Generating DVD-video compatible videos using ZM event jpegs

[ekiboy69]

Hello,

I have a problem that is of concern to anyone who plans burning the events to a DVD-video format disk.

My plan is:
1. Generate a DVD-compatible video of all the events.
2. Create an XML-file that can be used by dvdauthor to create & write DVD.

The video clips are generated like this:

Input for the mpeg2enc is done with jpeg2yuv:

jpeg2yuv -b 1 -f25 -I p -j $d/%03d-capture.jpg

Which is piped to mpeg2enc.

/usr/bin/mpeg2enc -f 8 -o $d.mpg

Man mpeg2enc says that the option -f 8 is "for dvdauthor". I think that should mean that it is DVD-video compatible as well.


When trying to generate the video disk I bump into the following problem:

dvdauthor -o /home/nakka/lepakkodvd1
-x /home/nakka/Desktop/lepakkotemp/lepakkovideo1.xml

The first path is the output director. The second, after option -x is the path to the .xml file that tells dvdauthor what to do when authoring.
The syntax of the XML-file is:

<dvdauthor>
<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<video format="pal" resolution="352x288" />
<pgc>
<vob file="10027.mpg" pause="1" />
<vob file="10081.mpg" pause="1" />
<vob file="10082.mpg" pause="1" />
<vob file="10087.mpg" pause="1" />
<vob file="10091.mpg" pause="1" />
.
Here is a similar entry for each videoclip. There are lots of them.

<vob file="23369.mpg" pause="1" />
<vob file="23380.mpg" pause="1" />
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>

Running dvdauthor using this XML file gives the following error:

DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.10.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: Locale=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
INFO: Converting filenames to ISO-8859-1
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing 10027.mpg...
WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...


I guess this a newbie thing - what am I doing wrong?

[ekiboy69]

Hello,

I found an answer with "a little help from my friends".

The problem is mpeg2enc. Even though the man page claims that the option -f 8 generates mpegs "for dvdauthor", they are not DVD compatible.

I think mpeg2enc does something wrong when inserting the empty VOB frames to the stream.

Doing mplex -f 8 to the videofiles makes the problem disappear.

[zoneminder]

Hi,

Thanks for posting your fix. I have no idea about that kind of thing but I'm sure people will ask in the future.

Phil,