Re: OT : K9Copy Problems
Do you have all the dependencies installed; * DVDAuthor * libdvdread * growisofs * vamps * libdvdcss2 Without these dependencies k9copy is merely eye candy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT : K9Copy Problems
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:24:59 -0800 Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, anything else I might try to get this to work? It depends on the types of files you already have. Say you have a couple of videos that are in a particular format that you want to put on a SL disk. Now, unless these video(s) were already on a DL disk, you could use something like tovid(gui) to process the files into DVD compliant video with (or without) menus. The menu doesn't need to be anything fancy. For the ones that I've done so far, my menu is just a list of filenames that I can pick from using the DVD player remote :). The few times I've tried k9copy it seems to copy everything fine to the new blank dvd but the player I use (i.e, stand alone one, not xine/mplayer/etc) hangs in the menu, and I can't get to the videos themselves. I don't experience this behavior when running DVD Shrink under wine. To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT : K9Copy Problems
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 14:20 +0100, Magnus Pedersen wrote: Scarletdown wrote: As an update in the troubleshooting process, I went ahead and burned the ISO directly to a DVD+RW disk. The problem remains. However, I do see now that although the menu was properly burned to the disk as VIDEO_TS.VOB (1,016KB MPEG Video), the movie itself shows as VTS_01_1.VOB (0KB Empty Document). I'm not sure what to try next in the troubleshooting process. I have had problems with keeping the original menus on the DVD's. Try to skip that. That also failed, and gave me this strange error: An error occured while running DVDAuthor: play_cell: Fatal: write failed: Broken pipe ERR: Error reading from pipe: No such file or directory I'm somewhat relieved that the presence of the menu wasn't the source of the problem, actually. I mean, sure, for a single title like this, a menu isn't needed. However, I have some other DVD projects coming up (like my Mysterious Cities of Gold collection, and a collection of 80s and 90s music videos), and those will need a main menu. So, anything else I might try to get this to work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT : K9Copy Problems
Scarletdown wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:41 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: When I check out the newly created ISO, it is only 2MB, which I know is not how it should be, considering the original was 4.9GB (.2GB too big to fit a SL DVD-R). Apparently, all the ISO contains is the DVD menu. This is confirmed by loading the ISO in XINE. The menu indeed comes up, but clocking on 'Play Movie' gives me a 'Source can't be read' error. So now, if anyone here can make heads or tails of the above problem, can you please tell me how to actually get this damn program to work? k9copy looks like the only native Linux solution for compressing a DVD image to fit on a 4.7GB disk. It's just a shame that there are no help files or an actual support forum for this, because otherwise, it looks like a potential killer app for Linux, or at least a great component for a suite of potential killer apps for full-blown DVD production. As an update in the troubleshooting process, I went ahead and burned the ISO directly to a DVD+RW disk. The problem remains. However, I do see now that although the menu was properly burned to the disk as VIDEO_TS.VOB (1,016KB MPEG Video), the movie itself shows as VTS_01_1.VOB (0KB Empty Document). I'm not sure what to try next in the troubleshooting process. I have had problems with keeping the original menus on the DVD's. Try to skip that. /Magnus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT : K9Copy Problems
I'm tagging this post as OT because the package in question isn't in the Debian archives. However, this package, which looks very useful, has very little documentation, and I can't find a specific support forum for it. So anyway, has anyone here ever successfully used k9Copy? As far as I can tell, this is the closest anyone has come to anything like DVDShrink for Linux (even moreso than xdvdshrink, which I can't get to work properly). Here's my problem with k9copy: I am trying to reduce the size of a DVD ISO image I created so that it can be burned onto a single layer DVD-RW disc before burning it to a regular DVD-R. I figured out how to actually mount the original ISO, and access it like a physical DVD with this command: mount -o loop -t iso9660 /archives/DVD-Work/ISO-Images/Space-Firebird.iso /dvd I tested this with XINE, and the ISO plays normally when I click the DVD button. In other words, it brings up the DVD menu I created with QDVDAuthor, and plays the movie when I click on the 'Play Movie' button I created on the menu. So then, I set /dev/loop0 as the input device for k9copy and loaded the image for processing. k9copy reads the ISO and gives me this info: - Space - Title 01 5049.93 mb - audio 1 unknown mp2 2ch 48KHz 20bps176.75 mb - video NTSC - 1:36:37 4850.81 mb Next I try 'Play Title', and the movie (without the menu) plays quietly in a little preview window). With the output device set to ISO Image, and the 'Keep Original Menus' checkbox selected, I click Copy, and the DVD backup process begins (which I am assuming will also give a bit of compression to make the production fit on a SL disk). This takes 2 minutes and 23 seconds, after which, I am asked where I want to save the ISO image. I save it on the partition with the most available space, of course, then only about 2 seconds later, I am informed that DVD burning is finished (no errors or other warnings). When I check out the newly created ISO, it is only 2MB, which I know is not how it should be, considering the original was 4.9GB (.2GB too big to fit a SL DVD-R). Apparently, all the ISO contains is the DVD menu. This is confirmed by loading the ISO in XINE. The menu indeed comes up, but clocking on 'Play Movie' gives me a 'Source can't be read' error. So now, if anyone here can make heads or tails of the above problem, can you please tell me how to actually get this damn program to work? k9copy looks like the only native Linux solution for compressing a DVD image to fit on a 4.7GB disk. It's just a shame that there are no help files or an actual support forum for this, because otherwise, it looks like a potential killer app for Linux, or at least a great component for a suite of potential killer apps for full-blown DVD production. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT : K9Copy Problems
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:41 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: When I check out the newly created ISO, it is only 2MB, which I know is not how it should be, considering the original was 4.9GB (.2GB too big to fit a SL DVD-R). Apparently, all the ISO contains is the DVD menu. This is confirmed by loading the ISO in XINE. The menu indeed comes up, but clocking on 'Play Movie' gives me a 'Source can't be read' error. So now, if anyone here can make heads or tails of the above problem, can you please tell me how to actually get this damn program to work? k9copy looks like the only native Linux solution for compressing a DVD image to fit on a 4.7GB disk. It's just a shame that there are no help files or an actual support forum for this, because otherwise, it looks like a potential killer app for Linux, or at least a great component for a suite of potential killer apps for full-blown DVD production. As an update in the troubleshooting process, I went ahead and burned the ISO directly to a DVD+RW disk. The problem remains. However, I do see now that although the menu was properly burned to the disk as VIDEO_TS.VOB (1,016KB MPEG Video), the movie itself shows as VTS_01_1.VOB (0KB Empty Document). I'm not sure what to try next in the troubleshooting process. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
