Problem in How to author & burn a DVD using only freewar

[Curtman]

I was looking for a guide on authoring DVD's, and came across the user guide on this page titled "How to author & burn a DVD using only freeware tools".

I searched high and low, but cannot seem to find the freeware version of Windows used in this guide. I made an attempt to run the software with Wine, but had no success.

Could someone please add a link to the Free Windows version used?

Thanks very much
Curt

P.S. I found some great free software at http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools/ that also comes with the source code.

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Trolling since '96

[Baldrick]

It says free tools not free operating systems....

And please only post guides in the user guides section, I'm moving this one.

[andydd]

Is that post for real ?

[txpharoah]

Somebody's been living in a cave.
Free windows?

[Curtman]

It says free tools not free operating systems....

And please only post guides in the user guides section, I'm moving this one.

While the post was admitadly a troll, the point was it doesn't mention operating systems at all. It says using ONLY freeware tools.

If it were not possible to do this using only free software that would be another story. You can even do this by downloading Knoppix, a free bootable cd of a live Linux distribution based on Debian that comes with CD & DVD recording software.

My only complaint is that it doesn't use only freeware tools. It requires a proprietary operating system that costs money which I don't own.

Thanks for taking me seriously though.

[Baldrick]

My only complaint is that it doesn't use only freeware tools. It requires a proprietary operating system that costs money which I don't own.

A "tool" is not a operating system in my world. Or maybe you mean that it just requires it...but then does a Operating System require a computer...which require electricity....and that isn't free..........

[Curtman]

My only complaint is that it doesn't use only freeware tools. It requires a proprietary operating system that costs money which I don't own.

A "tool" is not a operating system in my world. Or maybe you mean that it just requires it...but then does a Operating System require a computer...which require electricity....and that isn't free..........

That's not bad... But the fact that I'm reading the thing impiles I have those things. Not Windows.

[Baldrick]

okey...but it will be fixed soon in the how to sections guide links. It will say what os the guide require in the description and you can already search by os in our guides list (windows,linux,macos for now...linux will probably cover all different unix,linux,freebsd..).

[Curtman]

Remember:
In the world of digital video, you ALWAYS get what you pay for.
Dollars do make the difference. So quit buying junk.

That is totally rediculous. There are many excellent free software packages. The value of that software is not only in its usefulness, but in that it comes with the source code. This exposes the algorithms, and file formats used to anyone who cares to learn about them. They never lock you into proprietary formats, and often free you from ones you currently are forced to deal with.

http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/
http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/encoding.html
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/
http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/
http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gstreamer.net/
http://nvrec.sourceforge.net/
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
http://outflux.net/unix/software/GOPchop/
http://www.gtksubtitler.prv.pl/
http://kino.schirmacher.de/article/static/4
http://sourceforge.net/projects/asfrecorder/
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/research/mpeg/mpeg_encode.html

To name a couple.