Description:

The general idea behind dvdwizard was to automate the creation of a full-featured Video-DVD structure from a given MPEG-file and make it as easy as possible. On the other hand, it should be flexible enough to let the more experienced user adjust the looks of the DVD to his or her liking.

The result is a set of bash scripts, which act as a command-line frontend to dvdauthor , which is one of the two core applications within dvdwizard. dvdauthor creates a Video-DVD-compliant directory structure, suitable to be watched directly with a software DVD-Player like Xine or to be burned on DVD and watched on TV with a hardware player.

The other core application is ImageMagick , which offers a wast variety of tools to create and manipulate graphical data. Within dvdwizard, ImageMagick is used to create menu backgrounds and button masks without any user interaction.