tags: DVD

This wizard will create a DVD with fully animated menu from MPEG-2 files. It is designed to be very easy to use. All you need to do is add one or more files to the playlist and answer the questions that follow.

VideoLink is intended to provide a simple way of producing DVDs with attractive and usable menus. It converts HTML pages into DVD menus by rendering them in Mozilla and reproducing their link structure. This allows you to design DVDs using familiar HTML editing tools or your favourite text editor.

If you have video footage that you want to capture, edit, and share with friends or family (or even use professionally), you'll be happy to know that you can do it all with open source tools. I'll show you how to author a DVD that can play on most home players.

Traditionally, DVD authoring has been an expensive affair. Full-featured professional applications can cost thousands of dollars, while cheaper products, such as Apple's iDVD, have arbitrary restrictions that significantly reduce their usefulness. A new open-source effort, dvdauthor, is bringing the possibility of low-cost, professional-grade DVD authoring to Linux.

After renting nearly 1,000 DVDs online, I've experienced the intricacies, quirks, and pitfalls of online DVD renting. I started out renting from Netflix 2 years ago then subscribed to Blockbuster Online and GreenCine a year ago after becoming dissatisfied with Netflix's service.

GreenCine is an online DVD rental service similar to Netflix. Based in San Francisco, California, with its distribution center in the Los Angeles area(Van Nuys), it has a collection of over 80,000 titles as well as 10,000 video on demand titles. It is unique in that it carries a wide range of anime, rare, and independent studio films, as well as adult films on its sister site, BlueCine.