Probably seriously out of date... but my hard drive was too small to capture enough video. Now I've updated I should have another go, oh yes and a DVD writer... so no more messing about with vcd's
get the video from the camera to the pc
dvgrab --format dv2 --opendml --autosplit
Transcode
Just transcodeing for PC playback using divx (a 1min file in dv2 ~ 225Mb becomes 14Mb with Divx encodeing) 57Mb with for mpeg layer1)
transcode -i dvgrab-date.avi -x dv,avi /
-I5 -C3 -z -k /
-o divx-date.avi -y divx5
# For Creating SVCD for play back in a DVD player or on a PC it has been suggested (although I haven't tested this for myself) that it won't help to de-interlace the file for playback on a TV as interlacing is expected, the -I5 and -C3 can be removed if you want an interlaced version Also sound should be mpeg layer 2 but dvd players seem to be ok with mp3
transcode -i dvgrab-date.avi -x dv,avi /
-I5 -C3 /
-o svcd-date -y mpeg,raw -Fd /
-m test.mp3
outputs svc-date.m2v
tcpmplex -o test.mpg -i svcd-date.m2v /
-p test.mp3 -m s
outputs test.mpg
vcdimager -t svcd test.mpg
outputs videocd.cue videocd.bin
cdrdao write videocd.cue
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