I have my VIDEO_TS files ready to burn onto a DVD. I run K3b and choose "New Video DVD project". This immediately creates two directories in the bottom window: VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. So, if I want to drag & drop my files, I am forced to do it one by one, which is no little work. Any way to drag & drop the VIDEO_TS directory?

You can see for example the following page:
http://www.linux.com/news/software/a...-dvds-with-k3b

There it says:
3. Navigate to the location of your AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories.
4. Drag and drop these directories into the lower pane.

Well, this just doesn't work. Doing as in 4. just creates subdirectories under VIDEO_TS or AUDIO_TS. It seem impossible to move VIDEO_TS to make a child of the "K3b data project" directory.

You do not drag the VIDEO_TS folder to the bottom because the dvd project has created the directories for you. You need to copy/drag the files inside the source VIDEO_TS folder to the VIDEO_TS folder at the bottom. Below is a step-by-step.

This is how I do it and it works

1. On the lower panel, double-click on the VIDEO_TS folder. Once inside, it should be blank.

2. On the top panel, navigate to the path of the VIDEO_TS folder where the files resides. Click on the VIDEO_TS folder to enter the directory. Press the Crtl+a keys on keyboard to select all files and drag the files to the bottom panel. The bottom panel should now be populated.

3. Next, press the Burn button from the left-side panel to make the dvd disc..


From the terminal
The more geeky and faster way.

Thanks. As a matter of fact, I managed to drag and drop the VIDEO_TS folder to the bottom. I released the mouse key when the cursor was below the two directories created by k3b. The result was that the "K3b data directory", which is the name of the root in the bottom window, was renamed to "VIDEO_TS". That is, the resulting tree was:
Then I renamed the root (VIDEO_TS) to "Ryan's Daughter" and the resulting disc was OK.

In the command line you gave, would it not be better to add -dvd-compat? Another thing: so a DVD-Video filesystem is iso9660? By the way, these tracks I got them by transcodifying a .avi file. The file command, when given the .avi file as an argument, said: Isn't that too low a resolution? On my TV set one can see there is not good definition.

Yes. the -dvd-compat is a good option to add.

It depends on the source video file. It's always best to work with the best quality source video as much as possible.

The resolution on that video would look good on a standard TV set. On a HDTV with 1080p, it would be so-so or bad looking depending on how the final video was transcoded i.e resolution, video bitrate, etc.

Thanks Pill-Popper.