Comments on: Howto Convert AVI to DVD ISO in Ubuntu

By: Sergent

Sergent — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:04:31 +0000

Thanks to the guy who published this info, it is always useful to know how the machine works and not only be a submissive user of somebody else’s SW. At the very end of the article he says ‘…or use devede’. So what is about all those comments to recommend using devede or about feeling rhetorically snug to use the command line.
Thank the guy who taught you something and log off.

By: jonny rocket

jonny rocket — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:05:17 +0000

devede is what i have using for a long time. the first versions were buggy, but now it is cool.

By: zvaral

zvaral — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:59:04 +0000

I would note that a more better quality is achieved by using the following mencoder comment in avi function instead:

mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf \
-vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:\
keyint=15:vstrict=0:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=16/9 -ofps 25 \
-o movie.mpg movie.avi

(source: mplayerhq.hu)

By: A_T

A_T — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:04:29 +0000

Thanks. No gui for me! I like to use commandline so that I can feel smug.

By: RoWa

RoWa — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:47:36 +0000

Great Script, because DEVEDE isn’t working for me.

However, is it possible to put more than one avi on a dvd using the command line?
Would be great to have a script, that puts all of the files in the directory to a dvd, shrinking them to fit on one disk and creating a dvd-menu to select them…

By: MarcoA

MarcoA — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:29:21 +0000

Why not to add a line to burn the DVD using growisofs?

By: zvaral

zvaral — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:15:02 +0000

Command line is no doubt sometimes more effective than using a GUI. Imagine that you have 100 avi files in a directory and you want to convert them all to separate DVDs. What you need to do if you have the above script:

for p in *.avi; do avi2dvd.sh $p; done

and you go back four days later having 100 DVDs. I think it took much more time opening the 100 files separately and pressing buttons to convert.

Do not fear of command line!

By: Jgonick

Jgonick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:00:56 +0000

I’ll have to check devede out, but I also like knowing how to do this from a command line. Thanks for the article.

By: emike

emike — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:13:37 +0000

I just wanted to echo the opinion of the others above. I have found devede to be very simple to use and would highly recommend it.

By: nhasian

nhasian — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:52:18 +0000

thats a lot of work. DeVeDe makes it easy.

sudo apt-get install devede

By: LinuxCanuck

LinuxCanuck — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:51:22 +0000

Why bother? Use Devede and you can convert from avi plus flv, mp4, divx and more. What’s more you just drag and drop the files. I don’t know why people insist that the commandline is easier. This all seems to be wasted effort.

By: knewell

knewell — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:56:23 +0000

Or just use Devede