[CentOS] Unable to write video dvd using k3b

[Robert]

MHR wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:17 AM, lingu <hicheerup at gmail.com  wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I download dvd movie files from torrent.It is like below
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1048614912 2008-07-24 16:49 VTS_01_1.VOB
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  538210304 2008-07-24 16:52  VTS_01_2.VOB
>>
>> File command on above giving the below ouput.
>>
>> file VTS_01_1.VOB
>> VTS_01_1.VOB: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex
>>
>> file VTS_01_2.VOB
>> VTS_01_2.VOB: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex
>>
>>  When i opened any of the above files using vlc or kaffeine it is playing
>> the movie properly.But when i try to create the video dvd file onto my dvd
>> using k3b its giving error "Not able to find DVD format".
>>
>>  Plz help me how to write this into dvd to watch this movie in normal dvd
>> player.
>>
>>     
>
> You probably ought to ask this on either a k3b or a kde list.  My
> experience with k3b leads me to believe that you have to have a
> complete DVD file structure set up to create a video DVD with it (if
> you're going to use that format), which means you need the info files,
> vob files and some others I can't recall off the top of my head.
> There are other options, too - check out dvdauthor or qdvdauthor, for
> example.
>
> mhr
>   
For sure!  Here is what a certain commercial DVD looks like. (User & 
group changed to CMOA.)
On occasion, I have removed languages and extras (outtakes, etc.) but it 
takes more patience than I have to build a DVD from scratch.  For 
backing up commercial DVDs, I like DVDShrink (using no shrinking) to rip 
and reassemble, building the iso across the network, burning the DVD 
with either k3b or growisofs from a command line for absolute reliability.

 
 
      [root at mavis etc]# ls -lR /media/hdc
      /media/hdc:
      total 4
      dr-xr-xr-x 2 abcdefghij abcdefghij  40 Oct 29  2007 AUDIO_TS
      dr-xr-xr-x 2 abcdefghij abcdefghij 820 Oct 29  2007 VIDEO_TS
 
      /media/hdc/AUDIO_TS:
      total 0
 
      /media/hdc/VIDEO_TS:
      total 4571120
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij      12288 Oct 29  2007 
VIDEO_TS.BUP
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij      12288 Oct 29  2007 
VIDEO_TS.IFO
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij     137216 Oct 29  2007 
VIDEO_TS.VOB
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij      96256 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_0.BUP
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij      96256 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_0.IFO
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij     608256 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_0.VOB
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij 1073739776 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_1.VOB
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij 1073739776 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_2.VOB
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij 1073739776 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_3.VOB
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij 1073739776 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_4.VOB
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij  371408896 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_01_5.VOB
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij      18432 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_02_0.BUP
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij      18432 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_02_0.IFO
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij       8192 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_02_0.VOB
      -r-xr-xr-x 1 abcdefghij abcdefghij   13451264 Oct 29  2007 
VTS_02_1.VOB
      [root at mavis etc]# 
 



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