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Michelle Dupuis wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="600524919-06062007">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.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="600524919-06062007">I'm
launching k9copy from mythtv, to make an ISo from my dvd. The transfer
starts but then aborts with an error:</span></font></div>
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<div> ERR: widescreen conversion should not be set to either
noletterbox or nopanscan for 4:3 source material<br>
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<div><span class="600524919-06062007"><font face="Arial" size="2">Does
anyone have a workaround / solution?</font></span></div>
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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).<br>
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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:<br>
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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<br>
(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.<br>
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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.<br>
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mark<br>
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