The directory structure is as follows :
addons : additional tools / libraries (currently FreeImagePlus)
test : all my test files to play with.
qdvdauthor : the source tree
configurator : small Qt app to configure the build process of qdvdauthor.

The current release is working and can generate a multi-format DVD (PAL and NTSC on one DVD). I wanted this feature since My parents live in Germany and I am going back to the states.

BUGs in version 0.0.5:
o	Only the Hilghlighted layer is used. No Fix for now.
o	Rotation of Objects in the ButtonDialog are messy (but work).

Future:
I want to enhance qdvdauthor to a level where every one can create their VideoDVD with a few mouse clicks. As you probably see by now this is still far off but I am getting there ... For a much more detailed list of future improvements refer to the TODO - file.


// Here is what I found to convert a video from any format into mpeg2 format on the web
First you can use mplayer to convert the video in the AVI to mpeg2
stream, for a (relatively) low quality 1-pass test, try

mencoder yoursource.avi -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg2video:keyint=132:vbitrate=1000:autoaspect:vrc_buf_size=1000:
vrc_minrate=1000:vrc_maxrate=2500:vpsize=1000 -of mpeg -o
yoursource.mpeg
mplayer yoursource.mpeg -dumpvideo -dumpfile yoursource.m2v

To make SVCD's you want to keep, you should turn on a bunch of other
lavc options, such as
mbd=2:precmp=2:cmp=2:subcmp=2:trell:cbp:tcplx_mask=0.1:scplx_mask=0.1
and ofcourse do 2 pass, and maybe increase vbitrate and vrc_maxrate

Get the audio:
mplayer yoursource.avi -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio.dump

Depending on the type of the audio, you might have to convert it, or you
can throw it as is into mplex from mjpegtools, which you use  to mux the
audio and video streams together to make a (S)VCD.

mplex -f5 -V -b230 -o movie.mpg yoursource.m2v audio.dump

Then with any luck movie.mpg should be a SVCD movie... I think... I
build DVD's (or at least that's what I'm trying to do) so I don't know.


> Here a link to avidemux, a gtk2 GUI to convert to Mpeg2
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

> Here a link to IWantVCD
http://roi.halted.net/
