Nabble - dvdauthor-users

Input from a piped command

2008-10-01T02:08:41Z

Did you know that, wherever the dvdauthor tools read from an input file, if
the string you pass for the filename ends in "|", then the string will be
executed as a command using popen, and its output will be read as the input?
Also, if the input filename is "-", then it reads from standard input.

This applies to input XML file specs, as well as to "<vob file=.../>"
directives in the XML file.

For a trivial example, instead of

dvdauthor -x in/dvd.xml

this will also work:

cat in/dvd.xml | dvdauthor -x -

(I know, that's a UUOC :)) You could imagine that, instead of a simple cat,
you could run a command that generates suitable XML output on the fly.

Just for fun, try changing a "vob" directive in your XML file, e.g. instead
of

<vob file="vid/1.mpg" ... />

try

<vob file="echo open 1.mpg 1>&2; cat vid/1.mpg;
echo close 1.mpg 1>&2 |" ... />

and you'll see the message "open 1.mpg" appear when dvdauthor opens that
input file, and "close 1.mpg" when it finishes with it.

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(no subject)

2008-09-23T14:42:17Z

Hi,

When using the Philips DVD Verifier to verify my DVD I'm getting the
following error:

[DVD] ERROR 5701 (ref. DVD-3 4.3.2-2) :
The MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 without extension bitstream Audio stream (0) with
stream_id 0xC0 was specified in PGC 1 (PGC_AST_CTLT), but not found in this
VOB

This means that an audio stream had an availability flag of 1, but the
stream wasn't present in the vob. How can I fix this problem?

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Disappearing menu selections

2008-09-21T18:28:48Z

I've had this occasional problem with menus that would look and work fine
under Ogle, but when I put the disc into my Pioneer DVR-520H, the menu
highlights would disappear. That is, it wouldn't show which item was
currently selected, even though the menus still worked.

Today I finally tracked it down to the precise choice of colours in the
palettes for the menu images. I'd already been making sure that the first
palette entry was white and the second done was black, while the third was
the highlight colour, but in this case the white wasn't pure white, it was
something like #fefffc. Going back into Gimp and changing that to #ffffff
fixed the problem: the menus now highlight correctly on the Pioneer.

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Re: Simplest possible DVD without menus

2008-09-16T13:29:22Z

On date Monday 2008-09-15 17:46:17 -0500, Bill McClain wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:52 +0200
> Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@...> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately only the first video result playable in the resulting
> > DVD, the skip forward command resulting useless.
> >
> > So my question is: what am I missing?
>
> Skip is for chapter advance, right? You've created separate titles of 1
> chapter each. If you process all of your files in one command, you should get
> what you want:
>
> dvdauthor -t file1.mpg file2.mpg file3.mpg -o DVD

You got it right, that worked just fine, many thanks!

Regards.

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Re: Simplest possible DVD without menus

2008-09-15T15:46:17Z

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:52 +0200
Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@...> wrote:

> Unfortunately only the first video result playable in the resulting
> DVD, the skip forward command resulting useless.
>
> So my question is: what am I missing?

Skip is for chapter advance, right? You've created separate titles of 1
chapter each. If you process all of your files in one command, you should get
what you want:

dvdauthor -t file1.mpg file2.mpg file3.mpg -o DVD

-Bill
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Simplest possible DVD without menus

2008-09-15T15:00:52Z

Hi all,

this is my first post here, and this is my first at creating a DVD
using dvdauthor.

I'm following this guide:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_a_DVD:Filesystem

I created the mpeg files using ffmpeg -target dvd-pal, then I used:

dvdauthor -t file.mpg -o DVD

to create a title for each file.

I end up with this layout

VTS_01_0.BUP VTS_02_0.IFO VTS_03_1.VOB VTS_05_0.BUP VTS_06_0.IFO
VTS_01_0.IFO VTS_02_1.VOB VTS_04_0.BUP VTS_05_0.IFO VTS_06_1.VOB
VTS_01_1.VOB VTS_03_0.BUP VTS_04_0.IFO VTS_05_1.VOB
VTS_02_0.BUP VTS_03_0.IFO VTS_04_1.VOB VTS_06_0.BUP

Then I finally create the TOC using this command:

stefano@geppetto ~/t/parada-videos> dvdauthor -T -o DVD
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@...>

INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents
INFO: Scanning DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
INFO: Scanning DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.IFO
INFO: Scanning DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.IFO
INFO: Scanning DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.IFO
INFO: Scanning DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.IFO
INFO: Scanning DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.IFO

This command adds the VIDEO_TS.BUP and VIDEO_TS.IFO files.

