Cdrtools

I found out that "genisoimage" that ships with Debian (forked from mkisofs) is buggy, and that the original program is better, found in Joerg Schilling's cdrtools.

I was trying to make an iso file from dvd files and when I checked the finished iso, the VIDEO_TS folder was all lower-case - no good for DVD players I thought!

There's a lot of tools there...

get it from sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/files/alpha/

or sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/

unpack and in the top dir just run..

make sudo make install  

the binaries are installed to /opt/schily/
then, to add /opt/schily/bin/ to your PATH, add this to end of your ~/.bashrc file..

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/schilly/bin/  

or add it to an existing export line like..

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/scripts:/opt/schilly/bin/  

test your path (restart the bash terminal)..

echo "$PATH"  

to add /opt/schilly/share/man/ to MANPATH (so that you can hit "man cdrecord" or "man mkisofs" etc - or run xmanand then find the man page you want)

put this in your bash.rc file..

export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/schily/share/man/  

uses

create iso from dvd files

mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o dvd.iso <directory>  

or like this when in the dir containing the VIDEO_TS dir

mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o dvd.iso ..  

(all necessary dvd files, VOB, bup and ifo must be present.


more coming up!