[opensuse] How do I re-create a DVD from the backup created by vobcopy?
Listmates, How do I re-create a DVD from the backup created by vobcopy? I have searched and I have read howto after howto and I still am stuck. Between ffmpeg this, dvdauthor that, qdvdauthor this to, I'm confused. I have written a script to properly prepare the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories and to parse the filenames and copy the vob files saved with vobcopy to VTS_XX_Y.VOB and place them along with the IFO files in the VIDEO_TS directory. I get that I'm missing the BUP files and that somehow dvdauthor is supposed to recreate them, but that is where I get stuck. When I try and use qdvdauthor, it tries to completely ffmpeg decode/encode the original vob files to another separate directory. Why? I already have the vob files under VIDEO_TS, they were just ripped, why decode and reencode them? Seems nuts. The files that I have from ripping are: 19:42 nirvana:/home/samba/video> find myvideo -type f myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-preview-orig.jpg myvideo/tmp/myvideo-003-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-007-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-preview-zoom.jpg myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-preview-clip2.jpg myvideo/tmp/backup.rip myvideo/tmp/ifo/vts_01_0.ifo myvideo/tmp/ifo/vts_02_0.ifo myvideo/tmp/myvideo-009-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-002-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-005-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-preview-orig.raw myvideo/tmp/myvideo-008-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-004-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-006-nav.log myvideo/tmp/logfile.txt myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-preview-clip1.jpg myvideo/vob/009/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/002/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/008/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/003/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/006/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/004/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/005/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/007/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-002.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-008.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-007.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-005.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-006.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-004.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-003.vob I have moved and renamed the files to: 20:44 nirvana:/home/samba/video> find authdir/ -type f authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_6.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_8.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.IFO authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_3.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_7.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_4.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_5.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB From reading, it seems that I now need to create the BUP files and then use mkisofs to create the iso and then burn with growisofs. How do I create the BUP files?? That's where I'm stuck. This has to be easy and staring me right in the face, but I can't see the forest for the trees. What say the dvd gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:-
From reading, it seems that I now need to create the BUP files and then use mkisofs to create the iso and then burn with growisofs. How do I create the BUP files??
I'd use something like: cp authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.BUP cp authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.IFO authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.BUP
That's where I'm stuck. This has to be easy and staring me right in the face, but I can't see the forest for the trees. What say the dvd gurus?
I read somewhere, some time ago, that the BUP files were just backup copies of the IFO files and, after having a quick check with Google, found this Wikipedia page that backs it up: URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BUP Also, on the odd occasion that one of my discs has gone bad[0] and one of the BUP or IFO files has a sector with a CRC error, I've "repaired" discs by copying the contents off the disc, replacing the damaged file with the original or backup, and then writing the lot back to another disc. [0] Something I see for discs that are, more often than not, 4+ years old and are usually cheap discs with dyes known to be not the best. Now I try to stick to either Verbatim 8x +R (MCC 003) or 16x +R (MCC 004), or AOne 8x -R (TYG02). Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | RISC OS 3.6 | RISC OS 3.11 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 25 July 2009 10:00:05 pm David Bolt wrote:
[0] Something I see for discs that are, more often than not, 4+ years old and are usually cheap discs with dyes known to be not the best. Now I try to stick to either Verbatim 8x +R (MCC 003) or 16x +R (MCC 004), or AOne 8x -R (TYG02).
Thanks Dave, Something I find very often is after 1+ years with a 10, 7 and 4 year old -- all my original discs seem to become unreadable for reasons completely unrelated to the dye ;-) I'll give the cp inf bup a try and report back. Now that I think about it, I do recall in the howtos the sizes being the same, but it never clicked. Thanks! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
On Saturday 25 July 2009 10:00:05 pm David Bolt wrote:
[0] Something I see for discs that are, more often than not, 4+ years old and are usually cheap discs with dyes known to be not the best. Now I try to stick to either Verbatim 8x +R (MCC 003) or 16x +R (MCC 004), or AOne 8x -R (TYG02).
Thanks Dave,
Something I find very often is after 1+ years with a 10, 7 and 4 year old -- all my original discs seem to become unreadable for reasons completely unrelated to the dye ;-)
I'll give the cp inf bup a try and report back. Now that I think about it, I do recall in the howtos the sizes being the same, but it never clicked. Thanks!
