Paul Smith wrote:
On 12/27/05, Kenny Gow <kgfedora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
growisofs does not execute cleanly for whatever video DVD project I
make to be recorded on a DVD+R disk. (Six new disks wasted by k3b.)
I don't know if it helps, but I recently purchased a DVD burner for
myself and (for some weird reason), it always requires that I run
`cdrecord -fix` after each disc I burn for the disc to be valid,
but only for DVDs, not for CD-R/RWs (though I've only tried burning
a single audio CD so far).
I've never tried the Video DVD authoring feature of k3b. I always
make a Video DVD ISO file with mkisofs, then burn the DVD iso image
with k3b.
It's pretty simple to use mkisofs after you've set up your DVD
directory with the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories.
I use a command like this:
mkisofs -o dvd.iso -V "Movie Name" -dvd-video -v /path/to/DVD
Also, I found a tip about setting the -dvd-compat flag with growisofs
in k3b on this web page:
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Burning_Video_DVDs_in_Linux.html
Your approach, Kenny, is quite effective and simple, and inspired the
following alternative method:
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video
/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts
Cool. I hadn't looked closely enough at the growisofs man page
to see that you could pass mkisofs options.
In any event, I like to create the DVD images so I can test them
with xine, usually to see if my custom menus work, etc.
xine can play a DVD iso image or by full path to
/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts
e.g.,
xine dvd:/full/path/to/dvd.iso
or
xine dvd:/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts
and even
xine dvd:/path/to/directory/containing/audio_ts/and/video_ts/VIDEO_TS
works too!
