DVD Authoring GUI for Linux

[Jerry Attrix]

I've been writing a DVD authoring GUI as an extension to a photograph management program I started something over a year ago. I've produced a number of satisfactory DVDs with it and would welcome anyone able and willing to give it a try. The program is open source (but no project is yet set up on SourceForge etc) and written in Java. Although the whole thing is cross-platform, the DVD authoring module requires the usual command-line tools - spumux, dvdauthor, growisofs etc - so is limited to Linux unless all these are available on Windows (as if I care). Please visit

http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.html

and feel free to post here or mail me at gt@onepost.net with any comments or requests for help. I guess I'm occupying much the same space as QDVDAuthor and Varsha; I only started the exercise because neither did what I needed.

[Note: Mediacity is a Java Web Start program. On some systems it'll run from its web page, but if not, install Java 1.5 then type

<Java Install Directory>/bin/javaws http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.jnlp

The program should fire up right away.]

[Garibaldi]

Great! I'm going to install it on my slackware install now! I really like GUI for DVD Author for win32, unfortunately I can't get it to work correctly in wine. I haven't been a big fan of Varsha, QDdvdAuthor, or DVD Styler in linux. I'm happy to see another gui out there!

[bayvista]

Did u ever get this to work?

[Jerry Attrix]

Did u ever get this to work?

I'm not sure who the question was aimed at, but as it's been two years since I popped into this site I'm answering it on my own behalf as the author of Mediacity, the software in question.

I use the program on a regular basis but although it's on my website as a free download I'm not aware of any other users. If there are any they keep quiet. My system is SuSE, currently at 10.1, and the program requires Java 5 or above.

If you have any questions or would like to try it please get in touch. I haven't done much development since I moved a few months ago to a mountain village in Italy where there's no broadband internet, but if there are users keen to see improvements I'll always consider them.

[bayvista]

Thanks for the reply. I'm just playing with different Linux authoring tools and yours popped up. I'll let u know if I get round to trying it.

I'm having problems with dvdauthor - it does not seem to like my mpegs.

I like your user name - like me, 60+

[Jerry Attrix]

I find dvdauthor doesn't like VOBs ripped off a DVD. I don't know why; I always assumed they were regular MPEGs but with extra audio tracks and subtitles. The most recent version of dvdauthor I have - now over six months old - just barfs at them. When broadband finally arrives at this backwater I'll try a more recent build.

Not 60 for another year - I chose the name in anticipation