I put together a script for shrinking and backing up movies that I OWN.
The script works well until the 'dvdauthor' line . When I try to burn the movie, K3B says there are not enough files. There is VTS_01_0.BUP, VTS_01_0.IFO and 4 *.VOB files. What am I missing?

I don't know if the 'mkisofs' line will work since I haven't got that far.

Any help appreciated.

dlw

echo " "
echo -n "Enter name of movie >"

read -e dvd
mkdir /home/don/Movies/$dvd
cd /home/don/Movies/$dvd

vobcopy -l

eject /dev/hdc

echo " "
echo "Remove DVD."
echo " "
echo "Insert blank DVD."
echo " "

tcextract -i *.vob -x mpeg2 -d2 > video.m2v
tcextract -i *.vob -a 0 -x ac3 -t mpeg2 -d2 > audio.ac3

rm *.vob

vsize=`du -b video.m2v | cut -c 1-10`
audio=`du -b audio.ac3 | cut -c 1-9`

dvdlessaudio=$((4700000000-$audio))
division=$(echo "scale=2; $vsize/$dvdlessaudio" | bc)

req=$(echo "scale=2; $division*1.04" | bc)

echo " "
echo "====================================== "
echo "Requant factor for this movie is:" "$req"
echo "====================================== "
echo " "

tcrequant -d2 -i video.m2v -o shrinked.m2v -f $req

mplex -f 8 -S 0 -M -V -o final.mpg shrinked.m2v audio.ac3

# dvdauthor -o newdvd final.mpg

# mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o $dvd.iso /home/don/Movies/$dvd

# eject /dev/hdc

Hi.

dvdauthor usually takes an xml file as its argument, not the mpg file you're trying to make into a DVD. Something like:would create a DVD filesystem in ./DVD from 'final.mpg'.

Dave

Thank you for replying.
What I was missing is that dvdauthor needed to reference the .xml file.

Now for the growisofs.

Thanks,
dlw