Groovy hepcat George was jivin' on Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:36:53 -0500 in
comp.os.linux.setup.
Problems with dvdauthor - please help.'s a cool scene! Dig it!

> Has anyone been able to author DVD's in Linux? I've been trying to
>do it for quite some time and am on the verge of giving up!

I've been doing it successfully without too many problems.

>I have an MPEG2 video I'd like to burn onto a DVD and have this video
>divided up into "chapters" and perhaps even a menu, but the menu isn't
>as important.
>
>I have bee able to successfully make a DVD with KLVEmkdvd. However, it
>is one huge track. i.e. I can't jump to different sections of the video
>without having to scan through it from the beginning.
>
>I tried qdvdauther, which uses dvdauthor, but it fails. The last thing
>qdvdauthor does is execute the following:
>
>/usr/bin/dvdauthor -x "/home/george/tmp/GCFirstDVD/dvdauthor.xml"
>
>After that, I see the following:
>
>DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.10.
>Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi
>Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>INFO: Locale=en_US
>INFO: Converting filenames to ISO-8859-1
>INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
>STAT: Picking VTS 01
>
>STAT: Processing /home/george/CC605_apple_ii_forever.mpg...
>WARN: System header found, but PCI/DSI information is not where expected
> (make sure your system header is 18 bytes!)
>WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
>WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
>WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
>WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...

Looks like your MPEG file is not DVD compliant or is corrupt or
something. How are you encoding it? Are you using transcode for this?
What is the exact command line you're using?

>The warning "WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU..." is then
>repeated for a long time until. eventually, a segmentation fault occurs.
>It looks as though there is something wrong with some header information
>in the mpeg video. What is the 18 bytes of header information supposed
>to be (as mentioned in the warning)? Why doesn't KLVEmkdvd, or any other
>media players I use complain about this header information in the video?

Perhaps KLVEmkdvd reencodes the video or something. Or perhaps it
simply is more relaxed about DVD compliance or is more forgiving about
corrupt video files. I haven't used it, so I don't know.

>Here is information about the software I'm using:
>Linux version: Mandrake Linux 10.1 (Official)
>dvdauthor: version 0.6.10
>qdvdauthor: version 0.0.8-1

You need to tell us what you're using to encode the video. That's
where the problem lies, not in dvdauthor.

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