<SOLVED> DVD and Video burning problem

[Newlife]

Well, I am not sure if I am posting the right place for this problem, or if it's OK for me to ask...

Just recently, I purchased a Sylvania small portable DVD player. The player specs state it has:

"the ability to playback a wide range of formats you'll have access to your DVD library as well as burnt video CD's and DVD's. Other supported formats include DVD, VCD, MP3 and JPEG photos for music and pictures, and works on many different CD mediums including DVD -/+, R/RW and CD R/RW."

Now, I have a number of youtube files. I don't know why but some are .flv, .mp3, and .mp4 and not all one file extention. However, using K3b I have burned them to a CD-ROM disc and a DVD disc and when trying to play them on the portable DVD player, I get the message "Unklnown Disc."

Am I trying to do an impossible thing? Is there a better way to accomplish this?

I burned audio mp3 files on a CD-ROM disc and can play them on the Sylvania unit, but do not understand why I cannot do the same with these youtube files.

Can someone enlighten me?

Newlife

[T6]

flv format is used by youtube and most times can only reproduced by a pc app like vlc

i assume you downloaded all these files you mention by using jdownloader

the files supported by a normal dvd player are mpeg, avi, divx and sometimes mp4

what you have to do is investigate what formats that dvd player supports

usually only avi or divx are supported so first, before burning those files to the cd or dvd you have to convert them to a format compatible with the dvd player

trial and error sometimes is the only option if you don't find the types of files supported on the dvd manual

in the repos there is many video converters, try with one of them, convert one of those to avi or divx/xvid, if you are unfamiliar with video converting process let us know

[rich2005]

@newlife
Not that much different from a regular DVD player.  Have a look in the manual to see if Divx (this also covers Xvid) is supported. Not looking promising from your post.

Assuming no divx. Don't try and mix formats. Keep video, audio and jpegs separate.

For video, Try DeVeDe, I have not used this for a long time but from memory it takes all different video formats and converts to DVD standard.

Plenty of help on the web, example:
http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/making-dvds-with-devede-in-linux/page-1/

Just a note on VCD, I used to make these a dozen years ago, It was a way of getting a movie onto CD's. Same as a DVD it is a specific format, not a 'data' disk as such. Don't suppose you are likely to come across or author one of these.

If Divx (Xvid) is supported. There is a good converter in the repo, called, would you believe divxconverter. Just burn these  as a data DVD.  Even so, if it is HD or a large frame size going DeVede might be best.

Mp3 music, you can burn these as data to a CD, I blame one of these for the CD drive in a music centre dying. Did not like 6 hrs of continuous playing.
Jpegs, burn as data to CD or DVD. Because these are usually scaled to fit a TV display quality is never wonderful. Good to scare the neighbors away with a slide show of your holiday.

best of luck

[Newlife]

Great!  Rich....

My solution seems to be using  DeVeDe.  My purpose is to put a number of youtube clips (about 15 minutes each) on one DVD. I have experimented with DeVeDe and just have a couple of details to work out... BUT it does work. 

The documentation for DeVeDe is pretty good...

Newlife

[T6]

i was suggesting to convert the files to avi but devede approach is 100% simpler

the problem with devede is aspect ratio, audio in some files too but other than that, you made a excellent choice!

[Newlife]

T6- Your help is also appreciated...
DeVeDe has worked... up to a point.  The documentation available is not up to the new version available, so I did some trial and error. The unclear part involves subtitles... I had to uncheck that feature because every time I ran DeVeDe, it would stop with an error message that something called "SPUMUX" was a problem.... although I did a search on SPUMUX, my peasized brain couldn't handle it... so no subtitles.

There is nothing in Sylvania's specs as to divx or xvid.  However, I was able to get an iso with DeVeDe burned and it seems satisfactory. Having the subtitles would be convenient, but can't do that now.
Newlife

[T6]

the subtitles sometimes is more simple to have a srt file with the subtitle in it and by using avidemux integrate them inside the video, then use devede for the rest

not sure if devede can do that subtitle integration in the video

if you don't have the subtitles you will have to create the file and write everything, the subtitles won't be automatically created