Re: Creating DVD's without menus

> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 05:06:25PM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:24:53 -0900, Roger wrote:
>
>> ERR:  no video format specified for VMGM
>
><http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26498862>

This seems to be just a non-exit status/warning.

This is corrected by either specifying ntsc/pal within  /etc/video_format, 
~/.config/video_format.
FIXME: There seems to be a lack of info on the file syntax. ie.  
format=ntsc/pal or video_format=ntsc/pal??


Or exporting an environmental variable as in the following:

 $ VIDEO_FORMAT=ntsc  dvdauthor -t -o /tmp/dvd AtWarWithTheArmy.mpg
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.0.
Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
Send bug reports to <dvdauthor-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>

INFO: default video format is NTSC
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 02

STAT: Processing AtWarWithTheArmy.mpg...
STAT: VOBU 9040 at 2669MB, 1 PGCs
INFO: Video pts = 0.533 .. 5431.959
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.533 .. 5432.085
STAT: VOBU 9041 at 2669MB, 1 PGCs
CHAPTERS: VTS[1/1] 0.000
INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720x480
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/2ch,  48khz drc

STAT: fixed 9041 VOBUs 


However, still getting a break with mkisofs or mplayer:

$ mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /tmp/dvd/
MPlayer SVN-r33094-4.5.3 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team

Playing dvd://.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.11 for DVD access
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.BU.
Can't open VMG info!
No stream found to handle url dvd://


Exiting... (End of file)

RETURN_VALUE = 0


$ mkisofs -dvd-video -o /tmp/dvd.iso /tmp/dvd
Using "/home/roger/.mkisofsrc"
Setting input-charset to 'UTF-8' from locale.
mkisofs: No such file or directory. Failed to open '/tmp/dvd//VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO'.
mkisofs: Can't open VMG info for '/tmp/dvd/'.
mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
mkisofs: Could not find correct 'VIDEO_TS' directory.
mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.

RETURN_VALUE = 255 :-(


Obviously those IFO/BUP filename were not found, but do seem to occur by 
another name below.  Creating a symlink doesn't solve the problem.

$ find /tmp/dvd/
/tmp/dvd/
/tmp/dvd/AUDIO_TS
/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS
/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_3.VOB
/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.BUP
/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB
/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
/tmp/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB

-- 
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/

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