Description: This wizard will allow you to create a DVD from one or more DVD compatible MPEG-2 files. It is designed to be very easy to use. All you need to do is add one or multiple files to the playlist and answer the questions that follow.
You can add a menu that will contain animated thumbnails of the files in the playlist. Creating a menu is optional.
Features include:
* Playlist editor * DVD menu with multiple pages * Animated thumbnails in the menu * Customisable menu graphics * Add soundtrack from OGG or MP3 * Antialiased graphics prevent flickering on TV * Both Widescreen and standard 4 support * ISO DVD Image creation * MPEG2 DVD compatibility checking * Support for both PAL and NTSC menus
Just unpack the archive and run the 'Installer.kmdr' script. That's it!
Please contact me if you experience a problem.
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*** IMPORTANT ***
Because ImageMagick developers keep changing the commandline syntax for every single version, the KDE DVD Authoring Wizard does not work with versions older than 6.1.0. Also, newer versions are not compatible with their predecessors. That's why you need to make sure that your DVDAuthor version is newer than ImageMagick, because it uses ImageMagick for menu processing.
Please send your complaints about this mess to the ImageMagick mailing list.Last changelog:
VERSION 0.90 ( August 8th 2005 )
* Initial release
VERSION 0.91 ( August 10th 2005 )
* Improved Debug Output * Running wizard without installing should really work now
VERSION 0.92 ( August 12th 2005 )
* Menu colors conform to Rec.601 specification * Experimental support for generating NTSC menus * Fix for syntax change in new MPlayer version * Fixed selection highlights in DVD menu * Add MPlayer output to debug output * Detect MPlayer failures
VERSION 0.93 ( August 17th 2005 )
* Added dependency check for 'bc' * Added more font search paths * Make sure that Bash is used to run script
VERSION 0.94 ( August 29th 2005 )
* Fixed missing translations * Added detection for ImageMagick problems * Show DVDAuthor warnings, if any * Fixed menus with > 9 pages * Add character encoding to DVDAuthor XML file * Return to menu after playing finished * Force thumb title length limit
VERSION 0.95 ( September 5th 2005 )
* ImageMagick problem detection should really work * Added workaround for mp2enc path length limit bug * Don't fail when MPEG files are not DVD compatible * Detect DVDAuthor failures * Added button for DVD compatibility checking
VERSION 0.96 ( September 20th 2005 )
* Fixed detection of DVDAuthor problems * Show DVDAuthor error message on failure * Improve KDE path detection in Installer
VERSION 1.00 ( November 19th 2005 )
* Renamed version 0.96 to 1.0 Final.
VERSION 1.01 ( December 3rd 2005 )
* Generate proper 29.97 FPS NTSC menus * Support DVD-ISO burning with K3B 0.12.x * Improved MPlex/SPUMux error detection * Fixed SPUMux problem with multipage NTSC menus * Huge performance improvement in Playlist editor
VERSION 1.02 ( December 7th 2005 )
* Fixes to get wizard to work on KDE 3.5
VERSION 1.03 ( December 14th 2005 )
* Fix to work with old MJPEGTools (< 1.8.0) again
VERSION 1.04 ( December 17th 2005 )
* Add font paths for Ubuntu Breezy Badger
VERSION 1.04b ( Januari 18th 2006 )
* Detect buggy BASH version (BASH 3.1)
VERSION 1.05 ( February 10th 2006 )
* Work around BASH 3.1 problem * Work around DVDAuthor bug in Debian Etch
VERSION 1.1 ( March 7th 2006 )
* Fix "file not found" issue in preview step * Add support for defining chapters for each MPEG file
VERSION 1.2 ( April 9th 2006 )
* Major code cleanup, more readable now * Drop mplayer dependency * Automatic compatibility check of MPEG files * Check if ISO will fit on DVD media * Allow using any video file as menu background
VERSION 1.2.1 ( April 12th 2006 )
* Fix previews of fonts with spaces in filename
VERSION 1.2.2 ( May 5th 2006 )
* Fix handling of images with page information * Also find personal fonts in $HOME/.fonts * Check validity of soundtrack file before authoring * Add second progress bar for multipage menus
VERSION 1.3.0 ( May 14th 2006 )
* Change directory structure, easier for distributors * Allow user to customize DVDAuthor XML file * Possibility to skip beginning of thumbnail animation * Add 'washout' effect to animated menu background * Improved responsiveness of wizard * Creating menu preview is much faster now * Fix trailing slash problem * Several small fixes all over
VERSION 1.4.0 ( September 9th 2006 )
* Allow longer title, subtitle and movie titles in menu * Better support for special characters * Find more fonts * Check MPEG files only before authoring step * Improved wizard layout * Check if user is mixing PAL and NTSC files * Check if user is mixing 16:9 and 4 files
VERSION 1.4.1 ( September 9th 2006 )
* Fix a bug in aspect ratio checking
VERSION 1.4.2 ( December 1st 2006 )
* Fixed "Check Compatibility" button * Read chapter info from DVDAuthor XML
VERSION 1.4.3 ( Januari 13th 2007)
* Work around problems in ImageMagick 6.3 * Refuse to run when DVDAuthor 0.6.12 installed * Small improvements in wizard layout
VERSION 1.4.4 ( March 3rd 2007 )
* Support DVDAuthor 0.6.14 * Some minor little improvements here and there
VERSION 1.4.5 ( March 11th 2007 )
* Fix 'Add to List' button on Ubuntu Linux
VERSION 1.4.6 ( May 29th 2007 )
* 'Check Compatibility' button supports recent dvdauthor versions * Include small label font fix, by Timo BuíŸhaus
I'm using Debian Experimental and KDE 4. I was using KDE3 and this program ran perfectly, after I've installed KDE4 from Debian Experimental Repositories and now I can't create the DVD. In the log-file I obtain an error in MPLEX.
