{"id":88,"date":"2007-04-14T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-04-14T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T12:13:00","slug":"authoring-a-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Authoring a DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m using DVDStyler<\/a> to create a DVD of video I shot in Florida on vacation with the kids. DVDStyler (or any authoring software) needs a temporary directory:<\/p>\n

# qtparted <\/code>
Create 50 GB partition (\/dev\/hdb2)
# mkfs.ext3 -c -L temp \/dev\/hdb2<\/code>
Add this line to \/etc\/fstab:
\/dev\/hdb2 \/mnt\/temp ext3 defaults 0 0
# mkdir \/mnt\/temp
# mount \/mnt\/temp<\/code><\/p>\n

I edited the videos in Kino and output individual MPEG files for each chapter. I grabbed frames to use in the menus in DVDStyler. I have four sub-menus under the “scenes” menu. On the main scenes menu, I took one frame from each of the submenus as a button. On each submenu, that same frame was used as a background. So it didn’t get in the way of the buttons, I edited the frame in Gimp, set a grey (R=G=B=128) background and put the frame in a foreground layer with 25% opacity.<\/p>\n

Each button is a rectangle with the image in it. The border is set to be normally transparent, but yellow when selected.<\/p>\n

DVDStyler will either generate the DVD structure, an ISO or burn the DVD. I used the first while checking my menus, then the second when checking the DVD in a standalone player. I had trouble with the DVD player using a DVD+RW disk. My Sony DVD\/VCR combo said:<\/p>\n

This disc cannot be played.<\/p>\n

Playback prohibit by area limitations.<\/p>\n

DVD_ERRLOG5 00DF5108000000000007
05040728000800000100A7<\/code><\/p>\n

That made me think the disk was generated with a non-US region code. Here’s a page on how to check the region code<\/a>. I took the dvd.iso file and did this:<\/p>\n

# mount dvd.iso \/mnt\/loop -t udf -o loop=\/dev\/loop3
$ cd \/mnt\/loop\/VIDEO_TS
$ emacs VIDEO_TS.IFO<\/code><\/p>\n

In Emacs, switch to hex mode with M-x<\/u> hexl-mode RET<\/u><\/code>. At offset 0x23, if the value is 0, there’s no region set. That’s what I saw.<\/p>\n

$ cd \/
# umount \/mnt\/loop<\/code><\/p>\n

Thinking it must be the DVD+RW disk, I burned a DVD+R:<\/p>\n

# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z \/dev\/dvd=dvd.iso<\/code><\/p>\n

That failed too. The standalone player showed the same error. I found a bug in DVDStyler 1.5b6 and earlier<\/a> that causes this on NTSC players. The workaround notes a page that doesn’t exist anymore, but there are files attached at the end of the bug report.<\/p>\n

Then I got this error:

**ERROR: [mplex] Can't find next AC3 frame: @ 72192 we have 0a20 - broken bit-stream?
Error executing of command: mplex -f 8 -S 0 -M -V -o \"\/mnt\/temp\/florida-2007\/dvd\/menu1-0.mpg_bg.mpg\" \"\/mnt\/temp\/florida-2007\/dvd\/menu1-0.mpg_bg.m2v\" \"\/usr\/share\/dvdstyler\/data\/silence.mp2\"
<\/code><\/p>\n

I found a page with instructions to generate silence.mp2<\/a>:<\/p>\n

$ arecord -f dat -twav -d 1 silence.wav
$ mp2enc -r 48000 -o silence.mp2 < silence.wav<\/code><\/p>\n

That fixed the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m using DVDStyler to create a DVD of video I shot in Florida on vacation with the kids. DVDStyler (or any authoring software) needs a temporary directory: # qtparted Create 50 GB partition (\/dev\/hdb2)# mkfs.ext3 -c -L temp \/dev\/hdb2Add this line to \/etc\/fstab:\/dev\/hdb2 \/mnt\/temp ext3 defaults 0 0# mkdir \/mnt\/temp# mount \/mnt\/temp I edited the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}