From the output it looks like it is telling me I have my IFO AND BUF files in
Well, At least I'm getting closer. With all the files in the right place, mkisofs is telling me that I don't have the files in the right place. There is a possibility that mkisofs is correct there. Here is what I have and what mkisofs is telling me: 03:32 nirvana:/home/samba/video> l authdir/VIDEO_TS/ total 8109712 drwxr-xr-x 2 david dcr 4096 2009-07-26 00:54 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 david dcr 4096 2009-07-25 19:57 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 106496 2009-07-26 00:53 VTS_01_0.BUP -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 106496 2009-07-25 19:41 VTS_01_0.IFO -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 1073741824 2009-07-25 19:21 VTS_01_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 1073741824 2009-07-25 19:17 VTS_01_2.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 1073741824 2009-07-25 19:23 VTS_01_3.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 1073741824 2009-07-25 19:22 VTS_01_4.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 1073741824 2009-07-25 19:20 VTS_01_5.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 1073741824 2009-07-25 19:20 VTS_01_6.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 1073741824 2009-07-25 19:19 VTS_01_7.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 336029696 2009-07-25 19:18 VTS_01_8.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 16384 2009-07-26 00:54 VTS_02_0.BUP -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 16384 2009-07-25 19:41 VTS_02_0.IFO -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 9846784 2009-07-25 19:16 VTS_02_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 10364928 2009-07-25 19:16 VTS_03_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 17383424 2009-07-25 19:16 VTS_04_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 86925312 2009-07-25 19:17 VTS_05_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 4499456 2009-07-25 19:16 VTS_06_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 64454656 2009-07-25 19:17 VTS_07_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 162822144 2009-07-25 19:16 VTS_08_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 87367680 2009-07-25 19:16 VTS_09_1.VOB 03:33 nirvana:/home/samba/video> cd authdir/ 03:33 nirvana:/home/samba/video/authdir> mkisofs -dvd-video -o departed.iso . I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings) genisoimage: No such file or directory. Failed to open VIDEO_TS.IFO genisoimage: Can't open VMG info for './'. genisoimage: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures. genisoimage: Could not find correct 'VIDEO_TS' directory. genisoimage: Unable to make a DVD-Video image. Possible reasons: - VIDEO_TS subdirectory was not found on specified location - VIDEO_TS has invalid contents the wrong place and that they should go up higher like 00_0 and then they might work. Anybody else see anything sticking out as glaringly wrong? All of the VTS_01_2.VOB to VTS_01_8.VOB play brilliantly in kaffine, but for some reason the VIDEO_TS directory is having problems. What say the dvd burning gurus out there? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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David C. Rankin wrote:
On Saturday 25 July 2009 10:00:05 pm David Bolt wrote:
[0] Something I see for discs that are, more often than not, 4+ years old and are usually cheap discs with dyes known to be not the best. Now I try to stick to either Verbatim 8x +R (MCC 003) or 16x +R (MCC 004), or AOne 8x -R (TYG02).
Thanks Dave,
Something I find very often is after 1+ years with a 10, 7 and 4 year old -- all my original discs seem to become unreadable for reasons completely unrelated to the dye ;-)
I'll give the cp inf bup a try and report back. Now that I think about it, I do recall in the howtos the sizes being the same, but it never clicked. Thanks!
Well,
At least I'm getting closer. With all the files in the right place, mkisofs is telling me that I don't have the files in the right place. There is a possibility that mkisofs is correct there. Here is what I have and what mkisofs is telling me:
(snip
03:33 nirvana:/home/samba/video/authdir> mkisofs -dvd-video -o departed.iso . I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings) genisoimage: No such file or directory. Failed to open VIDEO_TS.IFO genisoimage: Can't open VMG info for './'. genisoimage: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures. genisoimage: Could not find correct 'VIDEO_TS' directory. genisoimage: Unable to make a DVD-Video image. Possible reasons: - VIDEO_TS subdirectory was not found on specified location - VIDEO_TS has invalid contents
From the output it looks like it is telling me I have my IFO AND BUF files in the wrong place and that they should go up higher like 00_0 and then they might work. Anybody else see anything sticking out as glaringly wrong? All of the VTS_01_2.VOB to VTS_01_8.VOB play brilliantly in kaffine, but for some reason the VIDEO_TS directory is having problems. What say the dvd burning gurus out there?
Apparently you're still missing VIDEO_TS.IFO and .DUP. Here's a Windows solution (maybe it runs in wine, keep fingers crossed), http://www.gromkov.com/faq/faq2004-0066.html couldn't find Linux equivalent short of completely reauthoring the DVD which, as you remarked earlier is a bit silly. Incidentally you may save yourself a lot of trouble by using "vobcopy -m" to create the backups, because it copies the complete structure of the DVD with all IFO's, DUP's and VOB's in place. -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 26 July 2009 10:42:37 am Jos van Kan wrote:
David C. Rankin schreef:
David C. Rankin wrote:
On Saturday 25 July 2009 10:00:05 pm David Bolt wrote:
[0] Something I see for discs that are, more often than not, 4+ years old and are usually cheap discs with dyes known to be not the best. Now I try to stick to either Verbatim 8x +R (MCC 003) or 16x +R (MCC 004), or AOne 8x -R (TYG02).
