Tag Archives: video

DVD writing commands in Linux

Friday, January 26, 2007 – 5:44pm

Gnome in Ubuntu works pretty well for CD writing, but it has some issues when writing DVD media, particularly video. Time to hit the command line…
Blanking a DVD-rewritable media (include =full for full disc blanking):
dvd+rw-format -blank[=full] /dev/dvd
Writing a pre-authored DVD video directory structure (video-directory/ is where AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS are stored). The -dvd-video flag is [...]

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Convert PAL-DVD video to NTSC-DVD with transcode

Monday, January 15, 2007 – 11:45am

To convert a video-only stream from PAL to NTSC ready for DVD (assuming the video and audio have already been demuxed and are in MPEG2 and AC3 formats respectively):
transcode -i source.m2v –export_frc 4 -y mpeg2enc -F 8 –ext none,none -J smartdeinter,modfps=clonetype=5 -B 3,0 -C 2 -o destination.m2v
The -B 3,0 causes the video height to be [...]

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Converting video and extracting audio from video file

Friday, January 12, 2007 – 3:33pm

Sources

Converting video in linux using ffmpeg and mencoder

Convert a video file to NTSC DVD-ready MPEG-2
ffmpeg -i video_file -target ntsc-dvd output_file.mpg
Convert a video file to NTSC DV format (to use in Kino)
ffmpeg -i video_file -target ntsc-dv output_file.dv
Extract audio from a video file (in WAV format).
ffmpeg -i video_file -f wav -ar 44100 audio.wav
Extract audio from a video [...]

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