Can't copy DVD9

[Harald Weis-2]

No problem to copy Hair which is also a DVD9.
Could somebody by so kind and look into the
script Il-Barbiere-di-Siviglia.bz2 attached
to this message in order to find out, if
possible, why `lxdvdrip -st=copy' does not
work here.
I've observed that the whole disk is perfectly
ripped, but at the end the main title gets lost.

Thank you in advance,
Harald Weis
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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

Harald Weis wrote:

> Could somebody by so kind and look into the
> script Il-Barbiere-di-Siviglia.bz2 attached
> to this message in order to find out, if
> possible, why `lxdvdrip -st=copy' does not
> work here.

When a script is failing, it helps to try to figure out at which step
it's failing. Is it not correctly extracting the video from the original
disc? Or is it not correctly building the copy?

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[Harald Weis-2]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:40:23AM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> Harald Weis wrote:
>
> > Could somebody by so kind and look into the
> > script Il-Barbiere-di-Siviglia.bz2 attached
> > to this message in order to find out, if
> > possible, why `lxdvdrip -st=copy' does not
> > work here.
>
> When a script is failing, it helps to try to figure out at which step
> it's failing. Is it not correctly extracting the video from the original
> disc? Or is it not correctly building the copy?

The script (like the observation of the contents of /usr/local/tmp)
seems to show that copy-building does not work. But I am unable to
interpret all messages and to see when and why something goes wrong.
The bzip2-compressed script is attached to my original message.

Best regards
Harald
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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

Harald Weis wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:40:23AM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 >
>> When a script is failing, it helps to try to figure out at which step
>> it's failing. Is it not correctly extracting the video from the original
>> disc? Or is it not correctly building the copy?
>
> The script (like the observation of the contents of /usr/local/tmp)
> seems to show that copy-building does not work.

Does the extracted video look and play OK?

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[Harald Weis-2]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:04:44AM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> Harald Weis wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:40:23AM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>  >
> >> When a script is failing, it helps to try to figure out at which step
> >> it's failing. Is it not correctly extracting the video from the original
> >> disc? Or is it not correctly building the copy?
> >
> > The script (like the observation of the contents of /usr/local/tmp)
> > seems to show that copy-building does not work.
>
> Does the extracted video look and play OK?

Yes, it does.
I just repeated the operation with `delete=0'.
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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

Harald Weis wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:04:44AM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 >
>> Does the extracted video look and play OK?
>
> Yes, it does.

I guess the next step, then, is to try to re-author the extracted video
into a new disc, and see at what point the operation fails.

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[Harald Weis-2]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 03:38:30PM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 
> I guess the next step, then, is to try to re-author the extracted video
> into a new disc, and see at what point the operation fails.
 
I think I've understood what happens by running option -st=partcopy.
When I choose the two big titles (more or less corresponding to the
two acts of the opera) burning fails due to unsufficient disk capacity:
:-( /dev/pass0: 2297888 blocks are free, 2521934 to be written!

When running option -st=copy, the system cannot choose the longest
title because there are two very long files (see the first attached file)
and processes therefore the shortest one (logical :-))  

I don't know why Title 03 (see the second attachment) ends up in two big
files.

Those two files are played alright with mplayer.
Question #1:
Is there a simple way to dvdauthor the 2 files seperately in order to
put them on 2 disks ? I've modified the dvdauthor.xml file without
success and I do not understand the error line when running
dvdauthor -o film-dvd/ -x dvdauthor.xml :
ERR:  Cannot parse audio option 'pcm '

Question #2:
lxdvdrip does not work for Dual Layer DVDs ?

Script started on Thu Jan 22 18:30:00 2009
me@sirius:~/scripts > ll /usr/local/tmp
total 5059196
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       32618 Jan 22 17:16 dummy.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       32618 Jan 22 17:16 dummy.xml-000
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        1645 Jan 22 18:04 dvdauthor.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        2368 Jan 22 17:27 dvdauthor.xml-000
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        1645 Jan 22 18:04 dvdauthor.xml-dvd1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        2368 Jan 22 17:27 dvdauthor.xml-dvd1~
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        1582 Jan 22 18:05 dvdauthor.xml-dvd2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        2368 Jan 22 17:27 dvdauthor.xml-dvd2~
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel         512 Jan 22 18:11 film-dvd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel         112 Jan 22 16:54 palette.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel         112 Jan 22 16:54 palette.txt-000
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      241664 Jan 22 16:54 vob_00m_001.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      243712 Jan 22 16:54 vob_00m_002.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      243712 Jan 22 16:54 vob_00m_003.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      243712 Jan 22 16:54 vob_00m_004.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       75776 Jan 22 16:54 vob_00m_005.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      229376 Jan 22 16:54 vob_01m_001.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      186368 Jan 22 17:16 vob_01t_001.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       10240 Jan 22 17:16 vob_01t_002.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     8267776 Jan 22 17:16 vob_01t_003.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       10240 Jan 22 17:16 vob_01t_004.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      235520 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_001.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      241664 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_002.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      247808 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_003.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      237568 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_004.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      241664 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_005.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      247808 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_006.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      237568 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_007.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      245760 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_008.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      249856 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_009.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      237568 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_010.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      245760 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_011.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      249856 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_012.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      235520 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_013.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      235520 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_014.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      237568 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_015.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      237568 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_016.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2741297152 Jan 22 17:22 vob_02t_001.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2422519808 Jan 22 17:27 vob_02t_002.vob
me@sirius:~/scripts > exit
exit

