DVD ISO problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:50:03PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:
> In an effort to back up a DVD I am trying to make an ISO, which I would
> later burn.  I am running into a problem with mkisofs, and Google has
> not helped me.
> 
> The first command I tried was this:
> 
> % mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o dvd.iso /dvd/
> 
> And the output of that is this:
> 
> INFO:   UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
>     Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
>     use -input-charset to override.
> mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.
> 
> This indicates that it is assuming UTF-8, and will continue, then I
> dies.  Still, I tried this:
> 
> % mkisofs -input-charset iso8859-1 -dvd-video -udf -o dvd.iso /dvd/
> 
> Which gave me the much more terse:
> 
> mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.
> 
> So there's something wrong, but mkisofs is not being very helpful here.
> Anyone have any ideas?

I think -dvd-video only works IF the files you are using are the
appropriate VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS dirs (or whatever they are called.)

What kind of disc are you trying to copy?

Lennart Sorensen
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