[NTLUG:Discuss] Video question

[Preston Hagar]

On 9/5/07, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
>
> Fred wrote:
> > Not sure who to ask about this, so here goes:
> >
> > I have an avi file that I want to burn to a dvd. I used ffmpeg to
> > make it into an mpg file, then dvdauthor to make it ready to burn.
> >
> > Somewhere along the line the aspect ratio got hosed. Nowhere
> > can I find any way to letterbox the original's really widescreen 2.35
> > aspect ratio to a standard ntsc 4:3. I know it can be done because
> > I seem to remember letterboxing a 16:9 video once.
> >
> > Should I have used mencoder instead of ffmpeg?
>
> I don't have an answer to your specific widescreen question but I
> recently spent a weekend experimenting with different dvd creation
> programs on Linux and had the best results with Tovid:
>
> http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
>
> ManDVD also seemed nice if you like flashy GUIs:
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/mandvd/
>
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I would second tovid and also suggest you look at todisc, which is a part of
the tovid group of programs.  todisc is fairly simple and handles most
things for you.