DVD Authoring Under Linux/SuSE - Application Lists
PART I of III (applications A to J)
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**This post lists packages that are useful for making a custom DVD. ** It is not complete, and I hope to update it as time goes by.
I have reposted this from another thread, and I eventually hope to make a “sticky” (or some other appropriate guide) out of it for forums.suselinuxsupport.de. The original thread is here (which is useful as it has some installation help posts):
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.ph…c=22754&hl=
I myself mainly use “kdenlive”, “tovid”, “dvbcut”, “mandvd” and “KDE DVD Author Wizard”. Some apps to consider are (many of which use dvdauthor in one form or another).
2mandvd is purportedly the successor to ManDVD (by same developer). 2ManDVD is a program to simplify the creation of DVD-Video.
Home web page: 2mandvd (currently only in French)
Aften is an audio encoder which generates compressed audio streams based on ATSC A/52 specification. This type of audio is also known as AC-3 or Dolby® Digital and is one of the audio codecs used in DVD-Video content.
Download Packman: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket aften
Home web page: Aften: A/52 audio encoder
avidemux [video processing tool]. While not strictly for DVD Authoring, I find this tool indespensable for various jobs.
Download: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket avidemux
Home web page: Avidemux - Main Page
Bombono Bombono DVD is a DVD authoring program for Linux with a Gtk GUI. The main features of Bombono DVD are: * MPEG viewer: Timeline and Monitor * WYSIWYG Menu Editor with live thumbnails * Drag-n-Drop support * Author to folder, make ISO-image or burn directly to DVD * Reauthoring: import video from DVD discs.
Download: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket bombono
Home web page: Bombono DVD | Author DVD Freely
chaplin [chaplin parses a DVD disc or image and extracts the exact duration for each chapter of a given title. Then the total list of chapters is split into a user-selectable number of subsets. Each subset should have approximately the same duration. This is a very useful approach for multi-cd rips (backups). You no longer simply split the movie in the middle of the frame count but you choose two sets of chapters for both parts which both have (almost) the same length. Then the disc-break is not at a rather random point (concering the story telling of the movie) but at the end of a dvd-chapter. The chapter timings and the split sets are also very useful for chapter navigation (even on a single disc). The normal output mode of chaplin thus prints the chapter’s relative beginning time and the duration in a wide number of formats, ranging from seconds, frame counts to timestamps.
the chaplin homepage
Packman: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket chaplin
cinelerra [captures, helps compose, and editing audio and video]
Home page: Heroine Virtual: Cinelerra
Download: Heroine Virtual: Heroine Virtual Download
I have not found an rpm specifically compiled for SuSE-10.0, but I did find the Cinelerra for Athlon on the above download page worked on my SuSE-10.0 on an Athlon-1100+. (I suspect it was compiled for Fedora). … But I offer no guarantee’s it won’t have problems in some functions, as Fedora and SuSE store packages in different places. There are both 32-bit and 64-bit rpms for SuSE on Packman:
PackMan :: Package details for cinelerra
cpvdvd [a tool to transfer a DVD title to your harddisk on Linux. This tool copies all required files for a movie title from a DVD on your harddisk for further processing with libdvdreads image mode (e.g. transcode). It automatically selects the title with longest duration (but you can also pick a specific one). The tool determines the correct title set (VTS-VOB files) for the selected title, clones the navigation information (IFO files) and extracts (decodes) the data into new video object streams.]
the cpdvd homepage
Packman: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket cpdvd
cpvts [can raw copy title sets from a DVD to your harddisc. This tool can copy a single or all title sets from a DVD to a directory].
the cpvts homepage
Packman: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket cpvts
DeVeDe [the DeVeDe project creates video DVDs & (S)VCDs, suitables for home players].
DeVeDe
Packman: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket devede
divxenc [Advanced shell script for encoding DVD’s or video files to the DivX format using the encoding utility MEncoder from MPlayer. Supports all the useful options an end-user would need to make a successful encode. The script is a CLI front end to MEncoder.]
SourceForge.net: divxenc
dvbcut [a Qt application to select certain parts of an MPEG transport stream (as received via Digital Video Broadcasting) and save these parts into a single MPEG output file].
Download: PackMan :: Package details for dvbcut
Homepage: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket dvbcut
This is one of my favourite GUI based packages.
dvdauthor [dvdauthor is a command line program that will generate a DVD movie from a valid mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player. There are various GUI front ends to this program]
dvdauthor
PackMan :: Package details for dvdauthor
dvdbackup [command line utility to make a 1:1 backup copy of a dvd. Called by many other packages].
Download: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket dvdbackup
Homepage: DVD-Create a framework for DVD-Video creation
DVD Home Video Project [a tool that provides a simple, quick way to transform video on a DV camcorder into a DVD].
dvd-homevideo
dvd-slideshow dvd-slideshow is a group of Linux commandline programs that creates a slideshow-style dvd from groups of pictures
webpage: Main Page - DVD-Slideshow
Packman: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket dvd-slideshow
dvdstyler [frontend for dvdauthor and dvd-slideshow – single movie/single menu]
DVDStyler - Home
Help Forum: SourceForge.net: Help
PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket DVDStyler
I never got it to work very well under SuSE (in fact, I never successfully burned a DVD with it), but I confess I did not try too hard.
dvdwizard [wrapper-script automate creation of DVD chapters/menu’s. Needs dvdauthor],
dvdwizard Online
For Suse there is Packman:
PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket dvdwizard
Gnome-Subtitles: Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME Desktop environment. It supports the most common subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion, and synchronization.
Gnome Subtitles | Video subtitling for the GNOME desktop
handbrake: HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder (ripper/converter), available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows: HandBrake and Handbrake - openSUSE
h264enc [Advanced shell script for encoding DVD’s or video files to the H.264 format using the encoding utility MEncoder from MPlayer. Supports all the useful options an end-user would need to make a successful encode. The script is a CLI front end to MEncoder.]
SourceForge.net: h264enc
image2mpeg is a tool to convert digital photos (and any other images) into MPEG video streams, with transitions between the images.
www.gromeck.de: image2mpeg
jahshaka [OpenSource Realtime Editing and Effects System licenced under GPL]
jahshaka.org - Home
RPMs for SuSE-10.1 can be found here: Index of /suse/10.1/RPMS/i586 with instructions here: http://www.jahshaka.org/dmdocuments/Jahsha…c3_release.html
jubler [a java based tool to edit text-based subtitles. It can be used an an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct and refine existing subtitles].
Jubler site: Jubler subtitle editor
Packman: PackMan :: Package details for Jubler
[requires v.1.5.0 or greater of Sun Java Runtime Environment]
I have never tried this package.
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