On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:32 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote:
[snip]
You need to convert them to MPEG2, then create special
table-of- content files, and put them all in a defined
directory structure.
mplayer and transcode (which comes in the mplayer package,
I think)
can do the conversion. Don't remember, though, what
package will do the rest.
kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able
to do it, as onw of it's side functions.
The manual for my dedicated DVD player does not state that
it supports the MPEG-2 format.
What is the native format of commercial movie DVD's that
play on all standalone DVD players? Would I be set if I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#DVD-Video
Commercial DVD movies are encoded using a combination of
MPEG-2 compressed video and audio of varying formats (often
multi-channel formats as described below).