SmallDVD status
Friday, August 01, 2008
There hasn't been a new release of SmallDVD for quite a while. Several reasons for this, but the main one is that despite all the feature suggestions I've received (thanks for these), it basically already does everything I intended it to do.
SmallDVD was never meant to be a replacement for iDVD, or Toast, or ffmpegX. It's intended to do one simple job - put MPEG files onto DVD with a simple menu. And it does that. So, there's unlikely to be another release of it in the near future.
However, I have spent time recently on improving my video conversion scripts to process files to load into SmallDVD. While SmallDVD 0.8 does offer a bit of video conversion, there are no controls over bitrates, formats, etc, so you will almost certainly get better results from doing this conversion manually. Yes, it's a bit more hassle, but it's worth it.
So I have restructured this site to include a Scripts page which will have a variety of useful little scripts that make use of some of the tools that underpin SmallDVD.
