Problems with Brasero and burning DVD's

[Leslie Anne Chatterton]

Hi Chris,

I don't know how much practical help it will be but look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4 for some MPEG-4 background.

For ogg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg for AVI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave .

As you can see , none of these is a simple, uniform format, hence your
difficulty in rendering these to a DVD. This leads to further questions.
Where did you get the files you want to burn? Do they come from your
camera/ camcorder? Downloaded from the web?

In my very limited experience Divx movies, which usually have an avi
extension, that can be played on a computer, phone or tablet will usually
burn as data files. Several will fit on one DVD. A minority of DVD/ blu-Ray
players will play the result and the quality can be as good as a commercial
DVD, but sometimes not nearly as good.

The standard DVD format consists of a number of .vob, .ifo and other files
in a folder named video_ts; there is also an audio_ts folder, usually
empty, apparently an abandoned part of the original standard retained for
compatibility purposes. In spite of the scary FBI warnings DVD's can be
copied for archival backup purposes fairly easily - but you do need to
defeat the copy protection, which is illegal in some countries. "You
shouldn't do this" ;- (

To create a standard DVD from home movies you require an authoring
programme that supports the format your camera produces. I've never done
this, but others have. There is free software available, I think in the
repositories.

While ogg is an open source standard that can be used for encoding many
audio and/or video files I've only used it for audio. If it plays on an
appropriate software player you just burn it or them as data files and they
should play on any hardware player designed to support ogg audio. Not many
do.

This is hardly a satisfactory answer to your question but it should point
you to some further areas you need to research. It is not a simple matter:
there are many side issues you need to consider. This is not Kubuntu or
Linux's fault, its just the way the standards are evolving.

As you can see, "mpeg-4", "avi" and "ogg" are not sufficient to define a
file you may want to work with. If you have a more sharply focused question
about all the specific sub-formats that define your file then ask away.
Probably someone has "been there, done that" and can help you. Ice shared
all I know, which isn't much.

Good luck and don't give up! As a colleague of mine told me: "Linux is not
an operating system, its a way of life!"

Leslie Anne
On May 29, 2012 10:29 AM, "Chris Sislo" <teknofreak1074 at att.net> wrote:
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