<div>all those command lines made my eyes dizzy! :) i dont think ill be able to cope with that! .</div> <div> </div> <div>Something visual clickety i prefer. Sorry im not techie!!!  </div> <div>On 28/01/2008, Alan Pope <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:02:49PM +0000, Javad Ayaz wrote: > ill give kino one more go and see if i miss out any option. Then ill try > devede...since i have no other option. !!! > There are always options :) You could (for example) use a command line tool such as ffmpeg or mencoder. Personally I use ffmpeg to do all my video conversion, but I appreciate some people don't like command line tools. In case you fancy having a play, here's what I do to get a good ffmpeg. I compile ffmpeg from source because the version in the Ubuntu repositories doesn't have everything enabled that I like to use. 1. Get pre-requisites to compile ffmpeg:- sudo apt-get install liba52-dev libdts-dev libgsm1-dev \ libvorbis-dev libxvidcore4 libxvidcore4-dev libdc1394-dev \ libfaac-dev liblame-dev libx264-dev libfaad2-dev \ libtheora-dev libsdl1.2-dev 2. Get the source code wget <a href="http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2">http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2</a> tar jxvf ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2 cd ffmpeg-export-* 3. Configure ffmpeg ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads \            --enable-libvorbis  --enable-liba52 \            --enable-libgsm  \            --disable-debug --enable-shared --enable-libxvid \            --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame \            --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaad --enable-libtheora \             --enable-x11grab --enable-swscaler \              --prefix=/usr/local 4. Compile it make -j3 (the -j3 is useful if you have a dual core machine - both cores get used so the compilation process is faster) 5. Install it sudo make install 6. Run it export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ time ffmpeg -i foo.avi -sameq -foo.vob FFmpeg version SVN-r11584, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-liba52 --enable-libgsm --disable-debug --enable-shared --enable-libxvid --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaad --enable-libtheora --enable-x11grab --enable-swscaler --prefix=/usr/local libavutil version: 49.6.0 libavcodec version: 51.49.0 libavformat version: 52.5.0 libavdevice version: 52.0.0 built on Jan 21 2008 11:59:59, gcc: 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2) Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/2733) -> 23.98 (24000/1001) Input #0, avi, from 'foo.avi': Duration: 01:36:38.0, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1011 kb/s    Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 624x352 [PAR 1:1 DAR 39:22], 23.98 tb(r)    Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 32 kb/s Output #0, svcd, to 'foo.vob':    Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 624x352 [PAR 1:1 DAR 39:22], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 23.98 tb(c)    Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 64 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Stream #0.1 -> #0.1 Press [q] to stop encoding frame=139013 fps=207 q=0.0 Lsize= 1764296kB time=5798.0 bitrate=2492.8kbits/s video:1696519kB audio:45297kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.290598% real    11m10.528s user    10m31.567s sys     0m11.961s In the above example I converted a 1.5 hour, 700MB mpeg4-encoded avi file to a vob file. Note how specifying .vob made ffmpeg choose the mpeg2 video and mp2 audio codecs. Magic :) The -sameq parameter tells ffmpeg to try not to reduce overall  video quality during the conversion ('same quality'). alan@tp:~$ file foo.avi foo.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 624 x 352, 23.98 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz) alan@tp:~$ file foo.vob foo.vob: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex > BTW i tried windows movie maker this morning and it refused to accept vob > files! > Out of the box Windows doesn't support mpeg2 video if I remember correctly, so this makes sense. Cheers, Al. -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div>