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
From the output it looks like it is telling me I have my IFO AND BUF files in
- VIDEO_TS subdirectory was not found on specified location
- VIDEO_TS has invalid contents
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: 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