[mythtv-users] K9copy error on 4:3 material

[Mark Oliver]

Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> I realize this is straying a bit from pure mythtv questions, but 
> k9copy seems to be the dvd archiving tool of choice...so here I go.
>  
> I'm launching k9copy from mythtv, to make an ISo from my dvd.  The 
> transfer starts but then aborts with an error:
>  
>  ERR: widescreen conversion should not be set to either noletterbox or 
> nopanscan for 4:3 source material
> Does anyone have a workaround / solution?
>  
>
I do not use K9Copy, and what follows may or may not have any bearing on 
your situation or be of any help to you, but I ran into a similar issue 
in making episode discs with tovid.  'makexml' would create a dvd file 
structure which included repeated instances of the line: <video 
widescreen="nopanscan" />  This was rejected by 'makedvd' or dvdshrink, 
I cannot remember which.  Anyway, I used a sed command to change those 
to: <video />  I believe this is an issue in dvdauthor, but I could not 
find anything about it after searching both tovid and dvdauthor (that 
was several months ago, so a new search may prove more fruitful).

For your purposes, I would suggest, as did someone else, that you use 
MythDVD.  If you do not want to do that or you want to use K9Copy, for 
whatever reason, then the following info may help:

K9Copy needs to create a new dvd structure, which AFAIK should be 
contained in an xml file.  You will want to run the following command on 
that file:  sed 's/video widescreen="nopanscan"/video/g' 
name_of_file_created_by_K9Copy.xml >> new_name.xml
(Replace "nopanscan" with "noletterbox" if the latter is included in the 
file).  The best method would be to change the script run by K9Copy to 
insert the above command after creating the xml file and before building 
the dvd (otherwise, you will have to use another program(s) to create 
the dvd and iso).  You will also have to remove the original xml file 
and rename the new file with the original file name.  There is probably 
a cleaner way of doing that, but I am hacking with limited skills, okay, 
extremely limited skills.

Not sure if that helps.  I am probably just giving a lot of mice a 
workout on scurrying to the delete button.  I would reiterate the 
suggestion of using MythDVD.  The only reason I am still using tovid 
with a workaround rather than MythArchive is that I upgraded MythTV in 
the middle of the tv season, and I did not want to mess with learning a 
new method until I had more time to muddle through my expected errors.

mark


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