[NBLUG/talk] DV to VCD's Burn'in it up - The Linux Way.

[Scott Doty]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:59:40AM -0700, Mark Street wrote:
> I am successfully rendering digital video from my miniDV recorder to VCD's on 
> my small Linux network at home.

Snazzy!

I had a couple of questions...

> [root at duel]# lav2wav /mnt/data/dance.avi | mp2enc -V -o /video/dance-audio.mpg
> 
> [root at duel]# lav2yuv /mnt/data/dance.avi | yuvscaler -O VCD | mpeg2enc -s -r 
> 16 -o /video/dance.mpg

Wouldn't this yield poorer quality than if you went directly to mpeg?  Or,
what format does the DV over the firewire come in as?

> [root at duel]# mplex -f 1 /video/dance.mpg /video/dance-audio.mpg -o
> /video/dance.mpg

Looks like you're reading and writing from the same file -- does that work
okay, or have I misunderstood the command line?

 -Scott