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So my DVD copied to a 7gb file in about 40 minutes with no apparent problems, but then Pburn crashed while shrinking it. Can you recommend something that is more stable than Tahrpup 6.0 CE? I'm using a Sony Vaio from 2007 that has 2gb RAM, and will soon be using a slightly newer laptop that has double that.

Tahrpup 6.0 could just be your problem.
That was the first release of Tahrpup and it was buggy.

The newest bug fixed version is Tahrpup 6.0.6
Download from here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pu ... 20-6.0-CE/

Tahrpup has got issues with pBurn as well as ffconvert and pMusic because of using libav instead of ffmpeg. More recent Ubuntu-builds has not this problem. Slacko is just working...

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pu ... cko-6.3.2/

Edit: I found answers to many newbie questions in the Slacko release notes (http://slacko.eezy.xyz/notes.php), but one thing is still not 100% clear to me: It says that the 64-bit version of Slacko has "32-bit compatibility libraries." Does this mean that 64-bit Slacko can be used to run a 32-bit processor? If so, why would anyone bother with a 32-bit version of Slacko?

Anyway, thanks for your recommendations! I will try Slacko 6.3.2 first, and if that doesn't work, then Tahrpup 6.0.6

So with Slacko 6.3.2, after about 6 hours, I ended up with a full-length DVD copy that has no audio! I played it on another machine to make sure.

When the burn was finished, it asked me if I wanted to save the rip, and then it put it in a pBurn folder somewhere, I can't remember where.

Ideally, I would like to rip DVDs to an ISO file on my hard drive, rather than burning them to plastic, but when pBurn asked me to put a blank DVD in the drive, I was afraid not to, as I thought it might just cancel and delete the whole 6-hour project, but anyway, the disk it produced has no sound!

Permanent_Wheelie
Remember pBurn is only a frontend for several programs. pBurn builds executable files to run the chosen commands. You can see the commands in $HOME/.pburn/tmp/exec and $HOME/.pburn/tmp/exec_preburn. The same info is available in the 'Advanced' tab in the burn dialog or in the saved burn-log.

To debug this info is a must-have. Since the log-file also outputs info and errors from the backends, this is the best source of wisdom...

Are you sure there is nothing wrong with the DVD hardware?
Those DVD drives do not last forever!
Check for:
Dirty disk?
Dirty internal lens?

Pburn 3.7.18 Copy Shrink DVD is failing, here is my setup:

-hardware=intel dual core, 2gb ram
-puppy precise 5.7.1 retro frugal on 60gb ext2, 25gb free
-temporary files on /mnt/home/movies (ext2)
-all dependencies=OK

At the end of the ripping process pburn creates the file:
/mnt/home/movies/the_video_you_wanted1.vob.partial
If I open this file in VLC it is the complete movie.

The pburn log gives this error:

[|] 100.0% 00:00 /root/.pburn/tmp/exec_preburn: line 2: 13990 Floating point exceptionvobcopy -i /dev/sr0 -n 1 -t the_video_you_wanted -o "/mnt/home/movies" -v -l -f
mv: cannot stat `/mnt/home/movies/the_video_you_wanted1.vob': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/mnt/home/movies/GOLD1.vob': No such file or directory
(standard_in) 1: syntax error
mv: cannot stat `/mnt/home/movies/GOLD1.vob': No such file or directory
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.0.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
Send bug reports to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: default video format is NTSC
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing -...
ffmpeg version 0.8.6-4:0.8.6-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the Libav developers
built on Apr 2 2013 17:00:59 with gcc 4.6.3
*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future release. Please use avconv instead.
/mnt/home/movies/GOLD1-shrank.vob: No such file or directory
STAT: VOBU 0 at 0MB, 1 PGCs
ERR: no VOBUs found.
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.0.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
Send bug reports to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: default video format is NTSC
INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents
ERR: No .IFO files to process


I've tried multiple dvd's and always get the same result. If I try the same dvd's in puppy lucid 5.2.8
they copy with no errors.

Tried pburn 4.3.16, same result.

