Possible bug of mkisofs

[Paul Smith]

On 1/14/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?

Thanks. I have now a clue: the name of the files are in lowercase
letters. Does it matter? In case it matters, how can I automatically
convert the name of the files to uppercase letters?

Paul