On Monday 17 November 2003 07:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > This is much tougher. There are several video editing packages out > > on the net, none of which I am familiar with since I don't own a DV > > camera. There is a project to create a DVD-Video authoring GUI > > called DVD-Create, but it is not in a stage where there is an > > actual tool to use. Copying existing DVD's is easier and there are > > tools for that but I don't know of any that exist currently for > > Linux. > > Would this help? > http://www.wylug.org.uk/talks/2003/09/non_linear_video.html
Well, that shows how to create the video file itself. What I was referring to was creating the ifo files with thumbnails that allow you to create the cool menus that come on commercial DVD's. The ones where you can go through and see thumbnails of different chapters and select the ones that you want to start with, or the different special features, etc. In order to do that kind of thing, you need to have an editor that creates the ifo files necessary to support that and then you have to have a directory structure to store the thumbnails and link them to the particular menu entry. I have done some of that kind of thing on Windows, just when I was learning about DVD and VCD file formats but I have not done that on Linux. BTW, I have added a section on the twiki that covers DVD Drives in general, I think that it should at least point people in the right direction and tell them where to find tools. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDrives You can also find this off of the hardware compatibility topic. Also, I have included a link to some scripts that are supposed to create the DVD-Video structure from a video file and burn it to disk. Lastly, XcdRoast claims to have experimental support for authoring DVD-Video, I haven't tried it and my own experience with XcdRoast for DVD has been mixed, but it might be worth a shot. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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