DVD Authoring With Unix? 8
An Anonymous Coward, with an interest in the multimedia sector, asks: "DVD authoring may one day be the next test of 'what you can do with a computer'. Can a professional-quality DVDs be created using Unix software? Are there sufficient tools, commercial or otherwise, to handle all the phases? MPEG-1 encoding? Different sound formats? Overlays? Branching? NTSC/PAL? And what's the user to do if s/he wants to do something simple, like burn some stills to a CD-R?"
MacOS I hate to sayt it. (Score:2)
`burn some stills to a CD-R' (Score:1)
Maybe not (Score:3)
So caveat emptor.
vCD DLT and darwin (Score:2)
videoCD is a standard so write in this format and ALL the DVD players will play it
(depends how long your film is most of the time its a short and will fit)
most DVD is deliveded to presses on a DLT so its a case of writeing to a DLT not actualy writeing to a disk
(what to do about small runs is anouther question that I could not answer)
$ uname
darwin
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writes to a DVD so all you have do is use this (-;
personaly vCD is what I use all machines can play it and DVD boxes under TVs are in all execs rooms and it helps being able to prototype something the night before and turn up and look like a pro droping a small silver disk into their new toy and show them whats what !
have fun
john jones
Re:vCD DLT and darwin (Score:1)
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Re:vCD DLT and darwin (Score:1)
Some DVD players are designed with a dual laser pickup to handle both, as the DVD laser is red (around 650 nm) and a CD-R laser needs to be near IR (750 ?? nm). CD-RWs are apparently more reflective in the 650nm region, so if your DVD player is not specced to handle CD-Rs, it might very well work with CD-RWs.
Of course it helps to have one that simply states on the box 'designed for CD-R and CD-RW'
Re:vCD DLT and darwin (Score:1)
The hard part seems to be creating a VCD-compliant MPEG. Unfortunately, most of the tools that can be found on the web are home-brew Windows progs with very poor UIs (saying, for example, "Can't open file!" when they really mean "The audio layer is compressed, and I can't deal with that!").
Scenarist SGI (Score:1)