Hello Larry, I had the the same problem. I found it also at: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4846354&forum_id=1326... (thats a dirty fix - but it works) So rebuild me a fixed 64 Bit Version of dvdauthor. Send me an eMail, if I should mail it to you. regards dertlef oertel Larry_Prikockis wrote:

Has anyone else had success using the dvdauthor program (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net) to create dvd menus? My efforts keep failing with the spumux program (part of dvdauthor) failing with:

INFO: Locale=en_US.UTF-8 INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8 ERR: Cannot convert UTF8 string 'buttonsone.png': Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

I've tried every variation of setting the Locale to UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1, etc but no luck... Using all the same software on a older AMD computer running a 32-bit version of linux, I have no problems... I don't know a lot about character encodings, so I'm a bit lost here and am hoping someone else with an AMD64 has gotten these programs working with SuSE linux.

For what it's worth, I've tracked down the portion of the code that fails (and produces the above error) to be related to a call to the 'iconv' program.

Any clues, hints, virtual kicks-to-the-head, etc would be appreciated....

Larry Prikockis