Half a Page of Scribbled Linux

The damnedest thing happened. dvdauthor had trouble with four of the files I exported from Kino:

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STAT: Processing movie-01-mar-2003.mpeg...

WARN: System header found, but PCI/DSI information is not where expected

(make sure your system header is 18 bytes!)

WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...

WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
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WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...

STAT: VOBU 0 at 0MB, 1 PGCS



With a couple of them, dvdauthor crashed. With the others, it just stopped. I found if I re-exported them with the split option on, the trouble went away. But then I had multiple chapters for each video and the chapters="0" option didn’t seem to work.

So I tried to merge the parts together. Some information says you can cat them into one file, but others say that’s not good. mplayer played the catted file, but dvdauthor didn’t like it. I tried mpgtx. This is a tool to split and join MPEG files. Again, mplayer would play the file, but dvdauthor didn’t like it:

WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...

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ERR: Audio pts moves backwards; please remultiplex input.

Finally, in searching for an answer I saw the -h option to mplex (which Kino uses as part of exporting). This makes mplex generate a system header in every pack rather than just in the first. This seems to fix the problem.