Re: [LUG] DVD burners & Linux?

[Jonathan Melhuish <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

lee.quick@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Sunday 09 November 2003 00:01, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> And that I can
>  
>
> > use "normal" CD burning software (eg. cdrecord) to record DVDs as well?
> >
> >    
> options here depend on the burner dvdrecord(a direct replacement for cdrecord)
> cdrecord-proDVD(another option) or dvdrw-tools(works for +RW quite well)
> also require growisofs(fairly up to date for k3b ver 10.1 or better).
>
>  
Thanks.  Looks like linux has decent DVD burning capabilities then 8-)

> > On a related point, how can I create a DVD-video disc to play in a
> > domestic player from, say, a DivX-compressed MPEG file?
> >    
>
> domestic player would have to be Divx compatible, if thats so you could burn a 
> dvd using mpeg flask with divx encoding,otherwise transcode divx to VCD or 
> SVCD format..
>  
Yeah, I looked at the transcode site.  Don't DVDs use MPEG2?  Couldn't I 
'transcode' it from DivX to 'native' DVD Video format?  Would I degrade 
the quality still further by converting to SVCD format?

Cheers,

Jon


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