A friend asked me how to burn his grand daughter’s video to a dvd disk. I have done something like that using windows couple years ago. As I moved to Ubuntu recently, I was annoyed to found it quite complicated. I tried a couple of ways. Eventually my solution is the following:
One major difficulty I faced was that the video file is in mov format. I couldn’t convert to avi or mpeg after several different attempts. I almost got it working using mencoder but it keeps skipping frames. After no much luck doing it “myself”, I just upload the files to “media convert.com“. Yeah, it is much easier that way.
The rest is quite easy. Follows the instructions of this guide,
Create the DVD file structure
dvdauthor -o DVD/ -t file1.mpg
dvdauthor -o DVD/ -t file2.mpg
…
dvdauthor -o DVD/ -T
Create The .ISO File
Type:
mkisofs -dvd-video -v -o DVD.iso DVD