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DVD Authoring
Trick out home videos with a fun, featureful menu system that viewers can navigate from a regular DVD player.
Figures 6 and 7 show the DVD running on my iBook.
Figure 6. The DVD Running on My iBook, with the Secret Link Selected
Figure 7. One of the Slides Running on My iBook's DVD Player
Although dvdauthor doesn't have the easy-to-use interface of professional applications, it provides all you need to make DVDs to the same standards as Hollywood uses, merely for the price of DVD-R media. Hopefully, this article has shown you the basics of DVD authoring and provided you with some ideas for your own applications. Get creating!
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The tutorial was great, but I
The tutorial was great, but I am still confused about something. I wanted to know more about the process of authoring a DVD to work on as many players as possible. This was still about creating cool menus and stuff like that. Where do I read more about the authoring process? Thanks.
latest advancements
Still one of the best tutorials out there, all these years later. I wonder if there is a similar tutorial written recently with the latest linux command line and gui front-ends for authoring and editing. I've found the devil is in the details with linux authoring. It takes several tools to get the background music and menus to be just right. Or wipes and graphics. These tools seem to be around in windows so I know there must be much better linux analogues?
Bake your own!
You might like to check out an application I've written that does the work for you:
http://dvd-baker.sourceforge.net/
A other tutorial
Here is a other tutorial, in French this time. May be usefull
http://brunetton.tuxfamily.org/index.php?n=En.SimpleDVD
Although dvdauthor doesn't ha
Although dvdauthor doesn't have the easy-to-use interface of professional applications,
This is insulting. Although many new-media monkeys today use point and drool applications in a professional setting, a professional applications is quite likely to have a scriptable "small and sharp tool" interface that will allow it to be automated, pipelined or in some other way made to fit the working environment and methods.
The programmer(s) can't know how (another) user will use the tools and should make no assumptions! And it is particularly the professionals that need to be able to throw away repetitive wizards and other joe random user interfaces and make work after work happen the right way. Every time. And when a change is needed, you make the change and only the change and re-run the process etc.
Maybe Milk of Magnesia would
Maybe Milk of Magnesia would help you.
DV tape w. DateTime > Subtitle in Linux ?
Is there any programs for linux that grabs the datecode from a dvstream and creates subtitles accordingly ?
I've been using DV sub maker for windows to grab the datetime but would like to go linux.
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chris
Re: DV tape w. DateTime > Subtitle in Linux ?
You can try http://dv2sub.sf.net
Re: DVD Authoring
I've posted a DVD Authoring on Linux primer at my website. It's still a work in progress but might be usefull to others as it is.
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Anders Dahnielson
Re: DVD Authoring
Just a couple of points:
I got mixed up between Japan's placement in Region 2 and what TV format it uses. Although the country is in Region 2 like Europe, it uses NTSC instead of PAL/SECAM. Apologies for that error.
Secondly, in the time since I wrote this article, the dvdauthor team have been busy improving the application. One of the main changes has been to switch to using XML to lay out the title information, thus eliminating some of the huge command-lines in my tutorial. They have a brief guide to the new format here.