Finally I burn a DVD using the command:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video -V "DVD-name" DVD/

I don't care for the moment to have a menu, but I'd like to be able to
select the various titles using the skip forward/backward player
commands.

Unfortunately only the first video result playable in the resulting
DVD, the skip forward command resulting useless.

So my question is: what am I missing?

Regards.

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Absolute simplest VM program

2008-09-07T19:09:30Z

I've been trying to come up with the simplest possible sequence of program
commands where, after you have finished playing one title, you go back to
the menu with the next title already preselected.

The following manages it with very short command sequences using just one
GPRM. It works, except for one quirk: on my Pioneer, if I press the "Top
Menu" button, it seems to hunt around for a second or two, then give up and
start playing the first title. The "Menu" button does work.

"Top Menu" should be going to the '<pgc entry="title">' section. But as you
can see, I do have a jump to the root menu there, and the other jump in the
FPC works, so why not that one?

Has anybody else tried something similar? Thanks for any suggestions.

<dvdauthor dest="out">
<vmgm>
<fpc>
g0 = 0;
jump titleset 1 menu entry root;
</fpc>
<menus>
<pgc entry="title">
<pre>
jump titleset 1 menu entry root;
</pre>
</pgc>
</menus>
</vmgm>
<titleset>
<menus>
<video format="pal" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576"/>

<pgc entry="root">
<pre>
if (g0 eq 0)
{
g0 = 1; 
}
button = g0 * 1024;
</pre>
<vob file="tmp/menu.mpg" pause="inf"/>
<button name="Button_1">
jump title 1;
</button>
<button name="Button_2">
jump title 2;
</button>
<button name="Button_3">
jump title 3;
</button>
<button name="Button_4">
jump title 4;
</button>
<post>
jump menu entry root;
</post>
</pgc>
</menus>
<titles>
<video format="pal" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576"/>
<pgc pause="0">
<vob file="vid/1.mpg" pause="0" chapters="00:00:00.000"/>
<post>
g0 = 2;
call menu entry root;
</post>
</pgc>
<pgc pause="0" >
<vob file="vid/2.mpg" pause="0" chapters="00:00:00.000"/>
<post>
g0 = 3;
call menu entry root;
</post>
</pgc>
<pgc pause="0">
<vob file="vid/3.mpg" pause="0" chapters="00:00:00.000"/>
<post>
g0 = 4;
call menu entry root;
</post>
</pgc>
<pgc pause="0">
<vob file="vid/4.mpg" pause="0" chapters="00:00:00.000"/>
<post>
g0 = 1;
call menu entry root;
</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>

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Re: sequential vob creation but jumping to next title

2008-08-25T11:03:40Z

> Who knows if it'll work? :)

It does great :) thanks for the clue!
it's just new to me that dvdauthor now appends the content of the seconds
title to the first vob file (probably all the way until the size limit is
reached - i haven't tested it with large files yet)
is there a way how to explicitely keep seperate vobs for each title?

fraxinas

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Re: sequential vob creation but jumping to next title

2008-08-23T16:54:22Z

> Something that may be worth a try is setting up an XML file where each input
> MPEG file is actually a named pipe. A cursory look at the dvdauthor source
> doesn't show up any seeks on the input files. Assuming it reads them in
> sequence, you could generate and write the first MPEG file to the first pipe
> on-the-fly, then the second one, and so on. E.g. create the pipes:
>
> mknod vid/in1.mpg p
> mknod vid/in2.mpg p
>
> then in the XML file:
>
> ...
> <vob file="vid/in1.mpg" pause="inf"/>
> ...
> <vob file="vid/in2.mpg" pause="inf"/>
> ...
>
> Then start dvdauthor, which should block trying to read the MPEG files. And
> finally your code first writes to vid/in1.mpg, then when that's finished,
> vid/in2.mpg.

The last time I looked under the hood of k9copy this is the scheme they
use to author their dvds.

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Re: sequential vob creation but jumping to next title

2008-08-23T16:32:11Z

Andreas Frisch wrote:

> i am trying to avoid doing it through an xml file, because that would require
> a multiple amount in temporary disc space. i am working on an embedded
> environment, so this is critical.

