Dear All,

Hello everyone. I am using sidux and until recently I had no problems doing my video editing with my home videos whether they are dv or the mpeg4.avc hd format. I was able to use KDEdvdauthorwizard easily to make a burnable playable iso from my mpegs that I made from avidemux2.

I upgraded many packages and since then I cannot make an iso that I can play at all. Also, dvdstyler and qdvdauthor crash. KDEdvdauthorwizard says there is a problem with my transcode so will not make an iso anymore. I have tried many versions of transcode and none are accepted. Just a few weeks ago KDEdvdauthorwizard worked great for making my iso.

I decided to experiment with tovid and it makes a dvd that will not play in either of my dvdplayers. It plays poorly on the computer.

I tried to make an iso out of my mpeg with mkisofs and that .iso will not open or play. I used mediainfo on the iso and this is what I got:

mediainfo output.iso
General
Complete name : output.iso
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 1.29 GiB
Duration : 26mn 47s
Overall bit rate : 6 884 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Duration : 26mn 46s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 6 355 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 9 800 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.614
Stream size : 1.19 GiB (92%)

Audio #1
ID : 192 (0xC0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Duration : 26mn 47s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 64.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 12.3 MiB (1%)

Audio #2
ID : 128 (0x80)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Duration : 26mn 47s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 36.8 MiB (3%)

Text
ID : 32 (0x20)
Format : RLE
Format/Info : Run-length encoding

Menu
Format : DVD-Video

When I tried to play the iso with gxine I have this error:

gxine output.iso
gtkvideo: failed to get a proxy for gnome-screensaver

(gxine:4695): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed
warning: configuration item media.capture.save_dir points to a non-existent location
warning: configuration item media.dvb.channels_conf points to a non-existent location /home/aicram/.xine/channels.conf
warning: configuration item media.dvd.raw_device points to a non-existent location /dev/rdvd
warning: configuration item media.video4linux.radio_device points to a non-existent location /dev/radio0
warning: configuration item media.video4linux.video_device points to a non-existent location /dev/video0
warning: configuration item media.wintv_pvr.device points to a non-existent location /dev/video0
warning: configuration item subtitles.separate.font_freetype points to a non-existent location
lirc: cannot initialise - disabling remote control
lirc: maybe lircd isn't running or you can't connect to the socket?
CDROMREADTOCHDR: No medium found
WARN: open (/dev/cdrom): No medium found
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.16.2 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdnav: DVD Title:
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number:
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative):
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/aicram/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnavVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnavVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
xine-lib: error: Read error from:: //home/aicram/output.iso
xine-lib: error: The xine engine failed to start.: No input plugin was found.
Maybe the file does not exist or cannot be accessed, or there is an error in the URL.

If anyone can help me resolve this I will be be very appreciative.

Thanks for any help.

My system is: dual core opteron 185 2.6ghz, 1000 gigs of hard drive, 3 gigs ram memory, onboard video nvidia hdtv capable. I can play hd movies just fine on my system. Movie editing is fast, too.

Sincerely,

Marcia

Compare with this output:
and this:
...I wonder if you forgot to make a proper menu with 'tovid'?


Most of the errors posted don't apply to the DVD ISO itself (and it doesn't show if your DVD conforms to the required format) but these errors show Gxine is looking for the first (meaning "VIDEO_TS.") InFOrmation. As far as I have experienced Gxine and VLC don't like playing from ISO's directly (but you could loop-mount the ISO so the contents become available) but 'smplayer' (mplayer frontend) has no problem playing from an ISO file on disk.


Regarding updates/crashes/versions it's best to post actual error output. Way easier to look at.