Finally converted a episode of House to the DVD-Video format and burned
a workable (almost) DVD.

The DVD (DVD+R) works fine in my PC and almost works in my almost brand
new Home DVD player. The problem I have is the video is washed out and
I get snap, crackle and pop for audio. In my PC it works perfect.

I suspect I need to fine tune the settings. Here is a link to the
commands I used...

http://www.linux.com/articles/53702

I know you guys will help out (Yeah right).

Here's the system specs...

Slack 12.1

Mplayer - Slackbuild
ffmpeg-20071007-i486-1kjz (Slackbuild waiting to be installed)
transcode-1.1.0-beta0-i386-1 (Slackbuild fails to compile)

I feel good about most of the codecs but may rebuild 2-3.

Any ideas on how to make some improvements? I'm so close I can taste it.

PS: I'm gonna try a reburn of the project to a DVD-R. I have had
problems with the format type in the past.



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Ron Gibson wrote:

> Finally converted a episode of House to the DVD-Video format and burned
> a workable (almost) DVD.
>
> The DVD (DVD+R) works fine in my PC and almost works in my almost brand
> new Home DVD player. The problem I have is the video is washed out and
> I get snap, crackle and pop for audio. In my PC it works perfect.
>
> I suspect I need to fine tune the settings. Here is a link to the
> commands I used...
>
> http://www.linux.com/articles/53702
>
> I know you guys will help out (Yeah right).
>
> Here's the system specs...
>
> Slack 12.1
>
> Mplayer - Slackbuild
> ffmpeg-20071007-i486-1kjz (Slackbuild waiting to be installed)
> transcode-1.1.0-beta0-i386-1 (Slackbuild fails to compile)
>
> I feel good about most of the codecs but may rebuild 2-3.
>
> Any ideas on how to make some improvements? I'm so close I can taste it.
>
> PS: I'm gonna try a reburn of the project to a DVD-R. I have had
> problems with the format type in the past.
>
>
>
why don't you try avidemux works for me but i don't use slackware

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:59:03 +0100, darklight wrote:

> Ron Gibson wrote:
>
>> Finally converted a episode of House to the DVD-Video format and burned
>> a workable (almost) DVD.
>>
>> The DVD (DVD+R) works fine in my PC and almost works in my almost brand
>> new Home DVD player. The problem I have is the video is washed out and
>> I get snap, crackle and pop for audio. In my PC it works perfect.
>>
>> I suspect I need to fine tune the settings. Here is a link to the
>> commands I used...
>>
>> http://www.linux.com/articles/53702
>>
>> I know you guys will help out (Yeah right).
>>
>> Here's the system specs...
>>
>> Slack 12.1
>>
>> Mplayer - Slackbuild
>> ffmpeg-20071007-i486-1kjz (Slackbuild waiting to be installed)
>> transcode-1.1.0-beta0-i386-1 (Slackbuild fails to compile)
>>
>> I feel good about most of the codecs but may rebuild 2-3.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to make some improvements? I'm so close I can taste
>> it.
>>
>> PS: I'm gonna try a reburn of the project to a DVD-R. I have had
>> problems with the format type in the past.
>>
>>
>>
> why don't you try avidemux works for me but i don't use slackware


besides, avidemux works with at least my -current/12.1 Slackware.
and I have to admit it's been a long time of noway or simple
'seemstoWorkbutjustgonnamungleBgroundevntlyshotdad isk' [(R)(c)(TM)]
before this promising avidemux shifted from Sgt Fury to some
grokable page ;->

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:56:00 -0400, Ron Gibson wrote:

> Finally converted a episode of House to the DVD-Video format and burned
> a workable (almost) DVD.
>
> The DVD (DVD+R) works fine in my PC and almost works in my almost brand
> new Home DVD player. The problem I have is the video is washed out and I
> get snap, crackle and pop for audio. In my PC it works perfect.
>
> I suspect I need to fine tune the settings. Here is a link to the
> commands I used...
>
> http://www.linux.com/articles/53702
>
> I know you guys will help out (Yeah right).
>
> Here's the system specs...
>
> Slack 12.1
>
> Mplayer - Slackbuild
> ffmpeg-20071007-i486-1kjz (Slackbuild waiting to be installed)
> transcode-1.1.0-beta0-i386-1 (Slackbuild fails to compile)
>
> I feel good about most of the codecs but may rebuild 2-3.
>
> Any ideas on how to make some improvements? I'm so close I can taste it.
>
> PS: I'm gonna try a reburn of the project to a DVD-R. I have had
> problems with the format type in the past.

Hi Ron,
1/ Your ffmpeg is a bit old. Suggest you get the latest direct from
ffmpeg.

