Error converting VIDEO_TS folder to re-encoded DVD file

[MudLake]

First, I'm a newbie. I downloaded FFMPEGX this week to give it a try as I've seen it mentioned many times on this website. To see if I knew what I was doing, I tried backing up a movie disk of mine. Here are the steps I used:

1) Rip movie with MacTheRipper 2.6.5

2) Open FFMPEGX (most recent version) and place the VIDEO_TS folder output from MTR into the source window.

3) Select DVD in the output box using mencoder.

It starts but early on it appears that something has gone wrong. Below is the error file from FFMPEG Progress. Any clues as to what happened? The only thing that I can think of from doing a search of this forum is the possible necessity of having the QuickTime MPEG-2 decoder, which I don't have. As I said, I'm a neophyte but trying my best to learn.


Encoding started on Mon Feb 28 18:09:02 EST 2005
/Video/MOVIE Main Feature/movie/
: File exists
mkdir: Feature: No such file or directory
rm: /Video/MOVIE: is a directory
rm: /Video/MOVIE: is a directory
mkfifo: /Video/MOVIE: File exists
mkfifo: Feature/movie//stream.yuv: No such file or directory
-f 5 -b 4000 -q 3 -B 260 -V 230 -a 2
-F 4
/Applications/ffmpegX/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/mencvcdX: line 205: /Video/MOVIE Main Feature/movie//stream.yuv: No such file or directory
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
**ERROR: [yuvscaler] Could'nt read YUV4MPEG header!
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)!
MPlayer dev-CVS-050123-19:55-3.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC
CommandLine: '-noframedrop' '-vo' 'yuv4mpeg' '-ao' 'pcm:waveheader' '-v' '-osdlevel' '0' 'dvd://1' '-dvd-device' '/Video/MOVIE' 'Main' 'Feature/VIDEO_TS' '-dvdangle' '1' '-aid' '128'
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/Users/jim/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /Users/jim/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using Unoptimized OnScreenDisplay
Using Darwin accurate timing
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.
get_path('input.conf') -> '/Users/jim/.mplayer/input.conf'
Parsing input config file /Users/jim/.mplayer/input.conf
Input config file /Users/jim/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 2 binds
get_path('1.conf') -> '/Users/jim/.mplayer/1.conf'
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
Playing dvd://1.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
get_path('Main.conf') -> '/Users/jim/.mplayer/Main.conf'
Playing Main.
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!

[major]

You should remove spaces from folder and file names.
Also, prefer to extract as a single VOB file instead as a full VIDEO_TS folder, and then encode from VOB.

[MudLake]

Thanks Major. I took your suggestion and used YADE to create one VOB from the MTR output. FFMPEGX seemed to like that as it ran for many hours without telling me I'm stupid (that doesn't mean I know what I'm doing). I'll see if the new VIDEO_TS folder burns correctly in Toast.

[MudLake]

Something is still not right. Toast won't burn the resutlting VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders onto a blank DVD. It starts and within 20 seconds it reports an error:

The device reported an error:
Sense Key = MEDIUM ERROR
Sense Code = 0x73, 0x03


Any idea as to what Toast is saying here?

[major]

I found this on Google:
http://boards.support.roxio.com/roxio/board/message?board.id=0000020&message.id=11699

[MudLake]

Thanks again. As you revealed, this was definitely a blank disc issue. I think my burner needs a cleaning but I could get it to work by dropping the speed way way down. Worked fine.