My log-file:
KOMMANDER: RUNNING SCRIPT FOR PREVIEW
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz189.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz190.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz191.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz192.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz193.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz194.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz195.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz196.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz197.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz198.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz199.mpg
Outputting 2 Pages.
Checking for "convert" ... found.
Checking for "composite" ... found.
Checking for "mogrify" ... found.
Checking for "identify" ... found.
Checking for "sox" ... found.
Checking for "mplex" ... found.
Checking for "dvdauthor" ... found.
Checking for "png2yuv" ... found.
Checking for "mplayer" ... found.
Checking for "tcprobe" ... found.
Checking for "mpeg2enc" ... found.
Checking for "mp2enc" ... found.
Checking for "bc" ... found.
Checking for "kdialog" ... found.
Checking for "konsole" ... found.
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Generating Thumbnail Frames
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Generating frames for Thumb 1,Available frames in clip 1: 400
2,Available frames in clip 2: 400
3,Available frames in clip 3: 400
4,Available frames in clip 4: 400
5,Available frames in clip 5: 400
6,Available frames in clip 6: 400
7,Available frames in clip 7: 400
8,Available frames in clip 8: 400
9,Available frames in clip 9: 400
10,Available frames in clip 10: 400
11,Available frames in clip 11: 400
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Preprocessing Thumbnail Frames:
--------------------------------
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Initialising:
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Generating Thumbnail Labels
Generating Combination Layer..
Executing Composite Command:
convert \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( -size 768x576 xc:'#000000FF' Next.png -geometry +448+500 -compose over -composite \) Title.png -geometry +0+20 -compose over -composite \) Subtitle.png -geometry +0+105 -compose over -composite \) Thumb1Label.png -geometry +92+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb2Label.png -geometry +287+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb3Label.png -geometry +482+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb4Label.png -geometry +92+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb5Label.png -geometry +287+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb6Label.png -geometry +482+450 -compose over -composite \) -blur 1x0.4 TextLayer.png
Updating Background..
Cutting Background Images......
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Merging clip frames with background...
Done
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END OF SCRIPT RUN
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KOMMANDER: RUNNING SCRIPT TO BUILD MENU
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz189.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz190.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz191.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz192.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz193.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz194.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz195.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz196.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz197.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz198.mpg
/otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz199.mpg
Outputting 2 Pages.
Checking for "convert" ... found.
Checking for "composite" ... found.
Checking for "mogrify" ... found.
Checking for "identify" ... found.
Checking for "sox" ... found.
Checking for "mplex" ... found.
Checking for "dvdauthor" ... found.
Checking for "png2yuv" ... found.
Checking for "mplayer" ... found.
Checking for "tcprobe" ... found.
Checking for "mpeg2enc" ... found.
Checking for "mp2enc" ... found.
Checking for "bc" ... found.
Checking for "kdialog" ... found.
Checking for "konsole" ... found.
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Generating Thumbnail Frames
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Thumb frames already generated, skipping.
Available frames in Thumb 1: 400
Available frames in Thumb 2: 400
Available frames in Thumb 3: 400
Available frames in Thumb 4: 400
Available frames in Thumb 5: 400
Available frames in Thumb 6: 400
Available frames in Thumb 7: 400
Available frames in Thumb 8: 400
Available frames in Thumb 9: 400
Available frames in Thumb 10: 400
Available frames in Thumb 11: 400
Thumb 1 has most frames.
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Initialising:
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Generating Thumbnail Labels
Generating Combination Layer..
Executing Composite Command:
convert \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( -size 768x576 xc:'#000000FF' Next.png -geometry +448+500 -compose over -composite \) Title.png -geometry +0+20 -compose over -composite \) Subtitle.png -geometry +0+105 -compose over -composite \) Thumb1Label.png -geometry +92+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb2Label.png -geometry +287+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb3Label.png -geometry +482+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb4Label.png -geometry +92+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb5Label.png -geometry +287+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb6Label.png -geometry +482+450 -compose over -composite \) -blur 1x0.4 TextLayer.png
Updating Background..
