Subject: video encoding to DVD

[jack]

On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 20:54 -0400, Paul Trevethan wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:55:26 +1000
> Graham Martin <gcmartin at tsn.cc> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to create a DVD from an movie.avi. I found
> > http://murphys-law.us/howto/DVD_HOWTO.pdf
> > helpfull, but it uses the mplex command. I cannot apt-search this
> > file in the repositories. What package should I install?
> >
> 
> Hi Graham,
> 
> The mplex program is part of the "mjpegtools" package, which is in
> the  multiverse repository.
> 
> Just install the package in your normal manner. Read the man page for
> mplex before use (or follow your chosen guide). It puts the movie back
> together basically.
> 
> FWIW, my process for conversion is:
> demux original with ProjectX,
> edit movie with AviDemux,
> convert edited movie to mpg with mplex (ie remux it),
> create dvd from mpg with DeVeDe.
> 
> Hasn't failed yet.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul.

Just as an aside (having never done this before), does it take a while
before a program like transcode actually shows some progress?  I
installed transcode (and gtranscode) and tried it on an avi file.  It
sat at 0% processing for approx. 10 minutes before I killed it.

Jack