Custome DVD Generation single, background, producing, something

andy

I'm at the start of producing some software which is meant to ...

Allow end users in a kiosk type environsment to complie a DVD from a list of short clicps.  Each clip is less than 10 minutes and I expect we will limit it to something like 20 clips.

The resulting DVD should have a single Title menu with one button per clip.  Clicking hte button should start the clip and control should return to the menu at the end.  The tilte menu background will be an image which may be user selectable.

Simple enough, in theory, but getting to grips with the DVD Spec (through Internet resources) is proving a challenge.

Time to burn is important so my thoughts were to: -

Each Clip would be a title and a VOB file would be pre-prepared for each (2 - 10 k clips).  When the user has selected his preffered clips to create a VIDEO_TS.IFO file (and a VIDEO_TS.VOB file if needed for subpicture and still resources).  I am unclear from my reading if I would need to have a .IFO for each tilte for PGC information or if all this could be in the VIDEO_TS file.

Obviously creating the IFO file (and even a VOB resource file) would not take long.

Then to create a UDF image (virtual or phyiscal) and burn the DVD.

I'm mainly struiggling because most of the resource I've found is about stripping stuff (vStrip for example) rather than creation from scratch.

I'm hoping for one (or both) of two things from this post.  Thing one is pointers to useful resources, preferably source code (more or less anything but C++ preferred), which compiles VOB and IFO files from MPEG2 Video and audio streams, bitmaps for subpictures, bitmaps for stills and so on.  Thing 2 is skilled and knowledgable programmers who would be willing to write some support code for this on a commercial basis.

Obviously the fisrt thing is just what Authoring tools do and some of the available SDKs.  However the SDKs do not necessarily give the right level of granularity for this application and or are VERY expensive.

I've found mpucoder's DVD data structures which is helpful and vstrip which is also useful.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Iain

basically what you want is a DVD maestro quot;for kidsquot;...
i think it's a very good idea, because of it's price and because you can't get a demo of that anywhere