linuxcaffe event (sort-of) Blender festival !

[JoeHill]

Scott Elcomb left a post-it on the fridge:

> On 6/21/07, David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Open-air screenings take place Saturday night(s) from ~ 9pm - 11pm in
> > Bickford park, across from linuxcaffe. This is a tentative
> > announcement, as we're still compiling, and will have to learn how to
> > author a DVD, between now and then.  
> 
> You might try Q DVD-Author.  It's reported as being one of the better
> Linux GUI interfaces for the command line DVD Author package, but it
> has some issues.  I've tried it a couple times, but it likes to crash
> and I keep running into problems during the disc-compilation stage.
> 
> I received Catalyst Media Center (for Windoze) with my TV Wonder 200;
> if you run into trouble I'd be happy to put an .iso together for you.

An alternative that's definitely worth a shot is Tovid. It's mainly a command
line tool, though it does have a very simple and easy to use GUI (which has
never crashed on me...). Converting almost any format to ntsc mpeg format is
dead easy, as is creating a menu for the dvd . The menus can go from simple to
over-the-top eye-candy.

Tovid packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu and Mandriva that I'm sure of,
but building even the SVN version is not exactly rocket science.

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