Re: Dvdunauthor not producing any output

[Russ Dill]

Mike Martin <mike@...> writes:

>
> With a fresh install of dvdunauthor on fedora 16 all I get is this
>
> bash-4.2$ dvdunauthor /dev/sr0
> DVDAuthor::dvdunauthor, version 0.7.0.
> Build options: gnugetopt graphicsmagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
> Send bug reports to <dvdauthor-users@...>
>
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
>
> INFO: VMGM
>
> rpm versions
>
> libdvdread-4.1.4-0.4.svn1226.fc16.i686
> libdvdnav-4.1.4-0.3.svn1226.fc16.i686
>
> anyone any ideas what could be the issue as I cant see any way to get
> any more verbose output
>

For me, I tracked it down to VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB not existing on the DVD. In
DVDOpenVOBUDF I hacked in the failed UDFFindFile case. Instead of 'return NULL;'
when start == 0, I changed it to 'len = 0;'

With that change, dvdunauthor works on my dvd. However, all I really want in the
dvdauthor.xml. Is there any way to skip all the reading of vobs?


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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 23:20:10 +0000 (UTC), Russ Dill wrote:

> For me, I tracked it down to VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB not existing on
> the DVD. In DVDOpenVOBUDF I hacked in the failed UDFFindFile case.
> Instead of 'return NULL;' when start == 0, I changed it to 'len = 0;'

Who is the upstream for libdvdread? Seems like it’s overdue for some
serious TLC.

> With that change, dvdunauthor works on my dvd. However, all I really
> want in the dvdauthor.xml. Is there any way to skip all the reading
> of vobs?

All that information about the VOBs needs to be in the XML file,
because remember the XML file needs to have the necessary information
to recreate the complete DVD-Video structure.

I could add a patch so if DVDOpenFile returns NULL, then instead of
aborting the whole run, I simply return immediately from that call to
getVobs. But I’m not sure how I’d test it...

Are you able to build DVDAuthor from the source here
<https://github.com/ldo/dvdauthor>?

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