Hi Albert On Sunday 25 October 2009 22:08, Albert Seminatore wrote: > There appears to > be two major steps left. One is authoring which must be different than the > cut and paste I did. The other is burning a DVD.
My ability to go through this step-by-step is limited, since my main machine doesn't run Ubuntu, and the laptop I have Ubuntu 9.04 on doesn't have video acceleration, or a DVD burner! I'm going to suggest you use an app called ManDVD. According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/graphics, v2.5-5 is available for 9.10 (karmic). I have v2.3 on openSUSE, so there may be minor differences in the interface - ie you might have to improvise a little on what I'll tell you to do (I don't want to install it on my laptop because it installs lots of other stuff, and I have limited space :-( ). The author, Stéphane Gibault, has now stopped work on ManDVD to do a new version (2ManDVD - http://2mandvd.tuxfamily.org), but that isn't in 9.10 yet. So we'll run with ManDVD - the first step is to use Synaptic to install it. If you can't see it on Synaptic, make sure that the multiverse repository is enabled (Settings -> Repositories -> Ubuntu Software). I would suggest you start off with a short clip so that you can test how things turn out. Open ManDVD. One thing about this app is that the interface is a little idiosyncratic, so be prepared to try this a couple of times, especially if the interface on your version is slightly different. In the initial popup dialog, it's not immediately obvious that you have to click on the words "Destination folder", to specify one. Do that, and pick a folder where your completed DVD will be stored. The path to this folder will then be shown directly under the "New project" heading. Select your standard (PAL or NTSC) and size, and click Confirm. Click "Add a video to your project" (column on the right-hand side), and select the mpg file you rendered from Avidemux. By default, in the form that comes up, the video title will be listed as the filename (top field-box), so you can change that to your preferred video title instead. You can also navigate to an image to use as a button on the menu (next field-box), or extract an image from the video to use as a button, if you so wish. I wouldn't bother with this for your first run - just use text for now, and you can experiment wioth images later. Note that you can also adjust audio/video synch from here too. Click OK, and the video should load in the left-hand panel - you'll also get a snatch of sound. Once the video has loaded, click Next. You can now set the background for the DVD's menu screen. If you want to use an image, click on "Picture background" (top of the right-hand column), and navigate to an image. Alternatively, you can set a colour for the background - since this is easier for this first run, click on "One color background", and accept white by clicking OK. It's not clear, but you also need to set the menu font details here for use on the next screen. I usually choose a font size of around 32 as an initial choice. Click Next. On the next screen, click on your video title in the list on the right-hand side, and then click on "Add video to the menu". We have only one video to put on our DVD, but you could have several, each with their own text (as in this case) or picture button which will launch that video. Use the sliders on the top and left side of the left-hand panel to position the title on the background, and then click "Confirm button position". Click Next to go to the final screen, where you should click "Generate DVD structure". Since the file is in mpg format, there should be no encoding to be done, so finalisation is the only process that takes time (about 2 minutes for a 15-minute 800Mb file). You should get a popup saying "Success! Your DVD is complete". If you go to the destination folder, you should see a number of working files, and a folder labelled DVD. I have found it simplest at this stage in ManDVD to then click "Create an ISO image". This will give me one file which can be moved around easily and burnt to DVD as necessary, and this simplifes making copies of the DVD in the future. You should get another popup saying "Congratulations, Your iso file is in ...", and if you go to your destination folder, you should now see an additional file called dvdiso.iso. You can try playing this without burning it. In the destination folder, right-click and select Create Folder. Create a new folder called (eg) testvid. Then open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal), and type cd and then the path to the destination folder, and press Return. (One thing that annoys me about GNOME - on KDE you just press F4 in a folder and you get a terminal there.) Now you need to mount the dvd iso on a loop, so type into the terminal: sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 dvdiso.iso testvid and enter your root password. If you go to the testvid folder, you should now see two folders, audio_ts and video_ts, with a band at the top saying "These files are on a Video DVD", and a button saying "Open Movie Player". Click that, and Totem should open and play your DVD. It should show the menu first, and when you click on your menu text it should play the DVD. To unmount the dvd iso, type into the terminal: sudo umount testvid If the DVD seems to play OK, then you can burn it, which should be the easiest part of the whole process! Report on how you get on with the above first. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.cymraeg.org.uk - Welsh-English autotranslator www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
