dvdwizard(1)

NAME

DVDwizard -- automated creation of DVD structure

SYNOPSIS

dvdwizard [options] mpeg-file ...

DESCRIPTION

DVDwizard is a wrapper-script which incorporates a fully automated creation of a DVD-structure with chapters and menus from one or more mpeg-streams. This is done by several "sub-scripts" and various freely available tools.

Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdwizard/

OPTIONS

miscellaneous options

-h | --help

print this lot out

-v | --version

print version and exit

general processing

-C | --config-file filename

filename of dvdwizard-configuration file [~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf]

-o | --output directory

Path where the final DVD will be stored [BASEDIR/dvd]

-x | --xml filename

Print dvdauthor XML-specs into this file [BASEDIR/dvdwizard.xml]

-l | --logfile filename

Write Log-Messages to this file [BASEDIR/dvdwizard.log]

-y | --yes

Allow all target directories to be overwritten

--restart

Do not start from beginning but from step x. x may be dvdcpics, mk_vmgm, mk_vtsm, author. --xmlonly Do not author final DVD, only create menus and xml and remove temp. DVD structure. --xmlkeep Like --xmlonly, but keep temporary DVD structure.

Note: BASEDIR defaults to the current directory if not stated otherwise in the config file (either default ~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf or specified with the -C option).

DVD-specific options

-T | --vmgm string

Titlestring for the whole DVD if not specified, no title will be printed on the main menu.

-N | --tvnorm <PAL|NTSC>

TV-Norm to use [PAL].

-V | --tvsize WidexHeight

Visible Area on TV-Screen [635x535]

-WS <nopanscan|noletterbox>

Widescreen-Option for whole DVD may be overwritten by -ws for a specific titleset

-P | --palette filename

Name of palette File, needed i. E. for subpictures

-A | --Audio language[,language2,...]

language for audiotracks [de,en]. Languages are applied to audiotracks in order they appear in the mpeg stream. Applies to all titlesets on the DVD, may be overwritten by -a for a specific titleset

-M | --menu language

Language to use in menu items [en]. Textelements are defined in config file.

-I | --intro filename

MPEG-File to be played when inserting the DVD in the player.

-L | --loop value

Playback mode of the DVD. Possible values are:

0 return to vmgm menu after each title.
-1 display vmgm menu before the first and after the last

title.

-2 display vmgm menu only before first title and loop all

titles endlessly.

num num is a value between 1 and 9. It suppresses vmgm menu

and loop all titles endlessly, starting from specified title.

-MS | --vmgmsound filename

Soundfile to be used as background sound for all menus (may be overwritten for specific titlesets with -ms|--vtsmsound). If empty, a silent audio track will be produced. Can be any format, ffmpeg recognizes and will be converted to ac3, if neccessary.

-W | --pause number

Wait a number of seconds as pause at the end of each titleset.

Title-specific options

-t | --vts string

Create a new titleset on the DVD with the subsequent options and mpeg-files. -t must be followed by a filename or a string or the word "auto". "auto" determines title-string from filename of first mpeg-file, if -t is followed by an existing filename, that file is considered to be the first mpeg in this titleset, else the string is used as movie title for this titleset.

-c | --chapters <0|file|timecodes|interval>

Chapter-Specification. Defaults to interval [300]. 0 means no chaptering except for different mpeg-files.

-b | --vtsmbg picture

Background-Picture for all menus concerning this titleset.

-ar | --aspect <4:3 | 16:9>

Aspect-Ratio-Option for correcting.

-ws <nopanscan | noletterbox>

Widescreen-Option () for this titleset

-a | --audio language[,language2,...]

see -A, but only applies to this titleset

-s | --subpic lang1[,lang2,...]

pass subpicture information to dvdauthor. This is a string like "en" for english, "de" for German etc. More Languages by Comma Separation, i.e. "-s de,en". Each language may be followed by an optional "+hi" to indicate a subpicture track for hearing impaired, i.e. "-s de,de+hi"

-i | --info filename

points to a text file containing description and the like for the movie.

-ms | --vtsmsound filename

see -MS, but only applies to this titleset.

EXAMPLES

Every new -t creates a new titleset on the DVD. Subsequent options -c, -b and -a and mpeg-file(s) apply only to that titleset. To create a DVD with two titlesets and a special background, use for example:

dvdwizard -t auto -c 30 title1.mpg \

-t auto -b bckgrnd.ppm title2.mpg

NOTES

For more informations about DVDwizard, for sources and executables see at http://www.joonet.de/dvdwizard/.

AUTHOR

DVDwizard was written by Wolfgang Wershofen <itconsult@wershofen.de>. Since 2009 DVDwizard will be developed by Joo Martin <ad_debian@joonet.de>.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

This manual page was original written by Joo Martin for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

DVDwizard 0.5.7 April 7, 2009 DVDWIZARD(1)