elDeuce

So I followed one of the tutorials on here and learned how to make a AVI file into a MPG but I'm not sure how to make it into VOB so that I can burn it into a real DVD.

I tried doing a search but it didnt like the short letters of 'MPG to DVD'

any help is appreciated.

elDeuce

spencerf

my personal favorite is a program called dvdstyler which will take allow you to create a title scene with menus and buttons and will utilize otherprograms like dvdauthor to help create the dvd you can find a link for it in the downloads section on these forums.

if you really want to use the command line you can follow some of the advice in this thread found on the gentoo forums

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elDeuce

So I decided to try out the DVDStyler and it says

When I try to install mpgtx I get

and when I try to install dvdauthor I get

Any idea what I need to do?

PsypherPunk

There's a particularly good tutorial here which i used yesterday to create a dvd.

Needs mplayer/mencoder and dvdauthor.

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spencerf

what distro are you using? It looks like something debian based because of the dpkg. I would suggest using a package manager like apt-get (if you are using debian based distro)

so:

apt-get install dvdstyler


this should install dvdstyler and any dependicies it requires.

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elDeuce

I can't get dvdauthor to install

elDeuce

I am using kubuntu 6.06 - and dvdstyler won't install through apt-get, in Adept it says 'Broken' or something like that.

spencerf

well you can try installing dvdauthor with apt-get and then installing dvdstyler from source or a deb package. If you get errors when trying to install dvdstyler this way check for any messages about missing programs and then install them with apt-get.

so:

apt-get install dvdauthor

the grab the deb package from here and install it.

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elDeuce

OMG!

Finally!

So I tried doing the apt-get but it said I needed mpgtx installed first so i did

apt-get -f install

and that installed dvdauthor and mpgtx and then i rant the .deb package and it installed perfectly and ran flawlessly.

I hope this thread will help someone else who runs into the same prob.

Thanks and Cheers!