help! burning a simple dvd!!

danlightbulb

danlightbulb

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Hi guys,

need help.

I don't know why this is so difficult. In windows I just use the inbuilt software and burn the dvd.

I have an mp4 video file. I just want to create a dvd that will play in a dvd player. I have installed k3b. I don't know how to get it to work.

Ive started a 'video dvd' project. But when I add the file its adding it as a file, ie 800mb of the 4.7gb dvd. Its not burning it as an actual dvd.

I have linux mint 17.1. I wish I'd never bothered switching. It doesn't do half the things windows did.

Help!

Dan
 
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Use handbrake. K3B is for data and copying/ripping.

Edit,

Ignore that, I'm thinking the video need converting first? if so use DVDstyler. simple and works. lets you do menus and what not. K3B will work if it's in the correct format to begin with.

Also KDEenlive is good for basic editing/creating the .vobs to use with K3B
 
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As above, conversion is needed to get the streams into DVD video format. I haven't had to do that for a long time and I can't remember which tools I used to use :o

Unless your DVD player can in fact decode this MP4, in which case a data DVD is fine. If it was quick in Windows it probably wasn't doing any transcoding.
 
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pete910 said:
I put the comment that the op made down to frustration. I see a lot of people diving in and hit stumbling blocks like this from basically not knowing what does what.
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Yeah exactly, that's why i didn't rant at him. :D

The problem is Linux is far too hyped up by it's users.
Windows/OSX users just install it expecting it to work out the box. No one tells them they actually have to learn a whole new OS from scratch, just like they did with Windows/OSX.

Anyway on topic, as you already said, DVD Styler does exactly what he wants.
 
Dvd burners in windows do the whole process for you including the encoding. Ive got it working now. Thanks.

But genuinely im struugling to find linux as user friendly as windows was. I switched to it thinking it would improve performance of my old laptop. It has not
 
danlightbulb said:
But genuinely im struugling to find linux as user friendly as windows was. I switched to it thinking it would improve performance of my old laptop. It has not
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Linux is every bit as user friendly as Windows, you are just missing all the added extras that MS preload into their OS.
Did you ever use Win95 or 98? :D

You should have gone for Lubuntu, Peppermint or Puppy Linux for an old laptop too.
 
The biggest problem I have is just installing programs. Without knowing the install code to type into the command line it seems generally impossible. In windows you just download the software and click on the executable.

Using the internet is all fine. Although I can't get java games to work. And I can't figure out how to update flash player either. In windows it could be done just via the browser, but that doesn't seem to work in linux and as above, I don't know the code needed to install it from the command line.
 
As above what distribution are you on?

Using package managers to install software is way better than hunting for executables once you know what you're doing. I would usually use the command line, first search (e.g. apt-cache search ...) then install (e.g. apt-get install ...), but they all come with package manager GUIs these days - think Android/Apple app stores.

The best way to install flash is also as a package, then it can be updated along with other system packages.
 
danlightbulb said:
Although I can't get java games to work.
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The only java game I can think you are having a problem with is Minecraft?
Mint needs to take permission of .jar files (IIRC), last time I ran Minecraft in Mint I had to type "chmod 777 Minecraft.jar" before I could run it.
Some one created an installer for it now though https://launchpad.net/~minecraft-installer-peeps/+archive/ubuntu/minecraft-installer/+packages Just download the one for your distro and double click it.
 
Well.. You wouldn't want to get hungry whilst pooting would you ?

Most of the popular distros are debian based. Useless factoid for you is debian is actually the creators name ... Ian and his girlfriends name Debbie (Now his wife) reversed

Deb-Ian

Debian distros use "apt-get" in the terminal to install & remove stuff. Becaue you are doing a system mod by installing you will need elevated privileges so you need to let the system know you are allowed to do "admin" stuff so you would need to prefix that "apt-get install" command with sudo (Super User Do - "something")

In this case - Install - something (name of program)

so to install a drum beat machine called hydrogen you would enter..

Code: 
 sudo apt-get install hydrogen

Note Hydrogen is NOT the same as hydrogen. Linux is case sensitive.

In this day & age you don't need to use the terminal unless you wish. Just use whatever package-manager is installed on your system or install synaptic
 
danlightbulb said:
Right I tried to install KFCE. Went to software manager, installed it, restarted computer. Nothing different. No trace of it in the menu?
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XFCE?
Don't restart. Log out, then on the window where you enter your password, there should be a drop down box where you choose which DE you want to use.
Then just log back in.
 
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