From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 05:53:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE3A16A432 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:53:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from ylpvm43.prodigy.net (ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F75B43D45 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:53:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (pimout1-int.prodigy.net [207.115.5.65]) by ylpvm43.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9E5r5ZW013418 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:53:06 -0400 X-ORBL: [66.139.109.225] Received: from [192.168.1.25] (ppp-66-139-109-225.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [66.139.109.225]) by pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (8.13.4 outbound domainkey aix/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9E5r3K0213716; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:53:03 -0400 Message-ID: <434F47BE.30901@mkproductions.org> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:53:02 -0500 From: Mark Kane User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050928) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave References: <000301c5d053$bba8c4f0$0900a8c0@satellite> In-Reply-To: <000301c5d053$bba8c4f0$0900a8c0@satellite> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dvdauthor on 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:53:06 -0000 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