OK, so now that we know the list isn't broken, just quiet, I thought I'd throw a topic out there to get some input.<br><br>What's the best DVD authoring software for linux? Preferably, I'd want something GUI-based that you can make menus and add video clips or directories of pictures as slide shows and outputs to an ISO file I can burn with my program of choice. Below, are the programs I've tried.
<br><br>Avidemux: I can't figure out what exactly it's even supposed to do. Re-sampling/re-encoding video maybe, but not dvd-authoring.<br>Cinnelera: This app feels REALLY clunky, and while it got much kudos from TLLTS, I can't get it to do anything useful. When I start it, it says to run "echo "0x7fffffff" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax". So I do that, and try to restart it, and it doesn't even come up! I see a window titled "[x]" on the taskbar, but until I kill off that window, i can't even launch the applications menu to find another program.
<br>QDVDAuthor: Depends on QTDevel, any one of xine, vlc, or mplayer, and dvd-slideshow. Looks like they put as much work into the compiler/installer as they did into the app itself. It's kind of touchy, and I still haven't gotten it to do what I want, but haven't given up yet.
<br>DVDBaker: Haven't tried it yet<br>DVD-Slideshow: CLI, which I would normally prefer, but it doesn't make sense in my head to create a graphical work through a text interface. I only downloaded and installed this because it was a dependency of QDVDAuthor
<br>DVDStyler: I can't figure out how to import a directory of pictures. It looks like a nice clean program, and outputs to an ISO like I want. However, when I try to make a disk of a video, I get "**ERROR: [mplex] Too many frame drops -exiting. Error executing of command: mplex -f 8 -S 0 -o "/home/BCrook/Desktop/dvdstyler/title0-
0-0.vob" "/home/BCrook/Desktop/dvdstyler/title0-0-0-0.m1v" "/home/BCrook/Desktop/dvdstyler/title0-0-0-0.mp2""<br>ExFalso: WTF. I don't even get what it's supposed to do.<br>Kino: I like it. It's probably the best yet for editing video sequences. However, I don't know about picture galleries, and I can't figure out to get an ISO out of it. AND, the AUDIO IS OUT OF SYNC! So I can't use it. It also had to convert the mpg files into dv files, which I'm OK with, but maybe that conversion caused the audio to be out of sync.
<br><br>Also on a humorous side-note, when you're on a plane with 80% battery remaining, don't start up all these tools at once in their own workspace. Even with 4 gigs of ram, when they're all trying to load up or inport 500 megs of media, it ties up the system for some time.
<br><br>-Billy<br>