From: Michael R. <mr...@us...> - 2003-05-03 13:59:35
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Hi Markus, > > Ahh, now that you tell, this was tcmplex I tried. I used some > > command like 'tcmplex -o test.vob -i test.m2v -p test.mpa -m d' > > like it is said on the transcode examples page. When I looked at > > the NAV packets I realized that the resulting stream was useless, > > since big parts of the NAV packets were just plain zeros. > > That's how it is supposed to be. > > > This is bad when your player (xine) depends on these informations > > to get sync (NAV PTS needed) and time display (Cell elapsed time > > needed) correctly. > > > >> I don't know about IfoEdit, but mplex create an mpeg files, that > >> you need to author to make the DVD, with dvdauthor (last version > >> is just tremendous) :-) > > > > I have never used it and http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ is > > either not their official homepage or it is just not very > > informative: What does it actually do? > > It's the official homepage and yes it isn't really very informative. I guess coding C is more fun than "coding" (X)HTML. (At least I would agree to that.) > It is supposed to take a MPEG stream (from 'tcmplex -m d' or 'mplex > -f 8') and create a DVD-Video Structure from it. It also fills the > NAV packets. And it can also create menus and stuff. So it is an > authoring software, just as the name suggests ;-) Thanks for this informative note. So these tools all go hand in hand. Good to know. I will try it eventually. Michael -- /* Identify the flock of penguins. */ 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c |