.. title: movies from Canon Powershot S230 to CD for my DVD player
.. slug: production_routine
.. date: 2005-11-12 21:00:04
.. tags: computers

<p>
  This is more for my notes.  I figured if I post it here, then I've
  got it written down in a place I can find again some day.
</p>
<p>
  I have a Canon Powershot S230 and it records video in some format
  that has a .AVI extension and I think it's Motion JPEG or something
  like that.
</p>
<p>
  Kino doesn't like the format, though.  So I need to use ffmpeg to
  convert the files to a format that Kino does like:
</p>
<pre>
ffmpeg -i _file_name_ -target ntsc-dv file_name_.dv
</pre>
<p>
  Kino seems totally fine with that.  No clue why or how--I figured
  it out by trial and error.
</p>
<p>
  Then I insert all the .dv files I want in a given "movie" into
  Kino.  After doing some fiddling around, I <b>Export</b>, click on
  the <b>DV Pipe</b> tab, make sure the frame of: dropdown thingy is
  set to <b>All</b>, write the file name in, make sure the tool is
  set to <b>FFMPEG VCD Export</b> and then click on the <b>Export</b>
  button.  That creates a file that's in a format that I can record
  to a cd as a data file and it plays magically on my Philips DVD
  player.
</p>