Something that may be worth a try is setting up an XML file where each input
MPEG file is actually a named pipe. A cursory look at the dvdauthor source
doesn't show up any seeks on the input files. Assuming it reads them in
sequence, you could generate and write the first MPEG file to the first pipe
on-the-fly, then the second one, and so on. E.g. create the pipes:

mknod vid/in1.mpg p
mknod vid/in2.mpg p

then in the XML file:

...
<vob file="vid/in1.mpg" pause="inf"/>
...
<vob file="vid/in2.mpg" pause="inf"/>
...

Then start dvdauthor, which should block trying to read the MPEG files. And
finally your code first writes to vid/in1.mpg, then when that's finished,
vid/in2.mpg.

Who knows if it'll work? :)

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sequential vob creation but jumping to next title

2008-08-22T06:16:58Z

sorry if this issue has been dealt with before but i've been trying to search
the mailing list for days and the sourceforge ml search server keeps giving me
a timeout.

i am creating vob tracks one after another using cli
$ dvdauthor -t --chapters=... -o dvdtmp -f inputfileX.mpg
then remove respective inputfileX.mpg and continue with the next
in the end finalize with
$ dvdauthor -T -o dvdtmp

the first title starts playing when loading the dvd, after the first title of
course though, the playback stops.
i tried adding -i "post=jump title 2;" at the end of the command line for the
first title, but that results in

ERR: Cannot jump to title #2, only 1 exist
ERR: in VTS pgc 0, <post>

i am trying to avoid doing it through an xml file, because that would require
a multiple amount in temporary disc space. i am working on an embedded
environment, so this is critical.

is there a way how to post jump to a not-yet-existant subsequent track or add
a post jump command to each of the tracks in the finalize step?

thanks in advance
fraxinas

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Initial register values?

2008-08-13T18:23:33Z

I haven't seen any mention anywhere of what the initial values of the
G-registers might be when a disc is inserted into a player. I assumed they
would be zero, but yesterday I encountered a menu (mis)behaviour which
suggested that G1 was being initialized to 2:

if (g0 eq 0)
{
g0 = g1;
if (g0 eq 0)
{
g0 = 1;
}
}

Putting a "g1 = 0;" statement in the FPC fixed the problem.

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Comments in VM commands

2008-08-13T02:55:09Z

The VM language looks close enough to C that I keep getting tempted to write
comments enclosed in "/* ... */". This doesn't work. But XML comments do
work, e.g.

<pre>
{
if (g0 eq 0)
{
g0 = 1; 
}
button = g0 * 1024; 
}
</pre>

Note that you aren't allowed to have a "--" sequence in a comment.

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Re: Colour information for spumux?

2008-08-11T04:11:30Z

Francois Visagie wrote:

> Hi Lawrence and Eduardo,
>
> Thanks for your responses.
>
> For this project I definitely need selectable subtitles. When done
> properly, I can happily live with the results of anti-aliasing. It's
> just that the tool chain I now use lacks other features, such as
> positioning the subtitles where I need them, displaying time-adjacent
> titles without inserting artificial gaps causing flickering, etc.
>
> With SSA, spumux does all that and I was hoping for a way to get it
> to do anti-aliasing, too ;-).
>
> I suspect that there may be a way to manually insert PNG subtitles into
> the GUI for dvdauthor sequence so I may try the Gimp suggestion.
>

I couldn't find much information, but it seems spumux can take a series
of png images and mux these into the video, so you can do whatever you
want with your subtitles, as long as they only have four colors. Or
maybe three, I can't remember if the transparency needed for the
background uses one space.

The syntax seems to be simple and boring:
http://www.floatinginspace.za.org/spumux/subtitles.html

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Re: Colour information for spumux?

2008-08-11T00:56:24Z

Hi Lawrence and Eduardo,

Thanks for your responses.

For this project I definitely need selectable subtitles. When done
properly, I can happily live with the results of anti-aliasing. It's
just that the tool chain I now use lacks other features, such as
positioning the subtitles where I need them, displaying time-adjacent
titles without inserting artificial gaps causing flickering, etc.

With SSA, spumux does all that and I was hoping for a way to get it
to do anti-aliasing, too ;-).

I suspect that there may be a way to manually insert PNG subtitles into
the GUI for dvdauthor sequence so I may try the Gimp suggestion.

Kind regards,
Francois

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Subject: Re: [Dvdauthor-users] Colour information for spumux?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Francois Visagie wrote
>> I've noticed that the subtitles I generate from text with spumux only

>> have two colours, i.e. no anti-aliasing and quite unattractive.
>>
>> How do I specify colour information/palette for spumux?
>>
>
> I've never bothered to generate text subtitles from spumux. Use a
> package like Gimp to render to PNG files instead--gives you more
> control, anti-aliasing, and all that good stuff.
>

DVD subtitles can only contain four colors. This means that
anti-aliasing gets very limited, and even if tried would not bring good
results.

