Client).
I unfortunately have to make these CDs for tomorrow morning, 8am for my wife to take to her class....
well, I know nothing about Linux video tools, but I can tell you that you'll have to convert them from XVID (MPEG4 streams embedded in AVI format) to straight MPEG1, 352x240(NTSC) or 352x288 (PAL), 25 or 30 FPS, at a specific videoCD profile, constant bandwidth of 1.150 Mbit/sec with MPEG layer 2 audio at 224kbit/sec (xvid probably uses Mpeg Layer 3 audio, which is incompatible with the strict VideoCD specification).. THEN you need to embed these in a VideoCD disk format, which is a CD/XA Mode II Form II format, rather than the more conventional redbook CD-Rom aka ISO9660.]
AND, most CD players don't play VideoCD... SOME(many?) DVD players do, however.
If you were on Microsoft Windows, I'd probably suggest using Nero Vision Express (part of Nero Ultra, $$) to do this, it will generate either proper VideoCD or DVD Video formats from AVI files, but there's dozens of other tools suitable for video trans coding (the Nero stuff does a very decent job on the video compression if you set its options for 2 pass and best quality).
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I got 2.0.4 from one of the repos; I have not figured out how to tell afterwards, which repo I got an rpm from. yumex tells you before install, but does not supply this info once installed. So I can't easily go to the repo manager and ask for the current version....
I see that avidemux just puts out a file, then you have to use other tools to actually write the disk. I rather make CD not DVD format, and their wiki only talks about DVD output format, so I still have some research to do.
Tovid can create and burn vcd's dvd's etc.
J
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:06 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Bob Marcan wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:43:35 -0700 John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have avi files in xVid format from my Camera, and I want to create a Video CD that can be viewed on any CD player.
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Tovid can create and burn vcd's dvd's etc.
And where do I find that as an rpm for Centos?
I am only finding ver .28 for Mandriva. Only src.rpm for ver .30...
J
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:06 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Bob Marcan wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:43:35 -0700 John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com mailto:pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have avi files in xVid format from my Camera, and I want to create a Video CD that can be viewed on any CD player.
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AFAIK you will need to intstall from .tgz . There is a good article here: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/01/1734201
Regards, John
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 10:12 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
John Moylan wrote:
Tovid can create and burn vcd's dvd's etc.
And where do I find that as an rpm for Centos?
I am only finding ver .28 for Mandriva. Only src.rpm for ver .30...
J
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:06 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Bob Marcan wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:43:35 -0700 John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com mailto:pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have avi files in xVid format from my Camera, and I want to create a Video CD that can be viewed on any CD player.
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On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 10:12 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
John Moylan wrote:
Tovid can create and burn vcd's dvd's etc.
And where do I find that as an rpm for Centos?
Google (without the quotes :-)
'tovid el4 src.rpm' http://alcancelibre.infosantiago.net/al-desktop/el4/SRPMS.al/tovid-0.30-1.9....
Or alternately
'tovid fc6 src.rpm' http://www.bennewitz.com/rpms/fedora/fc6/SRPMS/tovid-0.30-1.fc6.src.rpm
Can't vouch for the sources, but I'd start with http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM "Get set up for rebuilding packages while not being root"
The el4 package built for me in >20 seconds on CentOS4, after satisfying the missing build dependency on txt2tags from the RPMforge repo.
Phil
On Friday 30 March 2007 9:06:53 am Robert Moskowitz wrote: <snip>
I got 2.0.4 from one of the repos; I have not figured out how to tell afterwards, which repo I got an rpm from. yumex tells you before install, but does not supply this info once installed. So I can't easily go to the repo manager and ask for the current version....
rpm -qi <package-name> should give you a good enough clue.
HTH, Tim
Tim Wunder wrote:
On Friday 30 March 2007 9:06:53 am Robert Moskowitz wrote:
<snip>
I got 2.0.4 from one of the repos; I have not figured out how to tell afterwards, which repo I got an rpm from. yumex tells you before install, but does not supply this info once installed. So I can't easily go to the repo manager and ask for the current version....
rpm -qi <package-name> should give you a good enough clue.
Ah, I am still learning rpm. normally I do a -qa|grep type of search.
Anyway it is from Dag's repo and built back in '05. I have to get to his site and look up the direct way to contact him. In the past he has noted that he does not always catch things like this here...
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I got 2.0.4 from one of the repos; I have not figured out how to tell afterwards, which repo I got an rpm from. yumex tells you before install, but does not supply this info once installed. So I can't easily go to the repo manager and ask for the current version....
You can usually pick up a good clue about the repo by doing 'rpm -qi {package}' and looking in the 'Vendor:' field.
Jay Leafey wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I got 2.0.4 from one of the repos; I have not figured out how to tell afterwards, which repo I got an rpm from. yumex tells you before install, but does not supply this info once installed. So I can't easily go to the repo manager and ask for the current version....
You can usually pick up a good clue about the repo by doing 'rpm -qi {package}' and looking in the 'Vendor:' field.
Yeah, I am learning more about things like rpm. And I am documenting them in Freemind.
Also documenting how to do builds so I can get to the point of not whining so much for 'where are the rpms'. :)
I actually have done about 4 builds so far myself!
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