Hello,
I have dvd::rip and have succesfully used it to make a backup of a dvd, but recently I got a couple of avi's ( not copywrited, just amateur stuff) and I would like to put them on svcd's.
What I have tried is ripmake, I installed all the depends, but when I run it I get an error talking about how it can't create sample.pgm file. So that doesn't seem to work. I tried it on two machines with different distros, same results. dvd::rip doesn't seem to want to help me unless I start from a dvd file. So what should I use? I hate to ask, but this is one of those things where I am feeling a little stress having already spent to much time without results.
Thanks

Hi,

You could try Avidemux -

http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

As with any video processing tool, there's a bunch of dependencies, but it's a nice app - supply it with an AVI, and it can resize it and process it directly into an SVCD-compatible MPEG file.. then use VCDImager to write the SVCD image, ready for burning onto CD.

Thanks,
I also found this nicely detailed answer in the LinuxAnswers section, after adding avidemux to the search.

Have you tried tovid? (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/)
It is just a script, with pretty few dependencies. I have made quiet a few SVCD's from DivX files and they work perfectly. just do and it will spit out an SVCD compatible mpg file that you can burn with K3b (get vcdimager first though).

-- Hernán

PS: The "-full" means that MyFile.avi's aspect ratio is 4:3 (fullscreen) and the "MyFile.SVCD" is the prefix of the output file. The tovid documentation or running tovid without any parameters explain things well.