On Saturday 04 Mar 2006 20:53, JoeHill wrote: > I used tovid to convert an AVI to MPEG, which plays fine in mplayer. > > I tried to burn it to DVD according to the manpage and various howto's I've > read, but I just get this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] videos]$ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video giant.mpg > Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video giant.mpg | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k > seek=0' mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image. > > :-( write failed: Input/output error > > I *am* able to write data to the drive, so I'm not sure what I'm missing > here, or what to make of the error. > > Thanks for any help!
Joe I don't think you can use "-dvd-video" with a single video file. I always give the name of a directory which contains a DVD compliant file structure (as output from DVDauthor) Have a look at the -dvd-video section in the mkisofs man page. HTH -- Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