Cutting Background Images......
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Merging clip frames with background...
Doneln: creating symbolic link «/otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/Frames/Frame230.png»: El fichero ya existe
Generating MPEG stream...
/usr/bin/y4munsharp
/otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021 /usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard
sox: Length in output .wav header will be wrong since can't seek to fix it
INFO: [mp2enc] Opened WAV file, freq = 48000 Hz, channels = 1, bits = 16
INFO: [mp2enc] format = 0x1, audio length = 2147479552 bytes
INFO: [mp2enc] SpF=384, frac SpF=0.000, bitrate=128 kbps, sfreq=48.0 kHz
INFO: [mp2enc] System is little endian
sox:
INFO: [mp2enc] Num frames 766 Avg slots/frame = 384.000; b/smp = 2.67; br = 128.000 kbps
INFO: [mp2enc] Encoding to layer 2 with psychoacoustic model 2 is finished
INFO: [mp2enc] The MPEG encoded output file name is "soundtrack.mp2"
883200+0 records in
883200+0 records out
1766400 bytes (1,8 MB) copied, 10,6873 s, 165 kB/s
/usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard
Multiplexing..
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/MenuPage1.m2v for reading.
MPlex / SPUMux STDERR output:
DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
INFO: Locale=es_AR.UTF-8
INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8
STAT: 0:00:00.000
INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuBase.png had 1 colors
INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuHighlight.png had 2 colors
INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuSelection.png had 2 colors
INFO: Autodetect 0 = 105x161-250x278
INFO: Autodetect 1 = 288x161-433x278
INFO: Autodetect 2 = 471x161-616x278
INFO: Autodetect 3 = 105x328-250x445
INFO: Autodetect 4 = 288x328-433x445
INFO: Autodetect 5 = 471x328-616x445
INFO: Autodetect 6 = 437x498-719x543
INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1
WARN: Read 0, expected 4
INFO: 0 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: -0.00
Statistics:
- Processed 0 subtitles.
- The longest display line had -1 characters.
- The maximum number of displayed lines was 0.
- The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
- The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
- The biggest subtitle box had 0 bytes.
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Initialising:
--------------------------------
Generating Thumbnail Labels
Generating Combination Layer..
Executing Composite Command:
convert \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( -size 768x576 xc:'#000000FF' Previous.png -geometry +20+500 -compose over -composite \) Title.png -geometry +0+20 -compose over -composite \) Subtitle.png -geometry +0+105 -compose over -composite \) Thumb7Label.png -geometry +92+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb8Label.png -geometry +287+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb9Label.png -geometry +482+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb10Label.png -geometry +92+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb11Label.png -geometry +287+450 -compose over -composite \) -blur 1x0.4 TextLayer.png
Updating Background..
Cutting Background Images.....
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Merging clip frames with background...
Doneln: creating symbolic link «/otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/Frames/Frame230.png»: El fichero ya existe
Generating MPEG stream...
/usr/bin/y4munsharp
/otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021 /usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard
sox: Length in output .wav header will be wrong since can't seek to fix it
INFO: [mp2enc] Opened WAV file, freq = 48000 Hz, channels = 1, bits = 16
INFO: [mp2enc] format = 0x1, audio length = 2147479552 bytes
INFO: [mp2enc] SpF=384, frac SpF=0.000, bitrate=128 kbps, sfreq=48.0 kHz
INFO: [mp2enc] System is little endian
sox:
INFO: [mp2enc] Num frames 766 Avg slots/frame = 384.000; b/smp = 2.67; br = 128.000 kbps
INFO: [mp2enc] Encoding to layer 2 with psychoacoustic model 2 is finished
INFO: [mp2enc] The MPEG encoded output file name is "soundtrack.mp2"
883200+0 records in
883200+0 records out
1766400 bytes (1,8 MB) copied, 10,2401 s, 172 kB/s
/usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard
Multiplexing..
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/MenuPage2.m2v for reading.
MPlex / SPUMux STDERR output:
DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
INFO: Locale=es_AR.UTF-8
INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8
STAT: 0:00:00.000
INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuBase.png had 1 colors
INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuHighlight.png had 2 colors
INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuSelection.png had 2 colors
INFO: Autodetect 0 = 105x161-250x278
INFO: Autodetect 1 = 288x161-433x278
INFO: Autodetect 2 = 471x161-616x278
INFO: Autodetect 3 = 105x328-250x445
INFO: Autodetect 4 = 288x328-433x445
INFO: Autodetect 5 = 0x498-284x543
INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1
WARN: Read 0, expected 4
INFO: 0 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: -0.00
Statistics:
- Processed 0 subtitles.
- The longest display line had -1 characters.
- The maximum number of displayed lines was 0.
- The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
- The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
- The biggest subtitle box had 0 bytes.
