The problem I have is there are 10 clips and 54 stills to be included.  That and I don't have a clue how to do it - so it's been a major learning curve.  I've tried a 30 day trial of dvdPro (Windows app) which created a slideshow and played one clip quite happily when I made my trial disc.  However now that I have all 10 clips on there and all stills in the slideshow it grumbles about "read data exceeds buffer" and the documentation doesn't say what the buffer is nor how I can change the buffer size.  I suspect it's trying to build the dvd in ram (I only have 1Gb).  But I can't seem to find a way around it. 

Question:  Is there a limit to the number of clips/movies you can have attached to a single menu page?  That is the next thing I am going to try - split the clips over 3 menu pages - and see if it will rebuild that ok.

*sigh*

Back to the drawing board :)

J

On Dec 17, 2007 7:22 PM, David McNab <david@rebirthing.co.nz> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 14:04 +1300, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:

> Nope.. qdvdauthor WAS the program I looked at last time.
>
> I have spend HOURS trying to figure out this program, and I still can't
> take one simple AVI file and put it on a disk that plays in a DVD
> player. It simply ... DOES ... NOT ... WORK.

Quick qdvdauthor howto:

1) Convert your home movie to a DVD-compliant MPEG:

   ffmpeg -i myhomemovie.avi -target pal-dvd myhomemovie.mpg

2) Start up qdvdauthor

3) Click on Help->QuickStartGuide and follow the instructions to the
letter

4) Create an ISO image from the created DVD directory (assume you
  called the directory 'myhomemovie' in qdvdauthor):

   mkisofs -R -J -o myhomemovie.iso myhomemovie

5) Burn the DVD - via k3b or whatever your favourite burner prog is

6) Play and enjoy

Cheers
David



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