Trouble making DVD's

I first posted this at: http://forum.kanotix.net/viewtopic.php?t=6103
(My system: Kanotix BH9a HD install on a 1.2G Hp Pavilion)

I'm (still) having trouble making a DVD.
Here's what I have done so far:

1. Tried to copy DVD with k3b. K3b makes an iso as it does the copy using mkisofs but mkisofs has an upper limit of 4G so k3b failed to complete the copy.

2. Made a copy using dvdbackup. Copy went OK, individual .vob's played OK, etc. but it was huge so reduced the size using a program I'm not to name here. Reduced to 4.3 Gig which will fit on a DVD, files are OK, individual .vob's played OK, etc.

3. Attempted to burn using K3b as a 'new video DVD project'. It failed:

Writing DVD-R in DAO mode. 
 Using growisofs 5.21 Copyright.... 
 Starting writing... 
 Could not write temporary file 
 Error while creating iso image 
 :-write failed: input/output error 
 Fatal error at startup: Input output error

4. Then I tried:

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /mnt/hda7/MOVIE/
 
as per the example in 'man growisofs:

To master and burn an ISO9660 volume with Joliet and Rock-Ridge exten- 
        sions on a DVD: 
 
             growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files

The resulting DVD appears to be a data type CD...xine won't open it from the DVD navigator but will play the .vob's when opened from the 'open file' menu. It won't play in my DVD player either.

Question 1: What am I doing wrong?

Next question: If I ever get past this problem & figure out how to burn an workable DVD: I have some VCR tapes I wish to transfer to DVD. I have a 'Dazzle DVC80' video->usb adapter. There is no linux driver available for this, so I have to use windows for the input. It creates a huge .avi file that xine & mplayer can't play. Xine gives sound only, mplayer gives a video but sound is out of sync & it keeps flashing 'alsa-conf' errors.
Example file specs are:

File size: 2.8 Gig
length 10.03
resolution 352 x 240
frame rate 30 fps
video codec YUY2
audio codec Microsoft PCM

Question 2: How do I make this file into something useful, preferably something I can edit with kino or something?

Kano suggested Tmpegenc to convert the .avi, haven't tried it yet but the real problem is Question #1. If I can't burn a DVD that a standard player will accept then there's no point. I tried 'growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd /mnt/hda7/MOVIE/' since posting the above, it just made another data disk.

How do I burn a DVD that will work in a standard player?

Here is a link:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...83#post1507183

I havn't tried this newer version yet .18a - but I can say .16b & .17b work.
They can be found on the same thread. Maybe this answers your question.

As far as your huge avi's created with windows - you could probably get the steps
needed from the above mentioned script.
-tw

As a thought, are the *.vob files properly located in a VIDEO_TS directory on your disc? (And don't forget the -dvd-compat option as was mentioned in the other thread)

I think the file locations are correct:

crashedagain@desktop:~$ ls /mnt/hda7/MOVIE/VIDEO_TS/
VIDEO_TS.BUP  VTS_02_0.VOB  VTS_04_1.VOB  VTS_07_0.BUP  VTS_08_0.VOB
VIDEO_TS.IFO  VTS_02_1.VOB  VTS_05_0.BUP  VTS_07_0.IFO  VTS_08_1.VOB
VIDEO_TS.VOB  VTS_03_0.BUP  VTS_05_0.IFO  VTS_07_0.VOB  VTS_09_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.BUP  VTS_03_0.IFO  VTS_05_0.VOB  VTS_07_1.VOB  VTS_09_0.IFO
VTS_01_0.IFO  VTS_03_0.VOB  VTS_05_1.VOB  VTS_07_2.VOB  VTS_09_0.VOB
VTS_01_0.VOB  VTS_03_1.VOB  VTS_06_0.BUP  VTS_07_3.VOB  VTS_09_1.VOB
VTS_01_1.VOB  VTS_04_0.BUP  VTS_06_0.IFO  VTS_07_4.VOB
VTS_02_0.BUP  VTS_04_0.IFO  VTS_06_0.VOB  VTS_08_0.BUP
VTS_02_0.IFO  VTS_04_0.VOB  VTS_06_1.VOB  VTS_08_0.IFO

Last attempt I tried was:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd /mnt/hda7/MOVIE/

but I still got a DVD that wouldn't play, is this not the right command? Xine wouldn't open the disk like it should using the DVD navigator button but would play the .vob's if it was opened via the open file dialog box (ie as a data disk).

