[mythtv-users] How To make a mpg into something the family DVD player can read
Christian Husemann
Christian.Husemann at Sun.COM
Mon Apr 10 09:09:04 UTC 2006
Chad wrote:
> On 4/10/06, ffrr <ffrr at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>> Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:33:53 +1200
>>> Nick Rout wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> If you don't mind the command line, any2dvd will do the trick.
>>>>
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/any2dvd/
>>>>
>>>>
>>> oh and I just noticed an interesting option:
>>>
>>> --skip_comm=[yes|no] Skip commercials for MythTV recorded video (Default: No)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Just downloaded this. One thing I can never figure out is - how are
>> people supposed to know what it requires to work? Documentation?
>>
>> I just tried it, and it bombs out saying
>>
>>
>>
>> Error: Program 'ecasound' is missing, please install it first ->
>> http://eca.cx/
>>
>> Install with patch from here for 5.1 surround audio encodings ->
>>
>> http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/ebuilds/media-libs/a52dec/files/multi_wav-0.7.4.diff
>>
>> *Instructions*
>> tar -xvzf a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz
>> cd a52dec-0.7.4
>> patch -p1 < ../multi_wav-0.7.4.diff
>> ./configure
>> make
>> make install
>>
>>
>> Not only does it have other requirements to run, they need special
>> patches.
>>
>> Ugly. It's a pity, because it looked promising...
>> _______________________________________________
>
> I'm not disagreeing with you, it certainly needs some documentation,
> but that's quite a decent output with verbosity on how to proceed!
>
> Chad
In addition doing a less on the script itself does show all requirements and (in the past) all
according websites.
HTH
Christian
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