Script done on Thu Jan 22 18:30:24 2009

Script started on Thu Jan 22 16:43:38 2009
me@sirius:~/scripts > lsdvd -x
Disc Title: BARBIER_PAL_2003
Title: 01, Length: 00:00:10.010 Chapters: 02, Cells: 02, Audio streams: 01, Subpictures: 00
        VTS: 01, TTN: 01, FPS: 25.00, Format: PAL, Aspect ratio: 4/3, Width: 720, Height: 576, DF: ?
        Palette: 000000 80c449 9db933 bea11c 9b7c3d 7c6355 912236 aa10a6 296ef0 2e9e9c 50d58e eb8080 aa8080 7e8080 538080 108080
        Number of Angles: 1
        Audio: 1, Language: xx - Unknown, Format: ac3, Frequency: 48000, Quantization: drc, Channels: 6, AP: 0, Content: Undefined, Stream id: 0x80
        Chapter: 01, Length: 00:00:10.000, Start Cell: 01
        Chapter: 02, Length: 00:00:00.010, Start Cell: 02
        Cell: 01, Length: 00:00:10.000
        Cell: 02, Length: 00:00:00.010

Title: 02, Length: 00:00:14.010 Chapters: 02, Cells: 02, Audio streams: 01, Subpictures: 00
        VTS: 01, TTN: 02, FPS: 25.00, Format: PAL, Aspect ratio: 4/3, Width: 720, Height: 576, DF: ?
        Palette: 000000 80c449 9db933 bea11c 9b7c3d 7c6355 912236 aa10a6 296ef0 2e9e9c 50d58e eb8080 aa8080 7e8080 538080 108080
        Number of Angles: 1
        Audio: 1, Language: xx - Unknown, Format: ac3, Frequency: 48000, Quantization: drc, Channels: 6, AP: 0, Content: Undefined, Stream id: 0x80
        Chapter: 01, Length: 00:00:14.000, Start Cell: 01
        Chapter: 02, Length: 00:00:00.010, Start Cell: 02
        Cell: 01, Length: 00:00:14.000
        Cell: 02, Length: 00:00:00.010