2/ I have built (today) transcode on Slackware 12.0 using build scripts
(for Slackware 12.1 but they work OK on 12.0) from here:
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackwar...code/1.0.6rc2/
src/

There are a lot of prerequisites for this.
Just try the slackbuild script. Anything missing is clearly listed,
with the URL of where to download it from.

3/ For mplayer I have in the past used slackbuild from
repository.slacky.eu
e.g. http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.0/multimedia/
mplayer/1.0rc2try1/src/

Am presently using mplayer from svn from about 5 May 08.

Cheers,

Peter

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:56:00 -0400, Ron Gibson wrote:

> Finally converted a episode of House to the DVD-Video format and burned
> a workable (almost) DVD.
>
> The DVD (DVD+R) works fine in my PC and almost works in my almost brand
> new Home DVD player. The problem I have is the video is washed out and I
> get snap, crackle and pop for audio. In my PC it works perfect.
>
> I suspect I need to fine tune the settings. Here is a link to the
> commands I used...
>
> http://www.linux.com/articles/53702
>
> I know you guys will help out (Yeah right).
>
> Here's the system specs...
>
> Slack 12.1
>
> Mplayer - Slackbuild
> ffmpeg-20071007-i486-1kjz (Slackbuild waiting to be installed)
> transcode-1.1.0-beta0-i386-1 (Slackbuild fails to compile)
>
> I feel good about most of the codecs but may rebuild 2-3.
>
> Any ideas on how to make some improvements? I'm so close I can taste it.
>
> PS: I'm gonna try a reburn of the project to a DVD-R. I have had
> problems with the format type in the past.

Hi again Ron,

As you are apparently experimenting with video encoding techniques,
take a look at HandBrake. http://handbrake.fr/
I have been impressed by the results I've had with it.
It runs on Linux (CLI only), Windows (with GUI) and some Macs.

Cheers,

Peter

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:21:27 +0000, loki harfagr wrote:

>> why don't you try avidemux works for me but i don't use slackware

> besides, avidemux works with at least my -current/12.1 Slackware.
> and I have to admit it's been a long time of noway or simple
> 'seemstoWorkbutjustgonnamungleBgroundevntlyshotdad isk' [(R)(c)(TM)]
> before this promising avidemux shifted from Sgt Fury to some
> grokable page ;->

Oh good grief. I do appreciate the heads up on this one, albeit I'm
having a bit of trouble following an out of date "HOWTO" I found with
Google.

When I ask for help with a GUI tool people suggest CLI. When I ask for
help with CLI I get GUI suggestions, not that they aren't appreciated
but I'm beginning to see this stuff when I close my eyes :(

Again it seems to be working now. I've yet to get to burning the
transcoded project but am a few minutes away. I expect this one to fail
but while I was waiting I found some more docs to help sort these menu
options out.

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Replace borg with net
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Ron Gibson wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:58:02 -0400, Ron Gibson wrote:

> HOT DAMN !!! Finally, after months of floundering around....
>
> The quality is outstanding and if I knew avidemux better the process
> would have been faster than in winders.


Congratulations!

You might have been able to do this using "winders" in an hour or so,
but obviously you would not have been in 'control' or been able to
harness the 'power' of the CLI.

One in the eye for the windroids, eh?

With kind regards

Chu

Ron Gibson wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:58:02 -0400, Ron Gibson wrote:
>
>> Again it seems to be working now. I've yet to get to burning the
>> transcoded project but am a few minutes away. I expect this one to fail
>> but while I was waiting I found some more docs to help sort these menu
>> options out.
>
> HOT DAMN !!! Finally, after months of floundering around, trying
> different distros, different apps, different codecs, recompiling for
> changes, oh you name it - This has not been easy but I just created a
> beautiful DVD (Used a episode of "House" - An avi torrent for a test
> source) with avidemux and QDVDAuthor. Oh, it plays on my Home Theater DVD
> too :)
>
> The quality is outstanding and if I knew avidemux better the process
> would have been faster than in winders. QDVDAuthor is pretty easy to
> use.
>
> I'm gonna immediately back up my Slack install before something gets
> screwed up.
>
> I'm guessing using the Slackbuilds helped and weeding out a few
> questionable codecs did also.
>
> BTW, another trimuph for the source and Slack - I tried to find an easy
> way out using OpenSuse and it's automanaging crap. Guess what - It was
> less effective even though I kept those test systems completely vanilla.

with opensuse get smart package manager get it from here:

http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-...=/System/smart

it's a dame sight better than YAST2

you might want to try dvdstyler to make a dvd with menus

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:42:29 +0100, darklight wrote:

> you might want to try dvdstyler to make a dvd with menus

I use qdvdauthor.

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