On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:00 -0600, J. K. Cliburn wrote: > On 12/6/05, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 12/6/05, Patrick May <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I have a VOB file to record as a video DVD. I have tried dvdstyler, > > > > qdvdauthor and varsha, but always with no success. With varsha, I do > > > > get a playable DVD, but it does not stop at the end of the disk, when > > > > played with Kaffeine. Could someone please suggest me a different > > > > program to try? > > > > > > Have you tried dvdauthor directly? I think most, if not all of the above are > > > just GUI frontends. You'll need to manually create the XML for dvdauthor as > > > well as the menu(s), if you want them. > > > > > > Is there a setting in Kaffeine that's looping the video? Though you can make a > > > DVD set up to just continually loop. > > > > Thanks, Patrick. Actually, I am not wanting to insert menus, but, even > > so, I am not able to create the XML file for dvdauthor. (Too > > complicated to me!) Kaffeine is not set to continuously loop. > > I'm just starting out on the long quest to author some DVDs using > video I shot with a Sony DVDcam. My problem is, I slog through a howto > or a magazine article (Linux Journal has some recent articles on the > topic), then sit back and scratch my head wondering where the hell to > start. I want to do some very basic stuff, but I can't seem to get out > of the starting blocks. Nothing I'm running across is intuitive; it's > like The Gimp in motion. I guess it's just gonna take me some time to > become acclimated to the lexicon of DVD creation. I'll keep > digging... > > Until then, I'm keenly interested in responses to Paul's request, > because I'd like to do the very same thing he wants. > > Jay > > just catching up on some list reading, so apologies if its already been covered. you might wish to try qdvdauthor -- http://qdvdauthor.sf.net its very close to first beta -- days away just now. and varol is working hard to get it ready. there are a couple of tricks for FC that i would be glad to share if you need help getting it going in the current CVS version. john
