dvd with mplayer help needed

[David Bruzos]

Hi:
I will quickly tell you what I have found about dvd-playing and dvd-burning in Linux, below:

To play DVD's:
	Yeah, mplayer is simply the best for this task.  As Greg said before, something like:
	$ mplayer -quiet dvd://1
		Where dvd://1 just tells mplayer what title to play.  The first title (1) is usually the main movie.
	If you don't care about the video part of the movie:
			$ mplayer -quiet -vo null dvd://1
	To play the first title, the second language (French) and use the x11 display do:
			$ mplayer -quiet -vo xv -alang fr dvd://1

	This should get you started...

To burn/shrink dvd's:
	I have had reasonable luck with the fallowing programs:
	1. streamdvd/streamanalyze
	2. dvdauthor
	3. mkisofs
	4. cdrecord

	You have to use them in the order listed above.  Read some docs for more info.

	Two other very useful programs are: "transcode" and "vobcopy".  They will help you with other aspects of the DVD 
	burning process.

To burn data DVD's:
	Yeah, all you have to do is make an ISO image and use cdrecord to burn to disc.  The same old way you use to burn 
	CD's.  One thing though, you have to use the "-dao" option for cdrecord when burning and fix the disc after you 
	are done writing to it.  Another program to look at is "growisofs"., it will easy let you create data DVD's 
	on the fly.  The maximum size for a DVD ISO is around 4450 MB or 4700000000 bytes.

HTH!

David Bruzos

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:46:38AM -0500, Scott Howell wrote:
> I've asked someone about this, but if anyone has any other comments, 
> suggestions etc. I'll gladdly take them.
> 
> I got myself a dvd burner, Plexstor. I got it at such a great deal I 
> couldn't pass it up. I'd like to be able to play dvd discs on it 
> especially those I have that has the audio described track.
> I can mount the disc fine, but then I tried using mplayer such as 
> mplayer -vo null filename.vob and that crashed the box. Got some message 
> about bad sectors or something, but I couldn't tell as the box hung 
> nicely. The disc plays fine on a regular dvd machine.
> Is there something else I need to do? Maybe your not to mount the thing 
> perhaps. I'd also like to make copies of dvd discs of course for my own 
> personal use. It seems a good idea when my seven- year-old occationally 
> has managed to mess one up, but luckily this isn't offten. Ay I know he 
> aut not be touching them, but well that's another topic.
> Also I'd like to consolidate my music collection on to a dvd and suspect 
> its a matter of making an iso image and burning that to the dvd media.
> So any thoughts on what to do in playing movie tracks etc. and is 
> cdrecord is good for this burining job is appreciated.
> 
> tia
> Scott
> 
> 
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