Video Server

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "CT" == Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com> writes:

    CT> I have a whole bunch of the original Doctor Who series as
    CT> MPGs/AVIs that I'd rather watch on TV than on the PC.  8)

    CT> Also, once I have the hardware set up, how do I output to the
    CT> TV?  Will I be able to do it with the usual suspects (xine,
    CT> mplayer, etc)?

I can't help you with the hardware part, but I have recently compiled
a script that turns a .avi file into a dvd image and burns it to dvd.
This works on my Debian unstable system.  I got the information for
writing it off the net, and just did "apt-cache search <program-name>"
for all the programs that weren't installed.

The dvd's I write seem a bit flakier on my dvd player than the ones I
get from Netflix, but I'm not sure if that's a hardware or a software
problem.  The symptom is that the dvd player spends a while loading
the dvd, and sometimes gives up, although the same disk other times
will load and play fine.

================================================avi2dvd.sh==========
#!/bin/sh
#$1 is name of .avi file
MOVIE=`basename "$1" .avi`
ffmpeg -i "$1" -y -target ntsc-dvd -sameq "$MOVIE.mpg"
dvdauthor --title -o "$MOVIE" -f "$MOVIE.mpg"
dvdauthor -o "$MOVIE" -T
/usr/bin/growisofs -dvd-video  -Z /dev/dvd dvd

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