Looking to "compile" some of my phone's videos into an .iso to send to family; I use Linux
So as the title states, I am realizing that most folks don't have CD readers. I do, and I can burn my phone's videos to one, but... I also use Linux these days. I have a CD burner somewhere around here, but honestly I just want to do a "zip file" type option, where I can just group the videos and get them on a usb stick to send out.
Everything I find on the 'net is about burning CDs and whatnot... which isn't my goal. Honestly, I think windows did this just easy-peasy with select and "burn to image" or whatnot. But I dunno how with Linux (Arch/i3).
Edit: I'm asking because I don't see any options in pacman. It may be in yay, but it's my bedtime...
Edit 2: Lots of folks asking why I want an ISO and not just copy the files; my dad states their TV will play videos 'in a DVD format from a USB stick' (and I don't know how accurate it is, but it's what was requested).
If you just want the files on a CD your OS’s file manager surely can just do this with standard copy and paste.
Can I ask why you're trying to share files with family in an ISO on a USB drive? I'm not sure I'm clear one what you're trying to do as my impression is that putting files in an ISO won't compress them. If you're just trying to share the files with people on a USB drive why not just drag the files onto the flashdrive so they can play it on a computer? Are you expecting them to burn the ISO to a DVD on their end and play it?
Sorry that's a lot of questions but I feel like I'm missing something that will help get you the answer you're looking for.😂
I want it in a dvd format, because my parents' tv apparently will play them from a usb stick (or so my dad tells me). I thought this would be the easiest way.
In my experience, tvs that play videos from usb will typically play just actual video files. I've never seen one that will read an iso from usb. Or at least I've never tried. It may be a thing but I'd verify that's what's happening before going through the trouble. My TV will play most standard video formats from usb.
Just fat32 format the USB and drag mp4s into it. I’m sure random TVs can handle other formats but those options seem the safest and most likely to work.
Those features are made for people who don’t even know what an iso is. Thinking like someone who doesn’t understand much about computers is the best way to figure out the intended format here.
Huh, I've never seen that on a TV (I've played video files straight from a flash drive to a TV a few times though), but it wouldn't surprise me as it seems like the kind of bizzar thing an enterprising TV manufacturer would try to do. Looks like you got some good recommendations in the mean time to create a .ISO of your video files. Curious to see what works work.
Might be worth sending your family 2 flashdrives, one with the ISO and one with just the video files on the flashdrive to cover your bases. One of them is bound to work!
This is the best take. Send 2 drives and see which one works.
I'm willing to bet that just copying the video files directly to a USB drive will work. From my experience, I will format the usb drive with FAT32 file system and ensure the video codec is x264/h264 for highest compatibility. Not sure about audio codec as they usually work except DTS. Maybe someone else can chime in about this too.
You want to burn the images to the disk? You can do that in Arch by using
genisoimage, you'll need cdrtools if you don't have it installed already. Use pacman.Once it's installed you can run
genisoimage -o videos.iso -R -J /path/to/videosThat'll create an ISO file. If you want to actually burn that to a disk you'll have to use
wodimUse
wodim --devicesto find your driveThen
wodim dev=/dev/cdrom -v -data /path/to/videos.isoThat'll burn it to the disk.
Awesome, thank you! I was looking for some form of iso image maker I guess.
You should be able to just mount a USB drive and copy the videos to it directly, just as with any other mounted filesystem.
I'm really not sure what you're talking about. It seems like you want to put some videos into like a disk image? To be played back on what? A VCD player? DVD player with RealVideo .rm support?
If I understand you correctly, it seem like you want to create a disk image (iso file) that you can quickly clone onto USB drives (eg, using gnome-disk-utility or something similar).
In that case, gather all of your videos and photos into some location (
./family_photos). Then create the iso file viaYou can now burn this image onto CDs/USB drives/whatever using Disks (Gnome) or the equivalent software available on your desktop environment.
I have a few options others have mentioned; I'll look into this one as well. Thanks.
If you just want a really easy to use graphical disc imaging/burning/ripping program, k3b works really well.
I'll take a look at that, thanks.
It sounds like you want a tarball
tar -cvf ball.tar directory_with_photosso copying it to/from the USB stick will be immensely faster than copying a billion separate files. Tarballs are faster and easier to handle than iso, and not compressed (almost instant to create) which would be pointless for already compressed videos.For greater compatibility, though:
zip -r -0 ball.zip directory_with_photosfor a zero-compression zip.If you are using an Ubuntu/Debian distro, they have this software called brasero in their repository for DVD/CD burning. It has a quite minimal interface as CD creation is as easy as dragging/dropping files the last time I checked.