To make menu elements do something, you must add a link to them via the right-click menu. Videos and images that you place on the canvas will be rendered as fixed-size thumbnails chapter videos use the first frame of the chapter as their thumbnail image. All of the project media added in the Source tab is accessible in the media list, and video chapters are selectable as distinct elements, which allows you to build a "chapter menu" without much effort. You can then build the menu design on the canvas, adding a background color, text elements, and dragging images or videos from the media list.
Selecting a menu in the list does not make it editable, though to do that you must click the "edit" button, which is a green circle. First, you add a new menu via the plus-sign button in the Menu List. The menu-building interface is sparse, but again, easy to work with.
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A full video player is not built in, although you can open the selected video in GNOME's Totem player from the right-click menu. A simple timeline and preview window allow you to seek to the break-points you wish to add, then mark them with a right-click. Everything added is listed together in a project-wide "media list" which makes another appearance in the menu-creation process.Īpart from simply adding the relevant files, the Source tab's main feature is the ability to mark chapter break-points in video media. It can also extract video from a physical DVD or a DVD image, courtesy of a guided wizard found in the Project menu as "Add Videos from DVD.", and save single video frames as still images. Bombono includes a file browser for adding video and image media, but also supports drag-and-drop from the system file manager. Nevertheless, with a disc needing to be crafted, one can overlook such things and concentrate on the task at hand. Neither element impedes the application's usability, but they look out of place, as do several UI elements rendered in non-default font sizes and weights. It does, however, incorporate some peculiarities that stray from the normal GNOME human interface guidelines - most notably, the menu bar includes not only menus ("Project," "Go," and "Help"), but a tab-selector for the Source / Menu / Output mode tabs, and a drop-down listbox for selecting the disc capacity. The interface is simple to understand it is uncluttered and clearly labeled. "Output" controls writing the final disc image or directly burning your creation to an optical drive. "Menu" provides a canvas on which you compose menu screens, and link individual menu items to videos or to other menus. (including video content and still images for menus) and to bookmark chapter divisions in the video media if desired. "Source" allows you to add all of the media you will use The interface splits theĪpplication into three tabs, one for each of the three sequential steps in Immediately start working on a new disc project. With compliant MPEG video in hand, you can launch Bombono and In any event, Bombono has zero margin for error for acceptable MPEG formatting, but it does at least prevent you from adding non-compliant video, and warns you about which file properties constitute the problem. Which of these options works best in practice is a matter for individual exploration it often depends greatly on the format of the source video. Bombono requires that you convert your videos to compliant MPEG-2 format in an external tool it recommends nonlinear video editors such as Kdenlive or stand-alone FFmpeg frontends such as WinFF. Of course, one reason Bombono has so few dependencies is that it makes no attempt to tackle one of the key tasks involved in producing a DVD from arbitrary video and audio content: preparing the media. Packages needed outside of standard GNOME components. TwoLAME MP2 encoder, and dvdauthor are the only No special dependencies are required mjpegtools, the The most recent release isĠ.6, from April 16. Page for many Linux distributions and FreeBSD. One of the newest options is called Bombono, a GTK+-based disc authoringĪpplication that focuses on simplicity. They vary quite a bit in ease-of-use and the number There are several actively-developed DVD authoring tools for Linuxĭesktops and command-line environments today, including QDVDAuthor, DeVeDe, What cannot be automated is building the disc structure that distinguishes a user-friendly disc with chapters, eye-pleasing menus, and a file hierarchy that makes sense from a down-and-dirty, technically-it-plays-but-it-looks-awful amateur job. Though it can take some time to convert source video to the proper MPEG format, the technical requirements for the various regions are standardized, so it is at least possible to configure the conversion tools and do it right, once and for all. This article was contributed by Nathan WillisĭVD authoring can be a deceptively tricky business.
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