gmane.comp.multimedia.dvdauthor.user

VIDEO_TS.IFO is always NTSC?

tin2tin — 2013-05-13T07:27:20

I'm using dvdauthor 0.7.1 on windows(build from 20. of Aug.), and I'm very
puzzled why VIDEO_TS.IFO is NTSC when checking it with MediaInfo, even
though I use an XML file like this:

<dvdauthor format="pal">
         <vmgm />
         <titleset>
             <titles>
                 <video format="PAL" aspect="4:3"/>
                 <pgc>
                     <vob file="C:\Users\user\Desktop\MVI_4993.mpg"/>
                 </pgc>
             </titles>
         </titleset>
</dvdauthor>

The created VTS_01_0.IFO and VTS_01_1.VOB are PAL.

VIDEO_TS.IFO is always NTSC?

tin2tin — 2013-05-13T07:26:55

I'm using dvdauthor 0.7.1 on windows(build from 20. of Aug.), and I'm very
puzzled why VIDEO_TS.IFO is NTSC when checking it with MediaInfo, even
though I use an XML file like this:

<dvdauthor format="pal">
         <vmgm />
         <titleset>
             <titles>
                 <video format="PAL" aspect="4:3"/>
                 <pgc>
                     <vob file="C:\Users\user\Desktop\MVI_4993.mpg"/>
                 </pgc>
             </titles>
         </titleset>
</dvdauthor>

The created VTS_01_0.IFO and VTS_01_1.VOB are PAL.

Cell commands

Alex Thüring — 2013-01-25T20:12:42

Hello,

if I specify conditional cell command such as "if (g0 == 1) jump title 1;", I get error
     ERR:  Cell command can only compile to one VM instruction.
But some other software (e.g. DVDReMake) supports cell conditional commands.
And I also didn't find this restriction at
     http://dvd.sourceforge.net/dvdinfo/pgc.html
Is it possibly a bug in dvdauthor?

Cheers,
Alex

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS,
MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current
with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft
MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d

help authoring dvd

Rick C. — 2013-01-23T05:55:49

Hi,

I was using dvdauthor in the past and never remember having much of a problem.  I used this for simple dvd:

mkdir DVD && export VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC && dvdauthor -o DVD --title -f input.vob && dvdauthor -o DVD -T

But I notice recently it seems to not autoplay (or play at all) in many players and I'm not sure what went wrong?  Unless this started happening with the release of Mountain Lion (I'm using Mac) I'm not sure also?  Can someone tell me if anything looks wrong with my command line?  The structure created and everything appears to be just fine and no errors are generated, but still having this autoplay issue.  Thanks!

rc
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS,
MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current
with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft
MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d

Fwd:

Marko Loparic — 2013-01-20T03:27:02

http://vinipoderevecciano.it/admin/about/ht6wn2.php

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS,
MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current
with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft
MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012

Assertion failed : p >= thisvob->vobu[i -1].sectpts[1], file dvdvob.c, line 1881

Jean-Pierre Planas — 2012-12-24T10:05:00

Hi,
 
Trying to generate a dvd using DVDStyler, I have the following error :
 
STAT: VOBU 1680 at 477MB, 8 PGCs
 STAT: VOBU 1696 at 482MB, 8 PGCs
 WARN: Cannot detect pts for VOBU if there is no audio or video
 WARN: Using SCR instead.
 Assertion failed: p >= thisvob->vobu[i - 1].sectpts[1], file dvdvob.c, line
1881  This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way.
 Please contact the application's support team for more information.
 Échec
 
and dvdauthor crashes...
dvdauthor is in version 0.7.1, and I have Windows 7 64 bits.
 
If you need others informations, ask me...

Thanks for advance for your help...

Jean-Pierre

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
Jean-Pierre Planas
Web : http://jp.planas.free.fr/sybaris
Blog : http://coupdegueuleduninformaticien.blogspot.com



------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial
Remotely access PCs

menu navigation does nothing

Alexander Schwarzkopf — 2012-11-19T18:57:30

Hello all,

my project to write a script that automatically creates the necessary 
contents and XML to author a DVD is almost done. Goal is with 
one or two command lines from any source(s) to create a DVD with menus.

The spumux processes do not output any error messages any more. 

Dvdauthor complains about the muxing state of the MPEG2 video stream for 
some reason. I mux using mplex. 

But the reason why I write to the list is that I get a DVD data structure 
that does show menus, but does not react on any navigation commands. It 
does neither highlight the selected button nor execute the action assigned 
to it. 

