Q-DVDAUthor is a bit overkill unless you really enjoy faffing around with DVD Menus, buttons, background images and the like. I had a spat of transferring all my camcorder movies over to DVD about a year ago and got on very well with mkdvd (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd.html). You need to install the Pike scripting language first (http://pike.ida.liu.se/) together with the other required tools but most of these are dependencies of dvdauthor anyway. When I installed mkdvd it was only compatible with an earlier version of dvdauthor, this might have changed by now but check first.
Once I had my mpeg file it was simply a case of typing the following two commands:-
mkdvd.pike --iso --output=/home/martin video-file.mpg
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdrecorder2=tmp.iso
This will give you a DVD that just plays the movie automatically - no nice menus though.
I installed Q-DVDAuthor the other week in SuSE 9.1 no problems by using apt4rpm - http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
Hope this is of help.
Rgds,
Martin
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 13:23, Joe Button wrote:
On Sunday 03 Oct 2004 18:30, Graham wrote:
Has anyone on this list any experience of Q-DVDAuthor? This appears to be a