Tonight, in Kino, I reorganized the Export/MPEG user interface and replaced the free text entry for a script to run on the generated dvdauthor XML with a pulldown menu. The list of "tools" in the pulldown menu is extensible by adding scripts to a directory (~/kino/dvdauthor/ for users). It now defaults to DVD-Video for the MPEG format and defaults the option enabled to generate the dvdauthor XML. I created scripts to only run the XML through dvdauthor, to run dvdauthor followed by growisofs or K3B for burning, or to import the XML into 'Q' DVD-Author. Now, DVD-Video integration is simple, flexible, and loosely coupled with other projects.

Next, I need to implement a function to automatically export the audio, resample it, and then import it in order to "lock" the audio to prevent out-of-synch issues when exporting--regardless of format. I proved my technique on a large project for one of Dan Sawyer's commercial projects.