DVD Authoring

[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:47:18PM -0400, Franco Saliola wrote:
> Make a backup image of a DVD.

 Since I'm not actually copying a DVD I'm not sure what to make of this.
>   dvdbackup -M -i/dev/dvd -o/scratch/
If I were to create the files required in scratch by hand or through an application how would I do that?

Think the following: I have just converted 30year old home movies from videotape to mpgs, now I want to create a DVD to allow me to a) select a specific movie, b) watch it on my TV.

> 
> Burn it with growisofs
>   growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video scratch/TITLE
> 
I'm assuming this is the method used to burn the DVDs. I use the utility when I'm creating DVD backups of datafiles.

> Note the -dvd-video option. Read the man pages. 
> 
> These are part of the dvdbackup and dvd+rw-tools software packages.
> 
> Franco
> 
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> On 5/17/05, billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org <billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to figure out how to create DVDs. The kind that you can play in a normal DVD player.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestion for programs or applications that can be used on linux to do DVD authoring.
> > 
> > Also since I'm a complete newbie at this anyone with advise would be helpful.
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