Re: Do you know of any decent DVD authoring GUI-based programs on Linux?

William Don**ly

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Dec 27, 2012, 2:06:55 AM12/27/12

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Jon Danniken wrote:

> There is a third one that I had bookmarked back when I was looking for
> an authoring application, but I never installed it. Maybe you'll have
> some luck with it?
> http://www.bombono.org/cgi-bin/wiki/

Bummer. There is no Centos repository for Bombono.

$ uname -a
REPORTS: Linux XXX 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP

$ sudo yum update; sudo yum install bombono
REPORTS: Error: Nothing to do.

$ sudo yum list bombono
REPORTS: Error: No matching Packages to list

$ yum search all bombono
REPORTS: No Matches found

$ alias yumlist='yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --
disablerepo \*-source --disablerepo c6-media,\*debug\*,\*-source list'
$ yumlist bombono
REPORTS: Error: No matching Packages to list

$ alias yumsearch='yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --
disablerepo \*-source --disablerepo c6-media,\*debug\*,\*-source search'
$ yumsearch bombono
REPORTS: No Matches found

$ alias yumwhatprovides='yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \*
--disablerepo c6-media,\*-source,\*debug\* whatprovides'
$ yumwhatprovides "*/bombono"
REPORTS: No Matches found

$ yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --disablerepo c6-media,
\*-source,\*debug\* provides "*/bombono"
REPORTS: No Matches found

http://pkgs.repoforge.org
<control f>bombono
REPORTS: nothing

http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=bombono
REPORTS: Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, Slackware, & Ubuntu
(no Centos repositories). :(
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William Don**ly

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Dec 27, 2012, 2:13:52 AM12/27/12

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Mark Warner wrote:

> Out of my element, but perhaps kdenlive?:
> http://www.kdenlive.org/
> Should be in most repos.

Looks promising, so this is the current summary for Linux DVD authoring:

GUI DVD AUTHORING:
1. DeVeDe
2. Bombono
3. Kdenlive

COMMAND-LINE DVD AUTHORING:
1. genisoimage
2. dvdstyler + mencoder
3. tovid

Here's my log trying to locate a trusted Centos 6 repository for kdenlive:
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$ uname -a
REPORTS: Linux XXX 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP

$ sudo yum update; sudo yum install kdnlive

REPORTS: Error: Nothing to do.

$ sudo yum list kdnlive

REPORTS: Error: No matching Packages to list

$ yum search all kdnlive

REPORTS: No Matches found

$ alias yumlist='yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --
disablerepo \*-source --disablerepo c6-media,\*debug\*,\*-source list'

$ yumlist kdnlive

REPORTS: Error: No matching Packages to list

$ alias yumsearch='yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --
disablerepo \*-source --disablerepo c6-media,\*debug\*,\*-source search'

$ yumsearch kdnlive

REPORTS: No Matches found

$ alias yumwhatprovides='yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \*
--disablerepo c6-media,\*-source,\*debug\* whatprovides'

$ yumwhatprovides "*/kdnlive"

REPORTS: No Matches found

$ yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --disablerepo c6-media,

\*-source,\*debug\* provides "*/kdnlive"

REPORTS: No Matches found

http://pkgs.repoforge.org

<control f>kdnlive
REPORTS: nothing

http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=kdnlive
REPORTS: Your search did not match any packages.
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Jon Danniken

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Dec 27, 2012, 3:37:41 AM12/27/12

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On 12/26/2012 11:06 PM, William Don**ly wrote:
> Jon Danniken wrote:
>
>> There is a third one that I had bookmarked back when I was looking for
>> an authoring application, but I never installed it. Maybe you'll have
>> some luck with it?
>> http://www.bombono.org/cgi-bin/wiki/
>
> Bummer. There is no Centos repository for Bombono.

Well you could always compile it from the tarball. Other than that, get
virtualbox and run your favorite authoring tool in a virtual machine.

BTW, in case you haven't already looked, here is one fellows "fix" for
the DeVeDe mencoder error on Centos:

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/351933-How-to-debug-DeVeDe-Error-Conversion-failed-It-seems-a-bug-of-Mencoder

Jon

William Don**ly

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Dec 27, 2012, 5:38:08 AM12/27/12

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Jon Danniken wrote:

> BTW, in case you haven't already looked, here is one fellows "fix" for
> the DeVeDe mencoder error on Centos:

It worked like a charm!