Title: 03, Length: 02:33:38.010 Chapters: 24, Cells: 25, Audio streams: 01, Subpictures: 05
        VTS: 02, TTN: 01, FPS: 25.00, Format: PAL, Aspect ratio: 4/3, Width: 720, Height: 576, DF: ?
        Palette: 000000 80c449 9db933 bea11c 9b7c3d 7c6355 912236 aa10a6 296ef0 2e9e9c 50d58e eb8080 aa8080 7e8080 538080 108080
        Number of Angles: 1
        Audio: 1, Language: it - Italiano, Format: lpcm , Frequency: 48000, Quantization: 16bit, Channels: 2, AP: 0, Content: Undefined, Stream id: 0xa0
        Chapter: 01, Length: 00:01:22.000, Start Cell: 01
        Chapter: 02, Length: 00:07:31.170, Start Cell: 02
        Chapter: 03, Length: 00:02:44.010, Start Cell: 03
        Chapter: 04, Length: 00:07:36.360, Start Cell: 04
        Chapter: 05, Length: 00:12:04.080, Start Cell: 05
        Chapter: 06, Length: 00:03:39.170, Start Cell: 06
        Chapter: 07, Length: 00:09:57.280, Start Cell: 07
        Chapter: 08, Length: 00:10:37.050, Start Cell: 08
        Chapter: 09, Length: 00:07:04.280, Start Cell: 09
        Chapter: 10, Length: 00:06:33.120, Start Cell: 10
        Chapter: 11, Length: 00:07:02.290, Start Cell: 11
        Chapter: 12, Length: 00:04:24.010, Start Cell: 12
        Chapter: 13, Length: 00:03:35.570, Start Cell: 13
        Chapter: 14, Length: 00:06:33.050, Start Cell: 15
        Chapter: 15, Length: 00:06:08.180, Start Cell: 16
        Chapter: 16, Length: 00:07:08.160, Start Cell: 17
        Chapter: 17, Length: 00:06:56.320, Start Cell: 18
        Chapter: 18, Length: 00:03:49.170, Start Cell: 19
        Chapter: 19, Length: 00:11:35.040, Start Cell: 20
        Chapter: 20, Length: 00:06:13.130, Start Cell: 21
        Chapter: 21, Length: 00:03:57.210, Start Cell: 22
        Chapter: 22, Length: 00:09:30.330, Start Cell: 23
        Chapter: 23, Length: 00:07:31.170, Start Cell: 24
        Chapter: 24, Length: 00:00:00.010, Start Cell: 25
        Cell: 01, Length: 00:01:22.000
        Cell: 02, Length: 00:07:31.170
        Cell: 03, Length: 00:02:44.010
        Cell: 04, Length: 00:07:36.360
        Cell: 05, Length: 00:12:04.080
        Cell: 06, Length: 00:03:39.170
        Cell: 07, Length: 00:09:57.280
        Cell: 08, Length: 00:10:37.050
        Cell: 09, Length: 00:07:04.280
        Cell: 10, Length: 00:06:33.120
        Cell: 11, Length: 00:07:02.290
        Cell: 12, Length: 00:04:24.010
        Cell: 13, Length: 00:01:13.360
        Cell: 14, Length: 00:02:22.210
        Cell: 15, Length: 00:06:33.050
        Cell: 16, Length: 00:06:08.180
        Cell: 17, Length: 00:07:08.160
        Cell: 18, Length: 00:06:56.320
        Cell: 19, Length: 00:03:49.170
        Cell: 20, Length: 00:11:35.040
        Cell: 21, Length: 00:06:13.130
        Cell: 22, Length: 00:03:57.210
        Cell: 23, Length: 00:09:30.330
        Cell: 24, Length: 00:07:31.170
        Cell: 25, Length: 00:00:00.010
        Subtitle: 01, Language: en - English, Content: Undefined, Stream id: 0x20,
        Subtitle: 02, Language: de - Deutsch, Content: Undefined, Stream id: 0x21,
        Subtitle: 03, Language: fr - Francais, Content: Undefined, Stream id: 0x22,
        Subtitle: 04, Language: es - Espanol, Content: Undefined, Stream id: 0x23,
        Subtitle: 05, Language: it - Italiano, Content: Undefined, Stream id: 0x24,

Longest track: 03

me@sirius:~/scripts > exit
exit

Script done on Thu Jan 22 16:44:08 2009

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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

Harald Weis wrote:

> ... burning fails due to unsufficient disk capacity:
> :-( /dev/pass0: 2297888 blocks are free, 2521934 to be written!

Yup. Note that a DVD "block" or "sector" is 2048 bytes.

> I don't know why Title 03 ... ends up in two big files.

Files on a DVD-Video disc must be less than 1GiB in size. Could be
applicable here.

> Is there a simple way to dvdauthor the 2 files seperately in order to
> put them on 2 disks ?

The dvdauthor XML file operates at a fairly low level. Not to mention
you'll need to rearrange the menus.

> ... I do not understand the error line when running
 > dvdauthor -o film-dvd/ -x dvdauthor.xml :
> ERR:  Cannot parse audio option 'pcm '

Is there a trailing space on the end of "pcm"? Try removing that.

 > xdvdrip does not work for Dual Layer DVDs ?

I have used k9copy a few times to copy double-layer discs onto
single-layer ones. Maybe look at that instead?

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[Harald Weis-2]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:13:38AM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Harald Weis wrote:
 
> > I don't know why Title 03 ... ends up in two big files.
>
> Files on a DVD-Video disc must be less than 1GiB in size. Could be
> applicable here.
 
Yes

> > Is there a simple way to dvdauthor the 2 files seperately in order to
> > put them on 2 disks ?
>
> The dvdauthor XML file operates at a fairly low level. Not to mention
> you'll need to rearrange the menus.
 
Not wanting any menus, I left only the titleset of my choice in
dvdauthor.xml. Indeed, that does not seem to be allowed. `dvdauthor'
works fine (see attached file), but `growisofs' (or better `mkisofs')
is "Unable to make a DVD-Video image" without telling why :-(.
The presence of the dummy.xml file must have a good reason I suppose.
I fear it's too much work to learn how to edit dvdauthor.xml
without a good tutorial.
 
> > ... I do not understand the error line when running
>  > dvdauthor -o film-dvd/ -x dvdauthor.xml :
> > ERR:  Cannot parse audio option 'pcm '
>
> Is there a trailing space on the end of "pcm"? Try removing that.
 
Yes, there is a space. But that seems to be bug. I am _not_ responsible
for that ! Removing it makes at least dvdauthor work.

>  > lxdvdrip does not work for Dual Layer DVDs ?
>
> I have used k9copy a few times to copy double-layer discs onto
> single-layer ones. Maybe look at that instead?

Thank you for this hint. I will install k9copy to see whether it
can do the job.

Many thanks again for your kind help during such a long time.
Harald
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Script started on Fri Jan 23 21:29:55 2009
me@sirius:/<2>tmp # rm -r film-dvd/*
me@sirius:/<2>tmp # ll *.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      241664 Jan 22 16:54 vob_00m_001.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      243712 Jan 22 16:54 vob_00m_002.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      243712 Jan 22 16:54 vob_00m_003.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      243712 Jan 22 16:54 vob_00m_004.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       75776 Jan 22 16:54 vob_00m_005.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      229376 Jan 22 16:54 vob_01m_001.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      186368 Jan 22 17:16 vob_01t_001.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       10240 Jan 22 17:16 vob_01t_002.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     8267776 Jan 22 17:16 vob_01t_003.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       10240 Jan 22 17:16 vob_01t_004.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      235520 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_001.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      241664 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_002.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      247808 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_003.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      237568 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_004.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      241664 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_005.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      247808 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_006.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      237568 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_007.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      245760 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_008.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      249856 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_009.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      237568 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_010.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      245760 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_011.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      249856 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_012.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      235520 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_013.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      235520 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_014.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      237568 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_015.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      237568 Jan 22 16:55 vob_02m_016.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2741297152 Jan 22 17:22 vob_02t_001.vob
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2422519808 Jan 22 17:27 vob_02t_002.vob
me@sirius:/<2>tmp # more dvdauthor.xml-dvd1
[?1h=<?xml version="1.0"?>
<dvdauthor>
<titleset>
<titles>
 <video/>
 <audio lang="it" format="pcm"/>
 <subpicture lang="en"/>
 <subpicture lang="de"/>
 <subpicture lang="fr"/>
 <subpicture lang="es"/>
 <subpicture lang="it"/>
 <!-- Title 1/1 -->
<pgc palette="/usr/local/tmp/palette.txt">
 <vob file="vob_02t_001.vob">
 <cell start="0:00:00.000" end="0:01:22.000" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="0:01:22.000" end="0:08:53.560" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="0:08:53.560" end="0:11:37.960" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="0:11:37.960" end="0:19:14.320" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="0:19:14.320" end="0:31:18.400" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="0:31:18.400" end="0:34:57.960" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="0:34:57.960" end="0:44:55.240" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="0:44:55.240" end="0:55:32.680" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="0:55:32.680" end="1:02:36.960" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="1:02:36.960" end="1:09:10.080" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="1:09:10.080" end="1:16:12.760" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="1:16:12.760" end="1:20:37.160" chapter="1"/>
 <cell start="1:20:37.160" chapter="1"/>
 </vob>
 </pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>
[?1l>me@sirius:/<2>tmp # dvdauthor -o film-dvd/ -x dvdauthor.xml-dvd1
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@...>

INFO: Locale=en_US.ISO8859-15
INFO: Converting filenames to ISO8859-15
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

INFO: Video pts = 0.071 .. 4910.591
INFO: Audio[16] pts = 0.071 .. 4910.591
INFO: Audio[32] pts = 567.991 .. 4909.628
INFO: Audio[33] pts = 567.991 .. 4909.628
INFO: Audio[34] pts = 567.991 .. 4909.628
INFO: Audio[35] pts = 567.991 .. 4909.628
INFO: Audio[36] pts = 567.991 .. 4909.628
STAT: VOBU 8765 at 2614MB, 1 PGCS
INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: pal
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720x576
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: pcm/2ch, 48khz 16bps, 'it'
me@sirius:/<2>tmp # ll film-dvd/VIDEO_TS/
total 2678520
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       53248 Jan 23 21:38 VTS_01_0.BUP
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       53248 Jan 23 21:38 VTS_01_0.IFO
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1073709056 Jan 23 21:39 VTS_01_1.VOB
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1073709056 Jan 23 21:40 VTS_01_2.VOB
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   593879040 Jan 23 21:40 VTS_01_3.VOB
me@sirius:/<2>tmp # exit
exit

