[LCA2015-Chat] un-ripping a DVD

[Ryan Verner]

Given the plethora of media devices, smart TV's, even DVD players out these
days with USB 2.0 interfaces, I'd argue lowest common denominator format is
probably h.264 mpeg4 files on a USB stick, not a DVD - I'm starting to find
many people don't even own a DVD player/drive anymore.

Try something like this to convert a directory of .webm files to a format
which I reckon should play widely (hasn't been tested, YMMV):

for x in *.webm; do ffmpeg -i $x -c:v libx264 -preset medium -c:a mp3 -b:a
192k -profile:v baseline -level 3.0 $x.mp4; done


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Sprinkmeier <
thomas.sprinkmeier at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/22/15 09:24, Ryan Verner wrote:
>
>> The latter can probably be done using caca/aalib :)
>>
>> I'm curious why you'd want to produce a "plain-old" DVD as your 'lowest
>> common denominator solution' in 2015.
>>
>
> Probably because I'm an AV noob trying to make something that will 'just
> work' for anyone.
>
>  Pretty much every media player used on the planet these days will play
>> h.264 mpeg4 encoded video files burnt to a DVD,
>>
>
> I've tried a few other formats, I'll give "h.264 mpeg4" a go before
> resorting to DVD.
>
>  and having tried to produce a 'plain old' DVD of content back in 2004
>> you're talking dozens and dozens of DVD's with the content produced at an
>> LCA.
>>
>
> Burning the whole conf would be a bit much.... I'm just after a few talks.
>
>  The WebM files uploaded to the mirror are of archival quality;
>> re-encoding it should still result in good looking video.  You should be
>> able to script up something that uses ffmpeg to transcode to mpeg4 (use
>> h264 for video, mp3 or aac for audio).  Burn those files to a DVD (will
>> still require multiple DVD's).
>>
>> R
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Thomas Sprinkmeier <
>> thomas.sprinkmeier at gmail.com <mailto:thomas.sprinkmeier at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     How can I turn the conf videos into a plain-old DVD?
>>
>>     I've given up on finding a video format supported by all the TV's,
>> PVRs etc. and I'm aiming for the lowest-common-denominator solution.
>>
>>     Failing that, does anyone know how to re-render to something more
>> portable like:
>>     http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
>>
>>     Thomas
>>     _________________________________________________
>>     Chat mailing list
>>     Chat at lists.lca2015.linux.org.__au <mailto:Chat at lists.lca2015.
>> linux.org.au>
>>     http://lists.lca2015.linux.__org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat <
>> http://lists.lca2015.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Chat mailing list
>> Chat at lists.lca2015.linux.org.au
>> http://lists.lca2015.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Chat mailing list
> Chat at lists.lca2015.linux.org.au
> http://lists.lca2015.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lca2015.linux.org.au/pipermail/chat/attachments/20150122/cea5ca05/attachment-0001.html>