Comments on: A simple DVD authoring program?

Question: A simple DVD authoring program?

ascullion — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:42:28 -0800

Does anyone know of a program that will take a DVD-compatible MPEG2 file, and generate a very simple DVD VIDEO_TS folder - ie, no menu, just the file in a format that a DVD player can recognize

I use DVD authoring programs, but they generally have much more functionality than I need, so i was wondering if anyone knew of anything simple. A command line program would be quite good. I use Windows XP.

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:56:38 -0800

Right - got my head together now! Is there any reason why, if the file is already in a DVD-Compatible format, that you can't just create a new Video DVD in something like Nero, which will create the VIDEO_TS folder structure for you and you can drag'n'drop the file in there and burn it..?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:39:49 -0800

Just use Toast (mac) or Nero (PC). Those dvd burning programs always know how to make dvd-compatible discs from just mpegs.

By: riffola

riffola — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:42:25 -0800

DVD Shrink does that quite well.

By: ascullion

ascullion — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:43:30 -0800

Just use Toast (mac) or Nero (PC). Those dvd burning programs always know how to make dvd-compatible discs from just mpegs.

Are you sure they don't reencode the video? Because I was always under the impression that they did..

By: majick

majick — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:53:43 -0800

ffmpeg ought to be able to do this. I know ffmpegX does, and it's just a wrapper around ffmpeg.

By: aiko

aiko — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:58:49 -0800

Here's a relatively simple solution.

1) Download dvdauthor (latest win32 binary here)

2) Open up notepad and paste these few lines into it, changing the name of the mpeg file accordingly and saving as example.xml

3) Run "dvdauthor.exe -x example.xml" and it'll create a DVD filesystem for the mpeg file listed in example.xml.

By: ascullion

ascullion — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:24:37 -0800

aiko, that is brilliant! i think. trying it out now.

By: ascullion

ascullion — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:37:09 -0800

Except that, when I run it, I just get a series of error messages. Will experiment further..

By: ascullion

ascullion — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:39:19 -0800

For reference, the error message is

"WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU"

Could be related to my MPEG files.

By: BorgLove

BorgLove — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 09:15:48 -0800

Toast 7 does that trick.