K9Copy fails with dvdauthor error

[Brian Pitts]

Binary package hint: k9copy

Use Ubuntu 7.04 w/ Gnome. Insert a video DVD, run K9Copy, select a title, and select copy.

The following dialog box appears:
An error occured while running DVDAuthor:
STAT: VOBU 0 at 0MB, 1 PGCS

the following appears in the terminal from which I started k9copy.

DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <email address hidden>

syntax: dvdauthor [-o VTSBASE] [options] VOBFILE(s)

        -x XMLFILE where XMLFILE is a configuration file describing the
            structure of the DVD to create. If you use a config file, then you
            do not need to specify any other options, except -o.

        --video=VOPTS or -v VOPTS where VOPTS is a plus (+) separated list of
            video options. dvdauthor will try to infer any unspecified options.
                pal, ntsc, 4:3, 16:9, 720xfull, 720x576, 720x480, 704xfull,
                704x576, 704x480, 352xfull, 352x576, 352x480, 352xhalf,
                352x288, 352x240, nopanscan, noletterbox.
            Default is ntsc, 4:3, 720xfull

        --audio=AOPTS or -a AOPTS where AOPTS is a plus (+) separated list of
            options for an audio track, with each track separated by a
            comma (,). For example -a ac3+en,mp2+de specifies two audio
            tracks: the first is an English track encoded in AC3, the second is
            a German track encoded using MPEG-1 layer 2 compression.
                ac3, mp2, pcm, dts, 16bps, 20bps, 24bps, drc, surround, nolang,
                1ch, 2ch, 3ch, 4ch, 5ch, 6ch, 7ch, 8ch, and any two letter
                ISO 639 language abbreviation.
            Default is 1 track, mp2, 20bps, nolang, 2ch.
            'ac3' implies drc, 6ch.

        --subpictures=SOPTS or -s SOPTS where SOPTS is a plus (+) separated list
            of options for a subpicture track, with each track separated by a
            comma (,).
                nolang and any two letter language abbreviation (see -a)
            Default is no subpicture tracks.

        --palette[=FILE] or -p FILE or -P where FILE specifies where to get the
            subpicture palette. Settable per title and per menu. If the
            filename ends in .rgb (case insensitive) then it is assumed to be
            RGB, otherwise it is YUV. Entries should be 6 hexadecimal digits.
            FILE defaults to xste-palette.dat

        --file=FILE or -f FILE or FILE where FILE is either a file, a pipe, or a
            shell command ending in | which supplies an MPEG-2 system stream
            with VOB sectors inserted in the appropriate places
            (using mplex -f 8 to generate)

        --chapter[s][=COPTS] or -c COPTS or -C where COPTS is a comma (,)
            separated list of chapter markers. Each marker is of the form
            [[h:]mm:]ss[.frac] and is relative to the SCR of the next file
            listed (independent of any timestamp transposing that occurs within
            dvdauthor). The chapter markers ONLY apply to the next file listed.
            COPTS defaults to 0

        --menu or -m creates a menu.

        --title or -t creates a title.

        --toc or -T creates the table of contents file instead of a titleset.
            If this option is used, it should be listed first, and you may not
            specify any titles.

        --entry=EOPTS or -e EOPTS makes the current menu the default for
            certain circumstances. EOPTS is a comma separated list of any of:
                for TOC menus: title
                for VTS menus: root, ptt, audio, subtitle, angle

        --button or -b DEST specifies what command to issue for each button.
            See --instructions or -i for a description of
            DEST.

        --instructions or -i post=DEST executes the DEST instructions at the
            end of the title.

        --fpc or -F CMD sets the commands to be executed when the disc is first
            inserted.

        --jumppad or -j enables the creation of jumppads, which allow greater
            flexibility in choosing jump/call desinations.

        --help or -h displays this screen.

[Brian Pitts (bpitts)]

Somehow a thorough cleaning of the disk fixed this.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

I will close this based on last comment. Feel free to re-open if you can reproduce this problem.