[mythtv] Mytharchive / dvdauthor problems

[Russell Mora]

On 11/21/06, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
>
> Hi:  Yesterday I reported (to the user list) a failure when trying to
> create a native-mode .iso image from a single ~4Gb .nuv format recording.
>
> Today I have made two attempts to create standard DVD images from
> similar large (but >4Gb) single .nuv format files.  Both failed in
> dvdauthor after having created a playable and DVD-sized file of the
> video stream and a separate audio stream.  In both cases mplex exited
> with 'too many frame drops' and dvdauthor then failed (Result: 1) with
> 'Cannot jump to chapter 2 of title 1, only 1 exist'.  I'm not clear
> whether it doesn't exist because of the frame-drop failure or because
> I'm only processing one recording.  The first attempt yielded one 800Mb
> VOB file.  The second attempt failed before that stage.


I'm not at all familiar with the native format (wouldn't have even though
that it would have chapters?), however I would check the dvdauthor.xml file
- check that the chapters that it is defining and the jumps it is doing
match up.  If you get stuck you can email it to me if you like.

Cheers,
Russell.

I declare again that I'm using the atrpms builds for fc5, but this seems
> to me the best place to inquire about these problems.  Am I trying to do
> something that is not supposed to work, or can I tweak something?  I've
> saved the compressed files generated in the last two attempts, because a
> lot of processing has been done on them.  Am I likely to be able to
> replex them when dvdauthor has failed to do so?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> John Pilkington
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