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How to burn video DVD from c#?

I need to burn video dvd from my web cam in C# application? What is the right way to do it? What are required steps? I guess I must create image with right folder structure and MPEG2 video and then burn it to DVD? IMAPI2? ...

How to tell if a given path is mounted removable media in Mac OS X?

Given a path, in Mac OS X, is there a way to tell that it is a mounted CD or DVD, as opposed to a regular directory, a regular file, or mounted DMG or other mountable file type? Specifically I would like to know if it is a CD or DVD when a user supplies a path directly, or via the NSOpenPanel, or drags the CD onto the app. I need to ta...

Open CD/DVD door with a Windows API call?

How do I open the CD/DVD door with a Windows API call? ...

wpf app on dvd how to?

Just wondering if it is possible to play a wpf app on dvd. We have an app which acts as a Knowledgebase for a few applications. Our client would like the users to take home the dvd and play it to get familiar with various aspects of apps using the dvd. You can kind of think of the KB application as a collection of articles built using w...

Extract DVD subtitles programmatically

I'm trying to extract subtitles from unencrypted DVDs with a program, so I can save them seperately. I know there are programs that do that (I found this page for example: http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/en/separate/subtitles.html), but I would like to be able to do it with a library call or something like that (do libdvdread or l...

Software Recommendations for Interactive Language Tutorial DVD

I recently bought a language book that came with two DVDs. They ran on Windows computer under the Media Player, but I noticed they were very similar to TV videos. I actually popped it in my TV's DVD player and found it worked there. I could actually "run" and navigate the tutorial with my remote control. I was rather shocked that la...

Python CDROM Production

Hi, I'm a complete newbie to Python so forgive my ignorance. I have been using Macromedia / Adobe Director & Lingo since 1998. I am extremely familiar with using this software to create CDROMs and DVDs and also have a good knowledge of design elements and their integration such as flash videos, images & audio etc. I am always keen to ...

How can I play DVD files using wmp.dll?

I need help with my VB6 app. I have a form with a reference to wmp.dll (Windows Media Player 9 ocx). I can play many file extensions like Mpg mpeg , avi, qt and others, but I want to play dvd files. I'm using the following code:. wmp.url = "D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.VOB" This command work in all files, but not for DVD files. I've also tr...

Making a DVD video with a still image and PCM 16bit audio with ffmpeg

I'm trying to make a small video with a still image and a sound file playing in the background to pass it to dvdauthor and create a DVD. The command I'm using is this: ffmpeg -loop_input -i image.jpg -qscale 2 -i song.flac -aspect 4:3 -target pal-dvd -acodec pcm_s16le -shortest output.mpg However, the resulting video file doesn't have...

How to split large VOB file to 1GB VOB files for Video DVD creation

I've used FFmpeg to convert an ISO MP4 video file into an MPEG2 VOB file in readiness for creation of a video DVD. I now need to find a way to make multiple VOB files from the original output since the maximum size of a VOB for a video DVD is 1GB. The FFmpeg tool does not appear to have any option to create multiple output files of a m...

What's the algorithm for generating the time map (VTS_TMAP) data for a DVD's IFO file?

I'm looking to create an IFO file for a VOB so that I can produce a video DVD. I have the specifications for the contents of the VTS_01_1.IFO file however I'm not sure on how to generate the time map data for the VTS_TMAP section. I think the entries are based on frame rate but this is not obvious from the example DVD's I've looked...

Play DVDs in Python?

I want to write a custom DVD player using python that plays for 30 seconds, then pauses and asks a question. Once the question is anwered, it tells the user if they are right or wrong and gives them a Resume button to resume DVD playback. How do I do this. I have never written a DVD player before, but I am open to learning! ...

writing data onto a linux live-dvd

Hi All, I have a server machine with a dvd-writer. I want to burn a linux live-dvd (openSUSE is preferred) with a pre-configured web server, so that after booting the web server should be ready to serve. The web server has a sqlite database (with very less data). But after rebooting the system, all data in the database will get lost. I...

Playing flash file on my DVD player

I want to make my flash file to play on my dvd player. It has some scripted buttons on it, so it is important that this works, is it even possible to make a swf into a DVD format and then play it with scripted buttons? ...

Any good way to handle VOB files in C# ?

Hi all, We are trying to load a DVD scan it and extract some information. To extract the information we need to take a snapshot and run some image analysis. So far we were using the DirectShow framework and got almost all of the features to work. The major issue is handling an encrypted DVD. We can't make it fast forward, run backwar...

DirectShow DVD manipulation and capturing.

Hi, I am new to DirectShow. My intention was to develope a small application (C#) that handles video processing. The main tasks i need are : 1 - Display video content from a DVD. 2 - Navigate to specific points of time in the video. 3 - Capture specific frames into still images and save them to files. Sounded easy at first, but aft...

Does anyone know a good DVD manipulation component that i can download or buy ?

Hi, We are trying to develope a small C# application to load a DVD (VOB), display it and capture some frames. This application is going to be comercial so I am looking for a component (DLL maybe) that we can buy and use to A. play the DVD, B. Jump to specific times in the DVD and C. Capture frames. This is really urgent, so any help w...

DVD to FLV File Conversion Using PHP -- Is this Doable? Insane? What are alternatives?

So I have users who have told me they are interested in being able to upload videos to my site straight from DVD's (for which they own the rights, of course). I've never encountered this before, but I would imagine this would take an enormous amount of resources and would clog up the servers, which I would like to avoid. A basic googl...

Using DirectShow in Python

I'd like to call this method inside a Python script, with as few extra dependencies as possible. How can I do it? I've tried DirectPython, but it's installer installs only for 32-bit architectures, it seems. I've tried comtypes, but the installer can't find my Python installation. ...

Strategies for programmatically controlling a commercial DVD player

If you were tasked with operating a commercial DVD player from a computer program, how would you do it? My company sells a product that does exactly that. We have a couple of different approaches, and they both have major issues: Get an IR Transmitter, Pretend To Be a Remote Control Pros: Works with pretty much every commercial DV...