On Saturday 14 December 2002 4:04 pm, PL O'Smith wrote:
On Saturday 14 December 2002 05:04 pm, David List wrote:
Just having installed SuSE Linux 8.1 I am looking forward to try out K3B for writing DVDs [...snipped list of 'missing' programs]
Those programs will have to be downloaded and compiled. [...] Your SuSE 8.1 installation of K3b will allow you to burn dvd's as well as cdrs, but if you are wanting to copy a dvd or rip one to encode [...] If you plan to convert your dvd to divx, then you will need the tar file so that you can compile it to do that. You will also need divx4linux files. [...]
This may be related (if it should be a new/different thread, please redirect) I have some video that I've edited under windows [plain old "mini-dv" stuff -- my nephew's 'christmas pagaent', a couple of transitions and filters is all] The resulting "video" is 9-10gb in size and runs exactly 45 minutes. [it's actually 3 seperate files due to window filesize limitations] I'd like to "encode" it to something that would fit on a (v)cd -- is this something that k3b can do? is this the "purpose" of programs like transcode and divx4linux? (and most importantly) is it reasonable to expect to compress 45 minutes of relatively trivial video onto a single CD? (would I have to cut the framesize & rate down to 320x240x15?) I tried compressing it to a single high-speed "windows media" format stream -- the estimate was 10 hours to complete, so I let it run overnight. In the morning it still had 3 hours to go, but when I came back home at lunchtime "windows had crashed" without saving a single byte to the "output" file... :( [needless to say I'm reluctant to waste another night trying...]