[mythtv] Mytharchive / dvdauthor problems
John Pilkington
J.Pilk at tesco.net
Wed Nov 22 17:00:33 UTC 2006
Russell Mora wrote:
>
> On 11/21/06, *John Pilkington* <J.Pilk at tesco.net
> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
>
> Hi: Yesterday I reported (to the user list) a failure when trying to
> create a native-mode .iso image from a single ~4Gb .nuv format
> recording.
>
> Today I have made two attempts to create standard DVD images from
> similar large (but >4Gb) single .nuv format files. Both failed in
> dvdauthor after having created a playable and DVD-sized file of the
> video stream and a separate audio stream. In both cases mplex exited
> with 'too many frame drops' and dvdauthor then failed (Result: 1) with
> 'Cannot jump to chapter 2 of title 1, only 1 exist'. I'm not clear
> whether it doesn't exist because of the frame-drop failure or because
> I'm only processing one recording. The first attempt yielded one 800Mb
> VOB file. The second attempt failed before that stage.
>
>
> I'm not at all familiar with the native format (wouldn't have even
> though that it would have chapters?), however I would check the
> dvdauthor.xml file - check that the chapters that it is defining and the
> jumps it is doing match up. If you get stuck you can email it to me if
> you like.
>
> Cheers,
> Russell.
Thanks for this offer. I'm afraid I didn't keep this file and it's been
overwritten during the successful creation of a normal dvd from dvb
recordings. I just kept info.xml, streaminfo.xml and the two data
streams - stream.mv2 and stream0.ac3
I'm not at all concerned about chapter structure etc in an archive copy
of the older, bigger files; I'd just like to dump them to a dvd in a
form that I can retrieve and play on demand. Perhaps I should try one
of the other mytharchive menu/autoplay options and see what happens. The
file compression looked as if it had done the right thing, but it took
quite a long time about it (I suppose that it was, in fact, near
real-time) and it was disappointing to have the whole process fail near
the end with no obvious way to recover!
Cheers,
John
>
> I declare again that I'm using the atrpms builds for fc5, but this seems
> to me the best place to inquire about these problems. Am I trying to do
> something that is not supposed to work, or can I tweak something? I've
> saved the compressed files generated in the last two attempts, because a
> lot of processing has been done on them. Am I likely to be able to
> replex them when dvdauthor has failed to do so?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> John Pilkington
>
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