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

[Patton Echols]

On 06/07/2007 06:45 AM, Scott Lockwood wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Looks like you need several tools.  Others will have better suggestions 
about ripping or backing up existing disks.  In my looking around it 
seems you need something to edit your vids with (cinelera or kino or the 
like)  then, when you have edited each "chapter", something to put them 
together with and chapters and etc.


While searching, I ran across qdvdauthor  (that's a Q)  It's a frontend 
for other tools, and apparently works well.  Googled  up this article on 
it. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8566

Also, it appears to be in multiverse.  Be interesting to know if anyone 
has any recent experience with it?

Thanks, P