DVD Authoring System for OpenSolaris Wiki

DVD authoring is one of the most common tasks fulfilled by personal computers nowadays. Modern operating systems, including Linux and Windows, have numerous software packages, both open-source and proprietary, for DVD authoring. OpenSolaris is now aiming at a competitive role in the niche of desktop operating systems and therefore all kinds of end-user applications, such as DVD authoring software, must become available in it.

The goal of this project is to build a full-featured DVD authoring system for OpenSolaris by porting available open-source Linux packages and developing all non-portable features. After some preliminary research it became clear that most of back-end work, including audio/video encoding and iso image construction, can be done by command-line utilities that can be ported from Linux to OpenSolaris. On the other hand, a GUI front-end was decided to be built almost from scratch using some ideas from open-source project Varsha. The main idea was to develop the front-end on Java platform, making it as portable as possible. It turned out to be a very good decision in rapidly changing and unstable world of OpenSolaris distributions, and the developed front-end stays functional in any combination of installed packages.

For detailed installation and usage instructions download our manual from Downloads page.