Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:53:02 -0500 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dvdauthor on 5.4 Message-ID: <434F47BE.30901@mkproductions.org> In-Reply-To: <000301c5d053$bba8c4f0$0900a8c0@satellite> References: <000301c5d053$bba8c4f0$0900a8c0@satellite>
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Dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to make a dvd video under 5.4 on an i386 system. When i give > the command: > dvdauthor -o outputdir -t filename.mpg > i get a core dump. This has happened twice and i'm hoping it is not a > sign of failing memory as this box has expensive ram. > Basically i'm trying to make a dvd video out of two files, one video > being an .avi file the other an .mpg file, neither is working. > Thanks. > Dave. You might try "man dvdauthor" or Google for dvdauthor documentation. The function of dvdauthor is to take MPEG-2 PS files and turn them into a format that you can write to a DVD. This means that you can't use AVI files with dvdauthor. You must first convert those avi's to the proper MPEG-2 PS format. For this I use a GUI tool on my desktop machine called Avidemux. You could also use ffmpeg or mencoder though. Once you have it in MPEG-2 PS, THEN you use dvdauthor to make the DVD video files. An example command would be: % dvdauthor -f filename.mpg -o DVD -t I don't think this core dumping has to do with RAM. I think the program is just crashing when you give it invalid input files. If you do get proper MPEG-2 files into dvdauthor and it still dumps like that, I would contact the dvdauthor people and help them debug it. I run dvdauthor on 5.4 (amd64) without any problems. -Mark
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