Script done on Fri Jan 23 21:43:37 2009

Script started on Fri Jan 23 20:27:48 2009
me@sirius:/<2>tmp # growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -dvd-compat -dry-run -v -v -V DVD1 -dvd-video film-dvd/VIDEO_TS/
Executing 'mkisofs -v -v -V DVD1 -dvd-video film-dvd/VIDEO_TS/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/pass0 obs=32k seek=0'
mkisofs 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.0)
Scanning film-dvd/VIDEO_TS/
 270   308
Cache hit for '/..'
271 296 film-dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.BUP
297 322 film-dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
323 524594 film-dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB
524595 1048866 film-dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB
1048867 1338846 film-dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_3.VOB
mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.
me@sirius:/<2>tmp # exit
exit

Script done on Fri Jan 23 20:28:27 2009

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[Roger Ivie]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Harald Weis wrote:
> Not wanting any menus, I left only the titleset of my choice in
> dvdauthor.xml.
> I fear it's too much work to learn how to edit dvdauthor.xml
> without a good tutorial.

Well, if that's all you need, I use the following Lua script to generate
the xml files I use. Just pipe in a list of .vob files like so:

ls *vob | mkxml > dvdauthor.xml

The resulting DVD will consist of a single title that starts playing
when the disc is inserted, runs through the vob files in the order they
were given to the script, and repeats at the end.

Lua can be found over at http://www.lua.org/, but it should be simple
enough to figure out what it's doing.
---------------- snippy snippy ----------------------

#!/home/rivie/bin/LuaScript_Run
-- <dvdauthor>
-- <dvdauthor>
-- <vmgm />
--  <titleset>
--    <titles>
--      <pgc>
--        <vob file="episode.vob" />
--        <post>
--          jump chapter 1;
--        </post>
--      </pgc>
--    </titles>
--  </titleset>
-- </dvdauthor>


io.write( "<dvdauthor>\n" )
io.write( "  <vmgm />\n" )
io.write( "  <titleset>\n" )
io.write( "    <titles>\n" )
io.write( "      <pgc>\n" )

for line in io.lines( "/dev/stdin" ) do
   io.write( "<vob file=\"" .. line .. "\"/>\n" )
end

io.write( "        <post>\n" )
io.write( "          jump chapter 1;\n" )
io.write( "        </post>\n" )
io.write( "      </pgc>\n" )
io.write( "    </titles>\n" )
io.write( "  </titleset>\n" )
io.write( "</dvdauthor>\n" )
-------------------------------- snippy snippy -------------------

Simplicity itself.
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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

Roger Ivie wrote:

> io.write( "<dvdauthor>\n" )
> io.write( "  <vmgm />\n" )
> io.write( "  <titleset>\n" )
> io.write( "    <titles>\n" )
> io.write( "      <pgc>\n" )
>
> for line in io.lines( "/dev/stdin" ) do
>    io.write( "<vob file=\"" .. line .. "\"/>\n" )
> end
>
> io.write( "        <post>\n" )
> io.write( "          jump chapter 1;\n" )
> io.write( "        </post>\n" )
> io.write( "      </pgc>\n" )
> io.write( "    </titles>\n" )
> io.write( "  </titleset>\n" )
> io.write( "</dvdauthor>\n" )

How does that handle blank lines? Here's a Python version that ignores them:

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys

sys.stdout.write \
   (
         "<dvdauthor>\n"
         "  <vmgm />\n"
         "  <titleset>\n"
         "    <titles>\n"
         "      <pgc>\n"
     +
         "".join
           (
             [
                     "        <vob file=\"%s\"/>\n"
                 %
                     line.rstrip("\n")
             for
                 line in sys.stdin if len(line.rstrip("\n")) != 0
             ]
           )
     +
         "        <post>\n"
         "          jump chapter 1;\n"
         "        </post>\n"
         "      </pgc>\n"
         "    </titles>\n"
         "  </titleset>\n"
         "</dvdauthor>\n"
   )


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[Roger Ivie]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> How does that handle blank lines?

It doesn't. But, then, I don't generally get blank lines from ls...
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[Harald Weis-2]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 06:32:27PM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Roger Ivie wrote:
 
Bravo, bravissimo ! Mille merci.
I am very happy indeed.

I've used the python script, because python was already installed.
Lua seems to be light-weight and yet very powerful.
Now that I have understood the basics of dvdauthor.xml, I could
even write the script in Ruby, the only language I've used
in recent years from time to time.

Many thanks to both of you.
Harald

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