--- Hal Duston [email protected] wrote:
Use tovid. It converts AVI files directly to DVD's. It takes care of all the arcane obscure options needed to do this.
Thanks Hal, tovid does look like a very good solution for the video conversion, and even goes one step further by doing better menus than DVDStyler (if the screenshots can be believed).
Back in the past I used Nero in Windows, and ever since it tried to reencode all my custom MPEG2 files during DVD creation I've been loath to let the DVD menumaker application convert the videos too. Of course, tovid isn't Nero, and may well be exactly what I'm looking for.
Tricky to use in Ubuntu, though, since the ubuntu repositories apparently have broken tovid packages. Not impossible though, as the following link demonstrates how to use the existing Debian tovid package with Ubuntu.
http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Installing_tovid/Ubuntu
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