For anyone who may have reason to deal with this antiquated, anticloud technology, I needed to author a couple disks.
I tried videotrans, tovid. Maybe I didn't understand enough to use videotrans, and would get better result if I tried again. Tovid was was disappointment, after laying out a DVD, the codec doubled the file size, so now it wouldn't fit on the disc. Bombono looks good in the youtube tutorial, but is unmaintained. I had problems, again disappointment after getting DVD menus and clips created, and crashing later in the process. Cross-platform DVDStyler didn't install on my debian system, because some probably upgraded-related sid package conflicts, what I tested was on our iMac. (This was with an older OSX, 10.6.8, which wouldn't accommodate the newest version 2.9, but 2.4.1 did install.) Debian has much newer available, so should be all this and more. I found it helpful that there was an auto setting for video transcoding compression that ensures the material will fit on disc. Also, it caches the transcoded files, so that the process of updating the menus and creating a new disc image goes quickly. I wanted to use 720x480 m2v and separate mpa files supplied to me, I was told in DVD-ready form, however tovid had complained the m2v wasn't DVD compatible. Must be some further transformation to VOB. So instead of multiplexing them to import, ended up transcoding from .mov files I had for the same job. It took me a long time to figure out that clicking on a highlight color (replacing it with a fine black "X") was needed for the palette to update the color. Otherwise, the WxWidget GUI was okay. There were a few bugs. A few times I had to exit and restart the app. Once the OS needed to reboot in order for DVDStyler to startup properly. Once I needed to remove and re-install the app to get it to continue. I did managed to coax it through authoring the two discs. I like the look of WxWidget, perhaps will use it one day in one of my projects... Cheers, Joel -- Joel Roth