BrianO'Keefe wrote: > I have finally worked my way to almost creating a dvd from a .avi file. > I have transcoded and recombined the files into an Mpeg and now need to > use dvdauthor. I'm following the wiki how-to and I have created the DVD > directory as well as copied the script to create the dvdauthor.xml file. > When I try to run dvdauthor I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/For_Linux/Movies/DVD$ sudo dvdauthor -x > dvdauthor.xml > Password: > DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11. > Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype > Send bugs to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ERR: Unable to open XML file dvdauthor.xml > > > I've tried running it as user, I've tried running it in the directory > above, "Movies" which contains the mpeg file and nothing-same error. > What am i doing wrong? > Thanks for any help. > Brian > > PS-contents of the Movies directory: > > DVD dvdauthor.xml dvd_Grave_of_the_Fireflies.mpg
Not sure why you need sudo to run dvdauthor, but that's your business... Run the command under strace to find out where it's looking for the file: strace -f dvdauthor -x dvdauthor.xml
