Creation of DVD video disc from readymade VOBs fails

[Gavin Hamill]

Version: 0.7.1-3ubuntu1

/home/gdh/Desktop/dvd contains VOBs (et al) in AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS, which plays perfectly in VLC (menus and audio). Brasero fails to write this to an ISO or to a real DVD. "An unknown error occured. Check your disc." Some small data is pasted here. The main log of genisoimage failing is attached.

drwx------ 2 gdh gdh 4096 2008-05-12 22:42 brasero_tmp_6xkdQP
-rw------- 1 gdh gdh 126 2008-05-12 22:42 brasero_tmp_8VOZAU
-rw------- 1 gdh gdh 616 2008-05-12 22:42 brasero_tmp_GL19AU.md5
-rw------- 1 gdh gdh 3781 2008-05-12 22:42 brasero_tmp_LM59AU
-rw------- 1 gdh gdh 0 2008-05-12 22:42 brasero_tmp_OVOZAU

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brasero_tmp_8VOZAU
::::::::::::::
/.checksum.md5=/tmp/brasero_tmp_GL19AU.md5
/AUDIO_TS/=/home/gdh/Desktop/dvd/AUDIO_TS
/VIDEO_TS/=/home/gdh/Desktop/dvd/VIDEO_TS

::::::::::::::
brasero_tmp_GL19AU.md5
::::::::::::::
5f7973ff9e4152827994d4149c8af39d VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB
0224668a8470f8b46feaffccb596ab0d VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB
090d4114cebb9bb81d3f03b0792f9e0a VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB
5f7973ff9e4152827994d4149c8af39d VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB
e862dac5c51c5fecd9590f9399290334 VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO
22420b8baedc43e344babeba22eb5c37 VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.IFO
cf179d6b3d6c41b55b2247707084dd85 VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
cf179d6b3d6c41b55b2247707084dd85 VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.BUP
22420b8baedc43e344babeba22eb5c37 VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.BUP
e862dac5c51c5fecd9590f9399290334 VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP
5f7973ff9e4152827994d4149c8af39d VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB

Having made my way through all GNOME + KDE burning software, I resorted to Nerolinux 3.5, which worked perfectly first time. :(

[Gavin Hamill (gdh)]

FWIW, removing -dvd-video from the genisoimage commandline allows the ISO to be created successfully.

Of course, it doesn't then make a compliant DVD-Video disc - no menus, no chapter navigation, nor any audio(!)

[Nukeador (nukeador)]

I can confirm this, same brasero version. The problem is (as you can see in the log):

BraseroGenisoimage stderr: /usr/bin/genisoimage: Can't open device ''

And then, it couldn't find the folders because it's searching in '' instead of the correct folder.

Any ideas how to fix it?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's more like a genisoimage issue then, re assigning.