Making some DVD home videos

I used to use Graveman, to make my own DVD movies, succesfully, but back then I had a 'non standard' standalone DVD player, brand unknown, it played all the DVD's I made perfectly.

Then last month, I bought a quite expensive HDD/DVD-recorder, brand Panasonic, and none of the DVD's will play, I'm feeling cheated.

Is it the player or is the burner?

I seems that graveman, and for that sake gnomebaker is not sending the right parameters to 'growisofs', the program that both cater as gui's for.

But after some searching I found some terminal commands that work.

First of all, you have a folder, lets call it 'dvd', where you have the folder 'VIDEO_TS', and perhaps the not so used folder 'AUDIO_TS'.
Now go and write the command:

jj@myLinuz:~/home_videos$ mkisofs -dvd-video -o dvd-master.iso dvd

It will start creating a .iso file wich you will transfer to a blank DVD after it has finished.
Now go and write the command

jj@myLinuz:~/home_videos$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=dvd-master.iso

It will start to write the .iso file to blank DVD.

Now go and play your new home made DVD in that DVD playa...

J

Back from the holidays...

Yeaah right!

Not long ago I was so keen on getting a lot of info up on this site, suddenly I packed my Linux equipped PC away... For a loong time, as you can see.

Now it's time to refresh a bit of the knowledge that I got a few months back.
So here I am, once again, ready to take a venture back into the LinuxWorld.

See you around.. when the updates has ended downloading..