On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:07 PM, William Turner <b...@uponthebox.com> wrote: > > I have Nero 8 for Windows and it appears to have the ability to handle UDF > DVD-ROMS. > If you could make your ISO downloadable, I'd try to convert it for you. > > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-t...@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Don Delp > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 3:46 PM > To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > Subject: [nlug] DVD formats: UDF vs ISO 9660 > > > Hello NLUGgers, > > I recently converted a VHS tape to dvd using my MythTV box. I > connected a VCR to the input of the Mythbox and recorded it. Then > used DeVeDe to make a video DVD out of it. Tested the disk on my > laptop (Kubuntu) and a standalone DVD player without any trouble. > Later, I found out that this disk doesn't work on any Windows > computers. After I stopped pulling my hair out (are we living in the > 90's again?), I started searching Google. > > It looks like I burned the disk as a UDF file system instead of just > ISO9660. Looking around, I haven't found an option to convert the iso > file. Also, I haven't found anywhere to configure what type of iso is > created when I make the DVD in the first place. I've been working > with DeVeDe, K3b, and AcidRip, but nothing has jumped out at me. I > can read the file system in Linux, so I have access to the file > structure. Would it be easier to just create a new iso of the files? > I'm not sure of the best way to go about that. I know how to use dd > to mount a .iso file, but I'm pretty sure that's read-only. > > Have you run into this before? Is there a way to directly convert the > iso file, or just rip the UDF disk to an Windows-friendly format? > Outside of that, I still have .avi that I made from the original > video. Is there a better program that I should be using to convert > media files to video DVD? > > Thanks. > >
I worked it out with a command line tool. Instead of converting the iso to the correct format, I created a new iso and copied the contents over. I used this page as a reference. http://sharkysoft.com/tutorials/linuxtips/cdcommands/ If this had been a bootable dvd, this method probably would not have worked. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
