DVD authoring and other tools

cwwilson721 · 07-24-2006, 12:58 AM

All 3 of my cdrw drives finally bit the big one, and have gone to 'the great windows in the sky'.

Since I still needed burning capabilities, I bought a dvd+-rw drive, that has the cd stuff also builtin. cd burning works great with k3b, and I was wondering if there are any DVD specific apps like k3b?

I'm running -current (just updated yesterday), and NO GNOME.

Any suggestions?

securitybreach · 07-24-2006, 01:59 AM

Well K3b also burns DVDs in either iso or data same as cdrom. There are other ways though. Look here near the bottom: http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html

Thanks

cwwilson721 · 07-24-2006, 02:10 AM

REAL good cd/dvd tutorial.

But I'm looking for personal experiences, with different progs. While k3b does work, I was just wondering what else was out there.

BTW, cli, while usable, is a bit too much while trying to author a dvd.

jens · 07-24-2006, 02:15 AM

If it's for video DVDs, do give Tovid a look (IMO by far the best of its kind) :
http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

For just burning:
As securitybreach mentionned K3B handles DVDs as easy as CDs, just install dvd+rw-tools (other GUI apps just work the same since they're all just fronts for the same software).

vdemuth · 07-24-2006, 02:18 AM

How about this:-
http://www.dvdshrink.org. You will need wine though.

justwantin · 07-24-2006, 02:23 AM

I really don't know what you are looking for in the way of experience.

AFAIK all gui burning aps rely on the cli tools.

I use k3b sometimes for burning cd's and dvd's, sometimes not.

I use qdvdauthor for putting together a dvd with menues but use cli with a generic dvd.xml file for a plain old dvd with maybe some chapter breaks.

qdvdauthor will go the whole way and create a dvd file structure and burn to dvd but I usually have it stop so I can check out that everything is ok by test running the dvd with xine and then I use cli to burn it.

All the same tools whether gui (frontend) or cli.

cwwilson721 · 07-24-2006, 02:34 AM

Looks like I already have dvd+rw-tools installed....

And why use wine to burn dvds? IMHO, wine would just add more complexity to an already memory and proc intensive process....

jens · 07-24-2006, 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwwilson721

Looks like I already have dvd+rw-tools installed....

And why use wine to burn dvds? IMHO, wine would just add more complexity to an already memory and proc intensive process....

Here's a native tool, XDVDShrink:
http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/index.html

I also use lxdvdrip:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lxdvdrip