Problems with DVD encoding/playback on DVD player

[VulcanRidr]

I'm havng two separate but related problems with DVD creation and playback on a player machine, and could use advice on where I am going wrong.

First problem: I started creating a DVD for a friend of mine, and found the application DVDstyler, in which I was able to create some beautiful menus, with related background images, thumbnails of each track, and so forth. Built this all out, and everything looked great. However, when I tried to burn or create an iso, I got pages and pages of the following error:

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[ac3 @ 0x3204c00] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 2 >= 2

These errors would either eventually kill the process, or the machine would lock. I have tried this both on my laptop and my desktop, both running sid.

Second problem: Now I was eventually able to generate an iso file from a pc-bsd machine at work. However, when I burn the iso and try it in my DVD player, it will only play a random amount of a video, then it will stop and kick me back to the menu. It seems to play a different amount of the videos each time, and a different amount of each video. I have tried using DVD-Rs, DVD+Rs, varying the burn speed from 1x to automatic (which in this case burned at 8x), and all have had the same problems.

Anyone have any ideas how to get a good DVD or if it might just be my old, crappy Emerson DVD player that is the problem?

Thanks,
--vr

[cra1g321]

Been a year or so since i've burned a movie/video to dvd on linux, last time i just used devede,

but i think it only has very basic menu options.

[stevepusser]

How did you install DVD Styler, since it's not in any Debian repository?

I managed to port version 2.7.2 to a Wheezy base using the wxgtk-3.0 libs in wheezy-backports, but it seems to take extremely long to forever to create an iso, compared to version 2.6.X

[VulcanRidr]

How did you install DVD Styler, since it's not in any Debian repository?

Actually, it is...In the http://deb-multimedia.org/dists/unstabl ... ary-amd64/ repo:

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dvdstyler (1:2.7.2-dmo3) - amd64 - Unstable/Sid

I managed to port version 2.7.2 to a Wheezy base using the wxgtk-3.0 libs in wheezy-backports, but it seems to take extremely long to forever to create an iso, compared to version 2.6.X

This is the version I am running...

Also, please note that I have both libavcodec55:amd64 (10:2.3.3-dmo3) and libavcodec56:amd64 (6:11~beta1-2) installed, and I initially tried after manually symlinking /usr/bin/avconv -> /usr/bin/ffmpeg (which is exactly what the libav-tools does). Could there be an interaction with libavcodec56?

[stevepusser]

How did you install DVD Styler, since it's not in any Debian repository?

Actually, it is...In the http://deb-multimedia.org/dists/unstabl ... ary-amd64/ repo:

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dvdstyler (1:2.7.2-dmo3) - amd64 - Unstable/Sid

I managed to port version 2.7.2 to a Wheezy base using the wxgtk-3.0 libs in wheezy-backports, but it seems to take extremely long to forever to create an iso, compared to version 2.6.X

This is the version I am running...

Also, please note that I have both libavcodec55:amd64 (10:2.3.3-dmo3) and libavcodec56:amd64 (6:11~beta1-2) installed, and I initially tried after manually symlinking /usr/bin/avconv -> /usr/bin/ffmpeg (which is exactly what the libav-tools does). Could there be an interaction with libavcodec56?

Debian would argue about deb-multimedia being a Debian repository--for example, why do you think they asked him to change it from debian-multimedia.

It looks like libavcodec55 from dmo is compiled from the "real" ffmpeg, while libavcodec56 is Debian and compiled from the libav fork. I would say the dvdstyler is going to be using the libavcodec55..they should coexist, i believe, so maybe the problems are more with the 2.7 series of DVD styler.

[VulcanRidr]

Debian would argue about deb-multimedia being a Debian repository--for example, why do you think they asked him to change it from debian-multimedia.

Interesting. I didn't know any of that particular backstory. Last I remember, Christian was a DD, and thee multimedia repo was stuff that he built (like codecs and multimedia tools) that had dependencies that would not play nicely with the DFSG, so it was treated like a one-off repo that was not officially a part of Debian. At least that's the way it was explained to me years ago when I was involved with the project.

It looks like libavcodec55 from dmo is compiled from the "real" ffmpeg, while libavcodec56 is Debian and compiled from the libav fork. I would say the dvdstyler is going to be using the libavcodec55..they should coexist, i believe, so maybe the problems are more with the 2.7 series of DVD styler.

Maybe I should try an older version...

[stevepusser]

I have the 2.6 version working well in the Wheezy-based MEPIS 12 and MX 14, but it needed a customized rebuild of libwxgtk2.8, adding the media library in my packages. The libwxgtk3.0 in Jessie and wheezy-backports has that media library enabled already, but I don't know if the 2.6 series builds against it.