Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm really struggling with this whole compatible DVD thing. > > For my amateur dramatics group, I have produced a DVD of our show, > including menus and all sorts of fun like that. The DVD plays > perfectly with "xine dvd://video/dvd". > > I have burned the DVD in many different ways, such as "growisofs > -dvd-compat -dvd-video -Z /dev/scd1 ." and most of the ways I burn it > will work perfectly on my panasonic DVD player.
If you are on a recent Linux distro, you may first like to replace the broken mkisofs fork with the real software.... ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ Release 2.01.01a40 is the latest 1) Create a _correct_ DVD video tree using video preparer software Make sure VIDEO_TS in all upper case.... 2) Call mkisofs -o xxx.iso -dvd-video some_dir some_dir needs to include VDEO_TS 3) write the image using cdrecord -v xxx.iso Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]