Re: DVDSP and applescript
Re: DVDSP and applescript
- Subject: Re: DVDSP and applescript
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:45:32 -0800
On Feb 8, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Graham Anderson wrote:
I wanted my client's users to be able to create their own playlist of
TV episode content....
The user builds the playlist online...and a DVD gets sent back to
them...
After the user creates the playlist
The playlist variables get sent to an applescript/php script on the
server.
The script formats the variables into a script that the DVD duplicator
can read
The DVD duplicator read/queues the script and burns the DVD
The DVD gets created....with the below playlist
User's DVD
1) TV Episode 1
2) Tv Episode 2
3) TV Epiode 3
the dvd gets mailed back to the user in several business days...
May be overly optimistic, but it seems like you could set up a DVD
duplicator to read a script and spit out a DVD of stored Mp2 and
canned menus.....
Ok, so the first step is to identify possible duplicators; I assume
from this description you're not looking at basic DVD-R drives. You
need something with a robotic loader, and maybe an integrated DVD/CD
surface printer? So first, find the hardware - then perhaps there are
software solutions to tailor.
For this scenario, scripting iDVD or DVDSP is probably not what you
want at all (not to say it couldn't be done).
I don't think you're overly optimistic, except in maybe how much effort
you might think it'll take. It's of course all quite possible, but
depends on how much you can write yourself versus trying to find
existing pieces that do what you want. There isn't much of a market in
Web-based dynamic DVD authoring yet - most is pre-mastered or burned on
the fly from existing images (on demand). That said, you might be able
to hobble together a reasonable demo of your idea with Toast. Have no
idea if there are DVD loaders with Toast support though.
-R
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