There is a lot of info in the link (dvd9todvd5 discussion), will plow through it & see if I can find the key there.

Did you try the ' -dvd-video ' video option ?

Just tried
'mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -V MOVIE -o /mnt/hda7/temp/movie.iso /mnt/hda7/MOVIE'

(attempting to make the .iso first then burn it, getting tired of wasting disks on futile attempts).

Once again, mkisofs crapped out at 4.0 Gig & failed to make the iso.

(edit)
What the hey. Try another disk.

crashedagain@desktop:~$ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video /mnt/hda7/MOVIE
Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video /mnt/hda7/MOVIE | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
:-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=4h/ASC=09h/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
crashedagain@desktop:~$

Thought it might be a bad disk. Changed disks. Same thing.

Slightly different method descriped here:
http://dvd.chevelless230.com/
See if you can make the .img as described. If so (hope so) then burn the dvd.
Post results.
-tw

Already tried that:

crashedagain@desktop:~$ mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -V MOVIE -o /mnt/hda7/temp/movie.iso /mnt/hda7/MOVIE 
   0.22% done, estimate finish Mon Mar  7 19:00:35 2005 
   0.44% done, estimate finish Mon Mar  7 18:56:48 2005 
   0.66% done, estimate finish Mon Mar  7 18:58:04 2005 
 <edited...> 
  91.21% done, estimate finish Mon Mar  7 19:04:07 2005 
  91.42% done, estimate finish Mon Mar  7 19:04:07 2005 
  91.64% done, estimate finish Mon Mar  7 19:04:07 2005 
 File size limit exceeded 
 crashedagain@desktop:~$

I think they were successful because their file size was under 4 Gig:

(exerpt from chevelless how-to): 
 $ mkisofs -dvd-video -o /DVD_PROJECTS/homedvd.img /DVD_PROJECTS/HOMEDVD/ 
   0.25% done, estimate finish Tue Jan 22 19:14:54 2002 
   0.49% done, estimate finish Tue Jan 22 19:11:33 2002 
 [SNIP] 
  99.80% done, estimate finish Tue Jan 22 19:12:21 2002 
 Total translation table size: 0 
 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0 
 Total directory bytes: 4096 
 Path table size(bytes): 42 
 Max brk space used 4000 
 2024016 extents written (3953 Mb)

My total is 4.4 Gig & mkisofs craps out at 4.0 Gig limit.

Already tried that:

Sorry for the repetition.

Just not to overlook an obvious - what type of partition are you using on your /dev/hda7
Doesn't FAT32 have a 4GB max?

hda7 is vfat, approx 25 Gig. The only quirk with vfat is that you have to put 'shortname=mixed' in fstab otherwise all the file names will default to lower case.

hda7 is vfat, approx 25 Gig. The only quirk with vfat is that you have to put 'shortname=mixed' in fstab otherwise all the file names will default to lower case.

And a max file size of 4GB
http://www.compulink-support.com/tec...ationtable.htm

thus your fialing once the file reaches 4GB
-tw

Ahhhh! That would do it, wouldn't it! Guess I'll have to redo my partitions before I can do videos, I don't have enough space on my ext3 partitions.

Thanks.

If you can, use a rewritable DVD. Saves on coasters, and makes
you feel a little better experimenting

My standalone DVD player won't accept RW's.

...you could still use RW for your experiments. Once you achieve the desired result with an RW, you can repeat the process with a non-RW.
Ok, that was over-obvious...

gargamel