Hi: I have several stand alone Vob video files that I would like to burn to a DVD to use on a regular DVD player, but I would like to make custom Menus that will let me show each file as a separate chapter or separate video, so a friend or family member can watch the DVD and pick the Vob file they want to watch from a menu, or just watch all of them one after another automaticly. Is there a software video authoring tool either freeware or pay ware that will do this for me. I have software that will let me burn a DVD but will not let me do this.
DVD Flick is free and will open a VOB file If you tell it in Project Settings > Video > Advanced to 'Copy MPEG2 files', it won't recode the video, thus much faster to author. It has options for a menu and includes it's own burning program (ImgBurn).
Shareware: Womble EasyDVD. Import your VOB files in Source window(as a single movie or as several movies), then add chapters, then make menus in the Menu window.
Another good free software is DVDStyler. Pretty good at customizing menu background/buttons... http://www.dvdstyler.de/
styler would be my choice.. after command line dvd-author that is.. why have we suddenly become buried with these womble spammers?.. it was crap 4 years ago.. and it's still crap now.