Re: [not sure if OT] empty DVD menus with k9copy and devede

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 08 May 2012 08:37:02 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote:

> Hi y'all:

Hi (I think this is not OT at all :-P)

> I'm using Debian Wheezy on i386 hardware.
> 
> Recently I had to exchange my harddrive because the former one (after
> less than a year) started to act up.
> I decided to start afresh and reinstalled wheezy and to just copy over
> my /home and some adjustments I made to /etc. Everything fine - so I
> thought.
> 
> Only later I realized that all my DVDs, which I "produced" since then,
> using devede and k9copy have empty menus. That means: the menufile plays
> in a way that I can see the progess-bar e.g. in Kaffeine but the menu
> does not show up so I can't chose a video nor can I make use of those
> DVDs on an ordinary DVD- player.

(...)

This is just an idea... To discard a problem coming from your backed /
home profile, try by launching the mentioned programs from a fresh new 
user account to check if you are still getting the same behaviour.

> My question:
> Which program are both k9copy and devede using to produce the menu-file.
> Isn't it dvdauthor?
> If yes, I can proceed to figure out the problem.

Well, both "k9copy" and "devede" require "dvdauthor" to be installed (at 
least that's so for D-M packages) so I guess yes.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón