On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:19:34 -0500, Greg Farough wrote: > Hey, all. I've lately been trying to make backups of files in various > media formats to DVD, using FFmpeg and dvdauthor. The resulting DVD > plays excellently on my laptop DVD player with MPlayer and VLC, but > suffers from incessant skips on the two commercial DVD players (i.e. > hooked to a television) that I've attempted to play them on. This > happens with every file and disc that I've tried. > > My process for encoding/burning is this: > > ffmpeg -i test.avi -target ntsc-dvd test.mpg dvdauthor -t test.mpg -o > dvd/ > dvdauthor -T -o dvd/ > growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video -speed=4 dvd/ > > Normally I would imagine that I was simply burning the disc too quickly, > but 4x seems reasonable, and this doesn't explain why the DVD plays well > on my laptop. I use single-layer Memorex DVD-Rs, but have also tried > Verbatim to no avail. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > PS: MPlayer's output when playing the DVD rarely complains of sync > errors, but doesn't hinder playback in any way.
I don't know whether this will help, but in case it does, I have had first class results with DeVeDe. It can take a long time, but you get a proper DVD menu and everything, and it's really easy. I have made a number of DVDs from downloaded avi files and the like, and *none* has failed to play properly in various domestic DVD players. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j4i6ql$hd5$1...@dough.gmane.org
