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Idea #8195: Create a really good DVD Authoring Application

Written by babis79 the 7 May 08 at 18:09. Category: Multimedia. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
There is no good DVD Authoring software available for the GNOME Desktop. Something easy to use but still powerful. See Apple's iDVD as an good example.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/

The app should provide a good media integration of other GNOME applications like F-Spot for Photo selecting or Banshee/Rhythmbox for songs selections, etc.

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #8195
Written by babis79 the 7 May 08 at 18:09.
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Solution #2: Bombono DVD
Written by muravjov the 13 Nov 09 at 15:45.
I think Bombono DVD is a good authoring application for GNOME Desktop. The website is http://www.bombono.org/ . Key features are custom menu creation, authoring, reauthoring and burning.

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adotei wrote on the 7 May 08 at 22:59
ManDVD is good enough for the job. Not sure if it should be installed by default because of the limited space on the Ubuntu CD but it should be placed in the repositories. It is already on www.getdeb.net .

babis79 wrote on the 8 May 08 at 07:21
@adotei
Right, but I said GNOME, not KDE application. And by the way, ManDVD is a little bit buggy and really unstable. Further it does not fit into Ubuntu's look and feel.

Raval wrote on the 8 May 08 at 11:29
I just stumbled across one called DVDStyler how bout that?

Cypher wrote on the 8 May 08 at 14:09
Switch to KDE then... it's about time to realise that GNOME is just...limited.

babis79 wrote on the 8 May 08 at 15:55
@Raval
Thank you for your comment. DVDStyler is not really easy to use and not powerful. I tried it a couple of years ago and the results disappointed me.

babis79 wrote on the 8 May 08 at 16:07
@Cypher

Actually I switched to KDE and stayed with it for 1-2 years. Not that bad, but not really good neither. I like the GNOME's look and feel better and its easy of use. That's why I switched back to GNOME and I keep using it for more then 8 years now.
Further the KDE applicatios for dvd authoring are not that good. Tried qdvdauthor and ManDVD. Both are buggy and not well integrated into the KDE desktop, both are actually Qt applications and NOT KDE apps. ManDVD looks promising but crashed a lot of times and I was not able to create a slide show from a collection of pictures and songs.

You see, KDE is by far not perfect. And by the way, there is no WAR between GNOME and KDE folks at all :). KDE and GNOME are both great desktop environments and should start working together instead of "fighting" again each other...


babis79 wrote on the 16 May 08 at 10:08
Oookay, i just started a new project at https://launchpad.net/plomari/

I appreciate any volunteer who wants to help me in coding python/pygtk, design, translations, etc.

Don't hesitate to register at launchpad and contact me.

kamuchau wrote on the 1 Jun 08 at 11:09
Check out www.gnomefiles.org under the video tools link

spanella47 wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 22:25
You may wanna follow the developments in this Google SOC project promising media integration between gnome applications and a set of widgets to make this easy.
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=15C2B5BC19A9276A
and blog of student:
http://blogs.gnome.org/cosimoc/2008/06/02/hello-planet/

good luck!

cornbread wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 18:26
Just use K3B

fgerbig wrote on the 17 Sep 08 at 06:15
Perhaps dvdwizard "http://dvdwizard.wershofen.net/" could be a starting point?

RainCT (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 18 Mar 09 at 16:15
Also see mistelix.org


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