How can I make a DVD using linux?
An Archive user sent in the following instructions for creating DVDs on a linux system: To do this under linux from the command line: This requires a few common programs. Using any modern package distribution of linux installing these should be quite simple. • mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/) • transcode (http://www.transcoding.org) • mjpegtools (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/) • dvdauthor (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/) • The first command copies just the video out of input.mpeg and produces output.video: mplayer input.mpeg -dumpstream -dumpfile /dev/stdout | tcextract -t vob -a 0 -x mpeg2 > output.video • The second command copies just the audio out of input.mpeg and produces output.audio: mplayer input.mpeg -aid 128 -dumpaudio -dumpfile output.audio • The third command combines the video and audio back together again in a format ready for dvdauthor: mplex -f 8 -V -o complete.vob output.video output.audio • This step creates the dvd structure. Create a new file with any text edi
