DVD Authoring on Linux just isn't ready for prime time (Was Re: DeVeDe? => Re: dvd authoring)

[Scott Lockwood]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 02:13 -0700, Patton Echols wrote:
> Is it a non-linear editor?  The screenshot on the webpage does not
> show a timeline view that I generally expect with editors of that
> type.  The only one I know of is Cinelera.  I have DLed and installed,
> but not worked with it much.  Fairly steep learning curve. 

Devede is no where near as featureful as Cinelera. It supports chapters,
but only by allowing you to specify 'chapters are x minutes apart'. It
will, for example, rip up a movie for you and set a chapter mark every 5
minutes by default. It's pretty useless, and is the first thing I turn
off when ripping a movie. To have 'real' chapter support, you'd need to
hack up the video first, and then arrange it in the title yourself. A
very (ugly) manual process. Plus, it doesn't add menu's for you. There
really ISN'T a good DVD authoring tool for Linux yet, that I am aware.
I'd love some suggestions on that topic myself. My requirements would be
that it not only rip existing stuff, but that it have built in menu
editing features, even rudimentary ones.

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Regards,
Scott Lockwood