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dvdauthor is a simple set of tools to help you author a DVD. dvdauthor is a simple set of tools to help you author a DVD. The idea is to be able to create menus, buttons, chapters, etc, but for now you can just take an mpeg stream (as created by mplex -f 8 from mjpegtools 1.6.0) and write it to DVD.dvdauthor is a program that will generate a DVD movie from a valid mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player.To start you need mpeg files that contain the necessary DVD VOB packets. These can be generated by passing '-f 8' to mplex. See the included utility makevob.There are 3 steps to building the DVD directory structure on your HDD.1. Delete a previously authored dvd dvddirdel WARNING! This will delete without discrimination the contents of the directory that you specify!2. Create your titlesets dvdauthor To create 1 chapter per mpeg, simply do dvdauthor chap1.mpg chap2.mpg chap3.mpg...To manually specify chapters, use the '--chapters' option dvdauthor -c chap1a.mpg chap1b.mpg -c chap2a.mpg chap2b.mpg ....To add chapters every fifteen minutes, do dvdauthor -c 0,15:00,30:00,45:00,1:00:00,1:15:00... longvideo.mpgCall dvdauthor for each titleset you want to create. Note that due to the DVD standard, all audio, video, and subpicture options must be set once for the entire titleset; i.e. you cannot mix pal and ntsc video in the same titleset. For that you must generate separate titlesets.Run dvdauthor -h to see the audio, video, and subpicture options. Note that dvdauthor can autodetect most parameters except the language.3. Create the table of contents dvdauthor -T Viola! You now have a DVD directory structure that will probably work! You can now write this out to your DVD, mini-DVD (CD), or just play it from your HDD. To generate the UDF image to burn to DVD, use mkisofs from cdrtools-1.11a27 or later. Simply pass it the -dvd-video option.BTW, if you have an old HDD that you use for generating dvd images, you can create /usr/local/etc/dvdauthor.conf or ~/.dvdauthorrc and add the line: WORKDIR=fooThen you won't need to specify -o to dvddirgen or dvdauthor. Alternatively, you could just set WORKDIR=mydvdto always have it create a DVD in the current working directory.What's New in This Release:· Support of VOBUs without audio or video has been added. · Reading from file descriptors for VOBs, palette, and XML has been implemented. · Support for really long subtitles and for full sized PTS/SCR has been added. · Audio type detection logic has been improved. · Runtime memory requirement has been substantially reduced. · YUV handling in spuunmux and subgen has been fixed. · SVCD subtitling has been fixed. · NTSC 3:2 pulldown handling has been fixed. · Handling of audio packets that have no PTS has been fixed. · Many more minor bugs have been fixed and features have been added. Documentation has been improved.
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