Thanks Dave,
Something I find very often is after 1+ years with a 10, 7 and 4 year old -- all my original discs seem to become unreadable for reasons completely unrelated to the dye ;-)
I'll give the cp inf bup a try and report back. Now that I think about it, I do recall in the howtos the sizes being the same, but it never clicked. Thanks!
Well,
At least I'm getting closer. With all the files in the right place, mkisofs is telling me that I don't have the files in the right place. There is a possibility that mkisofs is correct there. Here is what I have and what mkisofs is telling me:
(snip
03:33 nirvana:/home/samba/video/authdir> mkisofs -dvd-video -o departed.iso . I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings) genisoimage: No such file or directory. Failed to open VIDEO_TS.IFO genisoimage: Can't open VMG info for './'. genisoimage: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures. genisoimage: Could not find correct 'VIDEO_TS' directory. genisoimage: Unable to make a DVD-Video image. Possible reasons: - VIDEO_TS subdirectory was not found on specified location - VIDEO_TS has invalid contents
From the output it looks like it is telling me I have my IFO AND BUF files in the wrong place and that they should go up higher like 00_0 and then they might work. Anybody else see anything sticking out as glaringly wrong? All of the VTS_01_2.VOB to VTS_01_8.VOB play brilliantly in kaffine, but for some reason the VIDEO_TS directory is having problems. What say the dvd burning gurus out there?
Apparently you're still missing VIDEO_TS.IFO and .DUP. Here's a Windows solution (maybe it runs in wine, keep fingers crossed), http://www.gromkov.com/faq/faq2004-0066.html couldn't find Linux equivalent short of completely reauthoring the DVD which, as you remarked earlier is a bit silly.
Incidentally you may save yourself a lot of trouble by using "vobcopy -m" to create the backups, because it copies the complete structure of the DVD with all IFO's, DUP's and VOB's in place.
Jos, Thanks. Yes, I know about the -m option now. The dvds I have to recreate are some I backed up a couple of years ago and now my kids have "not me'ed" the original to the point of needing to build a new copy.... Doesn't Linux have anything like ifoedit? Judging from the copy I got from the ifoedit site, this thing has not been developed since late 2004. Just seems like Linux would have an equivalent. I certainly haven't run across it yet. Just something simple that would take the original vob's and recreate the ifo files without having to demux, decode, encode, mux just to accomplish the same thing. I'll see how it does under virtualbox. Listmates, let me know if you guys can think of a Linux equivalent. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:-
At least I'm getting closer. With all the files in the right place, mkisofs is telling me that I don't have the files in the right place. There is a possibility that mkisofs is correct there.
It is correct about not having the files in the right place. That's because you're missing quite a few files. <snip>
From the output it looks like it is telling me I have my IFO AND BUF files in the wrong place and that they should go up higher like 00_0 and then they might work. Anybody else see anything sticking out as glaringly wrong?
It's not that the IFO or BUP files are in the wrong place. It's more a case of you not having IFO or BUP files for VTS_03_1.VOB, through to VTS_09_1.VOB. You also don't have the VIDEO_TS.IFO or VIDEO_TS.BUP files. Without all these files being present, you won't end up with a valid DVD, and DVD players won't know where the video is within the files, or where the chapters are, so they won't be able to play the resultant DVD.
All of the VTS_01_2.VOB to VTS_01_8.VOB play brilliantly in kaffine, but for some reason the VIDEO_TS directory is having problems. What say the dvd burning gurus out there?
You'll need to either locate and copy the original IFO and/or BUP files, or recreate them. Without them, you can't make a valid DVD. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | RISC OS 3.6 | RISC OS 3.11 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:-
On Saturday 25 July 2009 10:00:05 pm David Bolt wrote:
[0] Something I see for discs that are, more often than not, 4+ years old and are usually cheap discs with dyes known to be not the best. Now I try to stick to either Verbatim 8x +R (MCC 003) or 16x +R (MCC 004), or AOne 8x -R (TYG02).
Thanks Dave,
Something I find very often is after 1+ years with a 10, 7 and 4 year old -- all my original discs seem to become unreadable for reasons completely unrelated to the dye ;-)
I'd say that keeping them out of reach of little fingers is a good strategy for them still being undamaged in the longer term, however I know just how difficult that can be. It's almost as though little fingers can get anywhere, and with almost no effort as well. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | RISC OS 3.6 | RISC OS 3.11 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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