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]# --