Authoring DVD Slideshows?

Sat Dec 10 19:49:39 UTC 2005

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:37:59AM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> Has anyone on the list tried making DVD slideshows under Linux?  My wife
> is at her wits end with Windoze, and if I could set her up with a
> program that Just Works (TM) under Linux I'd be a hero.  Anyone have any
> experiences?  Thanks.

Well a quick search finds this:

Package: dvdstyler
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 1900
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1:1.4-0.4
Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.5.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.2), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.9), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnome2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.6.0), libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.10.0-0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libice6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libjpeg62, liborbit2 (>= 1:2.10.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.2), libpopt0 (>= 1.7), libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2-3), libwxgtk2.6-0 (>= 2.6.1.2), libxml2 (>= 2.6.21), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), dvdauthor, mjpegtools, netpbm, mpgtx, mkisofs, dvd+rw-tools
Filename: pool/main/d/dvdstyler/dvdstyler_1.4-0.4_i386.deb
Size: 769240
MD5sum: dca52a43d6728eee7f4f510f405fddcc
Description: a crossplatform DVD Authoring System
 dvdstyler is a crossplatform DVD Authoring System.
 The main DVDStyler features are:
  * You can drag and drop MPEG files directly
  * You can import image file for background
  * You can create NTSC/PAL menus
  * You can place text and images anywhere on the menu screen
  * You can change font/color
  * You can put basic text buttons, change font/color and background color
  * You can copy and paste any menu object
  * You can set chapters for each movie
  * You can change post command for each movie
 .
 http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/index.html

Package: dvdauthor
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 352
Maintainer: Marc Leeman <marc.leeman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.6.11-2.1
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libdps1 (>> 4.1.0), libdvdread3, libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libice6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libjasper-1.701-1 (>= 1.701.0), libjpeg62, liblcms1 (>= 1.08-1), libmagick9, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libtiff4, libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxml2 (>= 2.6.21), libxt6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Filename: pool/main/d/dvdauthor/dvdauthor_0.6.11-2.1_i386.deb
Size: 138320
MD5sum: 5a37e606f65b5987c5e5949c80b18c49
Description: create DVD-Video file system
 dvdauthor is a program that will generate a DVD movie from a valid
 mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player.
Tag: hardware::storage:dvd, interface::commandline, role::sw:utility, sound::recorder, use::storing, works-with::video

Package: qdvdauthor
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 5192
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.0.10-0.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.1), libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.4), libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.1), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxine1 (>= 1.0.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), dvdauthor (>= 0.6.10), dvd-slideshow, mjpegtools
Filename: pool/main/q/qdvdauthor/qdvdauthor_0.0.10-0.1_i386.deb
Size: 2572672
MD5sum: b55f2b630a40757fe48a4b0435dd8e94
Description: GUI frontend for dvdauthor and other related tools
 The goal is to provide an easy-to-use, yet powerful and complete interface
 to generate DVD menus, slideshows, and videos to burn on a DVD.

Package: dvdstyler
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 1900
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1:1.4-0.4
Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.5.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.2), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.9), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnome2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.6.0), libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.10.0-0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libice6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libjpeg62, liborbit2 (>= 1:2.10.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.2), libpopt0 (>= 1.7), libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2-3), libwxgtk2.6-0 (>= 2.6.1.2), libxml2 (>= 2.6.21), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), dvdauthor, mjpegtools, netpbm, mpgtx, mkisofs, dvd+rw-tools
Filename: pool/main/d/dvdstyler/dvdstyler_1.4-0.4_i386.deb
Size: 769240
MD5sum: dca52a43d6728eee7f4f510f405fddcc
Description: a crossplatform DVD Authoring System
 dvdstyler is a crossplatform DVD Authoring System.
 The main DVDStyler features are:
  * You can drag and drop MPEG files directly
  * You can import image file for background
  * You can create NTSC/PAL menus
  * You can place text and images anywhere on the menu screen
  * You can change font/color
  * You can put basic text buttons, change font/color and background color
  * You can copy and paste any menu object
  * You can set chapters for each movie
  * You can change post command for each movie
 .
 http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/index.html

Package: dvd-slideshow
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 388
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.7.1-0.2
Depends: dvdauthor (>= 0.6.9), mjpegtools, imagemagick, netpbm, sox, gsfonts, ffmpeg (>= 0.4.8)
Recommends: lame, toolame, jhead
Filename: pool/main/d/dvd-slideshow/dvd-slideshow_0.7.1-0.2_all.deb
Size: 75134
MD5sum: 2ff765d187092cee792437a29b9b05ce
Description: tools to create dvd slideshow with menus
 dvd-slideshow
 This is the main script. It generates a DVD-compatible MPEG2 video file
 with audio from a text file input listing of pictures and effects.
 .
 dvd-menu
 Creates a simple DVD menu with buttons that link to MPEG2 files generated
 with dvd-slideshow or ones that you have created yourself.
 .
 gallery2slideshow
 Instead of a GUI to create slideshows, I already have almost everything set
 up from my web page that uses the Gallery program. I figured it wouldn't be
 that hard to just get a listing of all the images in a given album
 (sub-albums not supported!) and to generate an appropriate input file to
 dvd-slideshow.
 .
 jigl2slideshow
 Does the same thing as gallery2slideshow, but works on a jigl gallery

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Out of all those, I think the last one sound by far the most
interesting.  They can even be combined given the last one simple makes
an mpeg2 in the DVD format of your slideshow, which can then be used
with menus made in one of the other tools too if desired.

Len Sorensen
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