Learnosity Tech Blog : HOWTO Create DVD's from AVI's on Ubuntu
To create simple DVD's (i.e. with no title menu's) you need the following software:
mplayer
videotrans
libxvidcore4
dvdauthor
mkisofs
To install all this use:
$ sudo apt-get install mplayer videotrans dvdauthor mkisofs libxvidcore4
Here are the simple steps to format a video for DVD:
First, make sure you can view the video using mplayer:
$ mplayer MyMovie.avi
Then we convert if to DVD mpeg format:
$ movie-to-dvd -m pal MyMovie.avi
This will create two files: MyMovie.m2v and MyMovie.ac3 which we need to merge back together:
$ mplex -f 8 -o MyMovie.mpg MyMovie.m2v MyMovie.ac3
Format the video for DVD:
$ dvdauthor -o dvd/ -t MyMovie.mpg
Create a title page for it:
$ dvdauthor -o dvd/ -T
Create an ISO image to burn to dvd:
$ mkisofs -dvd-video -v -o MyMovie.iso dvd
Then right click on the ISO in the file browser (Nautilus) and select "Write to Disc" and you have a DVD that will play in you normal DVD player.
References:
http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/movie-to-dvd.1.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_a_DVD:Filesystem
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709