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END OF SCRIPT RUN
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thanks to everybody
hi there,
thx for this awesome app.
it works great under fedora 7 and fedora 8.
i have just one small problem.
under fedora 8.
the system is updated
i can´t choose any font.
the pulldown menue, where you can coose the fonts for the title, shows nothing.
can you provide help?
many thx in advance and again thx for this great app.
cheers
g
At first, thanks for the good app.
Well, coming to the point, if I encode the video with 16:9 aspect ratio and check the compatibility using this app, it throws some warning. However, it says that the video is fully compatible if 4:3 aspect ratio is used in encoding. Could you please tell based on your experience if 16:9 will work or not on a DVD player?! I have no experience in this regard and also no DVD player and so I can't test it myself.
Thanks!!
downloaded 1.4.6, untarred, typed sh Installer.kmdr & got this error:
sh Installer.kmdr
Installer.kmdr: 1: Syntax error: redirection unexpected
thought about looking @ the source...did look & couldn't see any obvious errors... then decided that was your job...also have fallback software so it's not crucial, but I'd like to try it out...
Jon
downloaded 1.4.6, untarred, typed sh Installer.kmdr & got this error:
sh Installer.kmdr
Installer.kmdr: 1: Syntax error: redirection unexpected
thought about looking @ the source...did look & couldn't see any obvious errors... then decided that was your job...also have fallback software so it's not crucial, but I'd like to try it out...
Jon
At "Menu Preview" when running preview it fails on a 9 min .vob file with:
Quote:
Whoops. Your Transcode version failed while generating frames from this video file:
file1.vob
Please check that this file contains at least 29 frames.
I'm sure the file has more than 29 frames. Thoughts?
Also, when I first ran the program it failed to run complaining that I didn't have konsole installed, so shouldn't konsole be a dependency?
scottme, I've found a working solution to the ISO problem. Use the wizard until you get to the ISO creation step, after finalization. Then exit the wizard. Open KB3, and select "New DVD movie project".
It'll open to a DVD file structure, with "VIDEO_TS" and "AUDIO_TS"
Go to the directory that the wizard set up the DVD in, you'll have the same folders. Drag and drop the contents into the proper folders in the KB3 project. From there you can either make an ISO or just burn it directly. I tested my DVD in my old PS2, which is pretty picky, and it worked just fine.
NOTE: Don't worry if the "AUDIO_TS" folder is empty, this is for additional audio tracks, etc. Mine was empty and the movie had perfect sound.
I think what the problem is is that the commands the wiazrd runs to do this step automatically must be broken, or path dependent. The wizard can't find Xine on my machine either, but it works just fine.
I was able to install it and get it to work, but I like Todisc and DVDStyler better. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to uninstall the software. My OS is ubuntu feisty and the KDE DVDauthor Wizard does not show up in the synaptic package manager. I used Kommander to install it. If I am supposed to use Kommander to uninstall the program, I can't figure out how to do that either. Any assistance is very much appreciated.
Please, please, please don't stop development on this!
This is one field sorely missed in Linux, professional DVD authoring. I just shelled out $80 for a app similar to this to use on windows since qDVDauthor has become quite useless....
DO NOT STOP DEVELOPMENT, PLEASE!
Hey, Thank's for the nice the app. I have a Q. How can I change the size of the fonts that show on the 'Title' & 'subtitle'? The subtitle should really be smaller than the title!
Cheers
Great application, and huge thanks for making it *almost* trivial to create a DVD.
I have a couple of problems maybe you can help me with. I'm using four mpeg2 files I built from DVB streams; I used ProjectX to demux them and mplex to re-multiplex to ".mpg" files that each look fine, in that they play well in Kaffeine with nicely sync'ed audio. So far so good.
Using KDE DVDAuthor Wizard I made a nice menu, and got as far as creating the DVD structure on disk, but now the problems start. The message asks if I would like to test the DVD by playing and when I say yes it fails because it doesn't find xine. But xine is installed:
mark@mest40:~$ xine --version
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.4.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
No matter, I find I can play it using Kaffeine to open any of the .vob files.
Sadly the wizard function to create an .iso doesn't seem to work. I click the button and nothing happens. No messages either.
So I use k3b to burn the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders to DVD-R (or DVD+R, I tried both!), and the resulting disk won't play on the PC, it won't play in a Panasonic DVD-recorder (disk not recognized), but it does play in another el-cheapo supermarket DVD player; however there's no sound.
This is all very frustrating since it's so close to being exactly what I need. Any advice or suggestions for this total newbie?
I'm running Kubuntu 6.1, fully up-to-date I believe. Happy to supply any diagnostic info that's needed.
Great application, and huge thanks for making it *almost* trivial to create a DVD.
I have a couple of problems maybe you can help me with. I'm using four mpeg2 files I built from DVB streams; I used ProjectX to demux them and mplex to re-multiplex to ".mpg" files that each look fine, in that they play well in Kaffeine with nicely sync'ed audio. So far so good.
