On November 12, 2003 12:11 pm, Sean A. Walberg wrote:

A few links and projects that handled transcoding and making of [S]VCDs were mentioned last night. Could anyone who was taking notes post a summary?

Thanks,

Sean

The ones I remember are mencoder (part of MPlayer), svcd-help.com (I haven't looked at this yet), and vcdmaker (a program). There is also a shell script called avi2svcd. It doesn't seem to work for me. Perhaps someone can point me to a HowTo as well. There seems to be much more on ripping than there is on authoring. In fact it's almost overwhelming. Also I did notice a useful program a few weeks ago on freshmeat. It allowed the user to create a rudimentary menu. Don't ask me what it was called. Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | | See my web page before you think about spamming me. I charge cash. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------

According to Sean A. Walberg:

A few links and projects that handled transcoding and making of [S]VCDs were mentioned last night. Could anyone who was taking notes post a summary?

The GNU program I mentioned, but couldn't remember the actual name, was "vcdimager". If you go to their home page, it says the site is closed as a protest against software patents, and it redirects you somewhere else (swpat.ffii.org). But, you can still go to specific pages within the site if you enter their URL's. A good one to look at is this... http://www.vcdimager.org/links.phtml It contains links to documentation, and various other utilities and guides that may be helpful. What I haven't yet found, which would be helpful too, is a good tutorial overview of the different formats and encodings involved in VCD's and DVD's and what the layout and content of the ISO image portion is supposed to be. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609