The only way to get really nice subtitles is by burning them to the
video, but then you'll have no way of turning them off.

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Burned DVD appears as CD-R in computer

2008-08-07T15:36:17Z

I burned a DVD that works in my standalone player and in MY computer, but when I sent it to an associate, he said it won't play and appears as a blank CD-R in his computer and in his secretary's computer.

I tried three separate DVD's to make sure it wasn't a fluke. They are quality blanks burned at slow speed, so I don't think it's a burning problem.

There are no errors in the dvdauthor log - everything appears to have worked smoothly with no issues.

I used mkisofs with the -dvd-video option to create the iso image - again no errors.

I used k3b to burn the DVD's - again no errors.

Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated.

Warren

Re: Colour information for spumux?

2008-08-07T04:32:34Z

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> Francois Visagie wrote
>> I've noticed that the subtitles I generate from text with spumux only have two
>> colours, i.e. no anti-aliasing and quite unattractive.
>>
>> How do I specify colour information/palette for spumux?
>>
>
> I've never bothered to generate text subtitles from spumux. Use a package
> like Gimp to render to PNG files instead--gives you more control,
> anti-aliasing, and all that good stuff.
>

DVD subtitles can only contain four colors. This means that
anti-aliasing gets very limited, and even if tried would not bring good
results.

The only way to get really nice subtitles is by burning them to the
video, but then you'll have no way of turning them off.

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Re: Colour information for spumux?

2008-08-06T21:18:05Z

Francois Visagie wrote:

> I've noticed that the subtitles I generate from text with spumux only have two
> colours, i.e. no anti-aliasing and quite unattractive.
>
> How do I specify colour information/palette for spumux?

I've never bothered to generate text subtitles from spumux. Use a package
like Gimp to render to PNG files instead--gives you more control,
anti-aliasing, and all that good stuff.

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Colour information for spumux?

2008-08-05T05:22:50Z

Hi All,

I'm new to this list and hope you can help me.

I've noticed that the subtitles I generate from text with spumux only have two colours, i.e. no anti-aliasing and quite unattractive.

When used with the '-ma' via GUI for dvdauthor option, it reports:

INFO: No color information written

INFO: palette file required for the pgc

When used with the '-mdvd' option, it doesn't report that, but instead the process aborts later on with the report:

ERR: color map full, unable to allocate new colors.

Which means I can't tell what colours were used.

http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/spumux.html provides no information on spumux colour usage.

How do I specify colour information/palette for spumux?

Many thanks,

Francois

Re: XML changes

2008-08-04T21:32:43Z

peter@... wrote:

> http://nfs.shawnfumo.com/wiki/DVDAuthor/XML seems to document most of the
> newer format.

Very useful page. I have added some clarification of vob and titlemap tags
to it.

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Re: a bug in dvdauthor ?

2008-07-30T17:40:42Z

Good night again friends.

I like to say that i'm so sorry about this post that i'd created.

I found my problem to generate the VOB files.

Is a simple problem but was so hard to find.

My hard disc was creating files with your names in lowercase.

Because this, the dvdauthor was showing a error.

I'd put a option to mount my HD in correct form in /etc/fstab

Now its ok.

This is the solution: Open the /etc/fstab and add this option to mount the discs that are in VFAT system:

*****
/dev/disc /mnt/mount-point vfat rw,auto,umask=077,shortname=winnt 0 0
*****

This option "shortname=winnt" was that fix my error.

Sorry for all incovenience.

Best regards.

a bug in dvdauthor ?

2008-07-28T10:14:38Z

>I believe the cause is that dvdauthor failed to create the output directory
>structure. You'll see in src/dvdauthor.c a routine called initdir, which
>creates the directories but doesn't check that the mkdir calls succeeded.
>Thus, later, the writeopen routine in src/dvdvob.c fails with the error you
>see above.
>
>Do you already have dvd or dvd/VIDEO_TS directories, and are they protected
>against writing by you, by any chance?

No, this is not the problem, probaly is a bug.

I'd checked all in my computer and not found any errors.

Re: a bug in dvdauthor ?

