I am running a slim arch distribution and have chosen to use a sleeker DVD burning (simpleburn) frontend GUI based on cdrdao over brasero and k3b and up until today everything was fine since i dont deal with video discs often but I am trying to burn a video disc today and I notice that simple burn does not specifically say it can burn "video dvds" while brasero and k3b both claim to beable to do.

Trying to wrap my head around my problem I am left wondering if I make a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS file with properly formated files can i burn a DVD as a data disk and have it work in a DVD player

i think it will work, how ever this is from wikipeida dvdvideo artice:

Yes. You can create the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories, then burn the files into the VIDEO_TS directory. I've done it. (AUDIO_TS is normally empty. I have no idea what function it serves, but it must be present if you wish to play the media in a DVD player.)

If you have a tool such as K3B, which includes an "burn video DVD" function, all that that function does is create those empty directories. There is no magic.

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I remember that at one time there was a super CD kind of thing in the works, that never came to fruition.

These are some of the popular DVD authoring programs to make DVD filesystems.

Tovid
Devede
dvdstyler

I use tovid as it is my favorite.

After a DVD filesystem is created, I then use growisofs to make the disc.