Brasero to create video DVD?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 11:32:54 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 00:14 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> >> Yes, that's my favorite, but it's too complex for my father-in-law. I
> >> told him to stick with brasero, since that's what's included with
> >> fedora so should at least be functional for what it says it can do,
> >> and I'll try the other programs when/if I ever need them.
> >
> > Once again, you seem to be confused about brasero is for. If you want to
> > author standard commercial-style DVDs you need devede or tovid or
> > whatever to create the correct layout. You can then use brasero (or k3b)
> > to actually burn the disc.
> 
> No, you can use brasero to create an ISO from an AVI that can then be
> played on a standard DVD player. "Create a video DVD", then burn the
> resulting ISO to a DVD.

I was just going by the man page:

        It is designed to be simple and easy to use.  It allows to create data
        CD/DVD, audio CD, to copy CD/DVD and to burn images.

It doesn't say "create Video DVDs from AVI files". Of course it wouldn't
be the first time a man page was wrong.

poc




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