devede fails with dvdauthor 0.7.0-1

[wizard10000]

Binary package hint: devede

devede fails after rendering video when the application starts to build the DVD tree, suggesting that the user has run out of disk space.

devede developer says the problem is that dvdauthor now requires a VIDEO_FORMAT variable that's not supported by devede. exporting the variable above solves the problem. See also

http://groups.google.com/group/devede-forum/browse_thread/thread/383b147681fc4948?pli=1

which is the official devede support forum. Developer says

"For some reason dvdauthor now requires that you export a VIDEO_FORMAT
variable, like "export VIDEO_FORMAT=PAL".
So I ran:
# export VIDEO_FORMAT=PAL
# devede
And now we have another mistery revealed... ;) "

and

"Yes, another people found it. In a couple of weeks I hope to launch a
new version fixing this."

This was back in January 2011 and no fix is available yet.

Note for US systems the variable should be VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC, not VIDEO_FORMAT=PAL

Release: Kubuntu Natty (11.04) 32- and 64-bit.

Version of devede: 3.16.9-0ubuntu3

Version of dvdauthor: 0.7.0-1

# export VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC
# devede

solves the problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package devede - 3.16.9+20110518.gita574810-0ubuntu1

---------------
devede (3.16.9+20110518.gita574810-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream git snapshot:
    - Define the VIDEO_FORMAT environment variable to ensure that
      DVDAuthor 0.7.0 works (LP: #755340, LP: #779047).
    - Fix a little bug that prevented to create DVDs.
    - Fix a bug when MKISOFS uses comma instead of dot for float
      values. Also fixed the progress dialog: now it shows the
      text centered.
    - Added bugfix for the AC3 bug in Mencoder beta (must use
      ac3_fixed instead of ac3 as audio codec).
      Add a Preferences window, and put there the folder for
      temporary items (like previews), to use or not several cores,
      to delete or not the temporary files, and to activate or not
      the AC3 bugfix for mencoder.
  * Switch to dh_python2.
  * Build with scour for SVG optimizations.
  * Update debian/copyright.
  * Bump Standards.
 -- Alessio Treglia <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:33:24 +0200