On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:57:37PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm also having difficulty finding some decent VCD documentation. I > see plenty for Red Hat. I'll admit I'm way too lazy to go alien in > some of the tools it mentions, though...there's gotta be a Debian > solution... It's not hard to make VCD's under Debian... vcdimager and its related tools are all you need, along with a copy of cdrdao to actually write the disc. Check out the tutorials on the vcdimager site. Heck, I managed to create discs with animated menus and everything, and I always manage to find something to screw up the first time around. :) Knowing XML is nice if you want to create menus and so forth, but if you just want to take an already conformant MPEG and make a disc: rei $ vcdimager Charmed\ 5x15\ -\ Special\ Delivery.mpg ++ WARN: initializing libvcd 0.7.13 [linux-gnu/i386] ++ WARN: ++ WARN: this is the UNSTABLE development branch! ++ WARN: use only if you know what you are doing ++ WARN: see http://www.hvrlab.org/~hvr/vcdimager/ for more information ++ WARN: INFO: scanning mpeg sequence item #0 for scanpoints... ++ WARN: mpeg stream will be padded on the fly -- hope that's ok for you! ++ WARN: autopadding requires to insert additional 646900 zero bytes into MPEG stream (due to 32345 unaligned packets of 197794 total) INFO: writing track 1 (ISO9660)... INFO: writing track 2, MPEG1, NTSC SIF (352x240/29.97fps), audio[0]: l2/44.1kHz/224kbps/stereo ... finished ok, image created with 198469 sectors [44:06.19] (466799088 bytes) rei $ sudo cdrdao write --device 1,0,0 --speed 8 videocd.cue Cdrdao whines if it's not either run by root or suid root, and I won't make it suid, hence using sudo. ^_^ My cheap-ass Samsung DVD player won't reliably read a CD-R that I burn faster than 8x, so that's what speed I use. Make tests with several different media and make sure you can burn discs your player can read before you buy large quantities of blanks. A disc like this has no menu, and is VCD 1.1... load it in the player and push "Play", like a video tape. I used mencoder to capture the video via my capture card, diddled it a bit with avidemux (to remove commercials) and transcode (to make it conformant), and off I went. :) If you want some technical information about how a VCD is actually put together (what the MPEG has to look like, and so on), start here: http://www.dvdrhelp.com/vcd.htm It's Windows-centric, but look past that and there's a wealth of information. -- Marc Wilson | She's genuinely bogus. msw@cox.net |
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