[mythtv-users] Converting mythtv capture to DVD

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/20/2006 01:01 AM, JCA wrote:

>    I scheduled a recording with mythfrontend. Mythtv did the
>recording fine, creating an MPEG file. This file plays under mplayer
>in my Linux without problems.
>
>   Now I fed the MPEG file to dvdauthor, using a dvdauthor.xml file
>that I have successfully used numerous times to create VIDEO_TS
>directories to be burnt to a DVD, which can then be played without
>problems on ordinary DVD players.
>
>   The problem is that dvdauthor seems to be unable to process the
>MPEG file created by mythtv. It just prints out thousands of lines
>like the following:
>
>WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
>
>And, occasionally, it prints out
>
>WARN: System header found, but PCI/DSI information is not where expected
>        (make sure your system header is 18 bytes!)
>
>The contents of the VIDEO_TS directory are of course not created.
>
>   I guess that this must be to do with the way in which I am
>capturing the video. So, how is mythtv configured so that the MPEG
>files it creates are correctly processed by dvdauthor? Or, failing
>that, how can these MPEG files be processed for dvdauthor?
>

Add DVD NAV packets (i.e. with replex).  Something like:

replex -t DVD -o ~/my_file-replex.mpg /path/to/my_file.mpg

Mike