[clug] Streaming TransACT - Next step

[Duncan Bolt]

Videolan has the option of saving the stream as a Mpeg PS as well. 
(also AVI which is pretty crappy)

I have tried that too. I think I might be able to use it to save as 
separate video and sound streams as well, but the help files are a bit 
vague on that.

There are a few Windows utilities dedicated to the ripping and copying 
of DVDs, and some documentation which I have read as well.

I could only find one player for linux, OMS which was accompanied with 
a documentation labelled "Do not use this file it is out of Date", 
which sort of discourage me.

What are the linux DVD writing utilities ?

I think I need a utility that will read in my MPEG files, and create a 
series of 1Gb .VOB files, and the .IFO file.

I'll have a look at the mplayer stuff.


On 18/02/2004, at 10:16 PM, Francis James Whittle wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:03, Duncan Bolt wrote:
>
>> Or possibly stream it from the computer back to the i3 digital TV box.
>>
>> The third option has a certain cool factor, but I do not want to 
>> fiddle
>> with reconfiguring the i3 box. Nor do I want to interfere with any of
>> the TRANSACT setup.
>
> There are a few problems with this, in particular that yout don't own
> the STB.  TransACT does.  I personally believe it would have been nice
> if they'd allocated an empty channel on the STB that you could stream
> to....
>
>> ...
>
>> My problems have been mainly in converting the Videolan generated MPEG
>> files.
>>
>> As I understand it a DVD basically consists of .VOB and .IFO files
>
> DVDs, however, use MPEG2 PS (programme stream), not TS (transport
> stream) as is streaming over TransTV.   And that's how videoLAN saves
> them.  Which might be the cause of:
>> The windows ones I tried did not like the mpeg streams I had recorded,
>> complaining about missing headers. So do I need to do something to
>> clean up these before hand ?
>
> (I know that getting gstreamer to demux MPEG2TS is a royal pain in the
> posterior)
>
> I couldn't tell you about the IFOs having never played with writing 
> DVDs
> myself.  There are, however, utilities around for writing DVD Video
> discs on linux.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Francis
>
>

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