StarBurn SDK Authoring Question

jayselle · **Joined:** Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:12 pm **Posts:** 3

Can the StartBurn SDK do the following?

1. Create a dvd capable of playing on any standard DVD player?
2. Create a menu on this DVD?
3. Use standard video formats like MPEG2, AVI, etc?

The goal is to be able to burn 5 separate video files to a DVD. The 5 videos need to show up on a menu to allow the user to select which one to play.

Do you have or know of any tools that allow for overlaying text over video dynamically? For example if I there is a program that allowed you to enter your name then you hit burn. It could burn a DVD with a video and have your name overlayed.

Thanks for your help!

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:25 am

We do DVD mastering but we don't do DVD authoring (yet). So you'd have to use third-party DVD authoring tool for this. Maybe something from AuthorWare.

jayselle wrote:

Can the StartBurn SDK do the following?

1. Create a dvd capable of playing on any standard DVD player?
2. Create a menu on this DVD?
3. Use standard video formats like MPEG2, AVI, etc?

The goal is to be able to burn 5 separate video files to a DVD. The 5 videos need to show up on a menu to allow the user to select which one to play.

Do you have or know of any tools that allow for overlaying text over video dynamically? For example if I there is a program that allowed you to enter your name then you hit burn. It could burn a DVD with a video and have your name overlayed.

Thanks for your help!

jayselle · **Joined:** Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:12 pm **Posts:** 3

The only thing I could find about authorware was from adobe? Are you referring to this? I am very interested in your product, however, it all hinges on being able to burn mpeg/avi to dvd-video. Thanks.

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:50 pm

Take a look at www.authoringware.com for their DVD-Video authoring code. They can take your MPEG, multiplex it with AC3 audio stream and produce authorized DVD-Video content. You can use StarBurn to master and burn it.

For MPEG4 AVI you'll have too get extra transcoder to do MPEG4->MPEG2 transcoding.

No single toolkit I know would do what you want. You'd end with at least two of them.

jayselle wrote:

The only thing I could find about authorware was from adobe? Are you referring to this? I am very interested in your product, however, it all hinges on being able to burn mpeg/avi to dvd-video. Thanks.

xexx · **Joined:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:25 am **Posts:** 43

Hi Anton

Thanks for the link. Do you know of any customers who have successfully used that SDK?

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:53 pm

Yes! If they would be kind enough they would evenn write here themselves

xexx wrote:

Hi Anton

Thanks for the link. Do you know of any customers who have successfully used that SDK?

jayselle · **Joined:** Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:12 pm **Posts:** 3

If I were to convert all the mpeg's to VOB's first would that relieve the need to author? Is it possible to burn 5 VOB files to a DVD without authoring. It seems I still need to do some authoring for the menu and chapters.

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:01 pm

Yes of course!

We can author movie with single chapter from VOBs but we don't have a menu creator. Yet.

jayselle wrote:

If I were to convert all the mpeg's to VOB's first would that relieve the need to author? Is it possible to burn 5 VOB files to a DVD without authoring. It seems I still need to do some authoring for the menu and chapters.

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