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, $$) to do this, it will generate either proper VideoCD or DVD Video formats from AVI files, but there's dozens of other tools suitable for video trans coding (the Nero stuff does a very decent job on the video compression if you set its options for 2 pass and best quality).
Bob Marcan wrote:> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:43:35 -0700 > John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> I have avi files in xVid format from my Camera, and I want to create a >>> Video CD that can be viewed on any CD player. >>> >>> I have searched through the various repos (including rpmforage and >>> kbsingh) and did not find anything that would burn. >>> >>> I have a number of programs that have no trouble displaying these >>> files. Including xzine, Avidemux, and VideoLAN-Client). >>> >>> I unfortunately have to make these CDs for tomorrow morning, 8am for >>> my wife to take to her class.... >>> >> well, I know nothing about Linux video tools, but I can tell you that >> you'll have to convert them from XVID (MPEG4 streams embedded in AVI >> format) to straight MPEG1, 352x240(NTSC) or 352x288 (PAL), 25 or 30 FPS, >> at a specific videoCD profile, constant bandwidth of 1.150 Mbit/sec with >> MPEG layer 2 audio at 224kbit/sec (xvid probably uses Mpeg Layer 3 >> audio, which is incompatible with the strict VideoCD specification).. >> THEN you need to embed these in a VideoCD disk format, which is a CD/XA >> Mode II Form II format, rather than the more conventional redbook CD-Rom >> aka ISO9660.] >> >> AND, most CD players don't play VideoCD... SOME(many?) DVD players do, >> however. >> >> If you were on Microsoft Windows, I'd probably suggest using Nero Vision >> Express (part of Nero Ultra, $$) 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 at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/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.
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...
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 at hogranch.com <mailto:pierce at 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. >> >>> >> > > ____________________________ > John Moylan <john.moylan at rte.ie <mailto:john.moylan at rte.ie>> > RTE Publishing > Tel: 00 353 1 2083564 | www.rte.ie > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *********************************************************** > The information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. > It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else > is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, > copying, distribution, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance > on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. > Please note that emails to, from and within RT? may be subject to the Freedom > of Information Act 1997 and may be liable to disclosure. > ************************************************************ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
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!