Easiest way to burn video CDs and DVD movies?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/4/06, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Couple of things:
>
> * I installed k3b and can't see how to burn video CDs and DVDs. How do
> you do it? (I'm actually trying to put together instructions for a
> friend)
>
> * The DVD authoring page on the wiki:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DVDAuthoring
>
> seems to suggest that DVDStyler is "extremely pre alpha" and doesn't
> even mention DeVeDe or K3b. If these programs can be used to burn
> DVDs, maybe we should fix that wiki page?
>
> I'd be happy to do this if I had more info on exactly how to use each
> GUI, and how well they work. I can't really test them as I don't have
> a burner. Maybe when I get feedback from my friend who wants to burn
> DVDs.
>

Feel free. In fact, that it would be wonderfully useful if, once you
figured this out, you document what you've found there.

> It's a shame DVDStyler is in not the Ubuntu repositories. I tired the
> latest deb file from their website, but I was missing some library
> (libwxsvg) that I can't find in the repos either. Maybe if I tried an
> older version I'd have more luck.

I downloaded and installed this myself this morning, but haven't been
able to figure it out yet. I seem to have a mental block when it comes
to DVD software -- I can't figure out the supposedly user-friendly Mac
OS X program either (iMovie and iDVD). Anyway, I was able to install
it, but needed to download and use the wxsvg deb that is also on the
download page. You need to install both.

-Eamonn