[Wylug-discuss] Re: [Wylug-help] transcode, mpeg2enc and dvdauthor woes

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 10 Jan 2006 16:41, Dave Fisher wrote:
>
> $ man mpeg2enc reveals an option:
>
>   -f 8 DVD MPEG-2 for 'dvdauthor'
>
> This 'special' variation of DVD MPEG-2 apparently  "adds special
> dummy navigation packets into the output stream that the dvdauthor
> tool fills in to make a proper .VOB for authoring."
>
> So now all I have to do is convert my standard DVD MPEG-2 files to
> dvdauthor format using mpeg2enc, extract the audio tracks, and remux
> the audio with the video, right?
>
All I can say, Dave, is that I did create my mpeg2 files using mpeg2enc 
-f 8.

> It's not as straight forward as I'd hoped.
>
<snip>
> Is it too fanciful to imagine a tool that simply 'blanks' the
> existing navigation packets in the vob so that dvdauthor can write
> over them, without any re-encoding or re-muxing?
>
There's a low-volume very useful ML at mjpeg-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
where developers and lots of knowledgeable users hang out.  I'd 
seriously recommend that you subscribe.  If there is a way to do what 
you want, someone there will have done it.

Anne
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Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)
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