Re: create VCDs?

[csj <csj@mindgate.net>]

On Wednesday 26 December 2001 11:51, Carl Fink wrote:
> Well, I tried to RTFM.  I checked packages.debian.org.  I checked
> freshmeat.net.  I checked sourceforge.net. I searched archives of
> this list.
>
> Is there any program to create Video CDs (VCDs) from an AVI file
> under Debian?  I'm using Potato (technically, I'm using Progeny
> Newton with lots of Potato packages) but I'll probably go to Woody
> when it stops breaking every three days.   I found vcdtools in
> Potato, but it doesn't appear to have any way to turn AVI files into
> MPEG-1.

Probably no one-click solution. To convert AVI files to VCD-compliant 
MPEG-1 (not all such streams are equal), you can check out mjpegtools. 
I don't know why there's no Debian package for this, but the 
SourceForge site is:

http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/

Now to convert the resulting MPEG stream to the final product, you can 
use vcdtools or vcdimager (the package I use, available in unstable). 
The two tools use cdrdao as a backend.

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