Try nuvexport and dvdstyler:I use the former to export .sql and .nuv, and find qdvdauthor less flaky than the latter.
Agreed. Especially for something as ugly as transcoding and making DVD's with menus. The GUIs for making menus on DVDs have come a fair bit in the past year.I did a lot of reading of those howtos and found that they are all a lot more complicated than they should be. I wanted something where I didn't have to type every option to every command by hand.
In general, I'd rather not re-encode the video. It's a "digital generation loss," and seems to exacerbate any A/V sync problems. If I *do* transcode, it's generally for the purpose of resizing or trying to get better quality/bitrate with a 2-pass, denoised encode. The "one-button" method doesn't give quite enough tweaking parameters to do that.
I used nuvexport with all the default options, set it to "DVD" and just hit go. It chugged for a few hours and gave me a .mpg.
Great... it usually works without a hitch. When there are hiccups in the stream, lots of programs in the chain that's used to produce the result break. For the most part, the GUIs are just wrappers to the backend and work fine when the stream's perfect. If there's a bad audio frame, the muxer dies. If the PTS changes in the middle, the sync gets off... lots of badness can happen.
I then started up dvdstyler, and with a little drag and drop, made my first sucessful dvd last night, complete with menus and background images. (The first three episodes of Comedy Central's Drawn Together).
- Jeff
I've done a bit of searching for some "cleaner" apps, but haven't found TheOne yet. There's a fair bit of extraneous gunk/padding/resyncing in the ivtv mpg streams as captured from the card. For burning directly to DVD, it'd be nice to get rid of it. Re-encoding often fixes, but masks the problem at the expense of quality loss and considerable computation.
To each their own... :)
-Cory
************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * *************************************************************************
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