Videotrans

videotrans is a set of scripts that allow its user to reformat existing movies into the VOB format that is used on DVDs.

Furthermore, videotrans supplies programs which allow its user to create a complete DVD, including selection menus which allow the viewer to choose which movie he/she wants to see, if more than one movie fits onto a DVD.

Download

The videotrans project's homepage is located at .

Author

The author, Sven Berkvens-Matthijsse, has a small company called de Kattenfabriek (which translates to the Cat Factory). The company uses mostly open source software.

Documentation

This site only contains the manual pages for videotrans at the moment, so that potential users can find out whether the package would suit their needs. The list of manual pages:

videotrans

An introductory manual page that explains which components the system is made up of and how they are related.

movie-to-dvd

movie-to-dvd is the program that converts any movie in a format that mplayer is able to play into DVD compatible video and audio streams. It will optionally combine the two streams together into a DVD compatible VOB file, but movie-title will also do this for you automatically if you create a complete DVD with a menu.

movie-title

movie-title is a program that creates a nice DVD menu from which a DVD's viewer can choose which movie to watch. It works by taking a title sequence, which is created with movie-make-title, and all the movies that you want to put onto the DVD. It will combine these to create a menu with the title sequence in the background (and the audio of the title sequence will be audible while the viewer is choosing) and picture-in-picture previews of all the movies. Furthermore, it is possible to supply extra information about the movies, which a viewer can choose to look at as well.

movie-make-title

movie-make-title is a program that takes one movie, cuts out a part of it and uses that as a so-called "title sequence". Such a title sequence can be used as the background of a navigational menu that you can create with movie-title.

movie-make-title-simple

movie-make-title-simple is a program that takes a combination of a background color, optionally an image and optionally an audio track and converts these into a title sequence that can be used with movie-title.

movie-rip-tv.com

movie-rip-tv.com is a program that can rip information about TV episodes from tv.com and save that information is a format suitable for the movie-title program. The viewer of the DVD will be able to view the extra information by choosing the little "information" icon that will be available with the episode in the DVD's menu.

movie-rip-epg.data

movie-rip-epg.data is a program that can rip information about TV episodes from a VDR epg.data file. The viewer of the DVD will be able to view the extra information by choosing the little "information" icon that will be available with the episode in the DVD's menu.

movie-compare-dvd

movie-compare-dvd is a small script that can be used to verify that the image of a DVD was correctly burned onto a real DVD by comparing all the files on harddisk with the files on the DVD.