2008-07-28T02:13:41Z

Nick Marinho wrote:

> STAT: Processing menu.mpg...
> ERR: Error opening dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB: file or directory not found

I believe the cause is that dvdauthor failed to create the output directory
structure. You'll see in src/dvdauthor.c a routine called initdir, which
creates the directories but doesn't check that the mkdir calls succeeded.
Thus, later, the writeopen routine in src/dvdvob.c fails with the error you
see above.

Do you already have dvd or dvd/VIDEO_TS directories, and are they protected
against writing by you, by any chance?

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Re: Dvdauthor-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 2 (Nick Marinho - B-))

2008-07-25T12:36:25Z

No one to help me with this ?

subpicture language

2008-07-24T19:26:35Z

I notice in the man page that the language for subpictures is:
lang="language" , rather than lang="language-code" as it is elsewhere in the
manpage for language settings. Does this mean one can use:
<subpicture lang="English" /> rather than: <subpicture lang="en" /> ?

The '--subpictures' options says:
"and any two letter language abbreviation" so I am guessing not.

grepper

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Re: Dvdauthor-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 2

2008-07-24T12:36:12Z

Hi thomas

Nope,it is not a bug.

i think that you should wrote the complete path in the dest field:
<dvdauthor dest="dvd">
should be instead:

<dvdauthor dest="/mnt/sata-one/dvd">
or whatever you want there.

Rgds
J. Collet

I think that this is not the problem, see this ... :

DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@...>

INFO: Locale=pt_BR
INFO: Converting filenames to ISO-8859-1
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing menu.mpg...
ERR: Error opening /mnt/sata-one/movies/ratm/DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB: file or directory not found

Re: Dvdauthor-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 2

2008-07-24T12:23:33Z

Hi thomas

Nope,it is not a bug.

i think that you should wrote the complete path in the dest field:
<dvdauthor dest="dvd">
should be instead:

<dvdauthor dest="/mnt/sata-one/dvd">
or whatever you want there.

Rgds
J. Collet

Thanks, i will try now, but sorry my name is Nick.

Tr: RE: a bug in dvdauthor ?

2008-07-24T06:41:56Z

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Cc: "thomas kuehn" <thomas_kuehn@...>
Envoyé: Jeudi 24 Juillet 2008 15:41:10 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
Objet: [Dvdauthor-users]RE: a bug in dvdauthor ?

Hi thomas

Nope,it is not a bug.

i think that you should wrote the complete path in the dest field:
<dvdauthor dest="dvd">
should be instead:

<dvdauthor dest="/mnt/sata-one/dvd">
or whatever you want there.

Rgds
J. Collet

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a bug in dvdauthor ?

2008-07-22T17:58:04Z

Good night friends, i think that its a bug what i found.

dvdauthor -x dvd_author.xml
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@...>

INFO: Locale=pt_BR
INFO: Converting filenames to ISO-8859-1
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing menu.mpg...
ERR: Error opening dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB: file or directory not found

the content of my dvdauthor is:

<dvdauthor dest="dvd">
<vmgm>
<menus>
   <video format="pal" aspect="4:3" />
   <audio lang="en" />
   <subpicture lang="pt" />
   <pgc>
    <vob file="/mnt/sata-one/dvd/intro-metro-goldwyn-meyer-4-3.mpg" />
    <post> jump titleset 1 menu; </post>
   </pgc>
</menus>
</vmgm>
<titleset>
<menus>
   <video format="pal" aspect="4:3" />
   <audio lang="en" />
   <subpicture lang="pt" />
   <pgc>
    <button> jump title 1; </button>
    <vob file="menu.mpg" />
    <post> jump cell 1; </post>
   </pgc>
</menus>
<titles>
   <video format="pal" aspect="4:3" />
   <audio lang="en" />
   <subpicture lang="pt" />
    <pgc>
     <vob file="ratm-rockpalast-422000.mpg" chapters="0,00:05:00,00:10:00,00:15:00,00:20:00,00:25:00,00:30:00,00:35:00,00:40:00,00:45:00,00:50:00,00:55:00,01:00:00,01:05:00,01:10:00,01:15:00,01:20:00,01:25:00,01:30:00,01:35:00,01:40:00,01:45:00,01:50:00,01:55:00" />
     <post> jump title 1; </post>
    </pgc>
   </titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>

1 pgc - 4 vobs - each with chapters - error

2008-06-26T12:31:02Z

Hi,

I wanted to author a dvd with 4 vobs, each with several chapters. dvdauthor adds chapters to the first vob, but throws errors for the others.

Here's my file. Would you please check it and give me a hint. Otherwise there could be other reasons.

