I have a few questions regarding dvd burning.

I recently installed a Mag Dog Dominator DVD burner. Based on what the
kernel tells me about the device, it's really made by Toshiba, which made
me feel a little more comfortable, knowing that a big name company made the
device.

k3b refuses to burn dvds with this device. Apparently, growisofs won't work
if the speed has been set, and the default speed is 1x. I burned two data
dvds a few nights ago, and each one took 45-50 minutes.

Now I'm trying to duplicate the dvd I had made from my wedding videotape. I
tried using lxdvdrip, but it gave me errors. I tried using k3b to burn the
vobs that lxdvdrip ripped to my hard drive, but k3b gave me the same
growisofs errors that lxdvdrip gave me. Below is the output from k3b:

System
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K3b Version:0.11.17
KDE Version: 3.2.3
QT Version: 3.3.3

growisofs
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Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/hdd obs=32k seek=0'
:-( write failed: Input/output error

growisofs comand:
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/usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray
-use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -dvd-compat -speed=4

mkisofs
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/usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: -follow-links does not always work correctly; be
careful.
The pad was 862 for file VIDEO_TS.BUP
The pad was 42 for file VIDEO_TS.IFO
/usr/bin/mkisofs: Implementation botch. Video pad for file VIDEO_TS.VOB is
-5
/usr/bin/mkisofs: Either the *.IFO file is bad or you found a mkisofs bug.

mkisofs comand:
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/usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid K3b data project -volset -appid
K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.17 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B
TEAM -publisher -preparer K3b - Version 0.11.17 -sysid LINUX -volset-size
1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-moshe/k3bUw67ib.tmp -rational-rock
-hide-list /tmp/kde-moshe/k3bHvDrqb.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames
-follow-links -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-moshe/k3b7krGwa.tmp
-dvd-video /tmp/kde-moshe/k3bVideoDvd0 /home/moshe/.kde/share/apps/k3b/temp/dummydir0/



Any help is getting this resolved would be appreciated. I have family
visiting this weekend, and I'd like to give copies of the video to them.

Michael Levy

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:16:05 +0000, Michael B. Levy wrote:
> mkisofs
> -----------------------
> /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: -follow-links does not always work correctly; be
> careful.
> The pad was 862 for file VIDEO_TS.BUP
> The pad was 42 for file VIDEO_TS.IFO
> /usr/bin/mkisofs: Implementation botch. Video pad for file VIDEO_TS.VOB is
> -5
> /usr/bin/mkisofs: Either the *.IFO file is bad or you found a mkisofs bug.

I can't say with any certainty, but my guess would be that this snippet
provides the clue: you have a bad ifo file. If your ifos and bups
from the rip aren't correct, then I believe you could just use dvdauthour
to build some new ones.
Just a thought...

>
> I can't say with any certainty, but my guess would be that this snippet
> provides the clue: you have a bad ifo file. If your ifos and bups
> from the rip aren't correct, then I believe you could just use dvdauthour
> to build some new ones.
> Just a thought...

Well, I don't know much about dvd authoring. I'll have to read into it.
However, if this is really so important, then why does the dvd play
properly if the ifo (I still need to find out what that means) is bad?

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:40:36 +0000, Michael B. Levy wrote:

> However, if this is really so important, then why does the dvd play
> properly if the ifo (I still need to find out what that means) is bad?

Are you referring to the dvd disk or the "ripped" dvd that is already on
your hard drive? I was referring (and thought k3b was too) to the one on
your hd that you ripped to copy.

The ifo and bup files are files that store information about the disk
(chapters, etc.) for the player to read.

When the disk is played by the dvd drive, it plays without any problems.
Once I had ripped it, growisofs (or was it mkisofs?) refused to play nice
with it. I moved it to a partition I use as a shared drive between Linux
and Windows and used Nero to burn the dvd successfully.

Incidentally, Nero also had problems with the disk itself, and would only
make the dvd once I had already ripped the vobs, ifos, and bups separately.
Telling Nero simply to duplicate the disk didn't work.

And for the record, this is a non-commercial, non-copyrighted disk.

Mike


quip wrote:

>
>
> Re: dvd burning help
> From:
> quip <wnjjunk@cox.net>
> Date:
> Wednesday 17 November 2004 06:32:55 pm
> Groups:
> alt.os.linux.slackware
> References: 1 2 3
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