Re: Error using dvdauthor 0.7.0: 'Err: no VOBUs found'

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:46:52 +0100, Greg wrote:

> I used avidemux to convert my file...
> Note that i tried with DVDStyler this WE, and that's working great. I
> Guess it's Q dvd author's issue now... what do you think?
> 
> Anyway, i used mpeg2desc command and i have exactly the same results
> you quoted... any idea so?

Just to be sure, you used mpeg2desc on the video which was giving you
trouble, and it looked the way I described?

Because the start of a “VOBU” is marked by those headers, and “no VOBUs
found” meant it couldn’t find them.

> (FMI: what is the system header: length=18 means?)

A “system header” gives information about the streams present in the
MPEG file. DVD-Video requires certain information about streams to be
present, so the system header must be exactly the right length for that.

If you want the gory details, they’re spelled out here
<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Inside_DVD-Video/MPEG_Format>.

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