Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-20 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 02:49, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > That's why you use the CLI. Everything you could want to do is quite > > easily accessible from the keyboard. Not to mention t

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:25:17AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've only ever spent about 3 hours toying with KDE, but I'd imagine that > mplayer should work just fine with konqueror if set up as a default app. Well, not with ogm, which gets detec

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 01:49, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > That's why you use the CLI. Everything you could want to do is quite > > easily accessible from the keyboard. Not to mention t

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > That's why you use the CLI. Everything you could want to do is quite > easily accessible from the keyboard. Not to mention that if you know the > CLI commands, you can use mplayer from

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-19 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030619] Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ah. Now if Mplayer's GUI didn't suck...something more like kaboodle... Actually I use MPlayer straight from command line to take advantage of its powerful options. However there is a kde-based frontend, kplayer & a gnome2-based, lumiere. You c

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 10:36, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:24:57PM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > > > What does it take to play an ogm anyway? > > > > Mplayer :) > > Ah. Now if Mplayer's GUI didn't suck...something more

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:24:57PM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > > What does it take to play an ogm anyway? > > Mplayer :) Ah. Now if Mplayer's GUI didn't suck...something more like kaboodle... - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-19 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030619] Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What does it take to play an ogm anyway? Mplayer :) -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:25:40PM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > Thanx for the correction. Actually I don't have a dvd player > here, so I back-up all my dvd's to divx/ogm with mencoder, thus > I'm not really into (s)vcd. What does it take to pl

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-19 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030618] Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 08:08 PM 6/18/2003 +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > >IIRC, SVCD is MPEG-1. > > VCD -> MPEG-1 > > SVCD -> MPEG-2 Thanx for the correction. Actually I don't have a dvd player here, so I back-up all my dvd's to divx/ogm with mencoder, th

Re: Making VCDs (was Re: Burning DVD onto CD)

2003-06-18 Thread Paul
Never tried creating a VCD on a linux box, since i dont have any cd burners hooked up to any of them, but heres a website that will allow you to know whether a certain dvd player can play a vcd or a svcd http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers.php only familiarity i have is using easy cd creator or th

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-18 Thread Bradley M Alexander
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:49:20PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 12:56, Rus Foster wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've just created an MPG of my wedding and would like to burn it onto a CD > > but for it to be a DVD (i.e. work on a DVD player). I've googled but can't > > find a how

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 08:08 PM 6/18/2003 +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > I was under the impression that DVD is mpeg2 and so is SVCD? -could be > wildly wrong there! IIRC, SVCD is MPEG-1. VCD -> MPEG-1 SVCD -> MPEG-2 *Unofficial* reference information at these pages: http://www.dvdrhelp.com/vcd http://www.dvdrh

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-18 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030618] Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was under the impression that DVD is mpeg2 and so is SVCD? -could be > wildly wrong there! IIRC, SVCD is MPEG-1. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 4

Making VCDs (was Re: Burning DVD onto CD)

2003-06-18 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:49:20PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 12:56, Rus Foster wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've just created an MPG of my wedding and would like to burn it onto a CD > > but for it to be a DVD (i.e. work on a DVD player). I've googled but can't > > find a how

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:27:51PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > Having said that, i had a nice raw mpeg2 .bin image which played fine in > mplayer but when burnt to cd the DVD player said "format unsupported" :( > mplayer will play the cd with the SVC

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-18 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:46:20AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Most DVD players on the market just happen to be able to play VCDs and > SVCDs. This is probably what you meant. I was under the impression that DVD is mpeg2 and so is SVCD? -could be wildly wrong there! Having said that, i had a nic

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-18 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 12:56, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > I've just created an MPG of my wedding and would like to burn it onto a CD > but for it to be a DVD (i.e. work on a DVD player). I've googled but can't > find a howto. Anyway know the best way about going round this? Create an (S)VCD;

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:56:09AM +0100, Rus Foster wrote: > I've just created an MPG of my wedding and would like to burn it onto a CD > but for it to be a DVD (i.e. work on a DVD player). I've googled but can't > find a howto. Anyway know the best w