DeVeDe - Generate title names from filenames

[mikechant]

I use DeVeDe to create music video compilations, and I like to have each video as a seperate title so I can select it from the DVD menu. This all works fine and produces DVDs which play OK on a number of DVD players.

However, the default title names in DeVeDe are 'Title1', 'Title2' etc. and I have to edit each one manually to the correct 'Artist - Title'. This is a bit laborious when doing a 50-track DVD.

I've got the makings of a solution - DeVeDe produces an XML file with a description of the disc structure and I can write a script to change the 'Titlen' strings to be the 'Artist - Title' strings extracted from the filenames.

However, I'm wondering if I'm missing something really obvious - i.e. some way in DeVeDe to automatically set the title of a given title to automatically be the name of the first file in that title or similar?

[mikechant]

Further (closely related) requirement:
I also want to generate a list of title names as a text file which I can then format and print as a DVD case inlay.

Again, I can do this currently by manually editing (and potentially by processing with a script) the XML DVD structure file but again I wonder if I'm missing some easy way to do this with DeVeDe.


I'm also open to any alternatives to DeVeDe which might be able to do the title generation and printing I need.