For completeness of the archives, here is the solution of my problem. Taking Joerg's hint I went straight to his website and downloaded the original sources, build with -g, and checked what was going on. Turned out mkisofs is looking for a subdirectory named "VIDEO_TS", and the obvious solution is to change the command line to:
% mkisofs -dvd-video -o /dev/null -v -v test_dvd/ Now it works. Here is an idea: add a message complaining about the missing VIDEO_TS subdirectory. For some reason there are numerous dvd howto guides on the internet that advice the commandline % growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video dvd/VIDEO_TS which I now found out to be wrong (at least with current versions of mkisofs). Thanks, Paul On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 17:07 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Paul Stravers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looked everywhere for an answer, but could not resolve the following > > problem with DVD authoring on a Debian testing/unstable box. > > > > I create a dvd structure with the simplest example from "dvdauthor > > 0.6.10". I then try to create an ISO image using "mkisofs > > 2.01-unofficial-iconv" (same problem with growisofs): > > > > % mkisofs -dvd-video -o /dev/null -v -v test_dvd/VIDEO_TS/ > > mkisofs 2.01-unofficial-iconv (i686-pc-linux-gnu) > > Scanning test_dvd/VIDEO_TS/ > > Unknown file type (unallocated) test_dvd/VIDEO_TS/.. - ignoring and > > continuing. > > Besides this is not mkisofs..... > > It looks like the filesystem on your harddisk is currupted. > > J�rg >
