Re: [not sure if OT] empty DVD menus with k9copy and devede
On Tuesday 08 May 2012 12:45:41 Camaleón wrote:
> 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.
I didn't think that the profile has anything to do with it but followed your
advice anyway. For what it's worth I experienced strange behaviour because of
botched profiles before. But no luck, same problem with a new user with
default settings.
Right now I'm trying on another box with the same Wheezy installation. If it
works there, I shall have something to work on and to analyze the differences.
>
> > My question:
> > Which program are both k9copy and devede using to produce the menu-file.
> > Isn't it dvdauthor?
>
> Well, both "k9copy" and "devede" require "dvdauthor" to be installed (at
> least that's so for D-M packages) so I guess yes.
Weird, because dvdauthor has not been updated around that time. (???)
It is still the same version as before the harddisk swap.
>
> Greetings,
Thank you so much , indeed!
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