I just noticed that if the cvs of vdrconvert is unable to write to /dev/stdout, then dvdauthor fails. Attached is a patch. Regards, -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vdrconvert-stdout.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 1371 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20050909/7bbaa222/vdrconvert-stdout.bin