Re: Authoring a Video-DVD

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:33:57 -0400
"Jordan Macdonald" <[email protected]> wrote:

> How do I author a video DVD, playable on my TV, from video files on
> my hard drive?
> 
>    - What formats of video can be used?
>    - How do set up a menu? (I will be burning a disk with 50+ short
>    files. I don't need pretty, graphical menus but I must have custom,
>    multi-level arrangement. A single, flat list will not do.)
>    - How can I create playlists? (i.e. A "Play all" button for all 50
>    videos)
>    - Alternately, how can I merge videos into one, continuous video
> and add chapters? How do I then add a chapter select menu?
>    - Anything else I should know? (I've never done this before; their
>    will be problems I don't know of yet. If you can guess and answer
> them now it will save me another round of posting and waiting for a
> response.)
> 
> 

What format are your 'videos' at the moment?
Basically you need to convert the video files to MPEG and put them into
a directory structure that DVD's expect. 
Try reading
http://womble.decadent.org.uk/talks/dvd-ukuug06/dvd-talk-ukuug06-paper.html
also read help on dvdauthor.

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