Re: [transcode-users] can't use dvdauthor

[Phil Ehrens <phil@xxxxxxxx>]

BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> I have finally worked my way to almost creating a dvd from a .avi file. 
> I have transcoded and recombined the files into an Mpeg and now need to 
> use dvdauthor. I'm following the wiki how-to and I have created the DVD 
> directory as well as copied the script to create the dvdauthor.xml file. 
> When I try to run dvdauthor I get:
> 
> brianokeefe@xxxxxx:/media/For_Linux/Movies/DVD$ sudo dvdauthor -x 
> dvdauthor.xml
> Password:
> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
> Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ERR:  Unable to open XML file dvdauthor.xml
> 
> 
> I've tried running it as user, I've tried running it in the directory 
> above, "Movies" which contains the mpeg file and nothing-same error.
> What am i doing wrong?
> Thanks for any help.
> Brian
> 
> PS-contents of the Movies directory:
> 
> DVD  dvdauthor.xml  dvd_Grave_of_the_Fireflies.mpg

Not sure why you need sudo to run dvdauthor, but that's your business...
Run the command under strace to find out where it's looking for the
file:

 strace -f dvdauthor -x dvdauthor.xml