I need a basic Authoring tool...

[duartix]

I've got a lot of Music Video DVDs.
My objective is to make a new DVD where I could put 4 Depeche Mode videos, 3 Bjork Videos, 3 Rammstein Videos, 4 Air Videos, ....

Then I just want a one picture menu where I can select: Depeche Mode, Bjork, Air etc. or alternatively Play them All.

How can I do this, preserving the original Video (no recompression) I have from all these VOBs I have lying around from DVDShrink Reauthoring sessions?

Is there such a tool?

Thanks.

[buzzqw]

could not be very simple (even is very newby progz) but dvdlab (even standard edition) would do the match (but not play all feature, on with dvdlabpro , iirc)

best regards

BHH

[duartix]

Thanks, I'll try DVDLab Pro.
I guess if I were to extract the m2v and the ac3 files from the VOBs, I should have a wider choice of tools, right?

[M7S]

If you want a freeware option try DVDAuthor (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/). If you want a GUI for it there are dvdauthorGUI (http://www.videohelp.com/~liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl?p=news), a nice gui (probably the most widely used gui for dvdautor in Windows), DVDStyler (http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/), which is very easy to use but with fewer options and GFD (http://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/), which I haven't tried much (yet). If you have Linux qdvdauthor (http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/) seems to be a even nicer gui with much options.

DVDStyler would probably do what you want with the lowest number of mouseclicks ;)

Regards,
M7S

[buzzqw]

programs listed by M7S are all excellent gui for dvdauthor package ! It would be a nice try.

DvdLab (std/pro) do not require elemental streams, on drag'n drop of vob it ask if you want to demultiplex,take as is, or perform a basic analisys (iirc..) for spotting streams inside.


BHH

[duartix]

Last night I gave DVDLab Pro a try.

It's surely not for the noob author (me) but it featured so much useful commands, that I spent a lot of my time using it to demux the audio/video and reencode the normalized LPCM audio tracks to AC3.
I didn't managed to use a template to create my DVD, but fortunately for me yesterday, I also stumbled in TMPEG DVDAuthor.
From what I've tested, this is THE click tool.

I could choose among a lot of templates to create my DVD with a front menu for the DVD where I featured each band (tracks / TitleSets) and then use submenus for the videos of each band.
It imports the VOBS I had already muxed for each song and creates filmnails on every menu.
VERY COOL!!! :D
Man, me using wizards and liking it :o !!!

Now for some more fun I'll check out those sugestions you gave.
Thanks.