here I will post about converting my family's home movies from Video8 tapes to DVDs and hopefully also some sort of digital video format. I used a Toshiba DR570 to record the video playing on the camcorder to DVDs. I'm ripping these DVDs with mplayer:
see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mplayer#Rip_DVD_to_raw_video
another great free program I've been using is Avidemux which allows me to split the resulting mpg file into what will be the DVD chapters without doing any re-encoding.
I'm still wondering what the best way to encode and burn all of these will be (I've got ~20 full DVDs worth of video). all the free DVD authoring software I've tried kind of sucks, and encoding these mpgs on my thinkpad will reallyyyy suck.
mplayer -dumpstream dvdnav://1 -nocache -dvd-device d: -dumpfile dvdout.mpg
see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mplayer#Rip_DVD_to_raw_video
another great free program I've been using is Avidemux which allows me to split the resulting mpg file into what will be the DVD chapters without doing any re-encoding.
I'm still wondering what the best way to encode and burn all of these will be (I've got ~20 full DVDs worth of video). all the free DVD authoring software I've tried kind of sucks, and encoding these mpgs on my thinkpad will reallyyyy suck.
Transcoding video always kinda sucks unless you are on a workstation. It's primarily the reason I invested in an external media player. Avidemux is fun, but I much, much prefer Handbrake
I probably won't be using Avidemux for transcoding anyway, but the splitting feature has been great.
spent a good seven hours tonight finishing up this project. I've got everything split into separate video files for dvd chapters. now I'm in the market for some dvd authoring software. I might just end up using windows dvd maker and buying a cheap duplicator.