Hi,
I'm having troubles playing a movie dvd I authored using dvdauthor on my dvd player.
I made a dvd from some home movies and a slide show with a simple menu that allows to choose which movie to play. I can perfectly play the produced files using xine; when written to the dvd, xine also plays it perfectly.
However, when I put the dvd in my standalone player, I does not get past the menu; whichever button I choose, the machine/dvd hangs.
I tried to do the same on a Windows machine, using a program called 'PowerDirector" (it was on a CD that came with the machine), and the produced dvd plays very well on my standalone player and xine plays it as well. However, I don't like the menus it produces, and anyway, this is a machine from work.
So far I can only think the problem is with dvdauthor; but I can't explain why xine would play the dvd and my player would not. I'm pretty sure the problem is not the media (DVD+RW and DVD-RW; tried them both)
The dvd is produced by making an iso with mkisofs, which then is burnt using K3b; I also tried it burning directly using growisofs, but the result is the same.
the command line I use with mkisofs is:
mkisofs -dvd-video -o dvd.iso home/joris/dvd/
Also here is my dvdauthor.xml
<dvdauthor dest="/home/joris/dvd" jumppad="yes" >
<vmgm>
<menus>
<video format="pal" resolution="720x576" />
<pgc entry="title" >
<vob file="/home/joris/data/henri/PowerDirectorVideos/menu/dvd_menu_final.mpg" pause="0" />
<button>jump title 1 chapter 1; </button>
<button>jump title 2 chapter 1; </button>
<button>jump title 3 chapter 1; </button>
<button>jump title 4 chapter 1; </button>
<button>jump title 5 chapter 1; </button>
<button>jump title 6 chapter 1; </button>
</pgc>
</menus>
</vmgm>
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/joris/data/henri/PowerDirectorVideos/Henri_1_dvd.mpg" />
<post> call vmgm menu 1; </post>
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/joris/data/henri/PowerDirectorVideos/Henri_2_dvd.mpg" />
<post> call vmgm menu 1; </post>
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/joris/data/henri/PowerDirectorVideos/Henri_3_dvd.mpg" />
<post> call vmgm menu 1; </post>
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/joris/data/henri/PowerDirectorVideos/Henri_4a_dvd.mpg" />
<vob file="/home/joris/data/henri/PowerDirectorVideos/Henri_4b_dvd.mpg" />
<post> call vmgm menu 1; </post>
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/joris/data/henri/PowerDirectorVideos/Henri_5_dvd.mpg" />
<post> call vmgm menu 1; </post>
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/joris/data/henri/PowerDirectorVideos/slideshow.mpg" />
<post> call vmgm menu 1; </post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>
(for those wondering, Henri is the name of my son)
By the way, I'm using dvdauthor 0.6.11 I which got from sourceforge and compiled on my system. I can't remember the version numbers of the other tools I needed to installe, but I'll look them up if necessary.
Anyone any clues as to what I'm doing wrong ?
Anyone experienced the same problem ? Basically I want to make a dvd that's playable on my/any standalone player, not just on my pc with xine...
Thanks in advance for your time and your answer.
Joris Spriet