Obviously I still have problems understanding the logic behind the 
navigation commands. I do not see a point where to find the reason for 
this misbehaviour. 

I have uploaded a ZIP archive with the sources (without the actual movie
for obvious reasons) here: http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/example.zip

It includes all the XML files, the background pictures and an error log 
with all the errors

menu navigation does nothing

Alexander Schwarzkopf — 2012-11-19T18:57:30

Hello all,

my project to write a script that automatically creates the necessary 
contents and XML to author a DVD is almost done. Goal is with 
one or two command lines from any source(s) to create a DVD with menus.

The spumux processes do not output any error messages any more. 

Dvdauthor complains about the muxing state of the MPEG2 video stream for 
some reason. I mux using mplex. 

But the reason why I write to the list is that I get a DVD data structure 
that does show menus, but does not react on any navigation commands. It 
does neither highlight the selected button nor execute the action assigned 
to it. 

Obviously I still have problems understanding the logic behind the 
navigation commands. I do not see a point where to find the reason for 
this misbehaviour. 

I have uploaded a ZIP archive with the sources (without the actual movie
for obvious reasons) here: http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/example.zip

It includes all the XML files, the background pictures and an error log 
with all the errors

Distorted menu

Melvyn de Kort — 2012-11-16T19:40:35

Hi people,

I have a problem while generating a menu with spumux and later embedding
this menu in a dvd.
The menu buttons seem to get distorted in some strange way.
I've put an example with blank video files in my dropbox:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6753023/generate_dvd.tar.gz
Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Melvyn
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single
web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware,
SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial.
Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications!
http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov_______________________________________________
Dvdauthor-users mailing list
Dvdauthor-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dvdauthor-users

glibc detected /usr/bin/spumux double free orcorruption

Alexander Schwarzkopf — 2012-11-10T19:16:52

Hi,

I have another problem.

Following a suggestion I have specified the button geometries in XML for spumux.

Now spumux fails.

INFO: Subtitle inserted at: 0.133467 sd=0
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/spumux: double free or corruption (out): 0x0000000000bc0ad0 ***
Segmentation fault

I don't know if something is wrong with my input or if this is a bug in spumux.

I have uploaded my input files:

http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/VTS_1_bg.ppm
http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/VTS_1_hi.png
http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/VTS_1_sel.png
http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/VTS_1_spu.xml
http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/VTS_1.ac3
http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/log.txt

my spumux version is compiled on gentoo amd64.

DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.7.0.
Build options: gnugetopt graphicsmagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
Send bug reports to <dvdauthor-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org>

INFO: no default video format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL


Thanks,

Alexander


-------------------------------------

ERR: Cannot find button '9' as referenced by thesubtitle

Alexander Schwarzkopf — 2012-11-08T19:20:10

Hi,

I have a problem understanding what dvdauthor is trying to tell me. 

I try to mux from XML and get the messages:

INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing //scratch/tmpdir_akte_x/tmpdir_akte_x_der_film_avi2mkv/empty.mpg...

INFO: Video pts = 0.133 .. 0.166
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.133 .. 1.157

STAT: Processing /scratch/tmpdir_akte_x/tmpdir_akte_x_der_film_avi2mkv/vtsm/vts_1_1.mpg...

INFO: Video pts = 0.133 .. 0.166
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.133 .. 1.157
INFO: Audio[32] pts = 0.133 .. 0.133

STAT: Processing /scratch/tmpdir_akte_x/tmpdir_akte_x_der_film_avi2mkv/vtsm/vts_1_audio.mpg...
ERR:  Cannot find button '9' as referenced by the subtitle
child exited with value 1

I don't understand. vts_1_audio.mpg has 8 buttons. And they are muxed as 8 buttons. 

Here are my recent files: 
http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/vts_1_audio_spu.xml
http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/dvdauthor.xml
http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/vts_1_audio.mpg
http://dump.fangornsrealm.eu/vts_1_audiobg.ppm
http://dump.fangorn

ERR: Parse error 'syntax error, unexpected ERROR_TOK, expecting SEMICOLON_TOK' on token '"'

Alexander Schwarzkopf — 2012-11-02T17:19:45


Hello,

I am quite new to XML for dvdauthor. I have the attached XML file and I get the error mesage

ERR:  Parse error 'syntax error, unexpected ERROR_TOK, expecting SEMICOLON_TOK' on token '"'

To my eye all the double quotes are balanced. What is dvdauthor trying to tell me?

