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VideoToDVD

Converting a video file into a playable Video DVD

2017-06-08

Occasionally is is useful to create a playable video DVD from a video file, either downloaded, or captured from over-the-air broadcasts. This procedure will produce a playable video DVD without any DVD menu system. When the DVD is inserted in the player, the video will immediately begin playing automatically.

Step 1: Crop/Resize video, and save as DVD-video structured file

• If the source video requires cropping to eliminate frames or bars, determine the crop values with:
  ffmpeg -i <source> -ss 300 -vf cropdetect=24:16:0 temp.mpg

• create the dvd-ready video file with (adjusting the acodec as necessary, e.g. ac3):
  ffmpeg -i <source> -vb 5500k -vcodec mpeg2video -vf crop=<cropvalues>,scale=720:480 -aspect 4:3
-acodec copy -target ntsc-dvd <tempfile>

Step 2: Create the DVD file structure

• add the dvd-ready temporary video file to the DVD structure with:
  export VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC
  dvdauthor -o DVD/ -t <tempfile>
• finalize the DVD structure with:
  dvdauthor -o DVD/ -T

Step 3: Create DVD ISO image file

• use:
  mkisofs -dvd-video -o <tempfile.ISO> DVD/

Step 4: Burn the .ISO image file to DVD disc

• Use favorite burning tool to copy the .ISO image, such as:
  growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=<tempfile.ISO>