I needed to burn an XVid of one of my performances to DVD last night, remotely, as my MythBuntu box was being used by someone else to watch some crappy TV and I wanted to show off! It was a pretty simple process, just involving a bit of a wait during the transcode 🙂
First you will need to make install the relevent packages:
sudo aptitude install dvdauthor ffmpeg ~nlibav.+-unstripped.+
If you already have dvdauthor and ffmpeg installed, you must install the unstripped libav packages as they contain a tool called mpeg2video and it’s this that does the heavy grunt work!