dvdbackup did not create video_ts/video_ts.ifo file?

[snowssquirrel]

I just did a dvdbackup on a kids movie of mine. it is of the low budget variety (i.e barbie) so I don' think there is any elaborate copy protection, but when I got to use mkisofs -dvd-video, it complaines that BARBIE/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO is not there. Indeed it is not.

Here is the output from my run:

$ dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -F -o .

libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000141
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x000001a6
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x000001aa
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x00038bf6
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x00038bfa
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x001ea437
libdvdread: Elapsed time 3
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x0020a167
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x0020a1a0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x0020a1a4
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x0020ba08
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x0020ba0c
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x0020ba28
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x0020ba2c
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB at 0x0020ba48
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x0020ba4c
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB at 0x0020ba85
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB at 0x0020ba89
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 8 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 4

resulting directory structure is:

.
./get_total_size
./get_cracking_errors
./backup
./BARBIE_PEGASUS
./BARBIE_PEGASUS/VIDEO_TS
./BARBIE_PEGASUS/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.IFO
./BARBIE_PEGASUS/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.BUP
./BARBIE_PEGASUS/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB
./BARBIE_PEGASUS/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB
./BARBIE_PEGASUS/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_2.VOB
./BARBIE_PEGASUS/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_3.VOB
./BARBIE_PEGASUS/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_4.VOB

Any help would be great. If there is a better forum for this, just point me to it.

Thanks,

~S

[yoda313]

You should be able to load them into ifoedit and create new ifo files. Though I've never really used ifoedit so I can't help you with the step by step.

Though in that second list there is a vts_02_0.ifo file. Shouldn't that be adequate??

[snowssquirrel]

I tried copying that IFO file to VIDEO_TS.IFO, but dvd playing software doesn't seem to like it, nor did mkisofs.

ifoedit is windows only, but I could probably do the same w/ unix software. By extracting the mpegs from the VOBS, and then re-authoring the dvd.

Thanks,

~S

[yoda313]

Good luck