Error 255 when burning a DVD video in k3b

[Evangelion]

GOSH!!! (Napoleon Dynamite)

You won't belive this.

The problem was DVD9to5.

I remastered the DVD with DVDStyler and it's burning right now.

I can't believe I fscked around with this so long to figure out it wasn't K3B...Jesus!

What exactly is "DVD9to5" and why is it important? I'm having k3b-problems as well:

/usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: -follow-links does not always work correctly; be careful.
/usr/bin/mkisofs: Can't open VMG info for '/tmp/kde-root/k3bVideoDvd0/'.
/usr/bin/mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
/usr/bin/mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.

And I haven't yet figured out how to fix it.

[kcy29581]

Bringing up the issue again...

I can burn anything apart from DVD-VIDEO... I get the "error 255"

How can it burn dvd's yet not burn dvd-videos... I think it has something to do with the udf filesystem?

Any help

[gi1242]

The problem is that DVD support has been REMOVED from cdrtools (the package that owns mkisofs and cdrecord). The changelog of cdrtools says:

Code: Select all

*cdrtools-2.01_alpha27-r1 (19 Apr 2004)

  19 Apr 2004; Lars Weiler <pylon@gentoo.org>
  +cdrtools-2.01_alpha27-r1.ebuild:
  I removed all dvdr-patches as they break some cdr-writing (see bug #45589).
  Who wants to do dvd-writing should use cdrecord-prodvd or dvd+rw-tools (or a
  GUI like k3b).

I'm a little puzzled though, since that's dated 19th April, and this problem only apeared recently. Anyway, I'm trying to install dvdrtools in the hope that it has a mkisofs replacement which supports the '-dvd-video' option.

GI

PS: k3b is not broken. The problem is with mkisofs (I think). If something works, on my system, I'll post back here

[gi1242]

Ok. I think that fixed it. I unmerged cdrtools, and emerged dvdrtools. Now the mkisofs accepts the -dvd-video option (which is what was causing k3b to complain earlier). The new version of dvdrtools does not support ATAPI, so if you plan on burning cd's using that you either need a SCSI drive or enable SCSI emulation in your kernel.

I recomend burning DVD's with growisofs, and CD's with cdrecord from cdrtools. To use growisofs, you need mkisofs from dvdrtools. That means you need to compile dvdrtools locally, then generate DVD images using /usr/loca/bin/mkisofs -o image.iso -dvd-video ... . Finally burn using growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso.

I'm sure it is possible k3b to use the above commands for burning, but I've never used k3b so don't know how. I only burn from command line . If you can't figure out the k3b settings, then either enable SCSI emulation in your kernel, and use dvdrtools. Or burn from command line

GI

[gi1242]

Hmm. After one day of reading the source, I think I know what the problem is: mkisofs from the new version of cdrtools (2.01) DOES support the -dvd-video option. However when given a -dvd-video option, it looks for a VALID DVD Video structure (i.e. with the VIDEO_TS subdir, and .BUP etc files).

So all you need to do to make k3b work again is NOT pass the -dvd-video option to mkisofs (or growisofs). If you'd like to generate a UDF filesystem (as expected by most devices reading from DVD's) then use the -udf option to mkisofs. If your standalone device has trouble reading that DVD, then apply the patch from http://arost.redirectme.net/sw/mkisofs/

GI

[kroenecker]

Add me to the list of those people unable to use k3b to burn video-dvds.

I build dvdrtools by hand and am burning a dvd now using the command line, which is no problem, but it's too bad that the original code fork took place, causing this difficulty