[Debburn-devel] genisoimage - unreadable videoDVD under Windows

[Dzon]

>> I am using Kubuntu 8.04 and want to burn video DVDs. I tried k3b,
>> growisofs, genisoimage - the result is still the same. DVD is unreadable
>> under Windows. I even tried to burn an image made by genisoimage with
>
> I do not know much about the software but it might help if you were able to
> use the command line to run genisoimage and growisofs instead of letting K3b
> do it.  Then tell us the exact commands you used!

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdrw1 -dvd-video <directory with VIDEO_TS 
and AUDIO_TS>

I've been using this command until it stopped working the way I described 
[ie after new Kubuntu installation]. 
Then I tried all other ways I knew to create functional videoDVD [k3b, 
genisoimage].

> from both Nero and genisoimage.  Both worked in DVD players, but I didn't test
> in windows.  Anyways, genisoimage has the -dvd-video option when you create

Yes, the disc is working in [maybe not all] dvd player but not on windows.

I found out it's a filesystem problem. When I use *older* genisoimage from 
Kubuntu 7, it works! [at least k3b does, which is frontend to genisoimage, 
I believe] It's version 1.1.2 while the problematic version of genisoimage 
is 1.1.6. I haven't found anything interesting in the changelog [maybe 
because I do not fully understand everything there :)].

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