GUI for AviSynth, QuEnc, Aften etc.

[vlada]

Hello,

I plan to create a GUI which would allow a very easy way to create Video-DVDs. Just open a media file supported by AviSynth (almost everything) and this program will convert it to DVD-Video with a single click.

Unfortunately the only programming languages I know are Pascal (useles today) and PHP. I'm learning Java but so far I have no experiences with GUI. My first question is: is it better to use Java or PHP-GTK (probably much easier for me)?

The workflow of the program should be following:

1) Get information about loaded media file using MediaInfo CLI and parsing it's output
2) Demuxing (AVI-Mux GUI, MKVExtract, MP4Box) audio and converting it to AC3 (using CLI decoders and Aften). I'm a little confused on how to do this step better. I might need some conversions (sample rate) and also what to do with formats such as ASF/WMA, Real Media etc. BeHappy or QuEnc might be the answer.
3) Create AviSynth script a feed it to QuEnc or HC to create m2v stream.
4) Use DVDAuthor (or anything else) to master the DVD.
5) Optionally burn it using probably ImgBurn.

What do you think about my idea? Any comments or advices? Is it doable at all?

[HarryM]

Hello,

I plan to create a GUI which would allow a very easy way to create Video-DVDs.

Why do you want to make this soft? Many softs make the same thing - D2MP, AutoGK, FilmMachine, etc (all are free).

[sillKotscha]

Why do you want to make this soft?

it's the spirit of the free will :)

and it will surely improve his coding skills/ knowledge of video editing... once he's fed up with further development of his tool he may could interfere in other projects and help to improve things because of his gained knowledge - that's how it goes...

[vlada]

HarryM
D2MP - looks nice, but only supports AVIs. You get an unrestricted version only after donating.
AutoGK - it is a DVD to AVI convertor AFAIK.
FilmMachine - last time I tried it, didn't work very well for me.

sillKotscha
You're absolutely right about my motivation.

I want to make something similar to DVD Flick (http://dvdflick.sourceforge.net/index.php), which is based on ffmpeg.

[raquete]

I plan to create a GUI which would allow a very easy way to create Video-DVDs.very cool!
one question/request: will be possible to do video-dvds with audio only(DTS,AC3), using pictures(bmp,etc) and not with movies?

[vlada]

very cool!
one question/request: will be possible to do video-dvds with audio only(DTS,AC3), using pictures(bmp,etc) and not with movies?

It's too early to say. So far I'm only in planning stage....

If you want to create a slideshow, there is already one AviSynth based tool: DVDslideshowGUI (http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/).

[raquete]

thanks vlada but better is wait for your GUI,dvdslideshowgui can't open ac3 and dts files....too bad!