Using KDE DVDAuthor Wizard I made a nice menu, and got as far as creating the DVD structure on disk, but now the problems start. The message asks if I would like to test the DVD by playing and when I say yes it fails because it doesn't find xine. But xine is installed:
mark@mest40:~$ xine --version
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.4.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
No matter, I find I can play it using Kaffeine to open any of the .vob files.
Sadly the wizard function to create an .iso doesn't seem to work. I click the button and nothing happens. No messages either.
So I use k3b to burn the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders to DVD-R (or DVD+R, I tried both!), and the resulting disk won't play on the PC, it won't play in a Panasonic DVD-recorder (disk not recognized), but it does play in another el-cheapo supermarket DVD player; however there's no sound.
This is all very frustrating since it's so close to being exactly what I need. Any advice or suggestions for this total newbie?
I'm running Kubuntu 6.1, fully up-to-date I believe. Happy to supply any diagnostic info that's needed.
I guess you forgot to install the graphical part of Xine, which is sometimes shipped seperately named xine-ui. The wizards needs the GUI part, so you can test everything interactively.
As for the ISO creation: Maybe you can send me the DebugOutput file generated by the wizard?
Great application, and huge thanks for making it *almost* trivial to create a DVD.
I have a couple of problems maybe you can help me with. I'm using four mpeg2 files I built from DVB streams; I used ProjectX to demux them and mplex to re-multiplex to ".mpg" files that each look fine, in that they play well in Kaffeine with nicely sync'ed audio. So far so good.
Using KDE DVDAuthor Wizard I made a nice menu, and got as far as creating the DVD structure on disk, but now the problems start. The message asks if I would like to test the DVD by playing and when I say yes it fails because it doesn't find xine. But xine is installed:
mark@mest40:~$ xine --version
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.4.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
No matter, I find I can play it using Kaffeine to open any of the .vob files.
Sadly the wizard function to create an .iso doesn't seem to work. I click the button and nothing happens. No messages either.
So I use k3b to burn the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders to DVD-R (or DVD+R, I tried both!), and the resulting disk won't play on the PC, it won't play in a Panasonic DVD-recorder (disk not recognized), but it does play in another el-cheapo supermarket DVD player; however there's no sound.
This is all very frustrating since it's so close to being exactly what I need. Any advice or suggestions for this total newbie?
I'm running Kubuntu 6.1, fully up-to-date I believe. Happy to supply any diagnostic info that's needed.
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Ratings & Comments
219 Comments
Is this project dead? A QT4 port would be nice.
Thanks for such a good app. Unfortunelly, I doesn't work with latest versions of Sox (13 & 14) nor Transcode (1.0.6). Do you plan a new release?
I'm using Debian Experimental and KDE 4. I was using KDE3 and this program ran perfectly, after I've installed KDE4 from Debian Experimental Repositories and now I can't create the DVD. In the log-file I obtain an error in MPLEX. My log-file: KOMMANDER: RUNNING SCRIPT FOR PREVIEW /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz189.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz190.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz191.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz192.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz193.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz194.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz195.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz196.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz197.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz198.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz199.mpg Outputting 2 Pages. Checking for "convert" ... found. Checking for "composite" ... found. Checking for "mogrify" ... found. Checking for "identify" ... found. Checking for "sox" ... found. Checking for "mplex" ... found. Checking for "dvdauthor" ... found. Checking for "png2yuv" ... found. Checking for "mplayer" ... found. Checking for "tcprobe" ... found. Checking for "mpeg2enc" ... found. Checking for "mp2enc" ... found. Checking for "bc" ... found. Checking for "kdialog" ... found. Checking for "konsole" ... found. -------------------------------- Generating Thumbnail Frames -------------------------------- Generating frames for Thumb 1,Available frames in clip 1: 400 2,Available frames in clip 2: 400 3,Available frames in clip 3: 400 4,Available frames in clip 4: 400 5,Available frames in clip 5: 400 6,Available frames in clip 6: 400 7,Available frames in clip 7: 400 8,Available frames in clip 8: 400 9,Available frames in clip 9: 400 10,Available frames in clip 10: 400 11,Available frames in clip 11: 400 -------------------------------- Preprocessing Thumbnail Frames: -------------------------------- -------------------------------- Initialising: -------------------------------- Generating Thumbnail Labels Generating Combination Layer.. Executing Composite Command: convert \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( -size 768x576 xc:'#000000FF' Next.png -geometry +448+500 -compose over -composite \) Title.png -geometry +0+20 -compose over -composite \) Subtitle.png -geometry +0+105 -compose over -composite \) Thumb1Label.png -geometry +92+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb2Label.png -geometry +287+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb3Label.png -geometry +482+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb4Label.png -geometry +92+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb5Label.png -geometry +287+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb6Label.png -geometry +482+450 -compose over -composite \) -blur 1x0.4 TextLayer.png Updating Background.. Cutting Background Images...... Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Merging clip frames with background... Done ------------------------ END OF SCRIPT RUN ------------------------ KOMMANDER: RUNNING SCRIPT TO BUILD MENU /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz189.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz190.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz191.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz192.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz193.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz194.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz195.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz196.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz197.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz198.mpg /otros/dvd/dvd 19/dbz199.mpg Outputting 2 Pages. Checking for "convert" ... found. Checking for "composite" ... found. Checking for "mogrify" ... found. Checking for "identify" ... found. Checking for "sox" ... found. Checking for "mplex" ... found. Checking for "dvdauthor" ... found. Checking for "png2yuv" ... found. Checking for "mplayer" ... found. Checking for "tcprobe" ... found. Checking for "mpeg2enc" ... found. Checking for "mp2enc" ... found. Checking for "bc" ... found. Checking for "kdialog" ... found. Checking for "konsole" ... found. -------------------------------- Generating Thumbnail Frames -------------------------------- Thumb frames already generated, skipping. Available frames in Thumb 1: 400 Available frames in Thumb 2: 400 Available frames in Thumb 3: 400 Available frames in Thumb 4: 400 Available frames in Thumb 5: 400 Available frames in Thumb 6: 400 Available frames in Thumb 7: 400 Available frames in Thumb 8: 400 Available frames in Thumb 9: 400 Available frames in Thumb 10: 400 Available frames in Thumb 11: 400 Thumb 1 has most frames. -------------------------------- Initialising: -------------------------------- Generating Thumbnail Labels Generating Combination Layer.. Executing Composite Command: convert \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( -size 768x576 xc:'#000000FF' Next.png -geometry +448+500 -compose over -composite \) Title.png -geometry +0+20 -compose over -composite \) Subtitle.png -geometry +0+105 -compose over -composite \) Thumb1Label.png -geometry +92+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb2Label.png -geometry +287+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb3Label.png -geometry +482+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb4Label.png -geometry +92+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb5Label.png -geometry +287+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb6Label.png -geometry +482+450 -compose over -composite \) -blur 1x0.4 TextLayer.png Updating Background.. Cutting Background Images...... Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Merging clip frames with background... Doneln: creating symbolic link «/otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/Frames/Frame230.png»: El fichero ya existe Generating MPEG stream... /usr/bin/y4munsharp /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021 /usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard sox: Length in output .wav header will be wrong since can't seek to fix it INFO: [mp2enc] Opened WAV file, freq = 48000 Hz, channels = 1, bits = 16 INFO: [mp2enc] format = 0x1, audio length = 2147479552 bytes INFO: [mp2enc] SpF=384, frac SpF=0.000, bitrate=128 kbps, sfreq=48.0 kHz INFO: [mp2enc] System is little endian sox: INFO: [mp2enc] Num frames 766 Avg slots/frame = 384.000; b/smp = 2.67; br = 128.000 kbps INFO: [mp2enc] Encoding to layer 2 with psychoacoustic model 2 is finished INFO: [mp2enc] The MPEG encoded output file name is "soundtrack.mp2" 883200+0 records in 883200+0 records out 1766400 bytes (1,8 MB) copied, 10,6873 s, 165 kB/s /usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard Multiplexing.. INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $) **ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/MenuPage1.m2v for reading. MPlex / SPUMux STDERR output: DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net> INFO: Locale=es_AR.UTF-8 INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8 STAT: 0:00:00.000 INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuBase.png had 1 colors INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuHighlight.png had 2 colors INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuSelection.png had 2 colors INFO: Autodetect 0 = 105x161-250x278 INFO: Autodetect 1 = 288x161-433x278 INFO: Autodetect 2 = 471x161-616x278 INFO: Autodetect 3 = 105x328-250x445 INFO: Autodetect 4 = 288x328-433x445 INFO: Autodetect 5 = 471x328-616x445 INFO: Autodetect 6 = 437x498-719x543 INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1 WARN: Read 0, expected 4 INFO: 0 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: -0.00 Statistics: - Processed 0 subtitles. - The longest display line had -1 characters. - The maximum number of displayed lines was 0. - The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 0. - The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 0. - The biggest subtitle box had 0 bytes. -------------------------------- Initialising: -------------------------------- Generating Thumbnail Labels Generating Combination Layer.. Executing Composite Command: convert \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( -size 768x576 xc:'#000000FF' Previous.png -geometry +20+500 -compose over -composite \) Title.png -geometry +0+20 -compose over -composite \) Subtitle.png -geometry +0+105 -compose over -composite \) Thumb7Label.png -geometry +92+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb8Label.png -geometry +287+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb9Label.png -geometry +482+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb10Label.png -geometry +92+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb11Label.png -geometry +287+450 -compose over -composite \) -blur 1x0.4 TextLayer.png Updating Background.. Cutting Background Images..... Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Using frame 200 for menu. Merging clip frames with background... Doneln: creating symbolic link «/otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/Frames/Frame230.png»: El fichero ya existe Generating MPEG stream... /usr/bin/y4munsharp /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021 /usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard sox: Length in output .wav header will be wrong since can't seek to fix it INFO: [mp2enc] Opened WAV file, freq = 48000 Hz, channels = 1, bits = 16 INFO: [mp2enc] format = 0x1, audio length = 2147479552 bytes INFO: [mp2enc] SpF=384, frac SpF=0.000, bitrate=128 kbps, sfreq=48.0 kHz INFO: [mp2enc] System is little endian sox: INFO: [mp2enc] Num frames 766 Avg slots/frame = 384.000; b/smp = 2.67; br = 128.000 kbps INFO: [mp2enc] Encoding to layer 2 with psychoacoustic model 2 is finished INFO: [mp2enc] The MPEG encoded output file name is "soundtrack.mp2" 883200+0 records in 883200+0 records out 1766400 bytes (1,8 MB) copied, 10,2401 s, 172 kB/s /usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard Multiplexing.. INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $) **ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/MenuPage2.m2v for reading. MPlex / SPUMux STDERR output: DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net> INFO: Locale=es_AR.UTF-8 INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8 STAT: 0:00:00.000 INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuBase.png had 1 colors INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuHighlight.png had 2 colors INFO: Picture /otros/dvd/temp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_29021/DVDMenuSelection.png had 2 colors INFO: Autodetect 0 = 105x161-250x278 INFO: Autodetect 1 = 288x161-433x278 INFO: Autodetect 2 = 471x161-616x278 INFO: Autodetect 3 = 105x328-250x445 INFO: Autodetect 4 = 288x328-433x445 INFO: Autodetect 5 = 0x498-284x543 INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1 WARN: Read 0, expected 4 INFO: 0 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: -0.00 Statistics: - Processed 0 subtitles. - The longest display line had -1 characters. - The maximum number of displayed lines was 0. - The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 0. - The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 0. - The biggest subtitle box had 0 bytes. ------------------------ END OF SCRIPT RUN ------------------------ thanks to everybody
hi there, thx for this awesome app. it works great under fedora 7 and fedora 8. i have just one small problem. under fedora 8. the system is updated i can´t choose any font. the pulldown menue, where you can coose the fonts for the title, shows nothing. can you provide help? many thx in advance and again thx for this great app. cheers g
Mandriva 2008.0 i686 rpm here: http://mandriva.99k.org/
how can i define chapters? thanks
At first, thanks for the good app. Well, coming to the point, if I encode the video with 16:9 aspect ratio and check the compatibility using this app, it throws some warning. However, it says that the video is fully compatible if 4:3 aspect ratio is used in encoding. Could you please tell based on your experience if 16:9 will work or not on a DVD player?! I have no experience in this regard and also no DVD player and so I can't test it myself. Thanks!!
downloaded 1.4.6, untarred, typed sh Installer.kmdr & got this error: sh Installer.kmdr Installer.kmdr: 1: Syntax error: redirection unexpected thought about looking @ the source...did look & couldn't see any obvious errors... then decided that was your job...also have fallback software so it's not crucial, but I'd like to try it out... Jon
downloaded 1.4.6, untarred, typed sh Installer.kmdr & got this error: sh Installer.kmdr Installer.kmdr: 1: Syntax error: redirection unexpected thought about looking @ the source...did look & couldn't see any obvious errors... then decided that was your job...also have fallback software so it's not crucial, but I'd like to try it out... Jon
first: install * Kommander >= 1.0 (part of kdewebdev >= 3.3.0) * ImageMagick 6.2 or 6.3 * MJPEGTools * Sox * DVDAuthor >= 0.6.11 * Transcode second: $ kmdr-executor Installer.kmdr
At "Menu Preview" when running preview it fails on a 9 min .vob file with: Quote:Whoops. Your Transcode version failed while generating frames from this video file:
file1.vob
Please check that this file contains at least 29 frames.
I'm sure the file has more than 29 frames. Thoughts?
Also, when I first ran the program it failed to run complaining that I didn't have konsole installed, so shouldn't konsole be a dependency?
scottme, I've found a working solution to the ISO problem. Use the wizard until you get to the ISO creation step, after finalization. Then exit the wizard. Open KB3, and select "New DVD movie project". It'll open to a DVD file structure, with "VIDEO_TS" and "AUDIO_TS" Go to the directory that the wizard set up the DVD in, you'll have the same folders. Drag and drop the contents into the proper folders in the KB3 project. From there you can either make an ISO or just burn it directly. I tested my DVD in my old PS2, which is pretty picky, and it worked just fine. NOTE: Don't worry if the "AUDIO_TS" folder is empty, this is for additional audio tracks, etc. Mine was empty and the movie had perfect sound. I think what the problem is is that the commands the wiazrd runs to do this step automatically must be broken, or path dependent. The wizard can't find Xine on my machine either, but it works just fine.
