dvdauthor (devede) issue, can't convert avi to dvd

siriusb · 2010-12-29 10:40:10

I was converting an avi to dvd format with devede, but it said that couldn't create dvd tree structure, because there wasn't enough space. The partition where the target directory was located, has 40 GB free space. My root partition has only 2.2 GB, but devede isn't supposed to work on that.
In pacman.log I noticed that dvdauthor had been updated upgraded dvdauthor (0.6.18-1 -> 0.7.0-1), so I made a downgrade for this package. Convertion of a small avi (10MB) works fine. I started a larger avi ~710 MB, and it's frozen at creating iso file, it reads 2/3 0%.
I'm not sure what is the problem. Or which package is broken.
Please advise.

UPDATE:
I canceled the job. The iso file seems to be fine, vlc plays it. The only thing that temporary files haven't been removed.

Last edited by siriusb (2010-12-29 10:58:14)

andrewthomas · 2011-01-26 02:22:59

It is using the /tmp partition while making the disk. You really should shrink your /home and give a bit more space to /.
As for the dvdauthor issue, from 0.6.18 to 0.7.0 dvdauthor no longer assumes that the disk is NTSC. So the problem actually needs to be addressed by devede.

siriusb · 2011-01-26 09:02:32

Thanks for your reply.
Regarding /tmp, as I see devede uses the location to store temp files what I specify as target folder.
And I use PAL format.
I plan to give some more place to /. But I wait till I decide how to restructure the hdd or maybe buying additional one.

siriusb · 2011-01-29 10:29:56

Now I have 8GB free space on root. But!

I tried to convert a 10 MB avi to video dvd. When Creating menu option is checked, devede runs without error message, the iso file is created, but there is no audio at all!

When Creating menu option is UNchecked, avi file is the same, devede gives an error message: Failed to create the DVD tree. Maybe you ran out of disk space. I checked the target folder and neither the mpg or the vob file has audio.

When converting a 1,5GB avi with menu it gets stuck in the iso creating phase (3/4). The iso has been created but no audio of course.

Captain Dunce · 2011-02-02 07:01:01

Hey I'm having the same problem with devede. Tried it for the first time tonight and it always gives me an error at 25% of creating dvd tree structure and no audio in the files it does produce. Disk space and rw permissions are all good. Anybody have some luck with this issue?

Captain Dunce · 2011-02-02 07:10:59

Well for what it's worth I just checked the devede homepage and they are aware of the bug--in fact it would seem this is not the first time this bug has appeared--and hope to have a fixed release in a few weeks.

siriusb · 2011-02-02 10:16:10

Could you paste the link please? I didn't find it and I'd like to know where it is. Thanks.
Anyway, you can try downgrade mplayer (and x264), maybe you will be lucky. I wasn't.

Captain Dunce · 2011-02-03 22:23:43

My mistake--it was not the dvdauthor homepage.
http://groups.google.com/group/devede-f … 4948?tvc=2

It seems that the problem is in "dvdauthor".

I was able to use part of the xml file generated by DeVeDe(at least I assume it was) and basically copy and paste a simple xml config file to use with dvdauthor on the command line. I was then having trouble with mkisofs saying there was a file missing from the output folder of dvdauthor(VIDEO_TS.ifo i think). In the xml config file be sure to list movie specs in <vmgm> section and then mkisofs works great.

siriusb · 2011-02-04 09:08:05

Thanks.

Captain Dunce · 2011-02-06 00:30:00

Finally found an easy fix for the missing VIDEO_TS.IFO issue when using mkisofs. For some reason when I use dvdauthor with command line options instead of an .xml file I cannot figure out how to get it to produce the video_ts.ifo or video_ts.bup file. Thankfully I found an old post from linuxquestions.org.

dvdauthor -T -o ~/directory containing the "VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS" folders

Execute that command after creating the VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS folders and dvdauthor will create the needed files. Not that I don't like using the xml file I just don't like feeling limited to using it.

Captain Dunce · 2011-02-06 00:35:07

oops I mean to type:

dvdauthor -T -o /directory containing the "VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS" folders

stremer · 2011-03-12 01:58:55

Its a dvdauthor "problem"
I have the same problem and need to set the env variable VIDEO_FORMAT to workaround.
Then run devede from terminal, and it works.

$ export VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC
$ devede

Maybe devede need to fix this because it uses the dvdauthor

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#1 2010-12-29 10:40:10

dvdauthor (devede) issue, can't convert avi to dvd

#2 2011-01-26 02:22:59

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