Dave

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Dec 27, 2012, 7:01:38 AM12/27/12

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On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:06:55 +0000, William Don**ly wrote:

> Jon Danniken wrote:
>
>> There is a third one that I had bookmarked back when I was looking for
>> an authoring application, but I never installed it. Maybe you'll have
>> some luck with it?
>> http://www.bombono.org/cgi-bin/wiki/
>
> Bummer. There is no Centos repository for Bombono.
>

Bombono is in the rpmfusion repos because of patent laws.
http://www.bombono.org/cgi-bin/wiki/

Dave

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J G Miller

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Dec 27, 2012, 9:10:52 AM12/27/12

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On Thursday, December 27th, 2012, at 07:13:52h +0000,

William Donnelly wrote:

> Looks promising, so this is the current summary for Linux DVD authoring:

No mention of command line program dvdauthor.

Package: dvdauthor
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs

Description: create DVD-Video file system
dvdauthor is a program that will generate a DVD movie from a valid
mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player.

Original-Maintainer: Marc Leeman <marc....@gmail.com>

Home page at <http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.NET/>

Mark Warner

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Dec 27, 2012, 9:37:01 AM12/27/12

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William Don**ly wrote:
> Mark Warner wrote:
>
>> Out of my element, but perhaps kdenlive?:
>> http://www.kdenlive.org/
>> Should be in most repos.
>
> Looks promising, so this is the current summary for Linux DVD authoring:
>
> GUI DVD AUTHORING:
> 1. DeVeDe
> 2. Bombono
> 3. Kdenlive

> $ sudo yum update; sudo yum install kdnlive
> REPORTS: Error: Nothing to do.
>
> $ sudo yum list kdnlive
> REPORTS: Error: No matching Packages to list
>
> $ yum search all kdnlive
> REPORTS: No Matches found

You're spelling it wrong.

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William Don**ly

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Dec 27, 2012, 3:26:10 PM12/27/12

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Dave wrote:

> Bombono is in the rpmfusion repos because of patent laws.
> http://www.bombono.org/cgi-bin/wiki/

Ah, I see the following (relatively confusing) statement over here:
http://www.bombono.org/cgi-bin/wiki/News

Which said: "Bombono DVD has been packaged for Fedora 16 in RPM Fusion.
RPM Fusion ships Fedora packages which cannot be shipped from the main project,
e. g. due to US patent laws. In the beginning (i. e., April) bombono-dvd lives
in the rpmfusion-free-updates-testing repository.
Experienced Fedora users know how to enable this and install the package.
For others, the package will be readily available after the testing period,
just as rpmfusion is enabled. During the test period it can be downloaded
from i386 or x86_64."

So that explains why I see only Fusion RPMs at the Bombono wiki for Fedora:
http://www.bombono.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Download

This file has Centos 6 specific RPM Fusion setup instructions:
http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

I'm pretty confused how to install Bombono on Centos 6, but I think
this is the procedure:

0. The somewhat confused instructions say you have to first enable EPEL
(Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) before enabling RPM Fusion:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse

1. Then you install RPM Fusion repositories into /etc/yum.repos.d on Centos 6:
$ su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck \
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-6-1.noarch.rpm \
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-6-1.noarch.rpm'

2. This apparently creates the following two files:
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo

3. But a search does not find the desired package name:
$ yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --disablerepo c6-media,\*-source,\*debug\* provides "*/bombono-dvd"
REPORTS: No Matches found

4. And, the command I 'think' is supposed to work, fails:
sudo yum --enablerepo=epel --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing install bombono-dvd
REPORTS: Error: Nothing to do

Q: Any idea what I'm doing wrong on Centos 6 X86_64 to install Bombono?

William Don**ly

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Dec 27, 2012, 6:01:38 PM12/27/12

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J G Miller wrote:

> No mention of command line program dvdauthor.

It was actually a dependency for installing DeVeDe:
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install dvdauthor mencoder mplayer vcdimager ffmpeg
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=linuxtech-testing install devede