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[vdr] Archiving on DVD *on the Mac*
>My question would be: What solution are you guys using? What are the
>advantages/disadvantages? If you are using DVD, which one: DVD-R, DVD-RW, or
>DVD+RW? Is any special software needed for DVD mastering? On the Mac I'd use
>the iDVD application to master a disc,
You can't use iDVD for mastering a DVD from VDR MPEG-2 files, because
iDVD only accepts DV files as input format (which are encoded
automatically by iDVD to MPEG-2). On the Mac you can use DVD Studio
Pro, but you have to convert the VDR MPEG-2 transport stream to
demultiplexed MPEG-2 program stream with the PC tool PVAstrumento,
which is the only reliable converter (others produce a delay between
video and audio). You can run PVAstrumento on your linux box with the
"Windows emulator" Wine, but if you're no linux crack I recommend
doing it on your Mac with Virtual PC. If you want to cut the vdr
recordings frame accurate, you'll need the Windows tool M2-Edit
(commercial), but this one is very slow and doesn't run acceptably in
Virtual PC (at least not on my 867 MHz G4), so you'll need a Windows
machine (or you'll have to boot your linux box in Windows). If you
plan to archive movies which are quite long (longer than 2 hours) on
DVD, depending on the datarate of the TV channel these could be
larger than 4 GB, that's a problem for Windows 98/ME, so you'll need
Windows 2000 or better XP which must be on a separate machine to be
able to mount the Windows 2000/XP volume with samba on the linux box,
then you can copy the > 4 GB VDR recordings (after joining the parts
of the recording) to the Windows 2000/XP volume and process it with
M2-Edit and/or PVAstrumento.
> but it would be nice to have software
>which is integrated into VDR.
That would be great, but there's no linux DVD-Video authoring
solution at the moment.
We also would need a frame accurate cutting routine integrated in VDR
(which isn't easy to program, because you need to reencode some
frames around the cutting point) and a linux version of PVAstrumento,
which was talked about some time ago but nothing happened until today
:-(
cu Dany
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