[nzlug] Linux is easy! :)

[Toby Collett]

Tovid has always worked well for me, its pretty simplistic but does the 
job. Unfortunately it doesnt dynamically adjust quality or anything to 
make video fit on a DVD, you have to make some pretty coarse grained 
decisions about resolution etc to make things fit.

While on the topic next time I need to burn a DVD and have the time to 
experiment I will be trying out mandvd that was mentioned on this list 
last time DVD burning came up...

Toby

cr wrote:
> On Friday 17 August 2007 22:16, Cliff Pratt wrote:
>   
>> Nevyn wrote:
>>     
>>> On 8/17/07, Martin Bähr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 03:00:27PM +1200, Nevyn wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> That's probably my biggest complaint with most linux distro's out
>>>>> there. The libraries and multimedia applications don't keep up to
>>>>> date.
>>>>>           
>>>> ?
>>>> don't they get updated with every new release?
>>>>         
>>> Ubuntu currently ships Gimp 2.2 whereas the current version is 2.4.
>>> Scribus - Ubuntu: 1.2.5 - current: 1.3.3.9
>>> Lyx - Ubuntu: 1.4.3 - current: 1.5.1
>>>
>>> This list goes on. It's not the same with every application. For
>>> example, Blender, is shipped as 2.44 with Ubuntu and the website
>>> currently offers 2.44. Although not too big a deal, there are features
>>> in applications such as these, that are significantly different from
>>> version to version. For example, lyx has been rewritten to use qt4
>>> rather than xforms in version 1.5.
>>>       
>> "up to date" does not mean "the latest release". Personally I don't
>> think it is prudent to keep too close to the latest release.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Cliff
>>     
>
> Well, on this general subject, I just installed Tovid 0.3, which is very 
> much 'the latest' release, I think.    Way too new to be in Debian, though 
> Tovid supply .debs.   Usually, I stick to apps that are in Debian Stable, 
> since I have them on DVD and they're quick to install, I avoid apps that my 
> modem has to decipher from the line noise that is Telecom's occasional 
> contribution to the joys of computing.    
>
> So far as DVD-writing apps went, I thought I was back in dependency hell, 
> which I haven't seriously experienced since the days of RH5.2.    Every app 
> wanted lots of .libs; even Transcode (which is on the Etch DVD's) got a 
> reaction from Synaptic "This depends on the following:  (list of ~6 apps, all 
> of which  were noted "is not going to be installed").
>
> Since I've now made a 'spare' crash-test-dummy install of Debian, I thought 
> I'd give Tovid a try, I followed the instructions on the Tovid site, added 
> tovid.sourceforge.net to /etc/apt/sources.list and added 
> www.debian-multimedia.org for good measure,  did 'apt-get install tovid'   - 
> this is the first time I've ventured to use apt-get down the phone line, 
> please note! - and over the next half-hour apt-get steadily downloaded about 
> 20 associated apps and .libs  (my modem was having a good day) - and 
> installed tovid.    Repeated it for tovid-gui.    
> And it ALL JUST WORKS!       It really was that easy.   Not one dependency 
> spit the dummy.   
>
> (Caveat: I haven't actually burned a DVD with Tovid yet, ran out of time last 
> night.   But it all worked up to the point of starting processing, when it 
> stopped and warned me it would run out of room - simply because it uses /tmp 
> by default, I just needed to change a config file).
>
> cr
>
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