Re: dvd authoring

On 03/31/2011 07:46 PM, jdd wrote:
> Hello :-)
>
> It looks like there are many dvd authoring tools, but no one works as expected!
>
> Is this a thing to be discussed here or may I already open bugzilla?
>
> (DeVeDe asks for spumux that is installed, Bombono don't find scons, some are pretty simple ands wont fit my needs...)
>
> may be we could target one (Bombono?) and let alone the others?
>
> thanks
> jdd
> NB: DVDAuthor is always the base but seems pretty hard to manage manually
After trying them all "DVDStyler - GUI frontend for dvdauthor and other related tools" is the simplest to use and you can produce full 
menus with video and subtitles. All said, I'm in the process of making a script that analyses the video file for aspect ratio and does 
either a single stage or piped two stage ffmpeg conversion (if the aspect ratio is too far over 16:9 you need to pad) which is then 
processed by spmux and dvdauthor which is then made into an iso image.

DVDStyler, as I have found with the other dvdauthor frontends, falls short on the initial conversion to mpeg2 so I always convert with 
ffmpeg using -target pal-dvd along with other options when analysis of the original video file show that they are necessary. It was the 
simplest gui when my knowledge of dvds was close to zero.
You might find this link interesting :
http://womble.decadent.org.uk/talks/dvd-ukuug06/dvd-talk-ukuug06-paper.html

Regards
Dave P