On 2005.01.19 20:24, Graham wrote:
I have just tried qdvdauthor and can't get it to do anything. I can point it at some .VOBs using 'Add Movie' and then click 'Create DVD' but all I get is a window full of empy drop-down boxes. Clicking 'Ok' on that gets me to another empty window. Clicking 'Ok' on that gives me nothing. I'm mystified.
I'm developing a (GPL) GUI package in Java for doing DVD authoring and other things. I'd be happy to give as much help as you need. Like Q-DVDAuthor and Varsha it acts as a wrapper for dvdauthor and other tools; it just takes a slightly different view of what's important and what isn't. To try it, get Java 1.5
I don't really want to install Java on my machine at this point although I have to say that really was a generous offer. You obviously didn't realise what you might have been letting yourself in for :-)
Regarding your particular project, I tried to do much the same the other day and found dvdauthor didn't like to re-author VOBs ripped from a DVD. It was happy once they were recoded to regular MPEG2. I haven't looked into avidemux so perhaps therein lies an answer. It's also worth going to http://www.videohelp.com and checking out the Linux forum there. --
I have now made a little progress.
I recently discovered that DVD-RW discs recorded using VR mode use the UDF filesystem and support for that was excluded from my kernel. I have now included UDF support and, voila!, I can read DVD-RW discs recorded on my DVD recorder using VR mode.
If I use VR recording I can edit the result on the DVD recorder itself then, because I can now now read UDF discs, I can make a UDF disc image using Mount-Iso and write it to another DVD using growisofs which is basically all I wanted to do.
It would be nice if I could record using VIDEO mode because that is more universally accepted by DVD players I believe, edit on my computer and re-master (is that the correct term?) onto a new DVD. But that may come given time.
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain