[TriLUG] VHS Tapes, Digital Video Cameras and DVD Recorders

[John Turner]

I am a Mac user, but I have used dvdauthor on the Mac to do some Tivo 
related stuff. Here is a GUI for Linux that I came across today.

http://varsha.sourceforge.net/

John

On Jun 14, 2004, at 4:04 PM, Jeff Tickle wrote:

> *gasp* :-O HOLY CRAP.
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709
>
> Yes, this is definitely the traditional Linux way of doing things, for
> sure!
>
> I've been looking for a good project to learn GTK with.  Looks like 
> I've
> found it!
>
> Anyone interested in a nice graphical front-end to bring all these
> instructions together?  I mean I don't mind doing it this way, but Dad
> will certainly feel different.  So I guess I'll make something to 
> handle
> the graphical end of DVD authoring, unless someone knows of a project
> already started that I can get in on or something, but you're right,
> there's not much out there in this area.
>
> -Jeff
>
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 12:51, Michael Thompson wrote:
>> Not sure how easy/hard it is to get the data from the vcr to the
>> computer, but I do know that the dvdauthor software I found to try and
>> arrange my mpegs on the dvd with menus, etc, was *not* easy.  
>> Basically,
>> you have to create an XML file with all the menus and movie files laid
>> out how you want them, then it creates a DVD iso.  After a few hours 
>> of
>> playing with it, still had no success.  Apparently, its not as easy as
>> "just putting the files in a VIDEO_TS directory and burning".
>>
>> A google search on "dvdauthor" will probably bring up some 
>> information,
>> but if you're looking for something "point and click" (brings us back 
>> to
>> usability issues again?) then you're probably better of using one of 
>> the
>> <sigh> "other" OSes...
>>
>> BTW, I was hoping that my new PowerBook (which came with iDVD) would
>> allow me to author my DVDs into ISO files which I could burn on my 
>> linux
>> PC, but apparently it requires a hack that is *not* allowed under the
>> DMCA as my PowerBook did not come with the DVD burner built in.  So, 
>> if
>> you buy a Mac hoping to put your home videos on DVD, pay the extra 
>> $200
>> for the DVD burner.
>>
>> --mike
>>
>> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:27, Jeff Tickle wrote:
>>> Howdy..
>>>
>>> My Dad wants to start a fun little conversion project.  He has a 
>>> bunch
>>> of VHS tapes that he'd like to convert to DVDs, plus some stuff he's
>>> recorded on a digital video camera (not sure of the model... so we'll
>>> just assume it works with Linux until I find out otherwise.)
>>>
>>> Does anyone have experience doing this with Linux?  One thing I'm 
>>> going
>>> to have to do is make the entire process as easy as possible.  I 
>>> haven't
>>> done much research yet but I just wanted to get word from any of your
>>> experiences.  The two things I have absolutely no clue how to do are
>>> take the video from the camera and write video to a DVD.
>>>
>>> -Jeff
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jeff Tickle <jtickle at jtsoft.net>
>>> JTSoft.net
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