Re: mkisofs -dvd-video won't work
Paul Stravers <varkentje@oink-oink-oink.net> 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).
I was asuming that programs that create DVD-Video compliant directory
trees will tell you where the "root directory" for the new DVD would be.
Of course, you nee a DVD-Video compliant directory tree as an argument
to mkisofs if you like it to create a DVD-Video compliant DVD image.
Jörg
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