On 12/10/05, john bray jmblin@comcast.net wrote:
I have a VOB file to record as a video DVD. I have tried dvdstyler, qdvdauthor and varsha, but always with no success. With varsha, I do get a playable DVD, but it does not stop at the end of the disk, when played with Kaffeine. Could someone please suggest me a different program to try?
Have you tried dvdauthor directly? I think most, if not all of the above are just GUI frontends. You'll need to manually create the XML for dvdauthor as well as the menu(s), if you want them.
Is there a setting in Kaffeine that's looping the video? Though you can make a DVD set up to just continually loop.
Thanks, Patrick. Actually, I am not wanting to insert menus, but, even so, I am not able to create the XML file for dvdauthor. (Too complicated to me!) Kaffeine is not set to continuously loop.
I'm just starting out on the long quest to author some DVDs using video I shot with a Sony DVDcam. My problem is, I slog through a howto or a magazine article (Linux Journal has some recent articles on the topic), then sit back and scratch my head wondering where the hell to start. I want to do some very basic stuff, but I can't seem to get out of the starting blocks. Nothing I'm running across is intuitive; it's like The Gimp in motion. I guess it's just gonna take me some time to become acclimated to the lexicon of DVD creation. I'll keep digging...
Until then, I'm keenly interested in responses to Paul's request, because I'd like to do the very same thing he wants.
just catching up on some list reading, so apologies if its already been covered.
you might wish to try qdvdauthor -- http://qdvdauthor.sf.net
its very close to first beta -- days away just now. and varol is working hard to get it ready.
there are a couple of tricks for FC that i would be glad to share if you need help getting it going in the current CVS version.
Thanks, John. Qdvdauthor is problematic, since when I inserted a movie, it said "Please wait", and I waited, waited, waited... and after a few days, I gave up.
Paul