Dvd Authoring Info

I haven't looked very much, but I was wondering what people use to make DVDs? I've used dvdauthor to make the menu/title, but it didn't work very well. So I was looking for a tutorial or what not on how other people do it.

Also, is there a way to "mount" the dvd image to see if it plays like you want it to without burning it do a disc and wasting the disc if it doesn't work?

Z.

Also, is there a way to "mount" the dvd image to see if it plays like you want it to without burning it do a disc and wasting the disc if it doesn't work?[/b]

mount -o loop -t iso9660 S- dvd.iso /mount/point/here

mount -o loop -t iso9660 S- dvd.iso /mount/point/here

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Does that work for Video DVDs? I know that work for ISO images, but I didn't think video DVDs were iso's.

Z.

Video DVD are not ISOs.Reading your question it looked like you wanted to check an ISO dvd...
What do you want to do with a DVD?Rip it, burn it, encode it,...what?

Video DVD are not ISOs.Reading your question it looked like you wanted to check an ISO dvd...
What do you want to do with a DVD?Rip it, burn it, encode it,...what?
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I'm creating them. ...err want to at any rate. I have some video files that I want on DVD. I know what needs to be done to get the video in proper formats and what not. What I am looking for is insight into creating the menus. Also, can an image be tested to see if the menus and what not work the way you want without actually putting them on a disc?

Z.

A brief check on my SuSE repositories returned me the following:

tovid - Video conversion and DVD authoring tools
qdvdauthor - QDVDAuthor, the GUI frontend for dvdauthor and other related tools.
dvdauthor - Latest DVDAuthor package

For what concerns the DVD-iso mounting issue I never did that but you could try what storm suggested you, perhaps changing the FS from iso9660 to UDF in the mounting options

I haven't looked very much, but I was wondering what people use to make DVDs? I've used dvdauthor to make the menu/title, but it didn't work very well. So I was looking for a tutorial or what not on how other people do it.

Also, is there a way to "mount" the dvd image to see if it plays like you want it to without burning it do a disc and wasting the disc if it doesn't work?

Z.
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Take a look here.. http://www.creativecomputes.homelinux.org/...cb576f2cc564aba

Everything you need from converting to authoring. Personally I use Tmpgenc Dvdauthor with wine in order to author my dvds. You'll see the sticky I wrote there about using dvd shrink and dvd author with wine. You can also run dvd-decryptor with wine.

I'd burn the dvd image to a DVD +/- RW first to see if it will play so that you don't make a coaster.

Video DVD are not ISOs.Reading your question it looked like you wanted to check an ISO dvd...
What do you want to do with a DVD?Rip it, burn it, encode it,...what?
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That is not entirely true. You can rip a video dvd to iso and then burn the dvd as an iso and still have a video dvd.

I'm creating them. ...err want to at any rate. I have some video files that I want on DVD. I know what needs to be done to get the video in proper formats and what not. What I am looking for is insight into creating the menus. Also, can an image be tested to see if the menus and what not work the way you want without actually putting them on a disc?

Z.
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Yes, you can load the dvd structure with kaffeine or mplayer and test the menu system. Again I would recommend burning to a dvd +/- rw first and test it on your dvd player to make sure it works and then burn it to a dvd +/- r.

That is not entirely true. You can rip a video dvd to iso and then burn the dvd as an iso and still have a video dvd.
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What I meant is that an ISO file is different from a VideoDVD itself...

What I am looking for is insight into creating the menus. Also, can an image be tested to see if the menus and what not work the way you want without actually putting them on a disc?

Z.
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The easiest tool for making menus is DVDStyler

HTH

Also, is there a way to "mount" the dvd image to see if it plays like you want it to without burning it do a disc and wasting the disc if it doesn't work?[/b]

YES.

I use the program "vlc" to give me a "quality check" that the DVD structure (video_ts, ... etc) is correct, prior to burning a CD (and also prior to creating any .iso file). vlc is available on Packman for SuSE-9.3 and lower, and available on http://www.linux-administrator.com/ for SuSE-10.0

With vlc you can open a "directory" (where that directory has a DVD structure, ready for burning).