Good and bad blu-ray single write discs

For my own reference, based on my personal experience:

Good

• Mirror Inkjet Printable BD-R 25Gb 1x-4x

Bad

• Traxdata
• Aone 4x white inkjet printable 4x 25Gb
  - less than 20.0Gb capacity, writing to 99.9 or 99.8% of 20.0Gb
• Kodak DVD+RW to avoid (CAT 3936298), edge sectors are consistently bad according to DVDisaster
  

The BD-RE re-writable option

• Usually writes to the end of the disc without running out of space
• Often has CRC errors on checking with DVDisaster
• Discs are twice the cost of single-write discs

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Cinelerra scripts

I used to keep my cinelerra scripts as separate posts on this blog. I am now hosting them on google code instead. The latest development versions are available from the links below: m2ts2mov.sh speedup.sh mov2m2ts.sh .

ffmpeg with AAC on Ubuntu

Finally managed to compile FFMPEG with AAC support on ubuntu/PS3 Intrepid Ibex Edition [Ref]. The "fix" was just to wait until the source code was repaired. That doesn't stop the programs from breaking again. Therefore, my pre-compiled packages are available here: ffmpeg-ps3.deb x264-ps3.deb The compilation procedure was as follows:

su
cd /usr/src
aptitude install build-essential subversion git-core checkinstall yasm texi2html libfaac-dev libfaad-dev libmp3lame-dev libtheora-dev libxvidcore4-dev
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
cd x264
nice ./configure --enable-pic --enable-shared --disable-asm
nice make
aptitude purge x264 libx264-dev
checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=yes --pkgname=x264 --pkgversion "1:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-0.0ubuntu1" --default

cd /usr/src
nice svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
nice ./configure --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid
nice make
aptitude purge ffmpeg
checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=yes --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion "3:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-12ubuntu3" --default

Install the resulting .deb's with dpkg -i .

tif2xvid.sh

# ./tif2xvid.sh script # change the framerate if you need to # framerate=50 # # # create raw mpeg4 video file nice ffmpeg -r framerate -i $1%06d.tif -vcodec mpeg4 -b 4000k -s 1280x720 -pass 1 -passlogfile $1-xvid.passlog -mbd rd -flags +4mv+aic -trellis 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -g 300 -bf 2 -r 100 -y -r framerate $1.m4v nice ffmpeg -r framerate -i $1%06d.tif -vcodec mpeg4 -b 4000k -s 1280x720 -pass 2 -passlogfile $1-xvid.passlog -mbd rd -flags +4mv+aic -trellis 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -g 300 -bf 2 -r 100 -y -r framerate $1.m4v rm $1-xvid.passlog # # add in audio # nice ffmpeg -i $1.m4v -vcodec copy -i $1.mp3 -acodec copy $1.avi # audio re-encoding parameters if needed # -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 224k # chmod og+rw * # mount /media/usbstick cp $1.mpg /media/usbstick/video umount /media/usbstick # boot-game-os