[pvrusb2] dvdauthor and pvrusb2 MPEG2 files

[Roger]

I haven't seen much info concerning creating (Movie) DVDs for retail DVD 
players from the Hauppauge HVR-1950 (or pvrusb2 supported) devices.

The file created from my HVR-1950 using the Linux pvrusb2 driver is pretty much 
DVD compliant already, if not completely compliant.

$ file TheEncounter-TBN-20110807-2000.mpg
TheEncounter-TBN-20110807-2000.mpg: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 704 x 480, 
~30 fps, video:, audio: Dolby AC3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)


But this isn't good enough for dvdauthor as it requires a MPEG-PS stream.  
Every other spec seems to be DVD compliant.

I can create a media file usable by dvdauthor, for example converting the 
original MPEG file to a VOB file by using:

$ ffmpeg -i original.mpg -target ntsc-dvd  Output.vob

And, to ensure I'm copying the codecs:
$ ffmpeg -i original.mpg -target ntsc-dvd -vcodec copy -acodec copy  Output.vob

But this is still a  seemingly lengthy process I'm trying to avoid.


I orginally tried avidemux2, and avidemux will create the MPEG-PS stream 
required by dvdauthor, but again it's transcoding the entire video section of 
the stream and copying only the audio.  Again, a very lengthy not-worth-doing 
process because of the time involved.


Anybody have any ideas?  After much Googling, I have everything else I need to 
create simple playable DVD's with no menus using using a simple dvdauthor 
incantation.

>From what I'm seeing from avidemux, I only need to adjust the container from 
AVI (common MPEG container) to MPEG-PS (A+V) and that's it.  No other 
transcoding seems to be needed here.


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Roger
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