Autochapter with dvdauthor and mencoder > dvd?

[PavalloKazzo]

I want to complete my script (that I posted on this forum and revisited many times after...) to directly convert some/alot nsv to dvd with this chain: mencoder --> ffmpeg ----> dvdauthor ----> mkisofs
1) Do I need to use ffmpeg to produce a suitable mpeg stream for dvd or there is a good way in mencoder? Cause apparently mencoder can't produce mpeg2 file that dvdauthor can author...
2) There is a way to get autochapter in dvdauthor? Like 5 mins per chapter and it will do everything or do it NEED a chapterlist? In this case, how can I get the (time) lenght of a video file on the command line (so I can retrieve it in the script and work on that to generate a chapterlist)?

[danpos]

@PavalloKazzo

Take a look at this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=814291#post814291). Also look for other Sagittaire's post on that topic. I used this profile and I got a perfect MPEG2 videostream (ah, using mencoder for W32 though ;) ).

Good luck,

[PavalloKazzo]

Thanks, that's looks nice, although I need to convert it in linux way...

[PavalloKazzo]

I found that some dvds came out with a strange block on fast forwarding...
Anyone who experienced that and knows how to avoid?
I'm using dvdauthor and k3b

[danpos]

Thanks, that's looks nice, although I need to convert it in linux way...

Yep, I did see and I think that you can to adapt it to your Linux box .. ;)

See ya,

[unixfs]

I want to complete my script (that I posted on this forum and revisited many times after...) to directly convert some/alot nsv to dvd with this chain: mencoder --> ffmpeg ----> dvdauthor ----> mkisofs
1) Do I need to use ffmpeg to produce a suitable mpeg stream for dvd or there is a good way in mencoder? Cause apparently mencoder can't produce mpeg2 file that dvdauthor can author...


of course mencoder can produce mpeg2 files that dvdauthor likes.

_always_ use mencoder from cvs, not releases.
The options are:
... -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd ...