I recently acquired a copy of an old program, Streamweaver (5.4). I thought it was a general purpose Mpeg muxer, like Bbmpeg. However, it has a much more limited function. It takes elementary mpg video and audio streams, and muxes them into a VOB file and an IFO file. However, it does not create a VIDEO_TS IFO file for any or all the individual VOBs and IFOs you create (which you make one at a time). Neither does it create a menu. So Streamweaver cannot alone make all the elements necessary for a DVD. Apparently, Streamweaver used to be used with an older generation of DVD authoring software (like DVD Motion and DVD Builder) that created VIDEO_TS IFO files, menus and the rest of the DVD files, after the creation of the individual VOBs and IFOs. Unfortunately, none of these older authoring programs appear to be available anymore.

What I like about Streamweaver is that it allows multiple audio tracks, so it seems like a good fast way to make no frills (no menu) DVDs with multiple audio tracks. But how to get a VIDEO_TS IFO file (assuming that one doesn’t absolutely need the BUP files)? I understand that IFOedit will create a VIDEO_TS IFO file and all the other necessary files from a VOB. But I also understand that it can only handle one VOB file (a limitation). And IFOedit itself can also produce the VOBs and IFOs itself from elementary streams (and multiple audio tracks), so why not just do it all in IFOedit?

Does anyone have any thoughts for putting this program to some practical use in the world of contemporary authoring programs? I already have a modern authoring program, so I’m not desperate to get this to work, but Streamweaver seems solid for what it does and it would be nice to find a use for it.