December 31, 2003 – 17:55
Oh, boy! It looks like this post is quite a popular one. Just keep in mind that I penned it in December 2003. But if you have any suggestions, modifications or updates, please, do leave a comment.
Traditionally, DVD authoring has been an expensive affair. Full-featured professional applications or hardware costs big sums of money, while low-budget products often come with severe limitations in features.
However, it’s now possible to author professional DVDs on Linux thanks to a group of open-source packages. Even if they do not yet support all features of the DVD specification new features are being added with each release.
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December 31, 2003 – 17:45
I successfully authored my first DVD on Linux today, with the mjpegtool and dvdauthor suites of commandline tools. Not that my creation is very content rich, it’s just some menus and slideshows with audio. I’ve started to compile all infomation I have into a long and detailed note regarding how to use the various tools to author a DVD. A work in progress copy can be found here of my DVD Primer.
MPEG-2 coded stereo soundtrack can be encoded with the exelent tooLAME tool, and a multi-channel 5.1 soundtrack can be created using the companion mctooLAME tool. It also looks possible to encode audio as AC-3 tracks using the Transcode utility, at least stereo, while waiting for the AC3 Project to produce some usable software.
A very well written general overview of multi-channel surround sound and its history can be found at ExtremeTech.
December 31, 2003 – 12:15
Ok, now it’s no doubt any longer. It really is winter after all when it even snows in Las Vegas…
December 28, 2003 – 12:15
Just want to say happy birthday Linus Torvalds.
December 21, 2003 – 21:54
I’m feeling so f**king alone right now. I’m like an ant. If you take an ant away from the rest of the ants so he won’t find his way home. He will die of lonelyness, no matter what. Right now, I’m feeling lost.