<dvdauthor dest="temp_dvd" >
<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<audio lang="de" />
<pgc>
<vob file="VTS_01_1.VOB" chapters="0:00:00.000,0:00:22.000,0:01:05.000" />
<vob file="VTS_01_2.VOB" chapters="0:00:00.000,0:06:10.000,0:11:49.000"/>
<vob file="VTS_01_3.VOB"c hapters="0:00:00.000,0:04:27.000,0:10:19.000,17:21.000" />
<vob file="VTS_01_4.VOB" chapters="0:00:00.000,0:11:22.000,0:13:15.000" />
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>

Every vob has about 10 chapters.

Thanks in advance

Frank

Re: DVD poor quality

2008-06-23T13:35:08Z

Thomas Reinemann escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> I mastered a DVD for a long time once again. If I play the DVD moved
> parts have very quality on TV it is a CRT. My DVD player has an ethernet
> link, via which I can stream the video from my server than the quality
> is fine. Therefore i conclude something goes wrong during mastering.
>

dvauthor doesn't change the video quality, it just creates the DVD
structure from pre-authored .mpg files. This does not look like a
problem in dvdauthor.

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DVD poor quality

2008-06-23T13:24:29Z

Hi,

I mastered a DVD for a long time once again. If I play the DVD moved
parts have very quality on TV it is a CRT. My DVD player has an ethernet
link, via which I can stream the video from my server than the quality
is fine. Therefore i conclude something goes wrong during mastering.

Any hints.

Here is my xml file

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-15'?>
<dvdauthor dest="/home/tom/video/peter_wolf/dvd/DVD">
<vmgm>
<menus>
<video format="PAL" resolution="720x576" />
<pgc>
<post>jump titleset 1 menu;</post>
</pgc>
</menus>
</vmgm>
<titleset>
<menus>
<video format="PAL" resolution="720x576" caption="field1"/>
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/tom/video/peter_wolf/dvd/genmenu.mpg"
pause="inf"/>
<button name="0"> jump title 1; </button>
<button name="1"> jump title 2; </button>
</pgc>
</menus>
<titles>
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/tom/video/peter_wolf/dvd/gibvideo0.mpg"/>
<post>call menu;</post>
</pgc>
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/tom/video/peter_wolf/dvd/gibvideo1.mpg"/>
<post>call menu;</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>

Thanks Tom

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Patch and HowTo for direct input for dvdauthor without remuxing

2008-06-06T12:34:01Z

Hi all -

Readers of the list may be interested to hear that a HowTo and patch now
exist to allow users of the widespread and popular cards based on
the Connexant CX2341x chipset (Hauppage, Adaptec etc) using the IVTV
Linux Kernal Driver, to feed MPEG capture files direct into dvdauthor
without the need to remultiplex the audio and video streams.

The patch makes dvdauthor a little more robust to different flavours and
varieties of MPEG stream, so if you have some content that causes a
stream of 'WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU' messages
terminating in a segfault this may be worth a try.

The details can be found here:
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:ivtv_for_dvdauthor

All feedback and suggestions welcome.

MC

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inOrder to - jpeg2yuv - many

2008-06-03T12:07:02Z

friends,

I wish to have a script that will jpeg2yuv many jpegs

I can do it 1 at a time - but have a problem with my batch script

goal -process 300 jpegs named 000.jpg - 299.jpg

here is my script

#!/bin/bash
# n=300
n=1
for (( i=000; i < n; i++ ))
do
jpeg2yuv -n 30 -I p -L 0 -f 30 -j "$( printf "%03d" $i).jpg | mpeg2enc -a 2 -f 8 -b 5800 -o "$( printf "%03d" $i).mpg
printf " OK\n"
done

it complains that
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Parsing & checking input files.
**ERROR: [jpeg2yuv] System error while opening: "000.jpg | mpeg2enc -a 2 -f 8 -b 5800 -o 000.mpg": No such file or directory

i think my problem lies in a ' or " or something of that sort.

this succeeds-- but 1 at a time
jpeg2yuv -n 30 -I p -L 0 -f 30 -j 000.jpg | mpeg2enc -a 2 -f 8 -b 5800 -o 000.mpg

i get a good 000.mpg

so how do i fix my batch script?

submenu not looping

2008-06-02T04:04:58Z

Hi,

The VMGM menu loop is ok.But when i play the submenu with xine (or standalone player), the submenu play once then stop playing the background.The background is the same mpg file which is in the VMGM menu. The pause is set to 0.
Please Help what im doing wrong.

Thanks,
1g0R