Best tools for making DVD Video?

[Sasha Tsykin]

Zach wrote:

>Thanks for the tips, I'll try out those tools.
>
>regarding avidemux, does it have the capacity to generate a list of
>timecodes that can be used for chapter marks later in the dvd creation
>process?
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>Also, what repository is it in?  I'm unable to find it using apt.
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>Thanks
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>On 1/16/06, Sasha Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Zach wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>--I'd like to be able to mark commercials so that:
>>>    --The commercials can be cut out and
>>>    --Chapter marks will be placed where the commercials were
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>>I would recommend using tovid or ffmpeg to convert to mpeg. My favourite
>>is either the command:
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>>for pal:
>>tovid -pal -dvd-vcd -in <input video> -out <output prefix>
>>or
>>ffmpeg -i <input video> -target pal-dvd -s 352x288 <ouput video>
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>>Replace pal with ntsc if you live in the USA.
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>>For the editting, use avidemux.
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>>For the menus I would use either dvdauthor or DVDStyler. Both are very
>>good programs which are very easy to use.
>>
>>Sasha
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I honestly don't knof if it can do the timecodes. Something to look up 
on the avidemux site (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/). to get it, add 
this line to you /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://spello.sscnet.ucla.edu/marillat/ sid main

Then: sudo apt-get install avidemux

Don't worry when it says that the debs cannot be authenticated, it 
doesn't matter. Also, you can upgrade some of your programs to the 
versions on the site, no reason why not to, but DO NOT dist-upgrade, as 
that will likely break te whole operating system necessitating a 
reinstall. Only do that when you are ready to go to the next version of 
UBUNTU.

Hope this helps,

Sasha