[mythtv-users] Kind of offtopic - how do you make a DVD under linux?

[Andrew Dodd]

Quoting Chris Delis <cedelis at uillinois.edu>:


> Here's the script that uses pipes (I believe it uses a version of mplex
> that is different from 'dvb-mplex'):
> ------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> mkfifo aud0
> mkfifo vid0
> mkfifo dvdmpg
> 
> mpeg2desc -a0 < $1 > aud0 &
> mpeg2desc -v0 < $1 > vid0 &
> mplex -f 8 -V -o dvdmpg aud0 vid0 &
> dvdauthor -o $2 -f dvdmpg
> dvdauthor -o $2 -T
> 
> rm aud0
> rm vid0
> rm dvdmpg
> ------------------------------
You are correct.  It uses mplex from mjpegtools, which on the dvdauthor lists
seems to be regarded as the most reliable of the multiplexers.

mpeg2desc is from the dvdauthor package, as is (of course) dvdauthor.