Re: [Dvdauthor-users] Creating DVD's without menus

[Roger <rog...@gm...>]

>However, still getting a break with mkisofs or mplayer:
>
>$ mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /tmp/dvd/
>MPlayer SVN-r33094-4.5.3 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
>
>Playing dvd://.
>libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.11 for DVD access
>libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
>libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
>libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
>libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.BU.
>Can't open VMG info!
>No stream found to handle url dvd://
>
>
>Exiting... (End of file)
>
>RETURN_VALUE = 0
>
>
>$ mkisofs -dvd-video -o /tmp/dvd.iso /tmp/dvd
>Using "/home/roger/.mkisofsrc"
>Setting input-charset to 'UTF-8' from locale.
>mkisofs: No such file or directory. Failed to open '/tmp/dvd//VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO'.
>mkisofs: Can't open VMG info for '/tmp/dvd/'.
>mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
>mkisofs: Could not find correct 'VIDEO_TS' directory.
>mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.
>
>RETURN_VALUE = 255 :-(
>
>
>Obviously those IFO/BUP filename were not found, but do seem to occur by 
>another name below.  Creating a symlink doesn't solve the problem.
>
>$ find /tmp/dvd/
>/tmp/dvd/
>/tmp/dvd/AUDIO_TS
>/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS
>/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_3.VOB
>/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.BUP
>/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB
>/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
>/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB
>
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>Roger
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I've got it solved.  I need to run dvdauthor again to create this additional 
files.

ie.

$ VIDEO_FORMAT=ntsc  dvdauthor -T -o /tmp/dvd


This command creates those additional files found missing by mkisofs and 
mplayer command incantations above.

After testing mplayer on the /tmp/dvd folder, and then using mkisofs and 
mplayer to test the final dvd.iso; everything now seems to play just fine 
according to mplayer and there appears to be no more errors.

Just kind of troubling having to export the video_format ntsc/pal environmental 
variable instead of using a command line switch for us that are not using a XML 
file.

Also, this simple process for creating simple DVD's should be documented more 
properly.  So far, archlinux has a something similar containing some of this 
info, but it pretty much wrapped around the idea of ripping commercial DVD's 
instead of creating simple DVD's for home usage.



-- Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/