Creating Video DVD with K3B

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I’ve created a video project with Kdenlive and produced a “movie.VOB” file which I inserted into K3B “New Video DVD project” under the VIDEO_TS folder. I then get this error which I do not understand; There is a link in usr/bin to X11 which leads to the “genisoimage” file. All K3B’s dependencies have been installed. K3B is taken from Packman repos for 11.1 x64 arch.

System

K3b Version: 1.0.5

KDE Version: 3.5.10 “release 21.11”
QT Version: 3.3.8b
Kernel: 2.6.27.7-9-default
Devices

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N WC05 (/dev/sr0, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump]

K3bIsoImager

mkisofs print size result: 0 (0 bytes)

Used versions

mkisofs: 1.1.8

mkisofs

/usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: No such file or directory. Failed to open VIDEO_TS.IFO
/usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Can’t open VMG info for ‘/tmp/kde-rcolvin/k3bVideoDvd0/’.
/usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
/usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Could not find correct ‘VIDEO_TS’ directory.
/usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.
Possible reasons:

  • VIDEO_TS subdirectory was not found on specified location
  • VIDEO_TS has invalid contents
    /usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: No such file or directory. Failed to open VIDEO_TS.IFO
    /usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Can’t open VMG info for ‘/tmp/kde-rcolvin/k3bVideoDvd0/’.
    /usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
    /usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Could not find correct ‘VIDEO_TS’ directory.
    Possible reasons:
  • VIDEO_TS subdirectory was not found on specified location
  • VIDEO_TS has invalid contents

mkisofs calculate size command:

/usr/bin/X11/genisoimage -gui -graft-points -print-size -quiet -volid Test -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2006 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher Tester -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-rcolvin/k3bgQK8Ya.tmp -no-cache-inodes -udf -iso-level 1 -path-list /tmp/kde-rcolvin/k3bitzQuc.tmp -dvd-video -f /tmp/kde-rcolvin/k3bVideoDvd0

I’d appreciate your comments please :\ Thank you.

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I can’t explain your error, but I often create a video file from kdenlive and I often create video dvds from video files I create from kdenlive.

Typically, what I do, is use the program “idvid” from “tovid” to check if the .mpg (or .vob) created by other programs (such as kdenlive) is dvd compliant. If “idvd” indicates it is not dvd compliant, I will run “tovid” against the video to make it dvd compliant.

Once I have a dvd compliant file, I will create a video_ts directory with dvdauthor (using a custom xml file) as described in this thread: Convert PAL DVD title track to NTSC DVD - openSUSE Forums

And I will then drag the contents of the video_ts directory into the k3b “dvd project” video_ts directory.

For example, assume you have a file called 1stattempt.mpg that you think is dvd compliant. To check that file’s format is appropriate for a dvd (with tovid installed) simply type:
idvid 1stattempt.mpg
if that indicates the file is not dvd compliant, then reprocess it with (using pal as an example):
tovid -dvd -pal -in 1stattempt.mpg -out outputfile
which will produce outputfile.mpg which will be dvd compliant. Then create a xml file that calls outputfile.mpg (per the examples given in the URL I provided using dvdauthor) which will produce a video_ts directory, where you can then drag the contents of the video_ts directory into the corresponding location under k3b in a video dvd project.

3

Thanks for that reply. I’ll give that a go tomorrow :slight_smile:

I only wish we had a DVD creator which makes it quick & simple and is reliable :shame:

4

There are many dvd authoring applications for Linux. Take a look at this thread (I went thru all the links and updated the linux a couple of days ago):
Applications - DVD Authoring Tools - openSUSE Forums

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jrcolvin schrieb:
> I’ve created a video project with Kdenlive and produced a “movie.VOB”
> file which I inserted into K3B “New Video DVD project” under the
> VIDEO_TS folder. I then get this error which I do not understand; There
> is a link in usr/bin to X11 which leads to the “genisoimage” file.
…]
>> mkisofs
>> -----------------------
>> /usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: No such file or directory. Failed to open
>> VIDEO_TS.IFO
>> /usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Can’t open VMG info for
>> ‘/tmp/kde-rcolvin/k3bVideoDvd0/’.
>> /usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
>> /usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Could not find correct ‘VIDEO_TS’ directory.
>> /usr/bin/X11/genisoimage: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.
>> Possible reasons:
>> - VIDEO_TS subdirectory was not found on specified location
>> - VIDEO_TS has invalid contents

The way I read these messages, it’s not /usr/bin/X11/genisoimage that’s
missing, but a file named VIDEO_TS.IFO in which genisoimage expects to
find some data it calls “VMG info”. I’d guess it expects that file along
with your VOB file.

> I’d appreciate your comments please :\ Thank you.

HTH
T.

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Thanks very much and yes you are correct.
I have now created this file (VIDEO_TS.IFO) with QDVD Author and have succesfully created the DVD by burning it with K3B :slight_smile: