Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-19 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 22:35 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: > I know anytime I have created an mp4 file I only got a title screen and > the feature. I didn't have to make any adjustments. Now the ISO is > different, this is my experience. But I want the ISO when there is > special features on the

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-19 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:36 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > On linux's modern tools. I have always had to use loopback with > dvdbackup. It seems to want a device not directory to copy from. I can > attach a ISO or just copy from the dvd. For example, dvdbackup -i /dev/sr0 ... or whatever your DV

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 9:38 PM, Tim via users wrote: Tim: VTS_01_0.VOB an intro or video menu for playing this video clip VTS_01.1.VOB part 1 of the main feature VTS_01.2.VOB part 2 of the main feature VTS_01.3.VOB part 3 of the main feature, etc. Go Canes: I have seen many DVDs where Title Set 1

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 21:50 -0500, Go Canes wrote: > I've played around with converting mpg to mp4, but generally wasn't > happy with the quality/size tradeoff and just kept the mpg version. I haven't, but that's what I'd expect. DVD video is already *heavily* compressed. I consider it terrible

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 9:59 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 21:16 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: But I do want a dvd converted into a mp4. Or an ISO into a mp4. It seems a hard time doing it. If you did the whole disc/iso, you'd get the studio promos, the copyright warnings, the adverts,

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 21:16 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: > But I do want a dvd converted into a mp4. Or an ISO into a mp4. It > seems a hard time doing it. If you did the whole disc/iso, you'd get the studio promos, the copyright warnings, the adverts, the main feature, the shorts, all compiled i

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > How do you get it to convert a directory of VOBs and such into a mp4? For all I know there may be a tool somewhere that will do an entire disk, but I've always done it one title set at a time using steps as indicated in prior posts. Exampl

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> VTS_01_0.VOB an intro or video menu for playing this video clip >> VTS_01.1.VOB part 1 of the main feature >> VTS_01.2.VOB part 2 of the main feature >> VTS_01.3.VOB part 3 of the main feature, etc. Go Canes: > I have seen many DVDs where Title Set 1 was *not* the main feature; I > do

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 9:09 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:44 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: The thing is I can't get vlc to convert a DVD a decrypted mirror image of that dvd nor an ISO created from those decrypted files. IDK what it is with vlc. I use it all the time to view. But the conver

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 8:58 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 19:18 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? Are you trying to squish a double-sided DVD onto a single-side

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:08 PM Tim via users wrote: > VTS_01_0.VOB an intro or video menu for playing this video clip > VTS_01.1.VOB part 1 of the main feature > VTS_01.2.VOB part 2 of the main feature > VTS_01.3.VOB part 3 of the main feature, etc. I have seen many DVDs where Title Set 1 wa

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:44 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > The thing is I can't get vlc to convert a DVD a decrypted mirror image > of that dvd nor an ISO created from those decrypted files. IDK what it > is with vlc. I use it all the time to view. But the convert options with > vlc. I get a short f

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 20:42 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: > The thing is I can't get vlc to convert a DVD a decrypted mirror image > of that dvd nor an ISO created from those decrypted files. IDK what it > is with vlc. I use it all the time to view. But the convert options with > vlc. I get a sh

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 19:18 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: > Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to > accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? Are you trying to squish a double-sided DVD onto a single-sided DVD and play it in a DVD player? Are you

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 7:52 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 7:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? Converting to an mp4 would be the simple answer, but not a simple task

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 7:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to > accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? > Converting to an mp4 would be the simple answer, but not a simple task > as I am finding. Assuming you hav

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 7:05 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 10:29 +1030, Tim wrote: To create a playable DVD, the files have to be put into the master image (the ISO file, in your example), in order. DVD players are very simple, and expect the first file at the start of the disc, and the

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 6:59 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 17:44 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: OK so how exactly do I create an "empty" ISO file? I will try to explain by example. As above say I have an "empty" vfat format. mount /dev/loop /mnt which is attached to a FILE. copy files

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 10:29 +1030, Tim wrote: > To create a playable DVD, the files have to be put into the master > image (the ISO file, in your example), in order. DVD players are very > simple, and expect the first file at the start of the disc, and the > rest in sequence. They can do a bit of

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 17:44 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: > OK so how exactly do I create an "empty" ISO file? I will try to explain > by example. > > As above say I have an "empty" vfat format. > > mount /dev/loop /mnt which is attached to a FILE. > > copy files manually into the /mnt director

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 5:45 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > OK so how exactly do I create an "empty" ISO file? I will try to explain > by example. Why do you want to create an empty ISO file? The way I do it is: - create a normal directory - put the contents of the DVD in said directory; i.e., if c

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/18/22 14:44, Bill Cunningham wrote: OK so how exactly do I create an "empty" ISO file? I will try to explain by example. The simple answer is you don't. They are not designed for that. However, there is a multi-session extension that lets you add another chunk of files to an existing i

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
/loop0, losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0 -q; Now I have tried this and get errors. IDK if there's a way around this, a safety issue that is built in, or maybe I am not using the right program to format a "dvd". Can you dvdformat a loopback dev

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
/loop0, losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0 -q; Now I have tried this and get errors. IDK if there's a way around this, a safety issue that is built in, or maybe I am not using the right program to format a "dvd". Can you dvdformat a loopback dev

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0 -q; Now I have tried this and get errors. IDK if there's a way around this, a safety issue that is built in, or maybe I am not using the right program to format a "dvd". Can you dvdformat a loopback device? No, that doesn't make any sense. 

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 5:03 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > losetup /dev/loop0 FILE to mount the loopback, > > mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/loop0 > > and detach and xxd -g1 FILE. Use mkiso to create FILE, and then you can hexdump FILE directly. You can also then "mount FILE /mt" (or similar) if you want to

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
-q; Now I have tried this and get errors. IDK if there's a way around this, a safety issue that is built in, or maybe I am not using the right program to format a "dvd". Can you dvdformat a loopback device? If you are trying to create the DVD file system, you want to use somet

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
have tried this and get errors. IDK if there's a way around this, a safety issue that is built in, or maybe I am not using the right program to format a "dvd". Can you dvdformat a loopback device? No, that doesn't make any sense.  The formatting is a physical thing. For a

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
> Now I have tried this and get errors. IDK if there's a way around this, > a safety issue that is built in, or maybe I am not using the right > program to format a "dvd". > > Can you dvdformat a loopback device? If you are trying to create the DVD file system, you want

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
there's a way around this, a safety issue that is built in, or maybe I am not using the right program to format a "dvd". Can you dvdformat a loopback device? No, that doesn't make any sense. The formatting is a physical thing. For a disk image, you just make an .iso file.

dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
that is built in, or maybe I am not using the right program to format a "dvd". Can you dvdformat a loopback device? B ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org