Devede has some serious issues: - inability to name the titles
Titles can have names? My DVD player doesn't show them afaik..
- tendency to drop audio tracks, or replace them with noise
Yes, forgot about that.. devede is VERY quick and easy for dumping a single video track to a disk. But if you have more than one video track, it messes up the sound fairly often.
- general inflexibility with DVD layout
Most people don't want 'flexability', they just want a silver disk that Granny can put in the dvd player and see movies of the grandkids. devede would be prefect for this task if it didn't have that annoying soundtrack bug..
I'd much more strongly recommend qdvdauthor (if you prefer easy drag'n'drop gui) or dvdauthor (if you prefer command-line flags and script hacking).
Ahhh.. I'll take a look at qdvdauthor. I've tried to use dvdauthor in the past, and I just couldn't figure out how to get from video clips to playable dvd without having to deal with menus and layout and options I just wasn't interested in. Less is more...
As for processing/sequencing the clips - kino has its adherents, but many folks find Cinelerra (cv.cinelerra.org) to be the best all-round video editing program for the *nix world.
kino is in the ubuntu repositories. I am strongly averse to the 'download binaries from random websites' way of installing software. Imho it's the Windows way of doing things and if it becomes normal practise in the Linux world, it will eventually lead to Linux suffering the kind of spyware issues that Windows suffers from. Also James is not 100% familiar with Linux so probably best to keep to what's easily installed from repos.