Re: mkisofs -dvd-video won't work

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I added the following paragraph to the mkisofs man page:

Thank you, that will save people a lot of confusion, I suspect.
> 
> Note that in order to get a DVD-Video compliant filesystem image, you need
> to prepare a DVD-Video compliant directory tree. This means you need to
> have a directory VIDEO_TS (all caps) in the root directory of the resulting DVD
> and you should have a directory AUDIO_TS. The directory VIDEO_TS needs to
> include all needed files (file names must be all caps) for a compliant DVD-Video
> filesystem.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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