Is there a way to get debug output (where dvdauthor stops parsing correctly)?

Or can somebody tell me where the problem of this XML file is?

Thanks in advance,

Alexander Schwarzkopf

Example:

<dvdauthor dest="/scratch/DVD">
<vmgm>
<fpc> { g8=0; jump menu entry title; } </fpc>
<menus>
<pgc entry="title" pause="0">
<pre> {
g1=0; g4=101; g6=102;
if (g5 lt g4) g5=g4;
if (g5 gt g6) g5=g6;
if (g8 eq 1) jump title 1;
if (g5 eq 101) jump menu 2;
if (g5 eq 102) jump menu 3;
}
</pre>
<vob file="/scratch/empty.mpg" />
</pgc>
<pgc pause="0">
<pre> { if (g0 lt 1024) g0=1024; button=g0; } </pre>
<vob file="/scratch/vmgm/VTS_1.mpg" pause="0" />
<button name="Title_1"> { g0=button; jump title 1; } </button>
<button name="Title_2"> { g0=button

DVD freezes on last frame

Paidmail GERDA — 2012-10-24T22:24:37

Hello guys,

I am trying to use dvdauthor for my own batch dvd creation.
using this very basic script:

<dvdauthor>
  <vmgm />
  <titleset>
  <titles>
  <pgc>
  <vob file="output.mpg"/>
  </pgc>
  </titles>
  </titleset>
  </dvdauthor>


I get a DVD which pauses on the last frame, instead of stopping. 
(software and hardware players)
is there something i am doing wrong?

thank you

regards

Felix

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Everyone hates slow websites. So do we.
Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics
Download AppDynamics Lite for free today:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct

spumux button row spacing and play-once-onlyintro video

Waitman Gobble — 2012-10-02T08:14:22

Hi,

I have prepared my first DVD with dvdauthor and everything works, however
it needs a little finesse.

On the resulting menu from spumux the 'select' areas are spaced farther
apart than I have them placed in the png. So menu position 1 at the top,
the 'select' image is much farther away from the underlying image, spacing
gradually decreases with each menu item down the list, then begins to
increase in the other direction. I have a feeling this might have to do
with 'outlinewidth'... but perhaps I'd be better off explicitly defining
the menu button positions instead of using 'auto' ?

<subpictures format="NTSC">
<stream>
<spu force="yes" start="00:00:00.00" transparent="Black"
image="msarkdvd01-blank.png" select="msarkdvd01-reg.png"
highlight="msarkdvd01-hi.png" autooutline="infer" autoorder="rows"
outlinewidth="18">
</spu>
</stream>
</subpictures>

Also, I would like to play the intro video the first time the disc is
inserted, but then skip the intro video when the user returns the to main
menu. I think

Feature Request: Auto-execute option in SPUMUX

Robert Shahandeh — 2012-09-26T21:48:39

I'm currently using DVDStyler and one feature lacking is a true 
auto-execute button (execute upon select, typically for hidden buttons) 
that I typically use for scrolling multi-page chapter menus and it 
appears SPUMUX would need to support this for DVDStyler to use it. I've 
tried some suggested alternative methods within DVDStyler, but they 
require timing out the menu on a regular basis that momentarily lock out 
the user as the display refreshes. I found PGC Edit that gets me what I 
want, but I do have to generate the DVD files on hard disk, go into PGC 
Edit to set the auto-execute buttons and then burn to DVD. Obviously it 
would be nicer if I could do this directly in SPUMUX via DVDStyler.

For reference, see the Auto-Action flag in BTN_IT Button Information 
Table at
http://www.mpucoder.com/DVD/pci_pkt.html#btn_it

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
How fast is your code?
3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production.
Find out how s

A DVD that only runs on some players

Philip Walden — 2012-09-24T18:54:05

I have question about DVD limits.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Inside_DVD-Video/Limits

I have a set of 3 webcams monitoring motion events outside the house. I 
use a perl script and DVDStyler to produce a DVD with 4 months of daily 
motion movies. the structure is:

VGM:
    Select Month in Year

Titleset 1: (first month)
    Select Day on Month menu: 28-31 day buttons + 1 Back (to VGM) button
    28-31 Titles
        Each Title consists of 3 VOB references pointing to the a 
camera's daily movie.

