Linux/DivX question.....

I haven't been able to find anything on this in the wiki or on the forums....

I run Ubuntu edgy eft distro. Can someone give me an idiot proof explanation as how to convert avi to DivX (so I can burn to watch on my big tv) or some other format that will play on a DVD player? I don't have a dvd-r, just cd-r. I have Avidemux/Dvd::rip/DvdShrink but as i'm an audiophile I have no experience in the video side of things...so I have no idea what i'm doing. If somebody could give me a simplistic tutorial or a link to something I would be really grateful, thanks alot.

 

I don't know if this will help, but it might...


http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=242455
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/05/1949213&from=rss

Basically, I would look into using ffmpeg to do it. Also, if you are brave, you can try to compile Handbrake.

Hands down though, the best tool is ffmpegX, but it only works on mac os. It's a frontend to ffmpeg and is so easy to use.


hope that helps!

 

Mencoder and transcode are usefull apps....
They are both in the ubuntu universe you could also compile from source, also have the multimedia codecs and ffmpeg installed.

 

This is how I compiled mplayer/mencoder from source ....
hopefully I make some sense

Install the dependencies

to bootstrap you also need these installed

Code:

sudo apt-get install automake1.9 autoconf libtool

for installing files from svn

Code:

sudo apt-get install subversion

Get the Lame mp3 codec and build 3 deb packages liblame is needed for mencoder

Install faad needed for encoding

Install the x264 codec

Code:

svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264
       cd x264
       ./configure 
       make 
       sudo make install

Install the xvid codec...

Code:

download  [url="http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.1.2.tar.gz"]http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.1.2.tar.gz[/url]
  tar zxvf xvidcore-1.1.2.tar.gz
  cd xvidcore-1.1.2
  ./bootstrap.sh
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
  

ffmpeg

Install the codecs for mplayer

mplayer

download a skin I chose Blue....

now you can start the player in your console with mplayer or for the gui with gmplayer or in the gnome menu in the multimedia sub menu...

hope it helps....

 

thanks for all the effort raysun, but I tried it and it didn't work. Authentication failed for Lame mp3 codec and build 3 deb packages and it was all downhill from there.

 

I found this link for ubuntu http://www.debianadmin.com/install-mplayer-ubuntu.html

 

installing mplayer or video codecs is not that hard.

enable all universe and multiverse repo's from synaptic, then:

the link raysun provided has everything for a debian system which should work for you.

this will be my recomended page though. i promise this will work:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

 

btw, you want to burn stuff to a CD to watch on a DVD player then burn it as a VCD. just google "Ubuntu burn as VCD" or something.

 

Raysun and Assasin, thanks for all your help! I got Mplayer (synaptic, as soon as I realized it was there it was a breeze) now how do I use it to convert avi to VCD??

 

hi....
there are different ways to make a vcd you can use encode2mpeg(which is frontend for mplayer/mencoder) or avidemux with Varsha ,DVDAuthor ,Transcode and FFMPEG you should check if they are in reposatories and install them or else install the from source...
this is a link for avidemux with a visual how to
Also you can make a vcd with avidemux and k3b
And the comand line method

Code:

[/font][font=Verdana]mencoder movie.wmv -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=224

hope it helps....

 

use Nero Burner, then just click on the "Burn Video Disk" then "VCD" then you're done.

 

to my knowledge Nero does not make a version for linux, and I don't like Wine.

 

actually, there is a Nero for Linux. the demo is free but i think you have to pay for the official version.

 

Nice!