DVDStyler

simple, and easy to use.

I LOVE THIS APPLICATION. I have been so devoted to v1.8.2.1 I have only today updated to v2.0 . I was hoping there might have been some development toward authoring audio-DVD compilations, but I don't see anything new. What I really need is some way to tell DVDStyler to proceed from the present menu to another one when the current menu's background audio track comes to an end. I'll probably have to start over and supply dummy video, and use conventional TRACKS. Using MENUS instead, however, has the advantage of presenting navigation options throughout the course of the song.... FROM 25 JUNE 2005: DVDStyler support .ac3, .mp2, but you need to add a video track (m2v) with the same duration as audio track too. If you don't have one, than you can generate it using command lines tools: * LINUX (PAL): jpegtopnm /usr/local/share/DVDStyler/backgrounds/02_bi_domrep.jpg | ppmtoy4m -r -n [FRAMES] -I t -L -F25:1 -A 59:54 | mpeg2enc -f 8 -b 9000 -o video.m2v * WINDOWS (PAL): cd C:\Program Files\DVDStyler\dvdauthor\ jpeg2yuv -n [FRAMES] -I t -L 1 -f 25 -j "C:\Program Files\DVDStyler\backgrounds\02_bi_domrep.jpg" | mpeg2enc -f 8 -b 9000 -o video.m2v where [FRAMES] = audio duration in sec * 25 f.e. if you have ac3 with duration 40.05 sec then [FRAMES] = 1001 erikhogan ...As pleased as I was with myself, I'm now kicking myself for having spent so much time on a probable dead-end solution instead of looking harder for the information above. Is there ANY way to instruct the player to proceed to the next menu at the end of the background audio track? It's ludicrous to hope this eventuality was foreseen, but I'm praying for a genius work-around. SPEAKING OF WORKAROUNDS, does anyone have any pointers for performing reliable double-layer (DVD-9) authoring using DVDStyler? No matter what burning utility I use, I'm showered with bad layer breaks--the only workaround I have intuited is to start at a bitrate that DVDStyler says won't fit, and painstakingly decrement it until the resulting iso will completely fill the disc--forcing the hardware to accept the rim as the layer break. I guess it's good form to fully exploit the recording surface, but I'm sure I'm missing an easier way to accomplish this.

Absolutely Superb software!