On Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:58, Barry Samuels wrote:
On 2005.01.17 22:09, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Possibly the best way to start is with a gui frontend to dvdauthor
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 - nothing earlier will work here - installed on your computer (go to http://java.sun.com), then go to a console and type
<Java Install Folder>/bin/javaws http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.jnlp
The program has quite a lot of built-in help, but I expect you'll have all the usual beginner problems so don't hesitate to nag me for answers.
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.
-- GT