Re: mkisofs -dvd-video won't work

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Paul Stravers wrote:

> For completeness of the archives, here is the solution of my problem.
>
> Taking Joerg's hint I went straight to his website and downloaded the
> original sources, build with -g, and checked what was going on. Turned
> out mkisofs is looking for a subdirectory named "VIDEO_TS", and the
> obvious solution is to change the command line to:
>
>  % mkisofs -dvd-video -o /dev/null -v -v test_dvd/
>
> Now it works. Here is an idea: add a message complaining about the
> missing VIDEO_TS subdirectory. For some reason there are numerous dvd
> howto guides on the internet that advice the commandline
>
>  % growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video dvd/VIDEO_TS
>
> which I now found out to be wrong (at least with current versions of
> mkisofs).
>  
Note that this doesn't match what you posted in your original post. 
Don't know if that's significant with mkisofs or not, it certainly is 
with some applications. Your original post had a trailing / on the command.

I suspect the trick is that the data needs to be in a directory called 
VIDEO_TS, but I won't get a chance to try until next weekend.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979