Possible bug of mkisofs

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 1/13/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I am using mkisofs to create an iso file of a video dvd, but getting
> the following:
>
> $ mkisofs -o ~/Desktop/dzrt.iso -V "DZRT" -dvd-video -v ~/Desktop/dzrt
> INFO:   ISO-8859-1 character encoding detected by locale settings.
>         Assuming ISO-8859-1 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
>         use -input-charset to override.
> mkisofs 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> Scanning /home/psmith/Desktop/dzrt
> Scanning /home/psmith/Desktop/dzrt/VIDEO_TS
> Scanning /home/psmith/Desktop/dzrt/AUDIO_TS
> mkisofs: No such file or directory. Faild to open
> /home/psmith/Desktop/dzrt//VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO
> mkisofs: Can't open VMG info for '/home/psmith/Desktop/dzrt/'.
> mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
> mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.
>
> It seems to be a bug of mkisofs, as it (internally) uses two
> consecutive slashes:
>
> mkisofs: No such file or directory. Faild to open
> /home/psmith/Desktop/dzrt//VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO

The double slashes shouldn't matter.  It looks like your VIDEO_TS.IFO
file is missing, indicating the dvd file structure is incorrect.  Did
you run something like 'dvdauthor <dir_name> -T' on the top level dvd
directory?