Yes, i am asking for applications to do that conversion. With example
command lines please. I know there are several, so some comments on why
you like one is what i am after.
Dual core to hex core boxes. TiB to burn. Trying to switch to 11.4, but
my production boxes are all 11.1. I have 11.4 running on one machine but
i am unable to beat the rt8111/rtl8169 nic does not wake up issue. On
another box i have 11.4 in a VM but the VM won’t boot after install.
?-)
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:52:08 +0000, josephkk wrote:
> Yes, i am asking for applications to do that conversion. With example
> command lines please. I know there are several, so some comments on why
> you like one is what i am after.
>
> Dual core to hex core boxes. TiB to burn. Trying to switch to 11.4,
> but my production boxes are all 11.1. I have 11.4 running on one
> machine but i am unable to beat the rt8111/rtl8169 nic does not wake up
> issue. On another box i have 11.4 in a VM but the VM won’t boot after
> install.
Handbrake is what I use to do video conversions - the thing to remember
is that PAL is 25 FPS, but NTSC is 29.92 FPS, so you may well end up with
some slight jerkiness in the video when increasing the framerate.
The video output signaling is different as well, but when doing the
conversion on a PC, the framerate is the only thing that’ll be an issue.
The signaling doesn’t really come into it when doing the conversion
because it’s all about how you end up mastering the DVD, if that’s what
you’re doing.
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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This suggests to me that you want an application that you can run from Command Line, as opposed to via a GUI. Is that the case ?
wrt hendersj suggestion, HandBrake is a good app. I do note that if I ssh into another openSUSE GNU/Linux PC on my LAN, with a ‘ssh -X user@ip-address’ session open I can remotely run HandBrake with the command: ghb (that assumes I have both rpms handBrake-cli and handbrake-gtk installed). If you wish to run handbrake strictly from a command line, then you need to figure out the exact command (which may not be straightforward) by specifying frame rate and video dimensions (as both NTSC and PAL in addition to having different frame rates have different resolution dimensions). You can find out the command line options by typing:
man HandBrakeCLI
Now having typed the above, I simply use tovid because it is EASIER and NOT because it is better. For example, if I have the PAL multimedia video called oldPALvideo.mpg I can convert it to the NTSC format (calling the new file newNTSCvideo.mpg) with the tovid command:
tovid mpg -dvd -ntsc -quality 9 -normalize -in oldPALvideo.mpg -out newNTSCvideo
where quality of 9 provides a very high quality, but the bit rate may be TOO large. You may be better off with quality 7 or 8 if that bitrate with 9 is too high.
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:58:43 GMT, Jim Henderson
<hendersj@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:52:08 +0000, josephkk wrote:
>
>> Yes, i am asking for applications to do that conversion. With example
>> command lines please. I know there are several, so some comments on why
>> you like one is what i am after.
>>
>> Dual core to hex core boxes. TiB to burn. Trying to switch to 11.4,
>> but my production boxes are all 11.1. I have 11.4 running on one
>> machine but i am unable to beat the rt8111/rtl8169 nic does not wake up
>> issue. On another box i have 11.4 in a VM but the VM won’t boot after
>> install.
>
>Handbrake is what I use to do video conversions - the thing to remember
>is that PAL is 25 FPS, but NTSC is 29.92 FPS, so you may well end up with
>some slight jerkiness in the video when increasing the framerate.
>
>The video output signaling is different as well, but when doing the
>conversion on a PC, the framerate is the only thing that’ll be an issue.
>The signaling doesn’t really come into it when doing the conversion
>because it’s all about how you end up mastering the DVD, if that’s what
>you’re doing.
>
>Jim
I don’t really want to remaster the purchased DVD, i am fine with the way
it is mastered. I just need format conversion so i can play the converted
DVD on a NTSC player. I guess i should have said so.
?-)
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:26:03 GMT, oldcpu
<oldcpu@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>josephkk;2398972 Wrote:
>> Yes, i am asking for applications to do that conversion. With example
>> command lines please.
>
>This suggests to me that you want an application that you can run from
>Command Line, as opposed to via a GUI. Is that the case ?
>
>wrt hendersj suggestion, HandBrake is a good app. I do note that if I
>ssh into another openSUSE GNU/Linux PC on my LAN, with a ‘ssh -X
>user@ip-address’ session open I can remotely run HandBrake with the
>command: ghb (that assumes I have both rpms handBrake-cli and
>handbrake-gtk installed). If you wish to run handbrake strictly from a
>command line, then you need to figure out the exact command (which may
>not be straightforward) by specifying frame rate and video dimensions
>(as both NTSC and PAL in addition to having different frame rates have
>different resolution dimensions). You can find out the command line
>options by typing:
>
>Code:
>--------------------
>
> man HandBrakeCLI
>
>--------------------
>
>
>Now having typed the above, I simply use tovid because it is EASIER and
>NOT because it is better. For example, if I have the PAL multimedia
>video called oldPALvideo.mpg I can convert it to the NTSC format
>(calling the new file newNTSCvideo.mpg) with the tovid command:
>
>Code:
>--------------------
>
> tovid mpg -dvd -ntsc -quality 9 -normalize -in oldPALvideo.mpg -out newNTSCvideo
>
>--------------------
>
>
>where quality of 9 provides a very high quality, but the bit rate may
>be TOO large. You may be better off with quality 7 or 8 if that bitrate
>with 9 is too high.
Two votes for handbrake and one for tovid. Since i want to convert an
existing DVD with chapters and all that stuff preferably intact; does that
change your recommendation?
I am comfortable with both GUI and CLI, but often CLI has more control of
details. I expect this will be important in this conversion.
?-)
Most definitely . This is an entirely different requirement.
You are asking how to rip a DVD from a PAL format and then create a new DVD to NTSC keeping the chapter information.
I don’t know of any one application that will do that. Especially since you want to keep chapter information. There are many DVD ripping programs, but they tend to store the ripped DVD into one file. There are backup DVD programs, but they are intended to backup (not convert) and the ones that keep the chapter information tend to keep the same NTSC or PAL format (and not convert). The programs that I know that convert a DVD format to NTSC from PAL do NOT keep the chapter information.
I’m confident I could do this if I wanted, but I don’t see myself doing it with one program.
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:36:03 GMT, oldcpu
<oldcpu@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>josephkk;2400231 Wrote:
>>
>> Two votes for handbrake and one for tovid. Since i want to convert an
>> existing DVD with chapters and all that stuff preferably intact; does
>> that
>> change your recommendation?
>>
>
>Most definitely . This is an entirely different requirement.
>
>You are asking how to rip a DVD from a PAL format and then create a new
>DVD to NTSC keeping the chapter information.
>
>I don’t know of any one application that will do that. Especially since
>you want to keep chapter information. There are many DVD ripping
>programs, but they tend to store the ripped DVD into one file. There are
>backup DVD programs, but they are intended to backup (not convert) and
>the ones that keep the chapter information tend to keep the same NTSC or
>PAL format (and not convert). The programs that I know that convert a
>DVD format to NTSC from PAL do NOT keep the chapter information.
>
>I’m confident I could do this if I wanted, but I don’t see myself doing
>it with one program.
Sorry for the slow response. I get behind in my reading sometimes. Would
you please discuss how you would approach this. I can get a file listing
easy enough. I do not much understand how the various files relate
though.
?-)