A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

Burning DVDs

2008: Windows

  • DVD Flick is perfect for combining .AVI video with .SRT subtitles to produce DVD files.
  • DVD Shrink can reduce a commercial DVD in size to fit onto a standard 4.7Gb blank DVD. There is no noticable loss of quality.
  • Leawo DVD to MP4 Converter works well.
  • Frontends using cdrtools are supposed to burn .VOB files, but I couldn't get this to work. Nothing beats Nero 6 if you can find an old copy. The latest version is 185Mb, and you have to pay for it!


Sep 2012:

  • Free trial of Aimersoft DVD Creator easily burns MP4 files to DVD. It's easy to create chapters. But it writes a watermark in the middle of the screen.