Titleset(s) 2-4: (same as Titleset 1)

The problem is that the DVD is produced, but only works on some players. 
I have a older Philips DVD player that works fine. My newer Sony Blu-Ray 
player basically "hangs" on it and I have to power cycle it to get it to 
spit out the DVD. Every PC-based player I have tried also works fine. A 
friend with a newer DVD player has problems.

Using the DVD limits reference, I believe I am just under the 
menu-button limit of 36 for narrow screen. All the the movies and menus 
a

DVDAuthor Download Stats

Lawrence D'Oliveiro — 2012-08-20T10:45:51

Stumbled across another new feature on SourceForge, namely download
statistics. That for DVDAuthor since about the 0.6.14 release are here
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdauthor/files/stats/timeline?dates=2007-02-24+to+2012-08-20>,
and show a large, and continuing, long-term decline, with hardly any
pause when I brought out 0.7.0 in October 2010.

Does this mean people are using DVDAuthor less and less? I suspect so.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Live Security Virtual Conference
Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and 
threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions 
will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware 
threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/

Announcing DVDAuthor 0.7.1

Lawrence D'Oliveiro — 2012-08-20T04:45:55

It’s getting on to two years since the major 0.7.0 release of
DVDAuthor. The number-one trouble report from users in that time has
been with how to specify the video format (NTSC or PAL).

To recap, prior to 0.7.0, the main dvdauthor tool defaulted to NTSC
unless you specified the format was PAL, while spumux (the subtitle
generator) had defaults more appropriate to PAL. I unified this in
0.7.0 by allowing you to specify the default format for all tools in
the suite in the following ways (in order of increasing precedence):
  * at build time (--enable-default-video-format=ntsc|pal)
  * in a systemwide config file (/etc/video_format)
  * in a per-user config file (~/.config/video_format)
  * in an environment variable (VIDEO_FORMAT)
  * in the XML control file.

And to avoid taking sides, if you didn’t specify a format at any of
those first four places, then there was no default, and you had to
explicitly say what the format was in the XML control file.

Unfortunately, there was a limitation in the valid

ERR: no video format specified for VTSM

Andreas Frisch — 2012-08-06T09:07:56

Dear dvdauthor-users,

in the latest release auf dvdauthor, the implicit default video format was 
removed, so it now has to be explicitely set by either configuring and 
building it with a default format, specifying /etc/video_format, 
~/.config/video_format and/or the VIDEO_FORMAT env variable.

however, shouldn't it still be possible to specify all necessary parameters 
inside the given author xml?
i think the following markup should contain the format spec in every necessary 
place:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <dvdauthor dest="/media/hdd/movie/tmp/20120806103343/dvd" jumppad="yes">
  <vmgm>
   <menus lang="ar">
    <video format="PAL" aspect="4:3" />
    <pgc>
     <button name="button01"> jump titleset 1 title 1; </button>
     <vob file="/media/hdd/movie/tmp/20120806103343/dvdmenu1.mpg" 
pause="inf"/>
    </pgc>
   </menus>
  </vmgm>
  <titleset>
   <menus lang="ar">
    <video format="PAL" aspect="4:3"/>
    <pgc entry="root">
     <pre>
      jump vmgm menu entry title;
     </pre>
    <

ERR: TOC cannot have titles

Sander Jansen — 2012-07-04T13:40:53

Hi,

Trying to run:

dvdauthor -T -o dvd --video=ntsc

Gives me this:
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.0.
Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
Send bug reports to <dvdauthor-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org>

INFO: no default video format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL
ERR:  TOC cannot have titles

This looks to me like a bug in dvdauthor. More specifically in
dvdcli.c , I don't think "istitle" is set to false if -T is specified,
hence fails the if (istoc && istitle) test...

Thanks,

Sander

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Live Security Virtual Conference
Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and 
threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions 
will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware 
threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/

ERR: TOC cannot have titles

Sander Jansen — 2012-07-04T13:40:53

Hi,

Trying to run:

dvdauthor -T -o dvd --video=ntsc

Gives me this:
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.0.
Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
Send bug reports to <dvdauthor-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f< at >public.gmane.org>

INFO: no default video format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL
ERR:  TOC cannot have titles

This looks to me like a bug in dvdauthor. More specifically in
dvdcli.c , I don't think "istitle" is set to false if -T is specified,
hence fails the if (istoc && istitle) test...

Thanks,

Sander

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Live Security Virtual Conference
Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and 
threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions 
will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware 
threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/