Re: odd VIDEO_TS (new to this)

Ok this may turn out to be a "duh" moment on my part. I'm 55... I'm entitled
to those once in a while I think.... can't remember...

Anyways, I installed libdvdcss2. That helped but I still got an error. So I
ran dvdrip from CLI using "sudo dvdrip"
'Lo and behold I got a listing of all the segments on the dvd. I told dvdrip
to rip one segment. I now have a VOB file that I can see is the first video
clip.

Then I exited dvdrip and used vobcopy again using as sudo... "sudo vobcopy
-m"
ZOOOooom.... away it goes... dutifully writing vob files.(and .ifo and .bup
files as well.... like... 36 of each... I think it wrote a vob/ifo/bup for
each chapter)

Now all of the files created this way are owned by root but I suppose that's
easy enough to change if I need to and it appears that libdvdcss2 AND
running the programs as root are what made things start working. So then my
next question becomes.... is there a way to NOT have to run as root? I don't
normally like to do that.

Oh and on a side note... my wife stuck the DVD in her Sony Vaio and it
basically hung trying to read it. A whole lotta hourglass. She has WinXP and
I'm not sure what software she has on there for playing DVDs but I know she
can watch commercially made DVDs (like Shrek).

So I think I'm set for getting the  stuff off the DVDs made by the Panasonic
dvd recorder in my AV system and can probably start playing around with
re-authoring. Would love to get past this run-as-root thing though...

thanks for all the help so far. Feels kinds weird to be a beginner again...
but kinda good as well. :)

-- Charlie

On Dec 18, 2007 5:52 PM, Phillip Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 18/12/2007, Charlie Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > My computer has a Samsung SH-S183L
> >  18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X
> DVD-ROM
> > 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA DVD Burner With LightScribe
> > TechnologyI don't think it's a media issue as I have used this
> particular
> > DVD-R media very successfully on the computer and also in the dvd
> recorder
> > that made this particular disc.
>
> Okay, that sounds reasonable. You ought not to have any trouble with a
> drive like that.
>
> > Or does that Panasonic DMR-ES15S simply "finalize" in a way that is
> > non-standard in terms of the file structure but completely
> understandable to
> > other DVD players? My wife emailed me and told me that the DVD works
> > perfectly in 3 different dvd players at her school. But non of the
> ripping
> > software I've gotten so far knows what to do with it.
>
> Hmm, the only thing I can think of in that case is a filesystem issue.
> DVDs and CDs can have multiple file systems overlaid on top of each
> other. They'll have an ISO9660 FS, usually also a "Joliet" file system
> for longer file names, and (rarely) a "Rock Ridge" file system, in
> which file sytem entries have UNIX style attributes. There are some
> others such as UDF as well.
>
> As far as I'm aware, only ISO9660 is required to play DVDs - all the
> names are suitably short (max 12 chars I think) and it's a simple
> format, so I suspect it gets used by most, if not all hardware DVD
> players. The major OSes all support Joliet and various versions of
> UDF, and Unix-based OSes also read Rock Ridge.
>
> SO... what if the Joliet file system (or maybe UDF) is corrupted, but
> the ISO9660 table is fine? That would explain why it works for
> hardware DVD players. Now I guess you just need to disable Joliet
> support, although I don't know at what stage you'd need to do it for
> dvd::rip, whether it uses the Linux kernel to read the file system, or
> one of the userland (lsdvd, vobcopy) apps reads it in from the raw
> disc.
>
> I'm no expert on this stuff I'm afraid, so I may be completely wrong here.
>
> ~phil
>