HOWTO_Create_a_DVD

Intro

This guide will help you to create a DVD from video files in four steps:

1. Encode to DVD video format
   • If you have downloaded or created an AVI, DIVX, MOV, MPEG or other type of video you will need to convert it into a format which your DVD player can understand.
2. Create a DVD filesystem
   • DVDs have a special file organization which must be adhered to in order for the DVD to be recognized as such. This includes DVD menus.
3. Copy an existing DVD
   • Covers taking a mirror copy of a DVD.
4. Burn the DVD
   • Of course, you probably do not connect your DVD player directly to your PC, so you will need to place the DVD filesystem or image onto a disc.

emerge

If you would like to get a head start, you will need these programs throughout the tutorial:

mkdir -p /etc/portage/
echo "media-video/mplayer encode" >> /etc/portage/package.use
emerge transcode ffmpeg mplayer dvdauthor dvd+rw-tools

And possibly one of these tools:

emerge dvdstyler k3b gnomebaker xcdroast

Links

You might want to consider looking at some of these other useful resources as well.

• HOWTO transcode divx to dvd

From Gentoo Forums:

• Howto author AVI->DVD with menus using Linux only!

From Wikipedia:

• PAL
• NTSC

From Doom9:

• Aspect ratios
• Resizing AVIs for DVD encoding

Others:

• How to burn a DVD-Video under Linux with mkisofs and dvdrecord
• MPlayer documentation
• Convert anything mplayer can play into a DVD
• Create a slideshow-style dvd from groups of pictures