Subj : Re: Problems with dvdauthor - please help.
To   : comp.os.linux
From : noi
Date : Thu Dec 23 2004 04:38 am

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:36:53 -0500, George thoughtfully wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>      Has anyone been able to author DVD's in Linux? I've been trying to
> do it for quite some time and am on the verge of giving up! :(
> 
> I have an MPEG2 video I'd like to burn onto a DVD and have this video
> divided up into "chapters" and perhaps even a menu, but the menu isn't as
> important.
> 
> I have bee able to successfully make a DVD with KLVEmkdvd. However, it is
> one huge track. i.e. I can't jump to different sections of the video
> without having to scan through it from the beginning.
> 
> I tried qdvdauther, which uses dvdauthor, but it fails. The last thing
> qdvdauthor does is execute the following:
> 
> /usr/bin/dvdauthor -x "/home/george/tmp/GCFirstDVD/dvdauthor.xml"
> 
> After that, I see the following:
> 
> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.10. Build options: gnugetopt magick
> iconv freetype fribidi Send bugs to
> <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> 
> INFO: Locale=en_US
> INFO: Converting filenames to ISO-8859-1 INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
> STAT: Picking VTS 01
> 
> STAT: Processing /home/george/CC605_apple_ii_forever.mpg... WARN: System
> header found, but PCI/DSI information is not where expected
>          (make sure your system header is 18 bytes!)
> WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU... WARN: Skipping sector,
> waiting for first VOBU... WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
> WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU... .
> .
> .
> 
> 
> The warning "WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU..." is then
> repeated for a long time until. eventually, a segmentation fault occurs.
> It looks as though there is something wrong with some header information
> in the mpeg video. What is the 18 bytes of header information supposed to
> be (as mentioned in the warning)? Why doesn't KLVEmkdvd, or any other
> media players I use complain about this header information in the video?
> 
> Here is information about the software I'm using: Linux version: Mandrake
> Linux 10.1 (Official) dvdauthor: version 0.6.10
> qdvdauthor: version 0.0.8-1
> 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> George

I don't think I got DVDAuthor to work but did get a mpeg to DVD format
written using TOVID which is a shell program.  Try freshmeat and
sourceforge for the code for TOVID.SH.   Worked under FC2 although I did
need to install a few required packages, but if you have DVDauthor those
packages might already be installed.   

If its a video that is bad you may need to re-encode or convert the video
to fix the errors.   If you don't turn on verbose messaging you may have
missed the errors.

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