Has anyone on this list any experience of Q-DVDAuthor? This appears to be a QT GUI front-end for dvdauthor. I say 'appears' because I haven't yet managed to get it installed and running.
Or klvemkdvd, which I'm having trouble installing because it depends on lve, which itself is a bugger to install because it doesn't have a proper config script and relies on ffmpeg source being in the right place... and so on. Gawd, aren't dependency chains a pain sometimes?
(Failing that I'd settle for any XML script for dvdauthor that results in a DVD video that plays. So far all of mine are coasters. Some play - with the menus broken - on a very tolerant Ronin model, but none are accepted by my Philips DVD recorder, by Xine or by MPlayer.)
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On Sunday 03 Oct 2004 18:30, Graham wrote:
Has anyone on this list any experience of Q-DVDAuthor? This appears to be a QT GUI front-end for dvdauthor. I say 'appears' because I haven't yet managed to get it installed and running.
I managed to install and run it fine on Mandrake and Gentoo, although I never actually wrote a DVD with it 'cos it wouldn't import my video files (I think it was a problem with the way I captured them). It seemed to work OK with some files, but like I say I never actually wrote a DVD. It all seemed to be working except for the file import being a bit gnarly though.
What problems are you having with installation?
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
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