dvd VOB please help

[neoroses]

hi im trying to turn vobs files (video_ts and audio_ts) into a iso so i kan burn them as dvds with k3b - i have been tryin to use mkisofs but it simply just does not work! i get errors like this :
mkisofs: No such file or directory. Faild to open /home/sam/dvd/dvd//VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFOmkisofs: Can't open VMG info for '/home/sam/dvd/dvd/'.
mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.
sam@tuxbox:/$ mkisofs -dvd-video -o /home/sam/dvd/dvd/mydvd.img /home/sam/dvd/dvdINFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
use -input-charset to override.
mkisofs: No such file or directory. Faild to open /home/sam/dvd/dvd//VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFOmkisofs: Can't open VMG info for '/home/sam/dvd/dvd/'.
mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.


or

mkisofs: No such file or directory. Faild to open /home/sam/.Trash//VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO
mkisofs: Can't open VMG info for '/home/sam/.Trash/'.
mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
mkisofs: No such file or directory. Can't stat /home/sam/.Trash/VIDEO_T
mkisofs: Can't open device '/home/sam/.Trash/VIDEO_T'
mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
mkisofs: No such file or directory. Faild to open /home/sam/dvd//VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO
mkisofs: Can't open VMG info for '/home/sam/dvd/'.
mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures.
mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.

so is there another way of doing it with out mkisofs?????

if there is help would be GREATLY appreaciated thanks

[antidrugue]

Here is the way I do it:

mkisofs -pad -J -R -oYourDVD.iso -graft-points "/AUDIO_TS=/path/to/AUDIO_TS" "/VIDEO_TS=/path/to/VIDEO_TS"

Of course your replace YourDVD.iso with the name of the DVD you want to create.

As well, replace /path/to with the path to the AUDIO_TS or VIDEO_TS directories.

man mkisofs

for more...

Make sure your Video files have read and execute permission on them (for user, group and others). So

chmod -R 555 /path/to/dvdfiles

first.

So

ls -l

should give you those permissions prior to creating the image:

mastah@killah:/mnt/iso$ ls -l
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x 2 mastah mastah 2048 2006-02-09 00:43 AUDIO_TS
dr-xr-xr-x 2 mastah mastah 2048 2006-02-09 00:43 VIDEO_TS

Have fun!

[franco44444]

thanks, this solved my problem too