Made a svcd, as a matter of fact, the job turned out great. Not quite DVD quality, but so close you aren't going to complain. I used kavi2svcd to do the job of burning the mpeg to cdr. It is a graphical frontend to transcode.
Interesting. I'll have to have a look at that. It probably does the same as TmpGEnc on Windows - a nice wrapper to the tools, which makes sensible guesses based on what you appear to be be trying to do. These sorts of tools do work for the basic cases, but, in my experience, tend to fail miserably as soon as they are presented with something a little out of the ordinary. What happens if you give it an AVI with a non-standard aspect ratio, for example? Or with an unexpected sound track format? In the Windows world there are dozens of tools, all of which claim to be able to do certain things with video files. Some do it well, others poorly or not at all. Knowing the tool for the job is part of the battle. In the Linux world mplayer and transcode can do most things between them, so maybe life is made a bit simpler by less choice. Thanks for the info - I'll look at kavi2svcd later today. --
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