[Novalug] Video converter

[Richard Ertel]

it certainly sounds like QDVDAuthor will do what i want. trying it out
is now on my to-do list. are there packages available (ubuntu) or am i
gonna have to build this? :)

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 22:01, Varol Okan <varokan at movingsatellites.com> wrote:
> Here is how QDVDAuthor works:
> - Start QDVDAuthor
> - load the videos you want ( or drag them if you like )
> - add background image ( and audio if you like ) to the DVDMenu
> - drag the vids onto the DVD menu
> - Click CreateDVD
>
> ( accept default settings or modify commands to suite your needs [ Tip
> here is where you can choose your quality and [d]efault to using those
> instead of the pre defined settings] )
>
> - Once the DVD structure is create ensure everything works by clicking
> on [Play]
> - Use k3b to burn.
>
> Note the last two steps are not required but recommended to prevent
> creation of coasters :)
>
> The whole process is even simpler through the FewClickWizard
>
> Varol :)
>
> Richard Ertel wrote:
>> here's the details of the all-on-one program that i personally use (
>> ConvertXtoDVD, in windows xp, price now is $50, i don't think i paid
>> that much when i bought it and i don't think i'd buy it now for that
>> much, actually...):
>>
>> - open program
>> - put blank dvd in drive
>> - drag video files into program window
>> - change options, like menu item name, for example (optional)
>> - click "convert"
>>
>> wait a while and a dvd pops out. it's VERY easy, assuming that your
>> needs allow you to have all the options set and saved.
>>
>> please don't anyone take this message as an advertisement for the
>> product, but rather as an example of functionality that i, personally,
>> think is good and should be blatantly copied to an open source
>> front-end for multiple open-source applications.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 16:23, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, replace "idiot" with "too silly to the point of a-hole."
>>> I apologize regardless, I just found this stuff over 5 years ago
>>> on Freshmeat and have been using what I use since.
>>>
>>> I typically have a workflow with a high-quality, "source" video
>>> which I always encode into the end-desired format -- H.262,
>>> MPEG-2, DivX, etc... and then I use the appropriate solution
>>> to package it for the device (iPod, DVD Menu, etc...).  So I
>>> might end up using a couple different programs, but it is very
>>> "seemless" because the GUI programs are all working on the
>>> same tree.
>>>
>>> Just like when I do photoediting, I don't edit from JPEG, I edit
>>> from RAW, and then put to whatever end-format I want (be it
>>> various JPEG, PDF with other things, etc...  I might use a few
>>> different programs to do a few things (although see my new,
>>> recent post on asking what others are using for their workflow).
>>>
>>> The problem with many DVD authoring programs is that they
>>> will not always encode to a quality that viable, and sometimes
>>> fetches the wrong source file from previous editing.  I had to
>>> correct some videos done by my family who were wondering
>>> why the video quality came out so bad -- some product they
>>> got at Best Buy (cannot remember).
>>>
>>> I set them up with Handbrake with a pre-made option sets to
>>> do the encoding and then they took those resulting files and put
>>> them to iPod, DVD, all under Windows.  I don't understand the
>>> number of programs that convert to DivX, then back to MPEG-2
>>> for DVD, without maintaining the "lossless" source.
>>>
>>> I don't see how the all-in-one program is any more seemless here,
>>> but I'm not familiar with some of the Windows programs that some
>>> are using.  So my ignorance does apply, and that's part of why
>>> I apologized.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: John Franklin <franklin at elfie.org>
>>>
>>> On Oct 6, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Okay, because I'm the idiot here ... let me point out that was 1 search.
>>>> I was thinking that people could "follow my lead" and do more searches.
>>>> I was merely pointing to FreshMeat, with an example.
>>>>
>>> You're not an idiot.  The problem with your post is that was a bad example of an "add GUI" search.  A lot of us (myself included) have done searches for authoring apps like that and in more places with no good answers.
>>>
>>> No, I don't consider a DVD authoring program that can't figure out what kind of video it was handed thus requiring a second application for transcoding to be a good solution.  It's reasonable if I want to hand-optimize the video, but not if I just want a quick DVD for grandma / presentation / whatever.  IMHO, an excellent authoring app would include a transcoder with easy, common options for quick authoring and the ability to hand tweak every encoder option.
>>>
>>> jf
>>> --John Franklin
>>> franklin at elfie.org
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