Any way to fix this in 5.7.1?

WiZard
Seems that vobcopy didn't complete the decrypting of the movie. You ended up with the *.partial file which is a temporary file for the decrypt/copy process.

You state that temporary space is 25Gb, so that shouldn't be any issue. I have not much experience with this, but maybe your memory of 2Gb is the weak point...

Anyway, Precise Puppy (and Tahr Puppy) is not the recommended option, since it ships libav as a substitute for ffmpeg. Libav has been bad for several Puppy apps such as pBurn, ffConvert and pMusic. You would probably get more errors during conversion to NTSC/PAL.

You have also tested pBurn 4, but this won't work properly in a pristine Precise Puppy since pBurn 4 requires CdrTools as burning backend. Precise includes the rather outdated CdrKit which only is supported by pBurn 3.

Please consider a more recent Puppy. Mick released beta 3 of the very latest... Here you find a 32bit iso for older hardware while the 64bit is more bloated and with a more recent Linux kernel.

Sigmund

@zigbert
I hate to give up precise 5.7.1 retro since it has a lot of drivers for
the older hardware I often install it on. Are you sure precise doesn't
have ffmpeg? When I type ffmpeg in a console it gives:
Also, pdvdsrab 0.2, which I think also uses ffmpeg, does work in precise
on the same dvd. For casual users, pburn is better because it requires less user
knowledge/input.

I've also tried ripping a dvd with VLC into a single .mpg file and then using pburn to shrink, author & burn that to a disk. It works, but the shrink factor is to high. A 6.0gb .mpg file becomes 2.6gb (total) in the video_ts directory. Is there a way to control the shrink in pburn?


Thanks for pburn & the other applications you've written for puppy

wiz

zigbert (in part) wrote:Anyway, Precise Puppy (and Tahr Puppy) is not the recommended option, since it ships libav as a substitute for ffmpeg.

Sigmund and WiZard, I don't have precise, but do have tahr. I've been using tahr 6.0.6 for a few weeks.
Look: I did look at package manager, and apparently I'd added it, from Would that or some other ffmpeg work in precise?

Oh:

sheldonisaac

Good suggestion, I downloaded and installed the ffmpeg-2.5.3-i386.pet.
Something still missing. Did some googling on it and found no clear answer.

thanks

wiz

After a lot of testing I found the answer for the Puppy Precise 5.71 pburn copy, shrink, author, burn dvd failiure. The log in a previous post showed vobcopy failed to create the complete video file. The fix is to install vobcopy-1.1.0.pet, the new vobcopy is installed in /usr/local/bin. Since the original vobcopy file is in /usr/bin you must either rename, move, or delete that file (/usr/bin/vobcopy). Tested and working in both pburn and pdvdsrab.

WiZard
Thank you for testing, but most of all; thank you for giving this feedback. It is freally valuable knowledge.

Sigmund

I burnt xerus 8.2 ISO to a CD using pburn in fatdog 64 710.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=109067
It went well however there was some confusing terminology.
I suggest the following change in the instructions (see image)
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Also when burning an ISO ---> the free space left on disk is confusing
Maybe this is needed but for most people all that is needed for
burning an ISO image is info on whether the disk size is sufficient.

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You're right that this msg is not perfect, but remember that a iso is not always meant for a bootable disc. Could we improve it without going into the bootable...

Hi zigbert

Can you provide a small screen version layout of pburn interface which can fit 640x480 resolution? or provide pburn interface which is similar to Nero Express? thank you

mistfire
There are already many apps in Puppy that extends 480x640 pixels. If I got it right, we try to support 800x600, and this is what pBurn is built around.

I suggest you try peasyDisc, which has a smaller gui.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=85997

Using the ALT key to move the window should work.
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Hi Zigbert,

I tried to add a .pdf file to a DVD I'd just burned with Pburn (leaving the DVD open so I could add more to it) and got an error. First I burned the LinuxMint iso (the iso was in flash drive sdc1.) That went well, but when I tried to add the User Guide .pdf to the DVD, it gave the error message in the screen shot.