Recently I found myself needing to make a DVD from a recorded stream (of a family funeral that my Mum couldn’t attend because of covid). This is not a task I normally do, and I thought it was worth writing up how I did it in case I ever need to do it again.
Most of these instructions were put together using this wiki page, and assume you are using Ubuntu or some other Debian derivative.
Dependencies
ffmpegdvdauthormkisofsk3b
The command line stuff
ffmpeg -i video_file_name.mkv -aspect 16:9 -target pal-dvd -b 1800000 dvd.mpg
dvdauthor -o dvd/ -t dvd.mpg
export VIDEO_FORMAT=PAL
dvdauthor -o dvd/ -T
mkisofs -dvd-video -o dvd.iso dvd/The GUI stuff
Take dvd.iso and burn it to DVD using K3B (or your burning software of choice – I really should investigate doing this on the command line next time).
Testing
Put the DVD into a normal DVD player and check it plays. The video should load automatically with no menus.
This worked for me. Hopefully if I have to do it again it will be in better circumstances.