I was able to install it and get it to work, but I like Todisc and DVDStyler better. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to uninstall the software. My OS is ubuntu feisty and the KDE DVDauthor Wizard does not show up in the synaptic package manager. I used Kommander to install it. If I am supposed to use Kommander to uninstall the program, I can't figure out how to do that either. Any assistance is very much appreciated.
can you add this option?
is it possible to define the chapters? thanks
In the package, you find a text file that explains how to do this.
Please, please, please don't stop development on this! This is one field sorely missed in Linux, professional DVD authoring. I just shelled out $80 for a app similar to this to use on windows since qDVDauthor has become quite useless.... DO NOT STOP DEVELOPMENT, PLEASE!
Hey, Thank's for the nice the app. I have a Q. How can I change the size of the fonts that show on the 'Title' & 'subtitle'? The subtitle should really be smaller than the title! Cheers
Only by editing the script. Making the main title really long also makes it become smaller.
Great application, and huge thanks for making it *almost* trivial to create a DVD. I have a couple of problems maybe you can help me with. I'm using four mpeg2 files I built from DVB streams; I used ProjectX to demux them and mplex to re-multiplex to ".mpg" files that each look fine, in that they play well in Kaffeine with nicely sync'ed audio. So far so good. Using KDE DVDAuthor Wizard I made a nice menu, and got as far as creating the DVD structure on disk, but now the problems start. The message asks if I would like to test the DVD by playing and when I say yes it fails because it doesn't find xine. But xine is installed: mark@mest40:~$ xine --version This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.4. (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team. No matter, I find I can play it using Kaffeine to open any of the .vob files. Sadly the wizard function to create an .iso doesn't seem to work. I click the button and nothing happens. No messages either. So I use k3b to burn the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders to DVD-R (or DVD+R, I tried both!), and the resulting disk won't play on the PC, it won't play in a Panasonic DVD-recorder (disk not recognized), but it does play in another el-cheapo supermarket DVD player; however there's no sound. This is all very frustrating since it's so close to being exactly what I need. Any advice or suggestions for this total newbie? I'm running Kubuntu 6.1, fully up-to-date I believe. Happy to supply any diagnostic info that's needed.
See below for a how to do this step by hand.
Great application, and huge thanks for making it *almost* trivial to create a DVD. I have a couple of problems maybe you can help me with. I'm using four mpeg2 files I built from DVB streams; I used ProjectX to demux them and mplex to re-multiplex to ".mpg" files that each look fine, in that they play well in Kaffeine with nicely sync'ed audio. So far so good. Using KDE DVDAuthor Wizard I made a nice menu, and got as far as creating the DVD structure on disk, but now the problems start. The message asks if I would like to test the DVD by playing and when I say yes it fails because it doesn't find xine. But xine is installed: mark@mest40:~$ xine --version This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.4. (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team. No matter, I find I can play it using Kaffeine to open any of the .vob files. Sadly the wizard function to create an .iso doesn't seem to work. I click the button and nothing happens. No messages either. So I use k3b to burn the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders to DVD-R (or DVD+R, I tried both!), and the resulting disk won't play on the PC, it won't play in a Panasonic DVD-recorder (disk not recognized), but it does play in another el-cheapo supermarket DVD player; however there's no sound. This is all very frustrating since it's so close to being exactly what I need. Any advice or suggestions for this total newbie? I'm running Kubuntu 6.1, fully up-to-date I believe. Happy to supply any diagnostic info that's needed.
I guess you forgot to install the graphical part of Xine, which is sometimes shipped seperately named xine-ui. The wizards needs the GUI part, so you can test everything interactively. As for the ISO creation: Maybe you can send me the DebugOutput file generated by the wizard?
Great application, and huge thanks for making it *almost* trivial to create a DVD. I have a couple of problems maybe you can help me with. I'm using four mpeg2 files I built from DVB streams; I used ProjectX to demux them and mplex to re-multiplex to ".mpg" files that each look fine, in that they play well in Kaffeine with nicely sync'ed audio. So far so good. Using KDE DVDAuthor Wizard I made a nice menu, and got as far as creating the DVD structure on disk, but now the problems start. The message asks if I would like to test the DVD by playing and when I say yes it fails because it doesn't find xine. But xine is installed: mark@mest40:~$ xine --version This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.4. (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team. No matter, I find I can play it using Kaffeine to open any of the .vob files. Sadly the wizard function to create an .iso doesn't seem to work. I click the button and nothing happens. No messages either. So I use k3b to burn the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders to DVD-R (or DVD+R, I tried both!), and the resulting disk won't play on the PC, it won't play in a Panasonic DVD-recorder (disk not recognized), but it does play in another el-cheapo supermarket DVD player; however there's no sound. This is all very frustrating since it's so close to being exactly what I need. Any advice or suggestions for this total newbie? I'm running Kubuntu 6.1, fully up-to-date I believe. Happy to supply any diagnostic info that's needed.
Pardon me but I am very new to this. How would I run the Installer.kmdr script?